Talk:An Instinct for Dragons
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After watching "Quest for Dragons on the History chanel I must agree with some of david jones's theories. However I only agree on it for some cultures. It still amazes me how legends of dragons are world wide. How can big, reptilian, bones cover all this teritory? Could a skink be a shadow of his ansestors, dragons? Like so many other survivors of a world long gone, could he or another lizard have once been a "mythical" beast?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]]).
- Legends of dragons are only world-wide if you take every monster you can think of in any mythological story and just label them as dragons despite the major differences between them. The Inuit claims are especially bzarre and dubious. I at least changed it to say that he claims that there are dragon stories there, but without seeing what he's even talking about I don't know how to look it up. I'd bet he's completely off base, as my readings of Inuit myths has nothing at all like what would typically be called a dragon. DreamGuy 06:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
You know, I think we could call "dragon", virtually any giant reptilian mythology species which is either very respected or everyone is afraid of (trust me, I'm an expert). So, this Inuit creature (if it exists, because I never heard of it) could be called dragon. But only as a grouping of creatures, like the Hydra, in this case we can call it "dragon", but if we're talking about the Hydra alone (not together with other similar monsters), we shouldn't call it "dragon". I hope I explained that well. For the rest I agree with the guy
-Dave Starkiller
[edit] Predator
"(...)claims that the common traits of dragons seem to be an amalgam of the principal predators of our ancestral hominids, which he names as the raptors, great cats (especially leopards) and pythons." Raptors?! they never live whith hominids! 78.29.200.22 (talk) 11:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, I noticed that too. I've never read the book but he maybe using the term to express a gerneral "what ever animal wants to eat the proto-human today." So we may want to leave it in until someone who has read the book can tell us one way or the other.
[edit] NPOV
Please note that articles on Wikipedia do not take sides. To claim that this author proves anything, or that his examples are real and undisputed when we know they aren't violated the WP:NPOV poliicy here. I did an edit job that gets rid of most of the worst examples. DreamGuy 06:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
