Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Dragon Search: Asiatic and Middle Eastern (1)


Grael
To find various Asiatic and Middle Eastern dragons, I had to look in various books for illustrations of them.  I finally found several in two books.  The stories and the dragons depicted in these books were mostly the Middle Eastern dragons.

5 January 2011
From: “The Book of Dragons and Other Mythical Beasts” by Joseph Nigg.
The Story: “Cosmic Dragon, Source of Earth and Sky”
The dragon of the story was Freyth, the Middle Eastern dragon of fire.  He was depicted breathing flames.  This dragon was red-orange, with yellow eyes, black horns, and had talons for claws.

6 January 2011
From: “The Book of Dragons and Other Mythical Beasts” by Joseph Nigg.
The Story: “Nagas: Serpents of the Waters”
The Indian Naga depicted in the story was a woman with a snake’s body.  She was guarding various treasures underwater.  Besides having a body of a snake, the naga also had snakes coming out of her hair.

7 January 2011
From: “Dragons”, stories compiled by Steve Dobell.
Story: “Introduction to Biblical Dragons”
Freyth  
The Archangel Michael is depicted defeating a dragon, which has feathered wings and curly horns.  The dragon,  pictured with horse’s ears and red eyes, is also covered with fur.  I believe that this dragon is Grael, the Middle Eastern dragon of chaos.

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