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Posted: 7/1/2023 7:43:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dragons cross many cultures, continents, and languages. Lots of similar pronunciations and spellings. Dagon Drago Dracul (sound familiar?) Dagon Coincidence? Think not ? Albanian: dragun ? Armenian: ??????? (dragun) ? Azerbaijani: draqun ? Bashkir: ?????? (dragun) ? Belarusian: ?????? (drahun) ? Breton: dragun ? Bulgarian: ?????? (dragun) ? Catalan: dragon ? Cebuano: dragun ? Crimean Tatar: dragun ? Czech: dragoun ? Danish: dragon ? English: dragoon ? Esperanto: dragono ? Estonian: tragun ? Gagauz: dragun ? Georgian: ??????? (draguni) ? German: Dragoner ? Dutch: dragonder ? Greek: d?a????? (dragónos) ? Hebrew: ?????? (dragún) ? Hungarian: dragonyos ? Icelandic: dragoní ? Ido: dragono ? Irish: dragún ? Japanese: ????? (doragun) ? Kazakh: ?????? (dragun) ? Korean: ??? (deuraegun) ? Kyrgyz: ?????? (dragun) ? Latvian: draguns ? Lithuanian: dragunas ? Macedonian: ?????? (dragun) ? Mongolian: ?????? (dragun) ? Norwegian: dragon ? Occitan: dragon ? Polish: dragon ? Romanian: dragon ? Russian: ?????? (dragun) ? Rusyn: ?????? (dragun) ? Serbo-Croatian: dragun / ?????? ? Slovak: dragún ? Slovene: dragonec ? Spanish: dragón ? Swedish: dragon ? Finnish: rakuuna ? Tagalog: dragun ? Tajik: ?????? (dragun) ? Tatar: ?????? (dragun) ? Turkish: dragon ? Turkmen: dragun ? Ukrainian: ?????? (drahun) ? Uzbek: dragun ? Waray-Waray: dragun ? Welsh: dragwn ? Zazaki: dragun The word dog is very different across cultures and languages. Dog in French: le chien. Dog in Spanish: el perro. Dog in German: der Hund. Dog in Italian: il cane. Dog in Russian: ?????? Dog in Portuguese: cachorro. Dog in Mandarin Chinese: ? (gou) Dog in Japanese: ? (??, inu) Therefore dogs aren't real but dragons are. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 7:49:44 PM EDT
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The Houston Museum of Natural Science has several flying dinosaur skeletons, they are basically dragons.
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Posted: 7/1/2023 7:52:41 PM EDT
[#3]
Imagine Dragons
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Posted: 7/1/2023 7:53:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Imagine Dragons Don't tell me what to do. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 8:50:57 PM EDT
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Are you afraid of dragons?
No. In fact, if it weren't for sorcerers, there wouldn't be any dragons. Once, the skies were dotted with them. Magnificent horned backs, leathern wings soaring and their hot-breathed wind. Oh, I know this creature of yours Vermithrax Pejorative. Look at these scales, these ridges. When a dragon gets this old, it knows nothing but pain, constant pain. It grows decrepit crippled pitiful. Spiteful! |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:16:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A dragon has four legs plus wings. A wyvern as two legs plus wings. All these years I didn’t know that. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:18:26 PM EDT
[#7]
 Meet Lolong The Largest Crocodile Ever |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:24:20 PM EDT
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I always figured it was from Dino remnants but part of me really wonders if there wasn't a time when men walked the earth with some of these crazy old creatures.
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:31:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:42:16 PM EDT
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When my dragons are grown, we will take back what was stolen from me and destroy those who have wronged me. We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground. Turn us away and we will burn you first.
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Posted: 7/1/2023 9:51:40 PM EDT
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Something was around for every culture on Earth to describe.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 12:41:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Envy the country that has heroes, huh?! I say pity the country that needs 'em. What are you celebrating? One dragon down, three men dead? Oh, yeah. At that rate, we might just be getting somewhere in about 320 years. Is that what you want? You want a little accommodation? Nuh-uh. These beasts live on ash. They feed on death. There's no middle ground... not for them, not for us. And sure as hell not for my men who died out there today. But you go ahead. Have your little... soiree. Personally, you disgust me. I love that movie. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 6:39:13 AM EDT
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I remember seeing a video on an extinct species the size of a school bus! Quoted: Can you tell the difference between a Dragon and a Wyvern? That's a pretty decent B movie, on Hulu now I think. Quoted: Post flood smaller dinosaurs. Last ones died out in China long ago. Some emperor had them as pets. I would like to know more! |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:17:54 AM EDT
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A few temples in Cambodia have perfect depictions of living dinosaurs, so who the fuck knows.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:33:05 AM EDT
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Were winged fire breathing serpents real? No!
