dragon myth n fossils
Jan 29 2012, 12:32 PM EST
| Post edited: Jan 29 2012, 12:32 PM EST
A history channel show I saw suggested fossils added to monster myths. Mammoth bones to Greek legends of Cyclops. (Short skull, one large 'eye hole for the trunk.) Large -there type ancient mammals to American Indian myths of the Thunderhose: both washed out of hills by rains.
Dragons could've been mososaurs and icthysaurs found in quarries while getting stone.
The ancient Greeks enjoyed 'fish stories'. A story wasn't so much judged on its reality as on its ...coolness. Aristotle himself related travelers' tales of islands whose natives had dogs' heads or their faces in their stomachs.
Tales told of existing beasts (crocodiles, large snakes, Komodos) and of bones (often stone bones!) found in the ground could've set folks' imaginations running.
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