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Haters Gonna Hate…
and that’s the end of my afternoon spam! Off to tea I go! xo xo
how I roll now.
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Arthur Rackham - Siegfried Slays Fafner. 1911
Shokuin is the spirit of China’s Purple Mountain. It appears as a red, man-faced dragon. (source: Konjaku Hyakki Shūi ”Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past” published ca. 1781)
woodcuts from the late medieval book “De Animalibus & Reptilibus. De Avibus & Volatilibus. De Piscibus & Natatilibus. De Gemmis & in vevis terrae nascentibus.”
several fantastical creatures as depicted in the Reiner Musterbuch
La Sierpe de Ocho Cabezas’
Published by Takezirou Hasegawa in 1914.
Evolution of the Dragon by Hugo Simberg
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Tiamat is a gigantic dragon, representing Chaos and the saltwater ocean.
According to an epic Babylonian poem the decendants of Tiamat and Apsu became irritating, so Tiamat proposed that they kill their own offspring. Ea (a water deity) discovered these plans and killed Apsu while he was sleeping.
Tiamat then created an army of monsters to avenge the death of Apsu. Marduk led the gods against them and defeated Tiamat, cutting her body in half. From the upper half, Marduk created the sky, and from the lower half, the earth.
The samurai Hanagami Danjo no jo Arakage in Izumo stabbing a giant salamander with his short sword.
In Alpine folklore, the Tatzelwurm is a stubby, lizard-like creature. It takes the appearance of a cat with the hind-end of a serpent with no hind legs.
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