Why did human cultures around the world create dragons? Are snakes that interesting?
Why did human cultures around the world create dragons? Are snakes that interesting?
Why did human cultures around the world create dragons? Are snakes that interesting?
Surviving dinosaurs after the flood
the dragon seems to be a combination of all our primal fears. scales, body shape and tongue of a snake. claws and teeth like a large feline. wings/ability to fly like a bird of prey. the ultimate villan
And on the other end the dragon is Said to represent every part of the remaining animals of the Chinese zodiac.
snakes live rent free in the brains of primates.
As long as it looks vaguely snake-like our brain starts going eild
Snakes have been hunting mammals since before the dinosaurs. There are parts of our brain hardwired from birth specifically for the tasks of recognizing and reacting to them
>Snakes have been hunting mammals since before the dinosaurs.
Snakes evolved during the Cretaceous.
False
Drugs or mental illnesses. Human brains interact with structural and neurochemical imbalances in roughly the same ways. Could be dreams too.
Any scenario leading to mass neuron blocks, whether it be through deliriants or through stimulant overdoses, results in unpleasant, primal, basal ganglia hallucinations. This means basic animalistic pattern recognition fears of the most dangerous shapes - spiders, snakes, insects, other people. Anything that can 1-shot a primate.
A quarter of a million years ago some caveman killed a big snake or crocodile that was ambushing people at their source of water. It was so cool everyone kept talking about it until every human being on earth had heard the story in some form or another.
no, that was only 800 years ago, the tarasque
The Tarasque wasn't killed by one person, it was stoned by a village.
that doesnt change anything. i mea nare you telling me that you wouldnt tell a story about how you and a bunch of your mates killed a dragon with some rocks
You can find monters versions of any animal; monster birds, monster bugs, monster horses...
Snakes hold super important mythical significance because the molting symbolizes rebirth. That's why snake is the symbol of Jesus Christ and Asclepius is associated with snakes.
I mean, just look at it
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Only eastern dragons look like snakes. Western ones look like lizards. Still a strange phenomenon
Western ones were based on snakes too.
Some were I guess, but the more classical ones are clearly lizard inspired
no they were based on snakes. They were snakes. In fact the word dragon means snake.
Dragons turned into lizards with Christianity as an association with the biblical beast of the apocalypse
Snakes are lizards.
There’s giant bones made of rocks all over the world
Wrong answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Trito#Serpent-slaying_myth
Humans are naturally inclined to certain beliefs due to universal cultural heritages and experiences. Most common of all these myths is that of the Chaoskampf, the struggle between Order and Chaos as represented by a paternal hero defeating a water serpent. There have been many theories as to what this represents (battles with crocodiles or poisonous snakes, securing of fresh water, snakes are limbless and chaotic thus perfect motifs for chaos, etc) but the fact is it's worldwide.
>the fact is it's worldwide
because of the giant bones all over the world
Except none of these myths have anything to do with bones. Does Japan have dinosaur bones? No? Then frick off.
they are seafarers and have plenty of shoreline for weird stuff to wash up on
It didn't have to the yayoi arrived really late to jomon occupied japan.
A Trader comes to your land with stories of massive bones found in the desert from an ancient beast and then shows you a tooth made of stone larger than any tooth you've ever seen.
It's not hard to imagine stories of giant monsters spreading from found fossils
>Does Japan have dinosaur bones? No? Then frick off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuiraptor
Nice attempt moron
Snakes hold a very primordial fear instinct in humans (all mammals really) because they were our ancestor's predators. This is why all hero myths involve a man slaying a great serpent, it represents the triumph of man over nature, or order over chaos if you prefer it like that.
Water almost always represents chaotic nature in myths so it makes sense a lot of monsters come from water. It is a medium that is alien to us terrestial animals and thus fear it deeply.
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Mind you, this theme of serpent slaying is near exclusively a Proto-Indo European construct, that article says as much, I.e. the religions and mythologies that talk about the slaying of serpents pretty my much all came from a root source, the Proto-Indo Europeans, so there’s clearly something more cultural going on, it makes sense that not everywhere on the planet has myths about snakes, or at least not ones fighting them, I don’t think there’s anything Polynesian about it, and the Aztecs/Mayans seemed to outright worship them in the form of Quetzalcoatl, so clearly this ‘hatred’ of them isn’t quite universal
>and the Aztecs/Mayans seemed to outright worship them in the form of Quetzalcoatl
There is the slaying of Tlaltecuhtli that was something resembling a toad, another water monster representing chaos and whose body served to create the earth and the sky. AS you said they seem to worship snakes but still use water creatures to represent chaos in their myths.
There are also drqagon/snake slaying myths in asian mythology. Even Japan has snakes that are slain like Orochi.
> There is the slaying of Tlaltecuhtli that was something resembling a toad, another water monster representing chaos and whose body served to create the earth and the sky. AS you said they seem to worship snakes but still use water creatures to represent chaos in their myths.
Yes, that would make sense, I agree that water is a good representation of chaos, though I don’t think its a universal thing, most snakes aren’t aquatic for example
> Even Japan has snakes that are slain like Orochi.
Which is Indo-European influenced. China probably has some too but they also had a healthy Indo-European influence on them as well. Egypt has one too, which would make sense given how prominent snakes are over there.