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~ DRAG     id+ | DRAGON in lat |    see> DRACO
^u         id+ | PULL |             sug> DRAG
~ DRAGON   id+ | what must be SEEN or NOTED |
           id+ | SERPENT LIKE MONSTER |
~ DRAGOON  id+ | HARSH SOLDIERS often mounted
                 used to inflict thE HELL OF WAR |
           id+ | VIGILANT DRAGONS relied on
                 QUICK GLANCING EYES |
  id+ | DRAGONS often are VIGILANT GUARDIAN OF
        TREASURES  SECRETS  and  EMPIRES |
  id+ | implies DRAG and TRAGO or SWALLOW |
  id+ | DESTROY or ESTRAGO in sp as in STRATA |
  id+ | among CHRISTIANS emblem of EVIL or the DEVIL |
  id+ | emblem of INFINITY  TIME and FERTILITY |
  hx> in Biblical times
      DRAGONS had a link with CROCODILES and
  other REPTILES as PHYTHON or PITHON and BOA
  id+ | CROCODILES DRAG and SWALLOW or
        TRAFO VICTIMS WHOLE |     sug> PITHIA
  note that the etymology of DRAGON revolves about
       TO SEE  NOTE  DRAG  MAKE DISAPPEAR  SWALLOW
  skt     DARSAYATI   = WHAT CAUSES TO SEE or BE SEEN
  gr      DRAK          GLANCE
  gr      DRAKEIN       literally a
                        MONSTER WITH A DEADLY EYE or
                        GLANCE or EVIL EYE
          DERKESTHAI    GAZE  GLANCE  LOOK
  lat     DRACO         or                sug> VIPER
          DRACONIS      SERPENT           sug> SNAKE
  eng     DRACONIAN     SEVERE CRUEL
          DRACULA       appellation for VLAD IV
  sp      DRAGON        DRAGON
  eng     DRAGOON       VIOLENCE PRONE SOLDIERS
  biol>   DRAGON FLY    or
          DRAGONFLY     INSECT WITH ENORMOUS EYES
  eng     DRAG          PULL PLUCK as in
          DRAGNET       PULLING NET
          TRACK         TRAJECTORY or
  sp      TRAJECT       DISPLACEMENT
  eng     TRACE         TRACK from PULLING a load
           RACE         RUN also GENETIC TRACK
  gr      TREHEIN       RUN
  ukr     TRAHATY       MOVE A HEAVY LOAD
  sp      TRAER         to BRING
  lat     TRAHO         STRUGGLE
          TRAHA         TO PULL  DRAG  SLEDGE as in
          TRAHICUS      genus of HERBS
  eng     TRAGIC        WHAT SHOULD BE NOTED
  gr      TRAGODIA      TRAGEDY from
              ODIA      SONG  also
              ODOS      as in ODYSSEY
            AIG         GOAT
  eng       AEGIS       ATHENA HAD A SHIELD FROM SKIN
                        implies SPONSORSHIP
  lat     TRACO         DRAGON
  catalan DRAGAR        SWALLOW or
  sp      TRAGAR        SWALLOW beyond the
  med>    TRAGADERA     sp for PHARYNX or THROAT
  sp      TRAGADOR      WHO DEVOURS
          TRAGALUZ      SKY LIGHT to imply
                        AN OPENING THAT DEVOURS LIGHT
          TRAGAZON      GLUTTON
          TRAGEDIA      WHAT INFUSES PITY for TRAGEDY
  lit+    TRAGICOMEDIA  classic example of TRAGIC COMEDY is
                        AMFITRION or AMPHITRION per
          TRAGO         sp for "A DRINK" as in
                        "TO HAVE A DRINK" or
                        WHAT CAN BE SWALLOWED in one
                        GULP SIP
          TRAGON        WHO DEVOURS also
                        NAIVE as in EXCESSIVE BELIEF
  gr      TRAGOS        GOAT
