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Post by samantha on Oct 27, 2006 5:27:54 GMT -5
At Paris, there's Dragons: The Exhibit, at the Museum D'Histoires Naturelles. I've loved Dragons all my life, and if you love Dragons, too, you should drop by here: www2.mnhn.fr/dragonsAn English version is available, with some interactive games based on myths about the Dragon around the world. Paradoxically, I've never seen the Dragon as being Evil, as I should as a Western girl, but rather as a guardian and a friend, like our neighbors from Asia. That's why I love them so much, and never saw Evil in them. Good visit! Kisses, Sam. |
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Post by Astrid on Oct 27, 2006 10:26:15 GMT -5
I don't think dragons are evil either. I also think that because they are so prominent in both European and Asian culture and folklore that there really must have been a creature like that at some time, perhaps driven to extinction by hunting knights??! For two places so far apart to have the same symbol, that must mean that people in both places saw them. Maybe they were a form of dinosaur that was not yet extinct by the middle ages but is now?
On this same topic, sort of, isn't the Loch Ness monster supposed to be some kind of dragon looking creature too?
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Post by samantha on Oct 27, 2006 11:02:33 GMT -5
Oh, Dear, what you're saying is very true, that's the sole explanation why the Dragon is still present everywhere in books (through the namesake of a young Slytherin Wizard, Draco) or comics, at the point to even give their name to a constellation!
My Goodness! You've read my mind or what? Actually, the BBC made a docu-fiction last year called Dragons, and it was ran during the holiday season, exactly referring to the point you've precisely made, astraltraveler.
This is indeed correct, according to reports.
Kisses,
Sam.
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Post by Astrid on Oct 27, 2006 11:07:05 GMT -5
Oh cool, maybe I'm right! Have an scientists ever explored this possibility?
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Post by samantha on Oct 27, 2006 11:09:52 GMT -5
They had, and most of them seldom than Dragons never existed, only creatures meant for fabulation and myths, unfortunately...  Kisses, Sam. |
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Post by Astrid on Oct 27, 2006 11:11:00 GMT -5
Then they are missing out on a possible huge scientific discovery they could get the credit for proving. I hope someday some scientist will explore this.
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Post by samantha on Oct 27, 2006 11:18:32 GMT -5
This is a point I can only agree with you. And if this can be of help, the docu-fiction I mentioned earlier on was speaking of a scientist who found two dragons skeletons in the frozen mountains of Norway, if my memory is good. But still, others are doubting of the authenticity of his find...
Kisses,
Sam.
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Post by crystalcat on Oct 27, 2006 19:06:48 GMT -5
But still, others are doubting of the authenticity of his find../quote] This is unfortunately, what scientists love to do. I am one, but if I found a dragon skeleton, I couldn't call it that. I'd have to call it some new form of dinosaur, and even then, I'd get lambasted in the journals by people who didn't think that what I found was new at all. If it had wings and four limbs (making it a six-limbed creature), they'd even say it was probably a hoax, and no one would ever take me seriously again until I was long dead. There is a place for reserve - enough hoaxes and mistakes are made and they do have to be careful; I understand that. But some people have too much power and squelch anything that doesn't agree with their own pet theory. There was a famous anthropologist who personally held the decipherment of the Mayan script back 40 years because he scathingly belittled anyone who said they thought it could be done (he didn't think it could). Personally, I don't think they co-existed with man (though I could be wrong). I think it's more likely that people saw some dinosaur bones and used their imagination. Though -- it is possible some were still around during the cave man era. The problem is that I'd really love to believe they existed - which means I have to force myself to be more skeptical. I would have loved to have seen the Loch Ness monster when I went to Scotland this past summer, too, but I didn't get to see it. We saw something on the beach (on an island in the lake) that we could have imagined to be Nessie, but we stared at it long enough that we decided it couldn't be (unless she was dead). |
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Post by Annie on Oct 27, 2006 21:05:55 GMT -5
It is terrible that hoaxes make people so skeptical but it happens.
It sure seems like those medieval people saw something, I'd like for it to be true, too. I saw a documentary once about griffins, and how someone in Greece claimed they were real and unexplained bones some claimed were griffins had been discovered.
That would have been great to get a chance to see Nessie, you are very lucky. Even if she diddn't surface, at least you saw her home!
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Post by samantha on Oct 28, 2006 3:40:41 GMT -5
I got a fair idea of what you mean by that, for many scientists in the past have not been taken seriously either when they were alive, this is quite true.
I agree with you on that part, Annie, for I remember to have read about false Mermaids made of fish and monkey halves, and being sold as being true Mermaids! A true hoax, here! Although Memaids have their place into my heart as well, as much as the Dragons do, and the Fairfolk.
Kisses,
Sam.
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