But the strange thing is that some of these images appear simultaneously in cultures separated by hundreds of miles, sometimes thousands. The dragon image, especially. One culture (i forget which one...minoans maybe) highly esteemed the bull, the lion and the dragon. One of those things just does not belong with the others,ya know? But you're right, we are a creative species and much of our past can be explained by that, i'm sure.
The thing about the dragon being invented by many different cultures can be explained. I think that it's because each of these cultures combined things that we are universally afraid of into one creature, which really isn't that much of a crazy coincedence because us humans like to imagine things that scare us. Humans are universally afraid of fire, the scales and the dragon's long neck make it appear snake-like, the dragon's claws and sharp teeth remind us of predators and the fact that they are big and can fly means they can pick us off easier.
So I don't believe dragons ever existed. It's just the result of universal fears being combined togethor in several different cultures.
Humans and dinosaurs, did they live at the same time?
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I think that us humans are just imaginative. We like to draw things from nature, but we will draw stuff that pops up in our imagination too.
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But the strange thing is that some of these images appear simultaneously in cultures separated by hundreds of miles, sometimes thousands. The dragon image, especially. One culture (i forget which one...minoans maybe) highly esteemed the bull, the lion and the dragon. One of those things just does not belong with the others,ya know? But you're right, we are a creative species and much of our past can be explained by that, i'm sure.
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The thing about the dragon being invented by many different cultures can be explained. I think that it's because each of these cultures combined things that we are universally afraid of into one creature, which really isn't that much of a crazy coincedence because us humans like to imagine things that scare us. Humans are universally afraid of fire, the scales and the dragon's long neck make it appear snake-like, the dragon's claws and sharp teeth remind us of predators and the fact that they are big and can fly means they can pick us off easier.
So I don't believe dragons ever existed. It's just the result of universal fears being combined togethor in several different cultures.