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| Footnotes of article on first page |
| 1. Despite, dragons increased appearances as foes in many of the legends; they were not for mere mortals to defeat, and as well, dragons were said to pull the chariots that were used for God�s and Goddess� travel in the skies. The word �dragon� derives from the Greek word drakon by way of the Latin draco. To the Greeks, drakon was either a very large snake or a genuine dragon, but the dragon played a very vital role in many of their myths and legends, and was a powerful foe. However, instead of being a unique monster, divine and mystical, the dragon emerged as a member of a ubiquitous and somewhat mundane species. They became a mortal animal, no less familiar or plausible than the giraffe or elephant.
2. The quote was taken from �Dragons and Dragon Lore� by Ernest Ingersoll, chapter 1, pg 13. 3. The statement was taken from Dragons and Dragon Lore� by Ernest Ingersoll; the statement was made in regards to an unidentified person describing a solar eclipse, and clearly illustrating their belief that these creatures existed and influenced the world around them. 4. Taken from �Dragons� by Peter Hogarth, pg 110; �Travels�, the entire work was fabricated from accounts of several travelers by a literary ghost whose true identity remains a mystery, a practice that was common in the Middle Ages. 5. �History of four-footed Beast� of 1607 was written by naturalist Edward Topsell; Edward Topsell book was largely based on Gesner�s Historiae Animalium, a five volume work in Latin, published in Zurich in the 1550�s. Topsell�s History comes at a transitional time. Intimations of what we would now consider �proper scientific method� are clearly visible, yet Topsell is also anxious to defer to the authority represented by classical sources. To view more, or the source for this information; �http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/1161/topsel/top_int.html� 6. Taken from �Dragons� by Peter Hogarth, pg 113, thirteenth century Caragian is now currently the Chinese province of Yunnan, and this description was probably an exaggeration of a crocodile, however Macro Polo was at the mercy of his illustrators, who clearly depicted a dragon which was much more clearer in the European Artist mind then a crocodile, adding wings even though Macro Polo never stated that the creature possessed wings or used the word dragon to describe the creature. 7. Dragonologist are those who study dragonology, which is the study of dragons. Taken from the book �Dragonology� published 2003, which purports to be the actual writings of English dragonologist Ernest Drake. The book is like an encyclopedia of the subject, which are dragons. (For a sample of this book visit http://www.dragonology.com/what_is_dragonolgy.html) 8. The word myth comes from the ancient Greek word �Mythos� which essentially means �a spoken or written story�. However, myths are much more then a simple story for generally they have a specific purpose. They may explore the relationships between gods, goddesses, and mankind, or the struggle between good and evil, or explain how the world was created. Myths played a vital role in early man�s societies and religious beliefs. 9. Babylonian Creation Epic, which is an epic poem written on seven clay tablets that explains how the universe was created. The source of this information is based on �Dragons� by Peter Hogarth and these sites http://www.piney.com/Enuma.html, http://campus.northpark.edu/history/Classes/Sources/BabylonianCreation.html, & http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/enuma.html. The poem was written in the 12th century BC and based on the myths that date back to the ancient Sumer. 10. The Draconitas was a stone that dragons possessed in their foreheads that has to taken from the dragon while the dragon still lived, otherwise the dragon would spoil the gem, making it useless. The preferred method of taking the stone was to lure the dragon to sleep, however another was s technique in which drums were used to stimulate thunder, since it was thought that the sound of thunder would draw a dragon from its lair, that they were frightened of thunder. The exact power of this stone is unsure but rumors say that it could be used to detect poison. 11.1 Taken from the source,� Dragons� by Peter Hogarth." |