Re: [tied] Re: Medieval Dragons, dog/snake, Greek Dragons

From: george knysh
Message: 17576
Date: 2003-01-13

--- Jo�o_Sim�es_Lopes_Filho <jodan99@...>
wrote:
> Chinese dragons could be crocodiles. It would
> explain the link to water and
> rain. Later, they became legendary creatures, and
> were associated to fossil
> teeth and bones. It's like the Greek mastodons, who
> can influenced the
> legend of cyclopes (elephatine skull resemble an
> one-eyed giant head,
> because the nostril is very large and in the center
> of head)
>
> Joao SL

*****GK: You started the thread, so my question is
initially, but not exclusively,to you. Why did the
Greek term for "dragon" (borrowed by many other
languages)relate this fabulous monster to the notion
of "seeing"?******


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