Why do nearly all cultures have a historical version of dragons?

Why do nearly all cultures have a historical version of dragons?

Because we hate and fear
>Things that fly
>Things with claws
>Reptiles

that is why a dragon is on the Welsh flag

snek is cute

Also, plenty of cultures must have found dinosaur remains at one point or another. How the fuck do you explain that to a bunch of sheep fuckers?

>Also, plenty of cultures must have found dinosaur remains at one point or another. How the fuck do you explain that to a bunch of sheep fuckers?
How retarded to you have to be to believe that dinosaur fossils (which are usually found a few bones at a time) will conjure up images of reptiles with wings? I am truly baffled by Veeky Forums sometimes.

>People can't like things that are dangerous
>People would never use an image of something scary as a flag

The English put lions on their flag. Are lions not dangerous?

Not him but you are only digging your hole deeper instead of acknowledging you made a dumb fucking post like a man and letting it go.

naaaah meyt there be drraggins

the post said that "we hate and fear"
read a book, nigger.

Dragons were real, they were slayed by ancient heroes.
Like St George, born Yrjö Spärde at the height of the reign of King Spurdo Pekka Spärde the Beloved, 475 years before the Hyper War.
Little known fact, the last dragons died fighting on the Korean side, but their legends continue to this day.

>these were not ancient reptile-birds

>they were ancient reptile-birds

Except is isn't dumb. Just because we started associating dragons with power and wisdom doesn't change the reason for their initial creation across all peoples was out of fear of animals that could kill us.

No it's dumb. Just stop now.

>New research suggests humans have evolved an innate tendency to sense snakes — and spiders, too — and to learn to fear them. Psychologists found that both adults and children could detect images of snakes among a variety of non-threatening objects more quickly than they could pinpoint frogs, flowers or caterpillars.
>The results of the new study appear in the March 2008 issue of the journal, Psychological Science.

Its a mammal brain thing. You wouldn't understand.

Snake is the symbol of Christ. The twin snake caduceus symbolizes commerce and the single snake asclepius symbolizes healing. Snakes typically symbolize rebirth. You are about 10 years and 100 books too early to talk about snakes, boy.

Imagine lizards

but big

Because fossilized Dinosaur remains have been found all over the world for thousands of years. Dragons are the mythological explanation for where they came from.

What you're doing now is shifting from dragons and why every culture has a "dragon" to snakes.

Because any vaguely reptilian mythical creature is a dragon apparently

No if you have a car.

Not all dragons have wings. Ancient Greek dragons don't. Neither do the Chinese dragons, and we know at least one occasion of Chinese coming across "dragon bones" which they recorded in their histories.

What the fuck did you just say to me, you little bitch?

get a load of this retard

>a thing that looks nothing like European or Chinese dragons

What did he mean by this?

Mythological representation of forces of nature. Not all dragons are reptilian. Most are chimeric. Also, what these people said .
>What did he mean by this?
Go back to /pol/ with your shit meemees, faggot. Because of course ancient people new comparative anatomy. Remember when they said mammoth skulls belonged to cyclopes? Or when they called the epiphysis of theropod femur "scrotum humanum"? And pic related totally look like what inspired them.

Also look this up
> The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times - Adrienne Mayor.

*knew

Because humanity has always had to face dragons, roughly speaking