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DRAGON, LIKE THE GUEST SPEAKER AT A BANQUET, needs I1O introduction. Everyone has had some previous acquaintance with dragons in fairy tales, hagiology, opera, painting and sculpture, or festival pageantry. Dragons cause eclipses by swallowing the moon; they are vanquished by gods, kings or heroes; they are made drunk on mead or tamed with holy water; they bring good luck at the New Year. dragon's one unchanging characteristic is his reptilian or serpentine body. He is a monstrous, snakelike creature, ubiquitous and nonexistent. He may be feathered, horned or fiery, male or female, evil or benign. Some eager students of mythology and folklore have hunted the dragon around the world in the hope of finding the ancestor of all dragon-kind in the East, West or Middle East. Others have tried to find the genesis of the dragon in the symbolism of the Unconscious. Others see in him a memory of giant reptiles long since extinct. Anyone who makes a painstaking comparison of dragon myths will sur
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DRAGON, LIKE THE GUEST SPEAKER AT A BANQUET, needs I1O introduction. Everyone has had some previous acquaintance with dragons in fairy tales, hagiology, opera, painting and sculpture, or festival pageantry. Dragons cause eclipses by swallowing the moon; they are vanquished by gods, kings or heroes; they are made drunk on mead or tamed with holy water; they bring good luck at the New Year. dragon's one unchanging characteristic is his reptilian or serpentine body. He is a monstrous, snakelike creature, ubiquitous and nonexistent. He may be feathered, horned or fiery, male or female, evil or benign. Some eager students of mythology and folklore have hunted the dragon around the world in the hope of finding the ancestor of all dragon-kind in the East, West or Middle East. Others have tried to find the genesis of the dragon in the symbolism of the Unconscious. Others see in him a memory of giant reptiles long since extinct. Anyone who makes a painstaking comparison of dragon myths will sur
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