Why did every culture write about large flying reptiles called dragons if such an animal never existed, lol.
>>18501750>Why did [thing that never happened], lol?You're welcome.
>DUDE EVERY CULTURE HAD DRAGONS >look inside >here’s a turtle with a lion’s head >there’s a big snake
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't Chinese dragons walk on tiny clouds instead of flying?
Because Aryans hunted down Snake Cultists (Proto-Jews) wherever they could find them. In every new land they conquered for the Skyfather, there was often a story about a hero killing a snake. Only then was it safe and the land could be settled by Aryans.And yes Proto-Aryans also travelled to places like America and China to hunt down the Snake Cultists there.
>>18501782>There's a big fluffy thing that dances
>>18501750Why did every culture acknowledge the reality of the spirit world except modern ones?
>>18501786>The mythical founded of the mesoamerican civilization was blonde and came from the eastern Sea>The semi-mythical Xia and Shang dynasties that build the proto-chinese civilization were likely of Tocharian originThere may be a seed of truth in your ironico schizo rant
>>18501794Thor Heyerdahl proved you could have travelled to America with primitive technology by doing it himself, so the logistics would have worked out.
>>18501750Dinosaur skeletons being unearthed most likely
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>>18501786That is....... Incredibly based
>>18501761Cope.
>>18501829Zero evidence of dinosaurs existing before the bone wars.
Large flying reptiles exist
>>18501761Im fuckint dead bro FPBP
>>18501750It's an overlap of completely base fears with some pretty symbolic patterns.>reptileWe are adapted to fear reptiles, so much so that we have retina adaptation to quickly respond to snake skin on the floor. Obviously this doesn't mean that every single person consciously fears snakes, but it's a common enough pattern to frame snakes as something dangerous in one way or another.>wingsDangerous stuff flying is 20x as dangerous, but in addition to that, if you want to visually express that something is spiritual, wings are one of relatively few obvious choices. Wings on a human mean a spirit, an angel. Wings on a wheel mean a cycle. Wings on a snake mean it's a spiritual danger.>dragonsFlying reptiles are a classic, but the point about dragons was in part that they defied classification. As other Anons pointed out, some "dragons" were part reptile, part lion, part cattle etc. They are monsters in the "scary anomaly" sense. And their unclassifiable nature also means that they can sometimes act in ways we would describe as benevolent, there is just no way to tell. They're a mystery.In short, spiritual monsters are a useful enough mental image that we all ended up creating an instance or two.