Did the Lizard people have flying cars? Yes! |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:35:07 AM EDT
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I believe that giants of sorts - human or Hominins - were once here long ago. IMO we even don't need to chase the world for an exotic biblical story and its location history either. In Ohio and Wisconsin, among other current US States, were many burial sites, usually as mounds, or pyramids of sorts, that IMO once contained their remains. To some in academia it's absolutely laughable, while to others in academia and curation it's critically contentious. Based on what I've read over the years, I believe it to be true.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:37:56 AM EDT
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Yes, read Job chapter 41 in the Bible(NKJV).
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Posted: 7/2/2023 7:41:51 AM EDT
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Quoted: Do you think dragons actually existed? Pretty much every culture has tales of dragons existing alongside humans. Could they have been leftover dinosaurs? Is it all bullshit like nessie and bigfoot? Do they still exist? Yeah, I'm bored on a Saturday and don't want to install these new doors. When I went to the Natural History Museum of Utah, it was immediately obvious to me where the legend of dragons came from. Imagine finding one of these, and trying to imagine what kind of creature it was:  Attached File Attached FileThat's my personal theory, anyway. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 8:04:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/2/2023 8:08:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Everywhere has dinosaur and teradon skeletons. People in the past filled in the blanks of what they were and called them Dragons. They did pretty good considering. Keep in mind that a lot of what we “know” about dinosaurs today is also filling in the blanks. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 8:21:27 AM EDT
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If we can light our farts on fire, I'm sure there could have been a flying lizard that could do the same.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 9:24:12 AM EDT
[#22]
I have a bunch of dragons.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 9:50:22 AM EDT
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Nope, never were real.
What did happen is: China is a hotbed for dinosaur fossils. People stumbled on the fossils of large dinosaurs and had no idea what the animal was or why they had bones of stone. They invented stories which were reenforced by the fossil teeth, bones etc and called them bones of dragons. The same stories carried over to other regions but China has by far the most prolific dragon fables. Dragons were added to the European mythos after contact with the far east. So, Xing found a dinosaur tooth fossil and made up a great story about it. Japan has dragons in their mythology because of contact with China. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 11:21:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nope, never were real. What did happen is: China is a hotbed for dinosaur fossils. People stumbled on the fossils of large dinosaurs and had no idea what the animal was or why they had bones of stone. They invented stories which were reenforced by the fossil teeth, bones etc and called them bones of dragons. The same stories carried over to other regions but China has by far the most prolific dragon fables. Dragons were added to the European mythos after contact with the far east. So, Xing found a dinosaur tooth fossil and made up a great story about it. Japan has dragons in their mythology because of contact with China. But St. George and the dragon....... St. George was put to death in 303 AD. When did the Brits first make contact with China? |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 11:24:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes of course. Ancestors of the lizard people. LMAO |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 11:28:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: But St. George and the dragon....... St. George was put to death in 303 AD. When did the Brits first make contact with China? It is unknown when the European and far east people came in contact but.. There is nothing but land between them so some cultural creep can and did happen. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 11:33:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If dragons weren't real, then what did Saint George slay, hmmm? Where is your science now, eh? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/13440/george1_jpg-2870294.JPG Some poor dudes pet alligator. 
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Posted: 7/2/2023 11:52:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All these years I didn’t know that. And a Wyrm/Wurm can have neither legs or wings. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 12:37:08 PM EDT
[#29]
I can't say if dragons did or did not exist but it would be a whole lot cooler if they did.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 12:44:44 PM EDT
[#30]
People talking about dinosaur fossils fail to realize how extremely rare it is to just stumble on a single bone, let alone a complete one. Until the mid-late 1800s there is no account of any complete or even nearly completely skeleton being uncovered. In 1677 the first known "scientific" observation of a giant bone was made, and the conclusion was that it was from a giant human.
