What do you know about dragons?
There’s a huge collective knowledge here, and I’d like to tap into it. What do you guys (and ladies, of course) know about dragons? Symbology, mythology, etc? I realize I could do a search on Google, but I’m about to go to work and would like other people’s input.
More specifically, something called, "the path of the dragon". Is that a real thing? What does it mean? In meditation I saw a dragon that spoke of it, saying I had chosen to walk the path of the dragon.
So, like I said–what do you all know about dragons?
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Dragons are mythical, demi-god ish creatures in Japanese culture. They are an intelligence outside the realm of human emotion and passion who help guide the development of the civilization; they are also water deities. They are incredibly old spirits who help connect the human spiritual world with the other spirits. At least, that is my impression, based on the bits and snippets of Japanese culture that I’ve picked up here and there…
Check this out
http://scienceblogs.com/sciencepunk/2010/02/real_life_dragon_discovered.php
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Dragons are creatures that ride the wind. I have heard that a long time ago people uncovered the head of a triceratops (or some other similar dinosaur) and noticed that it must have been from some big lizard. They then saw that it had a beak just like that of an eagle and realized it must have been able to fly. In the medieval sense dragons were winged lizards but in china they are more like decoratively feathered serpents. Who knows…
Triceratops skull: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Triceratops_side_view.jpg
If you want a real dragon check out this bad boy from the Indonesian islands http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/191240193_b2e0286c92.jpg They’re huge and they run reaally fast :P
lol this is all I know about dragons.
I dont remeber what I was reading at the time, but I seem to remember that “The Path of the Dragon” was a sort of journey into metaphysics. I remember a picture of a man standing in a dragons mouth, with the inscription underneath saying something about “entering the dragons mouth’ was an initiation into the journey. I don’t seem to remember much else about ‘the path of the Dragon’.
As for general info on Dragons, there’s a plethora of info out there, and Dragons tend to mean different thing to people in different parts of the world. For example, Western culture views Dragons as evil, with religion linking it to the devil. However as most of us know, in the Asian countries Dragons are perceived as wholly benevolent creatures.
There are many types of dragons ranging from the typical western style “European” Dragon with 4 legs and 2 wings, to Wyverns with 2 legs and 2 wings, Knuckers with 4 legs and no wings, Lindwyrms with no legs and 2 wings, and the “Chinese”Dragons which are categorized by the number of digits on their feet, having 4 legs and no wings but able to fly using their whiskers.
Anyway, this is all just a little info I remember, I didnt fact-check any of this before writing so dont quote me on the accuracy, but it’s easy to google it.
Bruce Lee was called “the Little Dragon” I presume the path of the dragon is something along the the lines of the Chinese disciplines.
What I know about dragons is 1)they collect gold, but not for it’s value but because it is shinny and looks pretty 2)they only take virgins, I don’t know what for. 3)they live in dark damp dens and 4)to kill one you need a blade forged in the blood of a dragon, you need to kill a dragon to forge one but you need one to kill one, catch 22.
You can never truely kill a dragon, though once mortally wounded they will presumably teleport to another realm *explaining why there are no dragon bones laying around* to rest and heal themselves. eventually with human overpopulation most have left for this other realm to escape our violence.
I binged “The Path of the dragon”, and after wading through a bunch of BS I found a few interesting sites.
http://www.dragonalchemy.com/ – Dragon healing
http://www.amarushka.com/ – Dragonkin, a site for those of dragons blood
Sadly these are the only good links I found in 10 pages of bing.. pretty sad, most everything else is movie or video game related.
(2) For Jung, the first stage of the individuation process is the conscious ego’s heroic struggle {the hero/heroine journey of mythology} to lift itself out of the orginal all-encompassing unconsciousness and to establish control of unconscious forces. This finds symbolic representation in the legendary dragon-slayer, St George (St George = the ego; the dragon = the unconscious).
It’s on the path of individuation (kinda something like enlightenment for Jung). If you’re interested in symbolism, he’s the guy to go to.
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