Mythological Stuff, mainly beasts/monsters, mainly Dragons

**Dragon** · 07-13-2004 06:12 AM

This is a poll... hopefully people will VOTE!!!!

my defense:
if dragons are not real, then where has all the mythology involving them come from? also, when dragons are described, they almost always have 3 defining characteristics:
1. Serpentine in nature, or having scales or a snakelike body
2. Able to breath flame or some other destructive substance
3. Able to fly, with or without wings.
One theory suggests that people actually DID co exist with dinosaurs and that myths or tales involving dragons are just far fetched stories of dinosaur sightings. Not my theory

I will visit this topic in the morning and hopefully it will have been replyed to lol and voted on.

**Nebulae** · 07-13-2004 09:22 AM

i want a pet dragon

**Alric** · 07-13-2004 09:58 AM

I think they are just big lizards and stuff people seen, may not even be dinosaurs but other big stuff. And by big I mean compared to other animals. Like a horse would be a pretty big animal.

**Placebo** · 07-13-2004 02:49 PM

They've just learnt to hide really well. Can you blame them?

**evangel** · 07-13-2004 04:28 PM

Originally posted by Dragon

if dragons are not real, then where has all the mythology involving them come from?

The same thing could be asked of vampires... or mermaids... or werewolves... fairies... leperchauns
Maybe they live on other planes of existence...

I'll go with the dinosaur theory, though.

**Alric** · 07-13-2004 05:30 PM

People thought manaties where mermaids, werewolves could easily just be wolves. Vampire is just a normal person who drinks blood. Dracula was a real person, he didn't drink blood but he was a warlord and murdered tons of people and they ended up calling him one. If you saw a firefly from a distance and never seen one before you could think its a fairy. Leprechaun could just be a small person, thats basicly what they are without magic anyway.

So I think someone saw something but maybe they needed glasses heh.

**Umbrasquall** · 07-13-2004 05:49 PM

That makes sense Alric.

Kamodo dragons exist now.

**dreamscape** · 07-13-2004 05:55 PM

I think they were real i mean we humans evolved from apes so why couldn't dragons evolve from dinosaurs.

**evangel** · 07-13-2004 05:58 PM

yeah, and unicorns evolved from rhinoceruseseses.

**kid robot** · 07-13-2004 06:14 PM

no dragons that fit your definition.

1. Serpentine in nature, or having scales or a snakelike body [/b]

we have those

2. Able to breath flame or some other destructive substance [/b]

we don't have flames... but we have snakes/reptiles that spit venom, blood, flesh eating bacteria.

3. Able to fly, with or without wings.[/b]

nothing can fly without the use of wings or something similar. physics... and yes physics still applied back in the middle ages.

so no... no dragons... dinosaurs yes... gravity defying, fire spiting dinosaurs? no.

**Dragon** · 07-13-2004 10:46 PM

ok i have no idea how these people figure this stuff out but check this site out, it has stuff about the structure of dragons and all that.. (little slow for 56k)
http://www.colba.net/~tempest1/From_tail_to_snout/

when i said able to fly with or without wings i suppose i was talking about eastern dragons, which are generally described as really big snakes that can fly. (japanese,chinese dragons) Now what kid robot says makes sense, but I never payed much attention to eastern dragons, I always assumed they were just legends or something but then again :

Originally posted by Alric+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alric)</div>

So I think someone saw something but maybe they needed glasses heh.[/b]

probly sum old japanese guy saw one of those snakes that can launch themselves through the air and said it was flying. Another thing about eastern dragons, usually they dont spit fire or acid or ice or anything like that, so maybe i should just narrow my definition down to the descritption of a western dragon (the kind with 4 legs, a tail, and wings).

Originally posted by Nubulae@
i want a pet dragon

me too itd be awesome

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I think they were real i mean we humans evolved from apes so why couldn't dragons evolve from dinosaurs.

Thats always possible too but the thing scientists have been finding out is that dinosaurs appear to have been evolved into birds.

keep up the discussion its goin good so far.

**Alaurast78** · 07-13-2004 11:28 PM

Originally posted by evangel+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(evangel)</div>

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if dragons are not real, then where has all the mythology involving them come from?

The same thing could be asked of vampires... or mermaids... or werewolves... fairies... leperchauns
Maybe they live on other planes of existence...

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Yeah they live in another plane of existance along with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Princes Di and Kerk Cobain... among others!

**evangel** · 07-14-2004 12:00 AM

yeah...

I was wondering - is that a self-portarit or something (your avatar) or what?

**Alaurast78** · 07-14-2004 12:05 AM

lol... i wish!

**Dragon** · 07-14-2004 10:45 PM

coughofftopiccough (ok so that was off topic too

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**Placebo** · 07-16-2004 06:57 PM

Originally posted by Dragon
coughofftopiccough (ok so that was off topic too )

Uh huh.. yeah...!

**Vira** · 01-15-2010 01:17 AM

Can't say I do believe in that stuff or not...

**Shift** · 01-15-2010 02:48 AM

Vira.... why.....

**Maria92** · 01-15-2010 06:43 AM

...what, seriously? The third one. The one where they don't exist, and never have...Quietly protesting the 10 character limit

**Noogah** · 01-15-2010 08:34 AM

Of course, there is always the possibility that Dragons are synonymous with Dinosaurs.

I have a serious obsession with cryptids, and I myself fancy the idea of a living Pterodactyl....somewhere.........in an obscure jungle..........hidden from mortal eyes.....

EDIT: Wait a minute! This thread is from '04!!