To say cultures worldwide all made up the same stories from dinosaur fossils is more far-fetched than saying aliens came down and told people about dragons. A whale skeleton in the desert I could buy, but that only happens in a few places on Earth. It's also interesting that beyond dragons, tons of cultures have stories and myths about feathered serpents. When I was a kid, everybody just assumed dinosaurs had scales, but now the common thought is that they might have, or even probably had feathers. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 12:46:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Middle earth was just earth a long time ago. We had dragons, dorfs, hobbits, balrogs, ents, and orcs. I think the elves were made up though. What the hell is a dorf? |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 12:56:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People talking about dinosaur fossils fail to realize how extremely rare it is to just stumble on a single bone, let alone a complete one. Until the mid-late 1800s there is no account of any complete or even nearly completely skeleton being uncovered. In 1677 the first known "scientific" observation of a giant bone was made, and the conclusion was that it was from a giant human. To say cultures worldwide all made up the same stories from dinosaur fossils is more far-fetched than saying aliens came down and told people about dragons. A whale skeleton in the desert I could buy, but that only happens in a few places on Earth. It's also interesting that beyond dragons, tons of cultures have stories and myths about feathered serpents. When I was a kid, everybody just assumed dinosaurs had scales, but now the common thought is that they might have, or even probably had feathers. People in the Chinese regions have been walking up on them for a millennia. Just a tooth would be all it takes to start a story. A tooth fossil in hand would be “proof”. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:01:56 PM EDT
[#33]
Bigfoot and aliens have all eaten the remaining dragons.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:08:49 PM EDT
[#34]
I always assumed cultures uncovered a bone or bones they couldn't explain, so legends were formed. There was a time when the only explanation for ancient architecture was we used to live with giants.
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:10:28 PM EDT
[#35]
Dragons are a metaphor, nothing more.
Dinosaurs were real, way back when. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:58:23 PM EDT
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I think something large and reptilian was still alive during the times of early man, and due to so much undiscovered and unpopulated land, up until even the middle ages. Did it breathe fire? Doubtful, though I've seen theories on how it's possible. Did they fly? It's probably more likely that they did, and that they lived in mountainous areas rather than living in the lowlands, because lowland inhabiting ones would have been more likely to have been wiped out earlier.
So, my theory, is that it was Pterodactyl type dinosaurs, that would fly down to hunt sheep, cattle, camels, other animals, and even possibly man. I also think that the same phenomenon occurred in the oceans. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 1:59:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ancient man finding fossils of prehistoric creatures (including dinosaurs) probably inspired many of the stories of dragons. This. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 2:00:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can you tell the difference between a Dragon and a Wyvern? I put on my robe and wizard hat. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 2:01:47 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Everywhere has dinosaur and teradon skeletons. People in the past filled in the blanks of what they were and called them Dragons. They did pretty good considering. So, they are the prehistoric/Jurassic version of a pigeon. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 2:03:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They drove around in this, The Dragon Wagon, https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/bf6021e2-6caa-4429-a06a-daf22f38222d.e0840c3f41b7d6bbb9f1ca8447bfdf84.jpeg Do dragons have shaggin' wagons? |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 2:10:41 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dinosaurs were real, way back when.  |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 3:03:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People in the Chinese regions have been walking up on them for a millennia. Just a tooth would be all it takes to start a story. A tooth fossil in hand would be “proof”. People have been walking up on megalodon teeth forever too, but they don't have any common worldwide stories about the same giant sea creature, nor do they have stories about their heroes killing them. In fact those are probably far more common than dinosaur fossils. Also, stories don't pass well from culture to culture. Knowledge, sure, because it's useful. Look at today. As Americans, we really don't give a rat's ass about mythical Chinese stories, and they don't care about ours. Just because certain geographically isolated regions in China might* have exposed those people to fossils, and if you really want to go out on a limb they might* have made up elaborate stories about not only what the animal was, but it's significance and interaction with their ancestors (I mean, that's wildly out-there, but ok), it still would not be a story other cultures around the globe would have picked up. It's just not human nature. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 3:11:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ancient man finding fossils of prehistoric creatures (including dinosaurs) probably inspired many of the stories of dragons. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 3:13:44 PM EDT
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No.
I suppose people could have found dinosaur fossils in the past and invented the legend of dragons. If I understand correctly Mammoth fossils have been found around the Mediterranean region and people mistook the skulls for cyclopes. As for our early ancestors, they are separated by around sixty million years from the last dinosaurs. |
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Posted: 7/2/2023 3:44:47 PM EDT
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Dragons were the dinosaurs. People never saw one alive but they had to explain these monstrous bones they had dug up.
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