DRAGONS
legendary monster usually conceived as a huge, bat-winged, fire-breathing, scaly lizard or snake with a barbed tail. The belief in these creatures apparently arose without the slightest knowledge on the part of the ancients of the gigantic, prehistoric, dragon-like reptiles. In Greece the word drakon, from which the English word was derived, was used originally for any large serpent (see sea serpent), and the dragon of mythology, whatever shape it later assumed, remained essentially as a snake
From Babylonian mythology
The Babylonian creation epic, Enuma Elish, tells of how, in the beginning there was nothing save for two elements: Apsu - the male spirit of fresh water and the abyss, and Tiamat - the female spirit of salt water and chaos. Their children were the gods, but, becoming increasingly enraged by their offsprings' unruly ways, Apsu sought to destroy them. But the gods struck first and destroyed Apsu.
Tiamat lived on and plotted her revenge. She spawned eleven monsters to help her make war upon her children; the viper, the shark, the scorpion man, the storm demon, the great lion, the dragon, the mad dog and four nameless ones.
Marduk was the only god who fought Tiamat. There was an epic struggle but Marduk was finally able to shoot an arrow into her mouth which split her heart in two. He then divided her body into two parts - the sky and the land. Marduk cut the head off one of Tiamat's advisers and from the blood created humanity to serve as slaves to the gods.
Tiamat is portrayed in several different ways, but she was originally drawn as a four-legged creature with head and forequarters of a lion, a scaled body, feathery wings, an eagle's hind legs and a forked tongue. She also had a hide that was impervious to all weapons.
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|| BEST WING || BURNING GRAPHICS 1 || BURNING GRAPHICS 2 || BURNING GRAPHICS 3 || MY GRAPHICS || EAST WING || CHINESE DRAGONS || CHINESE DRAGONS 2 || CHINESE RAINBOW CALLIGRAPHY || CHEONGSAM / QIPAO || DRAGON MARKET PLACE || EAST GALLERY 1 || EAST GALLERY 1 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 2 || EAST GALLERY 2 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 3 || EAST GALLERY 3 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 4 || EAST GALLERY 4 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 5 || EAST GALLERY 5 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 6 || EAST GALLERY 6 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 7 || EAST GALLERY 7 PART 2 || EAST GALLERY 8 ||
|| INDEX 2 || INTRODUCTION || CHINESE OPERA || DRAGON DANCE || CHINESE DRAGONS || CHINESE DRAGONS 2 || GOLDEN MILLENNIUM DRAGON || YEAR OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON || WEST GALLERY 1 || WEST GALLERY 1 PART 2 || WEST GALLERY 2 || WEST GALLERY 3 || WEST GALLERY 4 || WEST GALLERY 5 || WEST GALLERY 6 || WEST GALLERY 7 || WEST GALLERY 8||
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