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Soahar :
But heaven forbid someone call this a dragon
2026-08-21 00:38:38
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lilac 🍉🍉🍉 :
people around the world looking at reptiles: it would be so cool if this could fly
2026-08-21 00:24:42
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wretchedmagus :
dragon the only category less specific than fish
2026-08-21 02:32:10
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Corambis :
So humans evolved to imagine dragons?
2026-08-21 02:02:32
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Dante's Infernal Dinosaurs :
My girlfriend and I discussed this. "Dragon" at this point is just the fantasy equivalent of "crab" or "tree". If any or all of those creatures were real, they wouldn't actually be a monophyletic clade of related species, but just a catch all descriptive term for vaguely similar things. I personal have the hypothesis that European colonizers just saw any and every mythical creature in the cultures they encountered/traded with/pillaged, noticed the vague reptilian similarity, and called them "dragons" because that was the best term they had at hand/were familiar with.
2026-08-21 00:26:45
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dreadpirateshawn :
oh sure skip right over the documented witness evidence right in front of our eyes...
2026-08-21 04:42:13
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Fizban's Forever DM :
It all stems from white folks looking at world mythology through a Eurocentric lens. it's the same reason why white European type folks call every mythical monster that drinks blood a vampire, despite vampires being a distinctly European monster
2026-08-21 03:53:45
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CaptaEst :
Dragons all be reptilian isn’t even actually a common trait. Some Asian “dragons” are known for having feathers or fur. The word Dragon was just what Europeans called big terrifying monsters so when they went to other countries and saw myths of their big terrifying monsters they just called them dragons despite not having anything in common. Dragon literally just means “monster”. It’s like how we call every big monster today a Kaiju. It’s not the name of a single species.
2026-08-21 02:37:11
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Remy Eibrahim :
I think dragons and giant reptile stories emerged as an explanation for people finding fossils of dinosaurs and creatures from the distant past and base stories to explain them as dragon bones.
2026-08-21 08:37:59
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flipflops_of_doom :
Took this picture last year in Norway.
2026-08-21 17:24:42
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✨Mere🐻✨ :
i think it's just ancient civilizations finding dinosaur bones and fossils. I heard a really interesting theory about some type of fossilized dinosaur with 4 legs but a "hook like" mouth/face being the basis for griffins
2026-08-21 02:56:29
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Someone :
"I got this crazy idea. Imagine if [ANIMAL] was [DIFFERENT SIZE] and had the [BODY PART] of a [DIFFERENT ANIMAL]."
2026-08-21 05:14:38
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lucado_jacob420i :
I could be wrong but i thought they all found dinosaur bones at one point in their societys and just assembled them wrong. Thus giving us different types of dragons that were made up of different types of wrong dinosaur bones, like the head of a Trex, the wings of a pterodactyl, and the general body of a brontosaurus
2026-08-21 05:31:08
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Moto(w)n :
Is that not the definition of a dragon? Or do you mean there isn’t a clear definition of what qualifies as a dragon? I think in the modern era, I think most people would accept most cultural dragon depictions. I’d even go as far as most monster if reptilian enough would classify as a dragon.
2026-08-21 01:55:36
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SaintIndigo :
If dragons aren’t real then explain this guy who lives in my room and is must sacrifice bugs to (i think he is about to breathe fire here)
2026-08-22 16:35:41
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d20_crit :
“What does it mean that cultures all around the world have stories about dragons?” It means dragons are FUCKING SICK that’s what.
2026-08-21 22:28:31
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Fonzini69 :
its the same as if we ask "why do all cultures have spirits" like yea there is ways of explaining but there is not one set of beings called "spirit"
2026-08-21 09:37:03
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Anna D Lund :
As a big fan of the history of vampires, I feel the same way about that. I think it’s mildly exciting that “vampires” exist in all cultures, except all that means is that all cultures have creatures based somehow on the fears of death, disease, being prey, and your loved ones and neighbors being imposters.
2026-08-21 14:39:11
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Tom :
As a Welshman. I feel a little attacked.
2026-08-21 01:31:28
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subnaut :
the same thing happens with vampires too. in our cultural understanding vampires are semi immortal blood drinking undead with full faculties that can't go out in the sun and hate crosses and garlic. but if you research mythological vampires basically any undead badguy in mythology gets called a vampire
2026-08-21 00:43:01
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Rocktimus🇨🇦Prime :
But do all of these dragon-having cultures also have dungeons? 🤔
2026-08-22 01:57:16
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SarleyQuinn :
As a dragon enthusiast, I always loved the explanation of dragons as “They are the various combinations of things that could probably eat us” That’s it. That an us loving stories
2026-08-21 05:13:37
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Mustélucie :
Hi, there is actually this french researcher, Julien d’Huy, who works in phylomythology (think philogeny but with myths), it's scientific and published in peer-reviewed publications. He built a "tree" of the myths of "dragon", and found something coherent with what is known about how the humans spread around the globe. Basically, the myth of weird mystical snakes originate in parts of Africa and then new things are added to the myth along the way as homo sapiens settles in new environements, and you can trace how this myth clearly relates to this one and so on.
2026-08-21 05:17:44
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auntyniina :
my language name for dragons is "lohikäärme" whitch translates to "salmon snake", no idea why salmon, but I think we all know why snake.
2026-08-21 04:49:48
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Phlegethoth :
Also, Chinese dragons aren’t reptilian. Or at least not the majority of them. The scales are described as fish scales, claws are eagle.
2026-08-21 14:34:48
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