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Highlights

  • We are faced with the problem of tracing back all the various dragon forms to a single source.
  • In early Egypt, the dragon was chiefly a representation, albeit with some embellishments, of the snake.
  • one is to draw any conclusion from this, it can only be that the Egyptian mythology was influenced by an early form of snake worship.
  • 2nd and 1st millennium BC, and though they would take on varied attributes through the centuries, this association remained fixe
  • thunderstorms. The dragons hibernate over the winter and pools; then in summer, they take to the sky, bringing on rains. Xuer, dragons were symbols of spring; the sighting of one heralded the onset of The spring thunderstorms mark the end of hibernation.