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Anonymous

01/15/25(Wed)02:56:07 No.17431630

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How and where exactly did the Chinese come up with their rendition of the dragon and come to worship it as a God? Is it just an amalgamation of different Reptiles?

Anonymous
01/15/25(Wed)03:03:39 No.17431639

Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)03:03:39 No.17431639

>>17431630
Dragons are real /thread

Anonymous
01/15/25(Wed)03:14:06 No.17431652

Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)03:14:06 No.17431652

They simply observed the real Shen Long and described him.

Anonymous
01/15/25(Wed)14:29:18 No.17432873

Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)14:29:18 No.17432873

I believe it is a common spiritual ‘entity’ perhaps a guardian type that they are expressing.

Anonymous
01/15/25(Wed)14:30:37 No.17432876

Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)14:30:37 No.17432876

>>17431639
kek

Anonymous
01/15/25(Wed)14:38:22 No.17432888

Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)14:38:22 No.17432888

>>17431630
I forgot where I read it but on rare occasion they would dug up dinosaur fossils and present it to the emperor as auspicious gift. It's probably based on that

Anonymous
01/15/25(Wed)17:36:57 No.17433317

Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)17:36:57 No.17433317

>>17431630
>>17432888
"Dragons" were an actual reptilian animal that went extinct in China sometime during Zhou. Extant records mention that the Xia dynasty kept "dragons" in their zoos, and it wouldn't have made sense for the 12 animals to have chosen 11 real and 1 mythical. Elephants also used to be in China before going extinct, and in modern times tigers are almost extinct in China, but no one would call elephants or tigers mythical.