Did dragons really exist? Detailed answer

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Did dragons really exist?

Terrible dragons are the characters of fairy tales and legends of many peoples living in all corners of our planet. They are depicted as huge, snake-like monsters, with their very appearance terrifying people. The dragons spewed fire and smoke from their mouths and nostrils, and their roar was so loud that the earth trembled from it. The dragon from ancient Greek myths is widely known - the nine-headed Hydra. She devoured many beautiful young girls before she died at the hands of Hercules.

Another dragon described by the ancient Greeks was the Chimera: a monster with a fire-breathing mouth, which was slain by the young warrior Bellerophon with the help of his winged steed Pegasus. In Russian folk tales, the well-known Serpent Gorynych plays the role of a dragon. Many fabulous dragons guarded countless treasures. For example, the Golden Fleece was guarded by a hundred-eyed monster. Although, as a rule, dragons in fairy tales and legends are representatives of the forces of evil, they also sometimes become symbols of the forces that protect man.

In the old days, warriors painted dragons on their shields to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. It should be noted that sometimes people really believed that dragons existed. Before Columbus, sailors rarely dared to plow the waters of unfamiliar seas precisely because of the fear of huge monsters that supposedly live in the depths of the sea, capable of swallowing the ship whole along with the crew.

Of course, they were wrong, and dragons existed and exist only in legends and fairy tales. Then why did people consider them real beings? One possible explanation is that once, in prehistoric times, there were huge animals on Earth. The most terrible of them, dinosaurs, disappeared from the planet long before the appearance of man on it. However, it is likely that in the time of the cavemen, various gigantic reptiles continued to be found on Earth, and it was they who became the prototypes of fabulous dragons.

Author: Likum A.

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