The premiere of HBO’s prequel to Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon will undoubtedly bring more attention to the ferocious dragon. Know more:
and other modern interpretations increased the dragon’s notoriety in the 21st century, artifacts from ancient civilizations indicated their importance in many religions across the world.
In the text, Tiamat, the female primordial deity of salt water and matriarch of the gods, births 11 kinds of monsters, including the dragon. Different kinds of these aquatic, intelligent, semidivine beings form a hierarchy in ancient Chinese cosmology and appear in creation myths of various indigenous traditions.
The creature’s repeated and important presence across global religions and cultures raises an interesting question: Why did dragons appear at all?A long-proposed theory is that there are natural explanations for dragons. That’s not to say the beasts of myth existed in real life but rather that fossils, living animals and geological features existing in the natural world inspired their creation.
Scholars have also cited natural geologic processes as explanations for dragon lore—particularly when they are associated with natural disasters.
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