If dragons and dragon-like creatures have been reported in pretty much every culture (Typhon is a good example)...

If dragons and dragon-like creatures have been reported in pretty much every culture (Typhon is a good example), is it really so hard to believe that they might have been real?

Evolution is a false gospel

Dragons from Indo-European cultures probably have a common origin, Proto Indo-European mythology must have had a proto-dragon. Chinese dragons might just be a coincidence (they only resemble Western ones vaguely, in the stories, they are basically gods, while western Dragons are just monsters). And "dragons" in other cultures are usually just big snakes, such as Apep in Egyptian mythology, or Turkish dragons.

Some people also list Quetzalcoatl as a dragon, even though it was just a feathered serpent that looked nothing like western or Chinese dragons. Really, it's probably about venomous snakes. They were present almost everywhere were humans lived and were a danger to them, so no wonder a lot of cultures independently came up with this idea of a giant snake-monster.

The typical European dragon is a Greek invention. In other older Indo-European cultures dragons are just big snakes too.

I know it might be difficult for modern man to understand but the dragon of western (indo european) storytelling was a symbol of greedy, dishonest, lying, scheming and wealth-hoarding people. The dragon of the Völsunga saga for example is literally a giant snake (as in the animal snake, that exists). The cloven tongue of a serpent is a symbol of a liar, the tongue is split in two, it says one thing but means another. Yes i know symbolism is hard to comprehend for modern man. The symbolism of the dragon as greedy and wealth hoarding was efficient as a counter towards the man of Honor. Honor was a real concept that men followed in Indo-european culture btw, it was not just an empty word like today. For example, when a warrior-king had conquered a large amount of wealth (gold and such) he would distribute it to his champions. And so we see that a person who did not do this, but instead held on to the wealth himself and schemed against his champions, was not acting in line with Honor (thus he would lose his Honor). This is how it was in Tradtional Europe and this is the origin of dragons.

tips cross

>Turkish dragons
unifier, common strands, vessel/vassal spread

silk roads the reason muslims a thing like rome being christs

>In other older Indo-European cultures dragons are just big snakes too.
Wrong.

Go on

>silk road is why rome became christian
Elaborate.

I'd like to know why you are so confident you think giving a blanket statement like "nuh uh only Greek dragons weren't over glorified giant sized snakes in other Indo-European cultures!" is stemming from.

>Azerbaijan
>Turkish
Triggered

Well, for one, the native words for dragon in Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, and Indic all mean worm or snake.

It's basically indisputable fact.

Turkified language ! = Turkic

That isn't the same as them being described as literal giant snakes. Look at the dragons in Persian folklore, they tended to be sentient representations of good or evil on a cosmic sense or thematic like Azi Dahaka. And even his physical description is nothing like a mere really big snake.

Greek dragons are serpentine too. The lizard-like dragon seems to be have been invented in the high middle ages.

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The Chinese dragon is more of a chimera actually.
>Snake's body.
>Lizard's legs.
>Stag's Antlers
>Horse/Dog's/Crocodile's/Camel's head. Depending on which sources you read.
>Ears of a cow.
>Fin's of a fish

"The people paint the dragon's shape with a horse's head and a snake's tail. Further, there are expressions as 'three joints' and 'nine resemblances' (of the dragon), to wit: from head to shoulder, from shoulder to breast, from breast to tail. These are the joints; as to the nine resemblances, they are the following: his antlers resemble those of a stag, his head that of a camel, his eyes those of a demon, his neck that of a snake, his belly that of a clam (shen, 蜃), his scales those of a carp, his claws those of an eagle, his soles those of a tiger, his ears those of a cow. Upon his head he has a thing like a broad eminence (a big lump), called [chimu] (尺木). If a dragon has no [chimu], he cannot ascend to the sky.[13]"
-Wang Fu,

>tfw aboriginals killed all of the fuck huge megafauna
why

m8 ulurus one fucking all in abo pyramid

Historian Adrienne Mayor says that it were dinosaur bones that spawned the idea of dragons.

Probably either dinosaurs or actual creatures. This would destroy the modern narrative of evolution and carbon dating, though, so those old people in the past were just stupid.

Funny you mentioned that. In China, when their ancestors dug up fossils while mining/quarrying, they did say they were dragon bones. Even ground them up and used them in traditional Chink medicine.

To this day, there's a province in Southern China that gives Chinese Paleontologists headaches because they still do this. Look up "Dragon Bone Soup/Pills."

Or they could be exaggerations of snakes.

Every culture have weird deities. Fortunately we've come to our senses and worship asexual winged humans.

>what are dinosaur fossils

Being as big and slow and covered in meat as they were they were pretty much asking to be hunted to extinction.

just like fat people!

>prussians listed as slavic
considered me triggered

lizards snakes and dinosaur bones

I wish so many of these weren't just "[Ethnicity] Myths"

>Grecian and Macedonian are seperate

why aren't there names for some of these creatures? I'm interested in stranger looking ones, like the people desolving or looking like wizard ladies.

>European myths
As oposed to
>Celtic
>Germanic
>Slavic
and
>Finnic/Baltic
myths

It's a pretty stupid picture, looks like it was done by the same guy who made that garbage 'religion family tree'.

>Azi Dahaka. And even his physical description is nothing like a mere really big snak
I went to verify this claim in google images and by god you're right!

>is it really so hard to believe that they might have been real?
Yes.

They were.

Fossils of dinosaurs are discovered globally, and ancient people interpreted them as dragons. As for being in every culture, there is a vast gap between the finer details other than being mystical reptiles. Western dragons breathe fire, have bat-like wings and are generally evil, while dragons to the East are far more serpentine, typically seen as neutral forces and more based around water.

this, i thought what created a lot of the dragon mythos were people finding dino bones and having no idea what the fuck they meant.

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