I've thought about it for an extremely long time. Nothing I believe can explain it. Was it a folktale? If so, how was the folktale created? I don't think the people back then had very advanced minds.... and the description and personalities of all the magical creatures... that could NOT have been only one person's work. And I don't believe a group of people just sat down and came up with these things.
2006-11-28 10:31:35 · 5 answers · asked by Sweez 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
we as humans have pulled apart and studied so many little things about creatures, humans, places. etc.. there is nothing left for the imagination.
Although back in the olden times. people could only go on what they felt and saw. A lot of stories were made up (folklaw) to explain these happenings the best they could.. Some were written down others passed on though the generations.
Some made a little nicer for kiddies stories.
Although that doesn't mean all folktales are wrong or made up creations of people.
I guess like myself, i believe in dragons. yes they don't exist on this dimension and in the physical world to ours any more.
But they do visit from time to time.
Much like a Ghost or a Angel would.
2006-11-28 10:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by A Lady Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I think that this was our ancestors way of dealing with things they could not understand, such as stumbling across dinasour or mammoth bones. Face it, our ancestors, in digging things up to make towns, etc. HAD to have, occassionally found anceint bones that may have belonged to several different creatures, but that were all jumbled together, so they thought they were one creature. I think that is almost for sure how dragons were invents, and possibly unicorns also. Mercreatures...well we are pretty sure they were manates coupled with scurvy and lack of food, water, etc. Others were completely made up as symbols of what each part of the creature represented, such as the gryphon. As far back as anceint Egypt there was the Sphinx, the human-headed lion who represented wisdom and the unknown.
2006-11-28 14:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by harpertara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think of it this away..100 years ago great great grandpa saw an alligator, and a hawk landed on his back, threw different story telling the alligator with the hawk on his back became a dragon. doesn't mean people were ignorant but it is similar to the " big one that got away" the truth gets stretched to make great great grandpa survive this grand adventure instead of spying a gator with a hawk on his back. theory.. it sounds grander that grandpa fought a dragon and then told the story and someone else heard his story and made up one of there own and so on and so on .....
2006-11-28 10:49:33 · answer #3 · answered by pam m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually ignorance.....
It got dark...people feared darkness....
feared unknown---stories grew...............
2006-11-28 10:33:29 · answer #4 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drugs are every where
2006-11-28 10:46:34 · answer #5 · answered by zero d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