I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.
given that some bible scholars believe there are dragons in the bible (https://bibleproject.com/guides/dragons-in-the-bible/ ) there is nothing specifically insane about this post at all.
Outside of “Christianity is insane”, but that’s hardly the point of this community. Or is Flying Squid going to start posting every nutter thing from the Bible here now?
Do you think maybe there’s a slight difference between “the Bible says there were dragons” and “all of these civilizations have dragon folklore, therefore that means dinosaurs were dragons?”
I hate that people act like we just discovered dinosaurs and dragons can’t be related. The bones have been there longer than we.
Lmfao, well yes, it’s indeed very likely that people of ancient times have found dinasour bones and assumed it to be of a since long gone mystical creature such as a dragon.
There is nothing remotely insane about the assumption. It’s, in fact, highly probable.
There are also a number of large lizards - komodo dragons and other variations of monitor lizards, alligators and crocodiles, pythons and other large snakes, and the various members of the iguana family - that have visual characteristics of mythologized dragons. Add in the human propensity to exaggerate and you end up with a series of increasingly dramatic artistic reinterpretations of a real animal.
I mean, yeah, this did happen. People hundreds of years ago found scary-looking bones, and imagined what they could be from. Dinosaur translates to basically Terror Lizard for a reason. That doesn’t mean that they were dragons though lmao
Supposedly the predecessors to the ancient Greeks mistook the skull of a breed of small elephants as the skull of a one-eyed giant.
When I was a kid I got this book from a garage sale. It was really neat, the illustrations were fire, and the author presents a theory on how dragons could have existed despite there being no physical evidence for them.
The gist is that dragons were actual creatures that were hunted to extinction in the iron age. But over the years the accounts turned to myth, and the mythological dragon is quite different from an actual dragon: essentially a hydrogen blimp with toxic blood that melts its bones shortly after it dies.
However, even as an eight-year-old I knew this was just a thought exercise. And as much as I think dragons are neat and would have liked to drink the koolaid, I guess I just don’t have what it takes to be a professional crazy.
