2007-10-18 04:33:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Most experts on mythology and folklore argue that legends of dragons are based upon ordinary snakes and similar creatures coupled with common psychological fears amongst disparate groups of humans. It is notable that dragon depictions do not appear in the earliest cave pictographs or sculptures of wildlife encountered by early humans during the hunter-gatherer era, and depictions only originate after the agricultural revolution, when humans began to excavate the earth for wells, graves, irrigation ditches, building foundations, etc. For this reason, many speculate that it was the discovery of dinosaur fossils which first gave rise to the concept of dragons. Dinosaur fossils would have been common to all the geographic areas where early civilizations began, and where the dinosaur myths originally show up in ancient folklore.
Some believe that the dragon may have had a real-life counterpart from which the various legends arose — typically dinosaurs or other archosaurs are mentioned as a possibility — but there is no physical evidence to support this claim, only alleged sightings collected by cryptozoologists. Some cryptozoologists point to the grounded scientific evidence that monitor lizards were the basis of some dragon tales. The breath of the dragon is the fantastic imagery of the steam from the warm montane valley monitors emerging from a body of water into the cold air of some Asian locations. The tale of the Buru from pre-World War II Burma is of a cryptid that would be seen as a dragon today.
2007-10-18 12:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Throughout the world today, there are sightings in foreign countries of dinosaurs still alive. "Jungles of the amazon" is one of them. Dinosaurs are related to crocodiles, birds, and reptiles. Which wouldn't make me doubt that some dinosaurs are still around. I am sure there was a couple of dinosaur sightings a long time ago. Dinosaurs were probably confused as a dragon. They are basically the same thing anyways, dragons are just over exaggerated such as fiery breath.
2007-10-18 05:37:45 · answer #2 · answered by caloman87 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People throughout history and all around the world seem to have had this idea that there were huge, lizard-like creatures, some of which could fly. Maybe they just found bones of such creatures. Maybe the earliest humans actually saw some before the dinosaurs disappeared. I think there's something there, but clearly there was some embellishment also - fire breathing and what-not. That seems reasonable to me, that if someone actually killed something like a pterodactyl, that they would make the story bigger and bigger each time it was told. I don't put a lot of stock in radioactive dating methods, so I tend to think that just maybe a human really did see a "dragon," but at the very least they found bones.
2007-10-18 04:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
that's my theory: human beings dug up dinosaur bones and theory that they have been great beasts, dragons. in case you observe, some dragons in diverse cultures have modifications, one mandatory trait is the skill of flight. perhaps some human beings dug up a dinosaur fossil that had wings, and that they say them to be flying monsters. some dino fossils lacking wings have been flightless dragons. although, it is all hypothesis. We won't in any respect be attentive to the actual tale, except we make a time gadget, then it truly is a various tale.
2016-10-13 01:52:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dragons are myth, except for the komodo dragon, that greatly resemble the dinosaur.
2007-10-18 06:18:51 · answer #5 · answered by Captcamo 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the possibility is but this is one I don't have the answer to.
well OK they both lived a long time ago, they both start with the letter D, and they were both real.
in more then one way
2007-10-19 00:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by DRAGON 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in every fable there is a kernel of truth dinosaurs are probably the kernel in the tales of dragons so i do believe you are thinking along the right path here---keep smiling and enjoy the day
2007-10-18 05:05:25 · answer #7 · answered by lazaruslong138 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
it's possible.
if ancients/medieval peoples found dinosaur bones, that could have inspired dragon legends.
2007-10-18 04:37:06 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
simple answer is:
dinosaurs were reality, they had fossilized, and we have scientific evidence they once existed
Dragons: are just myths, and stories, and there is not scientific evidence of their existence , neither we ever found them fossilized.
so one is reality of past and one is myth of past.
2007-10-18 05:59:04 · answer #9 · answered by Shak 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes why do u think we still have chinese water dragons and kamodas
2007-10-18 08:51:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