>Europe, China and Mesoamerica all developed dragon mythology independently of each other
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>Europe, China and Mesoamerica all developed dragon mythology independently of each other
>Europe, China and Mesoamerica all developed dragon mythology independently of each other
How did this happen?
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dinosaur skulls
but there were no crocodiles or alligators in mesomerica
Snakes are all over the world.
Yes they are.
Black person mesoamerican "dragons" are literally just snakes with feathers, they even have rattlesnake rattles ffs
Yes there are you dumbass, a major part of their creation myths is an earth/mountain related crocodile
You understand Dragons were basically snakes in all cultures except in the Europeans ones where they eventually became more lizards right? In China you literally have dragons (who already look like snakes) transforming into literal snakes
Yeah i know, thing is, mesoamerican feathered serpents are LITERALLY just snakes, not even chimeras that originate from snakes like asian dragons, calling them dragons at all is pretty fricking moronic
The evolution of dragons into snakes in China is a recent development, or at least not something that was known in China 2,000 years ago when Chinese dragons were more like lizards with long tails. The left pic is a dragon from the Han Dynasty.
dinosaurs
lost ancient civilisation bro
Dragons are cool. Simple as.
>all of those dragons are wildly different and not related at all from outsider's point of view unless someone explicitly tells you it's all supposed to be dragon
it happened through some homosexual deciding to use the same name for unrelated mythological beings
common image because considering snakes, reptiles, crocodiles fearsome and thus significant is a common trait of man
and also this, their only real relation is that they are based on specific types of animals
>washes up on your shore
Why does he have a robot eye,?
I would frick her so hard.
>attacks your sky god
that's easily explained by ANE
The middle is a guy getting decapitated with the blood portrayed as snakes
I’d say the feathered serpent was equally bird and snake. It goes with the concept of duality prevalent in Mesoamérica
I think it's inspired by how a male quetzal bird looks like while it flies
I remember reading a theory that dragons are an amalgamation of the base fears of early humans. Early hominids, especially in their infancy, were prey to large birds, large predatory mammals such as cats, and reptilian predators like snakes. Dragons are a simple monster constructed out of concrete fears of predators, hence the claws, jaws, and flight. That is why dragons are a universal mythological creature, they come from something primal that exists within all of us.
Unlike the other races, the Chinese worship le bad instead of le gud, which explains the fact that they still worship Mao le Dong who literally caused 2 billion something Chinese to die and the Chinese dissidents worship the imperial Japanese for their killing ignorant peasants who would support the communists afterwards.
rent free
>China bad because my government sold my economy out to them
Dragons are good guys in east asian mythology, in Mesoamerica the feathered serpent deity is an entirely positive being, considered a symbol of civilization and the arts, patron of the priesthood and herald of rain. As a matter of fact european dragons being savage evil beasts is more of an exception than a rule, since mesopotamian deities also had dragon companions.
Satan?
Dragons were associated with worldwide catastrophe/world creation, fire and lightning, and terrifying winds.
They were massive plasma storms on the Earth and sky, not critters people invented. They saw "dragons".
Electric Universe stuff.
Naturally produced pineal gland DMT induced visions of machine elves, check out the Joe Rogan Experience for more details.
The Zonai.
"what if a snake but it was big and had wings" seems like an simple enough yet striking idea for multiple people to think about it
the only simple thing here is your brain, anon
2 of the 3 "dragons" mentioned in the OP don't have wings though
Very distant genetic/ancestral memories of pterodactyls, pteranodons, pterosaurs and whatever other giant flying reptiles
Reptiles are scary ngl
they are not at all the same
The Mayans had time machines that allowed them to bring back Dinosaurs from the Jurassic period
serpent mythology is cross-cultural. evolutionary origins. half our brain is used for vision, snake detection was the biggest factor in our evolution of visual acuity (look at anthropologist Lynn Isbells work on this). its not wrong to say half our brain evolved with the primary goal of detecting snakes. therefore snakes/serpents are super stimuli to our psyches. if you are human, consciously or unconsciously snakes evoke fear, whether as a symbol or real animal. snakes are one of the only innate fears.
read this for a start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_symbolism
a dragon is a winged or unwinged serpent
"Dragons" are a european category that that they shove every reptilian creature into. Besides that, they're vastly different
Quetzalcoatl/Kukulcan/general Mesoamerican feathered snake is not a "dragon"
The Chinese dragon has parts from other animals, like deer, in it than just being a big reptile