I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.

  • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well, yes. You find a sharp tooth that’s as long as someone’s finger you’re going to make up some kind of creature for it to have come from.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Okay, yes. But also: dragons originated from pre-radiation Africa. Every culture has it because they all had distant contact with that one.

      Iirc, it’s thought that the original dragon was a flying feathered serpent and also a storm god.

      Edit: sorry I was falling asleep and high while writing this.

      Edit2: okay, I’m sober and awake now, so I guess I should revise my statement a bit. It is my amateur understanding, as a nerd who is not in any way a scholar of mythology, that there is a theory for the origin of mythological creatures known as dragons. I cannot attest to how well-founded this model is, but I believe it goes as such: a human culture, in Africa, existed prior to homosapiens leaving the continent. This culture is believed to have had storm deity that was a feathered serpent, and that deity was the basis of all dragon myths held by cultures that left the continent and the descendants thereof.