Give me a Puff (Dragon Breath)

The Lair of Totality,
Home of the Dragon:

Ljubljana, Dragon Bridge

Cadmus

Cadmus and the dragon, black-figured amphora from Euboea, ca. 560-550 BC, Louvre (E 707)

Main Entry:

drag·on

Pronunciation:

\ˈdra-gən\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French dragun, from Latin dracon-, draco serpent, dragon, from Greek drakōn serpent; akin to Old English torht bright, Greek derkesthai to see, look at

Date:

13th century

1 archaic : a huge serpent 2: a mythical animal usually represented as a monstrous winged and scaly serpent or saurian with a crested head and enormous claws 3: a violent, combative, or very strict person 4: capitalized : draco 5: something or someone formidable or baneful

see also: Leviathan (fire breathing Bible Beast) and Behemoth

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/dragon





Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's teeth, by Maxfield Parrish, 1908



What is the origin of dragons? The Collective Unconscious, where else?
A look at a few famous dragons should show how these archetypal creatures arose from the mind's creative juices.

Lernaean Hydra

Hydra


Hercules slew the multi-headed Hydra as one of his labors, while Jason took on a dragon with poisonous breath and fire breathing bulls to win the Golden Fleece:

M20.1 IASON & THE DRAKON

Museum Collection: Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City
Catalogue No.: Vatican 16545
Beazley Archive No.: 205162
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Kylix
Painter: Attributed to Douris
Date: ca 500 - 450 BC
Period: Late Archaic

SUMMARY

The Drakon of Kholkis disgorges the hero Jason. Behind it the Golden Fleece hangs from a tree. Athene oversees the scene, holding a small owl and wearing her gorgon-headed aigis. This version of the story is from the lost work of an unknown ancient Greek poet.

My favorite Dragons:

Quetzalcoatl
Beowulf's dragon
the multi-colored Chinese Dragons
The Loch Ness Monster
Merlin's Dragon

Puff The Magic Dragon

Here's an extensive list from Wikipedia:

List of dragons in mythology and folklore

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of dragons in mythology and folklore. For dragons that originate in fiction, see List of fictional dragons.

• Aido Wedo, the Rainbow Serpent of Dahomey mythology
• Apalala, a mythical river dragon who was converted to Buddhism
• Apep or Apophis the giant snake or serpent from Egyptian mythology
• Azazel is described as a dragon in the Apocalypse of Abraham
• Azhi Dahaka in Avestan mythology.
• Qinglong, in Chinese mythology, one of the Four Symbols (Chinese constellation)
• Bolla (also "Bullar"), the sleeping dragon of Albanian mythology
• Brnensky drak (The dragon of Brno), the dragon killed nearby Moravian city (legend)
• Con rit is a water dragon from Vietnamese mythology
• The Devil appears as a "great red dragon" in the Book of Revelation
• Dragon Kings, from Chinese mythology
• The Dragon of Loschy Hill, of Yorkshire folklore
• The Dragons of St. Leonard's Forest, of Sussex folklore
• Fafnir, transformed dragon (Germanic mythology)
• The Green Dragon of Mordiford, of Herefordshire folklore
• Gorynych, the most famous of Russian dragons
• Huanglong, the Yellow Dragon of the Center, in Chinese mythology
• The Knucker from Lyminster in Sussex
• The Hydra, also called the Lernaean Hydra, from Greek Mythology is described as a dragon-like animal
• Illuyankas from Hittite mythology
• Ladon from Greek mythology
• The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, of Northumbrian legend
• The Lambton Worm, of Northumbrian legend
• The Ljubljana dragon, the protector dragon of Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia
• The Longwitton dragon, of Northumbrian legend
• Lotan/Leviathan from Levantine mythology and Hebrew scriptures, a demonic dragon reigning the waters
• The Meister Stoor Worm of Orkney legend
• Mushussu, musrussu or sirrush, the Babylonian dragon from the Ishtar Gate
• Níðhöggr (the 'Dread Biter', also spelled Nidhogg) and Jörmungandr the Midgard's Worm from Norse mythology
• Ouroboros the "tail-eater."
• Orochi, the eight-headed serpent slain by Susanoo in Japanese mythology
• Python, from Greek mythology, the snake killed by Apollo
• Quetzalcoatl from Aztec mythology has a dragon-like aspect
• Ryūjin was the dragon god of the sea in Japanese mythology.
• Sárkány, dragon of Hungarian mythology
• Seiryū, the Japanese name for the azure dragon
• Smok Wawelski (the Wawel Dragon) from Polish mythology, was killed by a clever shoemaker's apprentice
• The Tarasque, tamed by Saint Martha
• Tiamat and Apsu from Babylonian mythology are sometimes considered dragons
• Typhon from Greek mythology is often thought of as a dragon
• Xiuhcoatl is a serpent from Aztec mythology
• Yaw from Levantine mythology and the dragon in the Book of Revelation
• Y Ddraig Goch, the Red dragon of the Brythons (the white dragon that it killed in the story of Lludd and Llevelys is that of the Saxons)
• Zilant, by the Tataro-Bulgarian mythology lived in present-day Kazan and is represented on the city's coat of arms
• Zirnitra, dragon-god in Wendish mythology. It was later used in the Royal Danish heraldry as a representation of Wendland
• Zu from Sumerian mythology
• Zmey Gorynych - The dragon of the Slavic mythology. It's name is translated as "Snake son-of-mountain" (due to the fact it lives in a mountain), it has three heads, wings, and it spits fire.
• The unnamed five-headed dragon subdued by the Buddhist goddess Benzaiten at Enoshima in Japan in A.D. 552
• The unnamed dragon (referred to by the Saxon draca and wyrm) defeated by Beowulf and Wiglaf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
• The unnamed dragon defeated by Saint George.

See also

• Dragons in Greek mythology
• European dragon
• Chinese dragon
• List of fictional dragons
• List of fictional dinosaurs

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