Mythical creatures

[Darkbrady]

Keep in mind that back then scientific knowledge was at a low; folklore and stories ruled the day. If a child came back sayin' that he saw a flyin' beast that matched the description of a snake/dragon, he would be taken much more seriously than he would nowadays.

The kid then goes outside and points to a komodo in the bush and a story is created. Artists envision this thing flyin' in the air and draw their own dramatisation of it.

There's nothin' to say that their stories off of were completely true; the had a baseline (dragons, snakes, reptiles..) and used their art to bring it to life. Keep in mind that not much of ancient art depicts an exact image of what things actually looked like; even pictures of humans were skewed to a degree.

Lookin' for somethin' exactly as described in ancient lore is about as futile as tryin' to prove that god exists up in the sky. But we can look at what the stories were based off of.

Snakes, reptiles and dragons bein' the obvious baseline for..well...flyin' dragons.

Unicorns were obviously enough based off of wild, vicious horses (unicorns were not always origianlly happy love-givin' ponies; they used to be considered fierce animals; in the Scottish Coat of Arms there's a Unicorn on the right thas shackled up; it's shackled because back then wild Unicorns were considered the most dangerous animal)

Those ones are pretty easy...I always find more interest in the wild, extreme ones; the Chimera, for example. How did they originally put together that beast?

[Kalent]

Keep in mind that back then scientific knowledge was at a low; folklore and stories ruled the day. If a child came back sayin' that he saw a flyin' beast that matched the description of a snake/dragon, he would be taken much more seriously than he would nowadays.

The kid then goes outside and points to a komodo in the bush and a story is created. Artists envision this thing flyin' in the air and draw their own dramatisation of it.

There's nothin' to say that their stories off of were completely true; the had a baseline (dragons, snakes, reptiles..) and used their art to bring it to life. Keep in mind that not much of ancient art depicts an exact image of what things actually looked like; even pictures of humans were skewed to a degree.

Lookin' for somethin' exactly as described in ancient lore is about as futile as tryin' to prove that god exists up in the sky. But we can look at what the stories were based off of.

Snakes, reptiles and dragons bein' the obvious baseline for..well...flyin' dragons.

Unicorns were obviously enough based off of wild, vicious horses (unicorns were not always origianlly happy love-givin' ponies; they used to be considered fierce animals; in the Scottish Coat of Arms there's a Unicorn on the right thas shackled up; it's shackled because back then wild Unicorns were considered the most dangerous animal)

Those ones are pretty easy...I always find more interest in the wild, extreme ones; the Chimera, for example. How did they originally put together that beast?

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As I've heard many times, legends and folklore all have a dash of truth in them.. If we could successfully analyze what the truth and false is of these legends and folklore, there would be much more knowledge about the past.

[Darkbrady]

As I've heard many times, legends and folklore all have a dash of truth in them.. If we could successfully analyze what the truth and false is of these legends and folklore, there would be much more knowledge about the past.

Thas exactly what I'm sayin'.

The myth of flyin' dragons did have a dash of truth...that truth can be easily and logical drawn back to your standard Komodo Dragon.

Unicorns can be easily derived from Horses.

Rocs, Thunderbirds based on eagles.

The dash of truth is the real thing that they are/were based on at the time; a lot of them can be quickly and logically drawn to a certain thing, but others are harder. Again; Chimera. There's no way that one day a short-sighted uy saw a lion, horse, snake and komodo all standin' next to each other movin' in seamless motion towards him. Where do the ones like that come from?

[abracax]

Fixed my post abra. Your right, it was asian also.

No big deal, I meant birds of prey but I kept saying eagle lol

Thas exactly what I'm sayin'.

The myth of flyin' dragons did have a dash of truth...that truth can be easily and logical drawn back to your standard Komodo Dragon.

Unicorns can be easily derived from Horses.

Rocs, Thunderbirds based on eagles.

The dash of truth is the real thing that they are/were based on at the time; a lot of them can be quickly and logically drawn to a certain thing, but others are harder. Again; Chimera. There's no way that one day a short-sighted uy saw a lion, horse, snake and komodo all standin' next to each other movin' in seamless motion towards him. Where do the ones like that come from?

Chimera is a tough one, however think of this. Ancient cultures had a great deal of knowledge we are only now learning again. The babylon battery, brain surgery with a high success rate(Egypt), steam engines(Greece) and many other things.

Is it possible that somehow at some point there could have been knowledge of genetics and someone created a monster? After all, we really have no clue what a great deal of the lost knowledge was, we just assume that ancient cultures were primitive.

[Rodri]

As I've heard many times, legends and folklore all have a dash of truth in them.. If we could successfully analyze what the truth and false is of these legends and folklore, there would be much more knowledge about the past.

Usually the 'truth' in legends and folklore is related to the nature of ourselves and how we see the world, or how we should treat each other.

[Kalent]

Usually the 'truth' in legends and folklore is related to the nature of ourselves and how we see the world, or how we should treat each other.

I believe that's part of it, since we are kinda twisting the truth to make up the legend and folklores. But I believe this to be another part of it, the way we see the world and the nature of ourselves, I think, has to do with how the story changes from the truth.

[CandleLite]

Usually the 'truth' in legends and folklore is related to the nature of ourselves and how we see the world, or how we should treat each other.

this is true the myths we know and love were not just blogs about what ppl saw and did that day. they were indepth studies into the nature of our selfs and the world around us.