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@kate-flournoy Yeah, I’ve heard that dragon legends come from dinosaurs. Ken Ham really promotes that and I believe it. But I think @sarah-h is right in that most New Age cults do believe in special “relationships” with supernatural beings. Eragon and his dragon’s relationship sounds a lot like the relationship of New Age cults in that they can speak directly to each other’s mind and can they feel each other’s emotions or something? I forget.
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@Mark-Kamibaya Okay that is weird…
And that’s all right, I know the difference between occult and a cult—I understand your clarification. 😛And yes, that is what the dragons and their riders’ relationship is like.
Ugh. Weird.
@kate-flournoy Oh yes, most dragon legends come from dinosaurs. It’s fun to research that. Have you watched Dinosaurs and the Bible by Dr. Kent Hovind? If you haven’t, it’s very interesting. Dragons like the ones in Beowulf or St. George and the Dragon are very obviously dinosaurs. However, the creatures with magical powers, telepathic power (which is New Age), etc, … oh bother, I’m too tired to think grammatically; pardon the fragments. Anyway, I’d pinned those aspects of dragons to medieval superstition, but as I did more research, I found that they actually come directly from witchcraft and New Age….maybe also Wicca, I don’t remember now. Dragons – that is, the weird evil demonic creatures that appear in the form of dragons- are the most powerful magical beings in the occult world, and not only are they very dangerous and feared, but they creepily resemble in shape and in abilities the dragons so popular in modern fantasy. It’s an icky topic to research, and I’m not recommending that you do, but almost every single library I’ve been in, even the really small ones, has a sizeable occult/ New Age section (compared to zero, maybe one Christian book on spiritual warfare, which makes my blood boil…but that’s another topic), and there’s usually a book or two about dragons, but they aren’t good books. Deceived people writing about a sick deception. Yuck.
The dinosaur-dragons are pretty cool, though. Have you read the Peleg Chronicles? Rosey Mucklestone introduced us to them a while back. The dragons in them are just dinosaurs.
@Sarah-H New Age is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever come across, so none of that surprises me in the least.
I haven’t read the Peleg Chronicles, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about them.
Dinosaur dragons are really fun though. And did you know that there were little tiny ‘magpie’ dragons (in Old Saxony, I think) who hoarded colorful trinkets like coins and gems because they liked flashy things? So much for ‘enchanted treasure’. 😉
I agree on the magic dragon part. Not much of a fan. In my books that I’m writing (which book 1 is going to come out summer of ’17) my dragons just breathe fire and wreak havoc (no magic included).
You need to read the Peleg Chronicles. I gobbled the whole trilogy in 2 days. Great writing.
Were those “magpie” dragons actual dinosaurs, or magpies? I am still waking up this morning…Jackson E. Graham
http://jacksonegraham.wixsite.com/jackson-e-graham@WarrioroftheRealm 😀 actual reptiles— I just called them magpies because of their hoarding habit.
@warrioroftherealm Oh, I hope I get to read it some day! The Peleg Chronicles are the only books I’ve found that have that kind of dragon in them, and I’d like to read more books like that.
@kate-flournoy That’s neat! How small were they? Were they able to fly? I always thought the treasure hoarding was weird- why would an animal want money? But that makes sense. I wonder if there are any still alive? There are dinosaurs (or dragons, if you prefer), still alive in other parts of the world.
@Sarah-H I don’t remember… it was a very old, vague account and I read it a long time ago. I think they were somewhere around the size of a turkey, and I don’t think they could fly, though they were said to be very colorful. Fun thinking about, isn’t it? 😀 Greedy, colorful, turkey-sized dinosaurs… XD
I know!
…And it’s really funny, if you think about it, because even though a rhinoceros is a mammal, if they were extinct and somebody found the fossils, they would probably call it a dinosaur. 😛@kate-flournoy How cute! That’s so funny.
You’re right! They would probably classify it with the triceratops. 🙂
Have you heard of the pterodactyls in Indonesia? They glow in the dark, and people are very superstitious about them. It’s so strange that a creature can be alive and well in one part of the world, and yet in civilized lands people think they went extinct millions of years ago.
@Sarah-H no, I hadn’t. That’s so cool. *goes and scribbles down ‘glow-in-the-dark dragons’ in her notebook* This could be really fun. 😀
@Kate-flournoy I’m already do9ing glow-in-the-dark dragons. Though they work more like angler fish.
One of my brothers wants to go searching for the dinosaurs that are still alive.
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