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Post by firebreather on Jul 13, 2007 18:11:30 GMT
Ah ha this is the nub, the existence of mythical creatures depends on the context in which you consider them, say you were going for a romantic walk with your girlfriend at dusk along Loch Lomond shore, and a large limb of a tree fell into the loch your belief in the loch ness monster could well be rekindled as you leg it to a safer place.
Or perhaps you have just left the cinema on a warm evening having watched "Dragon Slayer" and a chopper flies low over head, but you don't see it as you walk between tall buildings, the reality of the existence of dragons would perhaps be firmly in the front of your mind,
Flashes of images on the edge of our range of view often deny us the truth of what exists.
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Post by Lex on Jul 23, 2007 10:22:26 GMT
I agree with you but i think it goes a step further than that.
As we all know (assuming you believe we started out as cavemen and arent believers of the adam and eve theory) there was a time we had no explanation for anything. All was new and religion or mythology was our way of explaining the unexplainable.
Therefore when a volcano erupted our ancestors would have made up a reason to justify the sudden explosion. Some of these tales may have become more and more elaborate until the volcano was infact a god or monster or perhaps even a dragon.
This also stands for my theory on how the dragon really came about in the west, It was common for animals to feature in mythology of old, the snake in egypt became a large part of Egyptian mythology and soon developed into the God Re's nemesis. The serpent Aapep in my opinion sparked off many other tales of large snakes. However there were as many beneficient tales of snakes.
Like all tales these stories were elaborated. In europe these snakes gre wings and legs and eventually grew the ability to breath fire.
In effect the dragon evolved with out ability to twist the tales to suit our circumstance.
Therefore i do not believe the dragon, as a creature, exists. However do believe the dragon is real as a cultural and mythological symbol, permanently evolving as we do.
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Post by Stooby on Jul 23, 2007 12:02:45 GMT
Well said Lex.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
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Post by Lex on Jul 23, 2007 12:07:29 GMT
Well said Lex. I couldn't have put it better myself. No your right, you couldnt  |
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Post by giggles on Jul 23, 2007 23:23:01 GMT
Well said Lex. I couldn't have put it better myself. No your right, you couldnt whos got big headed all of a sudden lol hehehe |
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Post by Stooby on Jul 24, 2007 11:06:09 GMT
to think.... all I was doing was agreeing with him, and he quips back like that!
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Post by Lex on Jul 25, 2007 15:37:09 GMT
What can i say? Guilty as charged  |
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