From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 17579
Date: 2003-01-14
----- Original Message -----
From: george knysh <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Medieval Dragons, dog/snake, Greek Dragons
>
> --- João_Simões_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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