Where does the myth of Saint George killing a dragon comes from?
Is it of pagan origins? how much of saint George is pagan?
Saint George
Daniel Bailey
Landon Allen
Fuck you Veeky Forums, answer my question
Noah Collins
Academics please respond
David Cox
Google man
He was supppused to be a Roman soldier persecuted for being Christian
He was taken as a patron saint AFTER the third crusade so could not be pagan
Mason Lewis
I'm not saying that he was not Christian, I'm saying that he might have been merged with a non-Christian deity or a hero, obviously he didn't actually kill a dragon, the myth sounds pagan, it might not have been part of his original image.
Thanks for responding anyway
Michael Rodriguez
>dragons are pagan
I guess Christianity is pagan because monotheism is first recorded in pagan societies
Also Hercules is in Japan
Carson Smith
>obviously he didn't actually kill a dragon
Jacob Fisher
Dragons are holy in Judiasm. Christians started persecuting jews, so they wanted to symbolize this and their inhumanity with a 'saint'.
Brandon Butler
But the earliest evidence for Saint George is from Georgia and Cappadocia, where Jews weren't persecuted.
John Diaz
some nigger killed a crocodile and superstitious peasants spread the legend around