  med>    TRAGUS        CARTILAGE ANTERIOR TO THE EAR OPENING
  med>    TRAGADERO     ESOPHAGUS or SWALLOWING TUBE
  lat    STRANGULATIO   CHOKE  VALVE  STOPPAGE
  ukr    STRACH         FEAR  PANIC
  sp    ESTRAGAR        DEVASTATE
  sp      TRAGADOR      VORACIOUS or HE WHO EATS FAST
  gr      DRAKON        SERPENT or
  ukr     DRAKON        DRAGON
          DRAKA         FIGHT
          DRAHA         DREDGE  as in
  ukr     DRAH          CARPENTERS PLANE
                        see> STRAGES below
          DRAHOON       or
  eng     DRAGOON       MOUNTED SOLDIERS used for
                        VIOLENT ACTIONS
  sp     ESTRAGO        DEVASTATION
  lat     STRAGES       A FELLING or CUTTING DOWN
          STRAGULA      BLANKET  LAYER
  med>    STRATUM       LAYERED  LAID in LAYERS
  lat     STRANGULO     CHOKE  THROTTLE
  biol>    TRAGOS       HERB like sea rush or
                        SHELL FISH or
                        ROUGH SPONGE
  med>                  ARM PIT SMELL
  note     DRACO        for the ANCIENTS it denoted
  eng      DRAGON       or
           PYTHON
           BOA
           CROCODILES   thus a source of confusion
                        for translators of the BIBLE
  and of other ancient works
  note WORKS by ARISTOTLE [#] and PLINY [#]
       refer to VIPERS or SERPENTS OF "MONSTROUS" SIZE
  note SERPENT SPECIMENS EXCEEDING 30 FEET EXIST IN
       EUROPEAN MUSEUMS AND ARE MOSTLY PYTHONS or BOAS
  note FALSEHOOD AND DECEPTION ARE HUMAN ATTRIBUTES
       and are found in MEDIEVAL STORIES AND TALES
  where RELIGIOUS FERVOR TAINTED STORIES WITH DRAGONS
  and otheR FALSEHOODS PRESENTED AS MIRACULOUS VISIONS
  myth> note see> APOLLO who destroyed the see> PYTHON
  myth> note the DRAGON as
             ONE OF THE MOST UNIVERSAL MONSTERS
  A MYTHICAL SNAKE LIKE CREATURE
  often WITH WINGS AND BREATHING OUT FIRE AND SMOKE
  note COBRA serpent with prominent lateral
       "hoods" of PTERYGIA or wings and the
  CAPACITY TO SPRAY VENOM like FIRE
  myth> DRAGONS WERE GUARDIANS OF THE
        GARDEN OF see> HESPERIDES and
  see> the GOLDEN FLEECE
  note PERSEUS who saved ANDROMEDA from
       A SEA MONSTER or DRAGON
  note HERCULES WHO DESTROYED THE DRAGON
       GUARDING THE GOLDEN APPLES IN HESPERIDES and
       the HYDRA see> more below
  note CADMUS WHO SOWED DRAGON TEETH
       THAT SPRANG INTO ARMED MEN
  note other HEROES and MAGICIANS such as
       JASON see> more below
  PERICLES and later
  MERLIN  SIGURD  SUSNA  NOWO and
  DRAGON  SLAYING SAINTS
  lit+ APOLLODORUS [#] wrote about HERACLES
  AS A SECOND LABOR
  EURYSTHEUS ORDERED HERCULES TO KILL
  " THE LERNEAN HYDRA
    THAT CREATURE BRED IN THE SWAMP ...
    THE HYDRA HAD A HUGE BODY
    NINE HEADS  EIGHT MORTAL BUT THE MIDDLE ONE IMMORTAL "
  Charles KINGSLEY [#] in The Heroes describes the
  task to obtain the GOLDEN FLEECE          see> JASON
  " BUT YOU KNOW NOT SAID MEDEA
    WHAT HE MUST DO WHO WOULD WIN THE FLEECE
  HE MUST TAME THE TWO BRAZEN FOOTED BULLS
  WHO BREATHE DEVOURING FLAMES AND WITH THEM
  HE MUST PLOUGH FOUR ACRES IN THE FIELD OF ARES AND
  HE MUST SOW THEM WITH SERPENTS' TEETH OF WHICH
  EACH TOOTH SPRINGS UP INTO AN ARMED MAN ...
