Can Dragons be an Historic reality? If you've delved very deeply into creation science, especially the creation museum in Maine (founded by a former youth pastor from our church) you will find that there is ample (currently suppressed or ignored) evidence that not only are there dragons in our history (may still be some somewhere) but there was still a population of them around in Europe during the high middle ages.
No I'm not pulling one of my segues from reality for affect.
Rev. Paul Viet spoke at our church last year (the guy from Bridgeton Maine) and he showed us a picture from the wall of a medieval Manor house in France (still used as a residence) which depicts "a nest of dragons in the wild".
Okay, so somebody had a really good imagination, right?
Not so, some of the details of the skin and soft tissues of the "dragons" in the painting are identical to skin and soft tissue details that mainstream archaeologists just discovered @ three years ago in some "dinosaur" remains that were unearthed with remnants of skin and soft tissue still on them.
Um, sufice it to say, Paul told us that most of the more recent "archaeological" finds of "dinosaur" remains have not been released to the public, because they destroy the "millions and billions of years of evoloution" theory. Some have been found with blood still in the tissues; fairly recent deaths in the archaeological timeline.
This is real stuff, nearly everything we've been taught about the actual history of life is a lie. Of course what would you expect from a God rejecting scientific community who are trying to prove that the Bible's first book is wrong?
RE Dragons:I've researched the genetic memories/folk histories/mythological/typology of dragons in human history and I belive that they are/were real. There is too much consistency and unanimity of the testimony. Too many royal houses have dragons as one of their primary heraldic devices. I believe that there were at least four seperate species of dragon that man has had dealings with since creation. I suspect that the modern representations of dragons are somewhat stylized and mythologized, just like our human heroes and kings often are, but that each of them has an actual historical reality that was pivotal to the history of earth.
Tidbit: All fire breathing dragons have horns. Why?
Plausible reason, calcified mixing chambers for pyrogolic enzymes that they excrete separately then mix to create "dragonfire" just as some tropical beetles do to create a form of "beetle fire" for defense.
Much in my Curatorium story Universe (Guardianship Universe) is based on literary extrapolations from that research.
Re: Why we are fascinated with them?The essential definition that I found for dragons was that they are "Elemental Spirits". Sort of an order of "Material Angels" which were given superintendency over certain elemental forces of the natural world.
ie: The Welsh/Roman/Samaritan Red dragon (Martian) are the dragons of war, which since the fall of man has been a force of nature in human history. They were the symbol of the Roman cavalry which ultimately morphed into the Knights of the middle ages. They embodied the martial principles that are still held by our western military today.
The Red dragons are powerful and implacably fierce in battle, but they are nurturers and protective of their client peoples. (Think the Roman legions, or the Brithonic "War Flights" (mounted war bands) of post Roman Britian and how both were walls of defence to their culture against the force of pagan chaos.
(Historic note; the Welsh (Cumry) war bands called themselves "the Dragons of War". )
The Chinese style "serpentine" dragon. Water dragons, generally beneficial to human civilization but can be destructive if they are angered. There were also European "Water Dragons" but they didn't get as much press because they tended to be benign.
Much very deep dragon lore is woven into Chinese culture/racial memories. To them the Dragon is the sign of the greatest good luck.
The European "Wrm", the quintisential evil dragon that demanded virgins to eat as extortion. Powerful and malevolent, I feel these are the "Sin Dragons" whose ancestor Satan possessed when he tempted Eve and Adam in the garden. Some of their depictions are totally legless, like serpents (Polish), others have wings and only vestigial hind legs (Spanish).
The Saxon White Dragon, huge, powerful, war dragons that seemed to be only all about conquest.
In Anglo/Saxon/Brithonic lore the analog to the battle of Armageddon is a battle royalle between the Red Dragon of Britain and the White Dragon of the Saxons (Sacenachs - the outlandish invaders).
Okay, sure, maybe; but why the intense fascination?I believe they hold so much fascination for us because Dragons embody the essential elements of our aspirations as men to protect, nurture and make fertile our parts of the earth and our homes and families; with great almost supernatural power.
I believe that is their role in the created order, to embody that kind of courage, dedicated strength and whole hearted ferocity that we must have as men to carve out a place for homes and families in the Satanic chaos of this fallen world.
In one sense I feel that dragons are the Alter Ego's of mankind in all our self sacrificing courage and strength, as well as our perfidity, selfish greed and cruelty.
In short, they are mirrors of our collective souls.
This is the vision that I have used in writing my Draconic characters.
From the Blue Healers of Dirax who willingly pour out thier lives to heal the sick and wounded of thier planet;
to the Le'as refugees from the holocaust of Mars who made covenant to be companion/protectors to the godly seed of Enoch's tribe;
to the brutish White Dragons of Dirax IV who act like drunken frat boys, live to fight and brawl and love war for the sheer destructive hell of it.
And then above the fray are the Serpentine, multi-hued Elusions who are the divine choristers who sing the deep harmonies that keep the created universe from dissolving in to a sea of chaos and fire.
Well that's my take on dragons in a nutshell, for what it's worth. Many have a different view of them but that's how I feel led to treat the draconic element of creation. Inextricably interwoven with mankind they are our companions, good and bad, but companions of the Bride; those of us who are redeemed out of Mankind to be the Bride of Christ and God.
As always your mileage may vary.
Write on beloved siblings
SGD
dave