We have all seen these movies that have dragons in them, amongst other creatures. Movies with unicorns are another. There has been no proof found of the existence ever of either dragon or unicorn, however many still believe they existed.

How about Nessie? Could one consider that a myth, or is it just a made up story to lure in tourists?

"Myth: A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology." says one dictionary. That one dictionary leaves open the option of there being a hint of truth in there.


What do you believe on the above? Have dragons and unicorns (amongst others) really existed, or were they just stories to scare the people? And, if you believe in them, what do you have to support your views?

All I find interesting is there seems to be no culture on earth that doesn’t have a dragon or a dragon like creature within their mythology. No matter how far the distance between, as this common myth seems to stretch the whole world over. Quite a feat for something that is said not to have existed at all.

But dragons existed, we found bones of them... only that we call them "dinosaurs" now.

Yes, Adrian, but dinosaurs and men never coexisted, and men had no memory or knowledge of dinosaurs until about two hundred years ago when the first dug-up bones were put together, whereas the dragon myth has been around for more than a thousand years.

Wherever men got the inspiration for dragons, it wasn´t dinosaurs - it´s historically impossible.

(IMHO dragons and unicorns are a just that - myths - straight out of the wish for a better world: an idealised version of the pets people would have loved to tame and exploit: beautiful, immortal, and with magical abilities to deflect lightning/destroy one´s enemies/heal one´s illnessess/confer eternal youth on one, etc.)

Bit like the myth of the 11.000 virgins

I'm not sure, bones and huge eggs have been discovered before the science people took over, I doubt this is such a new discovery. Also is not true that all culture have the same fantastic creatures and most of the people that had story about dragons are connected through history (at least in Europe you could see that clearly because the word comes from the same root in many different European languages)

But that´s just what´s fascinating, that dragons *are* found in most cultures´ myths: the flying fire-spewing serpent-lizard god of the Aztecs, the Chinese dragon stories that go back at least 1.500 years ago; the Polynesian feathered dragons, the Carthago dragons and of course the mediaeval ones.

Dragons are like pyramids - found everywhere, in more or less disguised variations. So what was first, the myth egg or the living creature?

Serpents are pretty common all over the world and they also inspire fear. Quetzalcoatl was a serpent with feathers, didn't have legs except in his human form, "medieval dragons" didn't have feathers as far as I know even if they flew they had bat-like wings, Chinese dragons look pretty much like a serpents with legs, AKA reptiles, they also discovered what they called "dragon bones" (there's a writing from around 300BC that describes them) which of course were dinosaur bones.

So... big scarry looking animals that look like serpents or like other reptiles, with feathers or without, that fly or not, with legs or without, which are good or bad, I wouldn't call that such a big "coincidence".