  AND LITTLE WILL IT PROFIT HIM TO CONQUER THEM
  FOR THE FLEECE IS GUARDED BY A SERPENT
  MORE HUGE THAN ANY MOUNTAIN PINE ..."
  hx> THE LIST OF DRAGON SLAYERS IS LARGE AND
      REFLECTS EMBELLISHMENTS FABRICATED BY
  DURING THE DARK AGES BY RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASTS
  POPE  SILVESTER  was apparently an insignificant
                   church ruler from 314 to 331
  when the then Emperor Constantine promoted projects to
  show that Rome was Christian and sponsored the
  Basilica Constantiniana now known as
  ST. GIOVANI IN LATERANO
  Some enthusiasts felt compelled to boost the
  reputation of SAINT SILVERSTER BY CRAFTING
  LEGENDS compiled as "Acts of Saint Silvester"
  including attributing to him post humously
  being a DRAGON SLAYER but in the 16th c.
  this work was Exposed as false
  SAINT MICHAEL is venerated by the Jews and
                in the West he is the "captain of
  the heavenly  host" thus protector of Christians
  particularly soldiers
  in the East St Michael is a guardian of the sick
  DURING THE DARK AGES visionaries claimed to have
  seen him in
  Germany
  England
  France and in
  Rome as reported by POPE SAINT GREGORY I
  who claimed he saw an archangel with
  a sword above the HADRIAN'S MAUSOLEUM now known as
  Castle of ST. ANGELO
  SAINT GEORGE  patron saint of England was a famous
                early martyr in the East about whom
  virtually nothing is known except for legends many
  based on Christianize pagan myths which may explain
  why he is referred to as "whose deeds are known only
  to God" but nonetheless a book of "Golden Legend"
  dating back to the middle ages presents St George
  as a "soldier saint" who also is a dragon slayer
  SAINT MARGARET or Marina whose emblem is a dragon
                 became popular in the dark ages
  without any evidence that she ever existed but
  legends assert that St. Margaret refused the advances
  of prefect Olybrius for which she had to suffer being
  swallowed by Satan in the form of a dragon as reported
  by Theotimus who claimed to be an eye witness
  note REGARDLES IF THEIR VERACITY
       MANY STORIES CONCERNING DRAGON SLAYERS
  BECAME INCORPORATED INTO THE CULTURAL HERITAGE
  OF SEVERAL COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AS IN THE CASE OF
  SAINT MARTHA
  SAINT FLORENT
  SAINT CADO
  SAINT MAUDET
  SAINT SAMSON ARCHBISHOP OF DOL
  SAINT CLEMENT OF METZ
  SAINT ROMAIN OF ROUEN
  hx> FOR CHRISTIANS THE DRAGON IS A SYMBOL OF EVIL
      THE BIBLE IN THE APOCALYPSE
  ALLUDES TO A SEVEN HEADED DRAGON
  AKIN TO THE see> HYDRA
  lit+ THE JEWS ADOPTED MANY MYTHS from
       CHALDEA AND ASSYRIA and many
  came to regard such as ABSOLUTE REALITY
  as per REVELATION Chapter XII 3 and 9 or the BIBLE
  " ... AND BEHOLD A GREAT RED DRAGON
  HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS         see> CREATIONIST
  AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON HIS HEAD ...       see> EVOLUTION
  AND THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT        see> DOGMA
  THAT OLD SERPENT                         sug> VIPER
  CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN               sug> FAUSTUS
  WHICH DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD          sug> EVIL
