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all over the world theres been tales by old armies fighting dragons and villagers killing them and they were writ about as if they were real animals . in cultures that didnt meet, stories of similar beasts existed. a better question would be why most of us are so quick to call dragons a myth .
MarkgaB5 wrote:How do we know theyre mythical?
MarkgaB5 wrote:How do we know theyre mythical?
MarkgaB5 wrote:involving actual people known in history slaying dragons?
Movie_trailer_voice_guy wrote:
...In a world where dragon sex is ridiculed and scorned...
...In a time when men grew bold...
...In a place where they least expected...
...Son of Smaug takes his revenge!"
MarkgaB5 wrote:[Reveal] Spoiler:theropod wrote:Here's my take on dragons, and the myth, because myth it is.
Somebody found a large theropod dinosaur tooth, maybe a whole mandible or a whole freaking skull, and the myth was born. Being too fragile, in most cases, the fossil wouldn't likely survive intact a camel/horse ride back to a city where smart folks lived. The broken bits, in the hands of a reasonable skilled person, could be reconstructed. The "dragon" bone was fragile because it burned itself when it died. Since some of the remains may have been found under the dirt it was proof that these beast lived in caves and such, and the dirt had fell in on them.
You don't think that something as awesome as a dragon skull wouldn't be displayed in a king's court, and preserved for ages? If I were a king and laying siege to a city that held such a prize I would issue capital orders that the skull not be harmed. If I were the king in defense I would preserve it as a bargaining chip to keep my own head.
I'd rather face a single dragon, even the one in "Sucker Punch", than face down a pack of dromeosaurs. These things were real, and they were not lizards. Think of these raptors as razor toothed flightless birds with long stiff tails to balance during quick maneuvers and a terrible-long-curved-articulating-sharp claw on the tip of a toe of each foot. Evidence exists for a pack attack on a single large herbivorous dinosaur. Several of the little claw footed devils died, but so did their prey.
Dragons are the product of ignorance. While these imaginations are terrible there was a time when the real world had critters running around we all should be happy are extinct ('cept for the birds). I don't want to imagine what it would be like to walk up on a family group of tyrannosaurs. They didn't need fire.
RS
But how do you explain the accounts of dragons which are written as if they were true? (eg. [location] a dragon attacked villagers and the [name] army slayed the dragon])
Onyx8 wrote:I think the real concern here is that now that all the dragons are dead, why can't there be ghost dragons?
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