In every culture a dragon is either health or hindrance. Asian culutures usually associate dragons with luck, plenty, and health while European cultures usually picture them as mindless beasts. While all cultures that do have a Pheonix picture them as lucky Dragons are perceived with mixed reviews so to speak. Even in the Asian cultures where Dragins are usually seen a lucky there is a cruelness to the dragons if they are not appeased and the Japanese legend of Yamata no Orochi also known as just Orochi involves the god of sea and storms, Susanoo, slaying the evil dragon. But most versions of the Pheonix involve luck and plenty. Examples of the curse surroundign dragons would be Beowulf, Apep, Gorynych, Krak, Knucker, Orochi, St. George & the Dragon, Wyvern, Fafnir, Jawzahr, Ladon, Glaurung, Hungarian Horntail, Luckdragon, Norwegian Ridgeback, Smaug, and Quetzalcoatl. Please do not ask me to spell that again. Here is a list of different dragons, if they are luck or lose, if they are dead, and where they come from: (*means fictional)
Beowulf's Dragon=Sweden=Curse=Dead
Gorynych=Russia & Ukraine=Curse=Dead
Krak's Dragon=Poland=Curse=Dead
Knucker=England=Curse=Dead
Orochi=Japan=Curse=Dead
St. George's Dragon=Libya=Curse=Dead
Wyvern=England=Curse=Dead
Apalala=Pakistan=Luck=Alive
(notice a pattern?)
Fafnir=Norway, Sweden, & Denmark=Curse=Very Dead
Futs-Lung=China=Luck but, Cruel=Alive
Hatuibwari=Solomon Islands=Luck=Dead
Jawzahr=Iran=Curse=Alive sort of
Ladon=Canary Islands=Curse=Dead
Ryujun=Japan=Luck=Alive
Shen-Lung=China=Luck=Alive
*Glaurung=Nargothrond=Curse=Dead
Hungarian Horntail=Hungary=Curse=Alive
*Luckdragon=Lake of Tears=Luck=Alive
Norwegian Ridgeback=Norway=Curse=Alive
*Smaug=Lonely Mountain=Curse=Dead
Apep=Egypt=Curse=Alive
Quetzalcoatl=Central America & Mexico=Curse=Alive
Sorry but this is a large list and now I'll answer some personal questions. Yes I'm a girl. No I'm not crazy. Yes I like the study of Dragons, Pheonixes, & Egyptology. No mostly what I put on here is fact. And yes I do beleive dragons have existed but I do not think we'll see one anytime soon beause if you have not noticed the huge list almost all the Dragons of old so to speak are dead. Yes there has been Evidence of real dragons but as I said before they may be very much extinct. Good Luck on whatever you may be doing. This is Sign off.
-Sekhmet
Dragon Fossil found near Zurich, Switzerland |