• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    How do the authors know what a dragon speaks like? Were speaking dragons a common thing back then or…?

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      3 months ago

      A pretty significant number of relatively disconnected cultures all have ancient legends of dragons or creatures very like them.

      Always thought that was sort of neat.

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        …and almost non-existent in cultures whose lands were once covered by ice age glacier that disturbed sediment layers where you can find dinosaur fossils.

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      You know that’s a really good question.

      I don’t know if a dragon is ever mentioned anywhere else in the Bible other than Revelations. But at the time Revelations was written, Rome would have been in full pre-fall swing, so maybe it’s some sort of like crossover information.