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January 7, 2007
dragons
dragons always captivated my imagination - grand beasts that breathes fire and guards treasures who can fly! amazing, too good to be true, yet - they appear in so many cultures, and local mythologies that i can't help but wonder whether they truly existed. you can read their tales of wonder everywhere - folk tales, legends, mythology, religion. you name it - chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese, cambodian, thai, indian, african, american, germanic, welsh, slavic, romanian, brazilian, inca, the english.
they decorate temples, pillars, roofs, doors, gates. people revere these mythological creature by immortalising them onto emblems, logos, coat of arms, lucky charms. not to mention how many authors have wrote about them in their stories. it was also rumoured that Alexander the Great was fathered by a dragon. there are even conspiracy theories about dragons, but that's another story for another time :)
i recently saw a picture of a dragon called sirrush that decorates the walls of ishtar gate. it has scales, eagle talon hind legs, paws as its forelegs, long neck, forked tongue and a small bird like head.
posted by nyx at January 7, 2007 1:03 PM
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Once I watched this documentary on tv. Apparently they had found dragon fossil. I was so intrigued that I stuck like glue to the tv. Towards the end, the production looked too slick to be true. I google'd it up and found out it was just a 'what-if' docu, trying to guess what dragons would have been like if they were real. Bleh.
Posted by: BawangMerah at January 7, 2007 6:31 PM
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