‘good’this is some how to train your dragon crap over here
I like it
*Forbidden Friendship plays*
But no, if you think about it, seriously. That’s where dragon legends came from. Left over dinosaurs that were ‘dying out’ because man hunted them to extinction.
I mean, I literally believe that’s where the dragon legends came from. Dinosaurs. Some of them fly too.
TOTALLY. Same for all those legends that seem strangely consistent throughout the cultures. Greek gods, dragons, magic… it’s all from something real that happened so long ago, all that remains are those stories’ mythical retellings.
1) pterosaurs are not dinosaurs they go extra (so do mosasaurs and ichtyosaurs)
2) there are about 65 million years between the last dinosaur and the first human, how we managed to hunt them into extinction without time machines I’d like to know.
3) dragon legends came from dinosaur BONES which is why they’re vastly different from place to place even in a relatively small geographical area. They may all be called dragon but there’s a substantial difference between a Chinese dragon without wings that can do magic and is generally not eating people, and the western European dragon that is a six limber (4 legs plus wings) can breath fire (ah yes such realism) and has a taste for virgins. Both these are again different from the many headed dragon of slavic myth (or the hydra, come to that) which is again different from the Lindwurm (no legs, may or may not have wings) and the wyvern (two legs, two wings). That’s not fucking consistent in the least bit and going ‘oh they’re all the same’ is doing a disservice to he rich mythological and cultural backgrounds of each form of dragon.
4) Imagine the process like this: people anno 3000 BC happen upon a hillside after a rainstorm. The rainstorm has washed off part of the hill and revealed a skull about as large as a grown human. The skull looks surprisingly well preserved and feels like stone. The people are confused scared and it takes about 5 minues for someone to go ‘holy *insert regional deity of choice* that lizard monster must have been alive very recently! We should totally take it this skull home and tell everyone about it, there might be more of them around that could be dangerous!’. Add to that that people back then didn’t know why lightning was happening and if you go far enough back, megafauna a la mammoth was still alive, too, it doesn’t take much more or longer for myths of a giant ass snake/lizard/whatever to start spreading. Myths develop and spread increidbly easy, I’d like you all to have a good look at the many urban myths that exists and how they’re all coming about the same way. Someone remembers a tibit that a friend of a friend told them and i sounds plausible enough.
5) do I really wanna know why you three the Greek gods in there, too because I fear that if i ask I will be hit with so much misinformation and simplification that I’m going to cry into my laptop.
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