  HE WAS CAST OUT INTO THE EARTH           sug> DIRT
  AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM "
  also
  " THEN I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN
    HOLDING IN HIS HAND THE KEY OF THE
  BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN AND
  HE SEIZED THE DRAGON
  THAT ANCIENT SERPENT WHO IS
  THE DEVIL AND SATAN AND
  BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS ... "
  note how DRAGON and SERPENT are equivalent
  in Revelation to John or the Apocalypse 19:20 in
  "The Holy Bible" prepared by the
  Catholic Biblical Assoc. of Great Britain
  hx> REGARDING DRAGONS as emblems of FORCE
      are used to denote the POWER OF THE STATE
  note CHINA where the DRAGON represented
       IMPERIAL POWER and today represents the
  CHINESE SOCIALIST POWER
  note POWER of ANACONDAS
       WHO TEND TO EMERGE AFTER FLOODS
  OTHERWISE THEY OFTEN ARE UNDERGROUND
  akin to DRAGONS LIVING IN CAVES
  note AZTECS WHO WORSHIPED
       THE FEATHERED SERPENT AS A SUPREME DEITY or
       QUETZALCOATL
  note MAYA who shared a similar belief in
       QUICHE  KUKULKAN  TLALOC or GUKUMATZ
       also the RAIN GOD CHAC
  note PUEBLO INDIANS and their "MOTHER OF WATERS"
  note MAYNAS from BRAZIL and their ANACONDA
       called JACUMAMA or MOTHER OF THE WATERS
  myth> in CHINA a DRAGON guarded the
        T'ANG or PEARL
  hx> in JAPAN BUDDHISTS UPHOLDS THE BELIEF THAT
      THE UNSHAKABLE FUDO-MYOO
  OVERCAME THE DRAGON THUS
  HE OVERCAME IGNORANCE AND DARKNESS
  hx> in the MIDDLE EAST THERE ARE
      CADUCEUS LIKE EMBLEMS OF
  TWO INTERTWINED DRAGONS INSTEAD OF SERPENTS
  AN SIGN OF NEUTRALIZATION OF OPPOSITES
  hx> note OUROBOROS or A DRAGON BITING ITS OWN TAIL
           emblem of DUALITY perhaps being a
  LAND and WATER CREATURE
  note in JAPAN DRAGONS WERE DIVIDED INTO
      CELESTIAL TERRESTIAL AQUATIC  RAIN AND
  CHTHONIAN or UNDER THE EARTH
  from gr CHTON = EARTH
  note QUETZALCOATL or AZTEC PLUMED SERPENT
       was a creature of the AIR
  note in INDIA HINDUS IDENTIFY THE DRAGON WITH
       THE PRIMAL or FIRST CAUSE THUS WITH
  AGNI or PRAJAPATI
  THE DRAGON PRODUCES SOMA or
  THE BEVERAGE OF IMMORTALITY
  note in CHINA DRAGONS ARE
       THE FLYING VEHICLE or
  WINGED STEEDS OF THE IMMORTALS or a way to
  ASCEND TO HAVEN TO OVERCOME TEMPTATION TO EVIL
  note DRAGONS SWALLOW  TRANSFIGURE AND
       VOMIT THEIR PREY as did the WHALE with
  PROPHET JONAH and as do SERPENTS
  hx>  DURING THE CHINESE NEW YEAR THE
       DRAGON REPRESENTS RENEWAL
  IN THE ORIENT DRAGONS ARE VENERATED AS
  DIVINE FIGURES OF FERTILITY AND OF CREATIVITY
  TO BE TREATED WITH CAUTION AND RESPECT
  IMPLYING THE POWER OF FLUIDITY as in
  SOLVENT  RESOLVE  RESOLUTION  SOLUTION
  hx> in WESTERN MYTHOLOGY
      DRAGONS WERE PRESENTED AS
  ENEMIES OF MANKIND WHO WERE TO BE DESTROYED
  later DRAGONS WERE PRESENTED AS PSYCHOPATHIC MONSTERS
        and included as a COMPONENT OF RELIGIOUS SCENES
  myth> lit+ note SIEGFRIED [#] who faced a
                  DRAGON GUARDIAN OF IMMORTALITY
  see> HERCULES 12TH LABOR CONCERNED WITH
       THE PLUNDER THE GOLDEN IMMORTALITY APPLES
  FROM THE GARDEN OF see> HESPERIDES
  GUARDED BY A SERPENT or DRAGON
  myth> see> CADUMUS SAWED DRAGON TREES FROM EACH OF WHICH
             SPRANG A SOLDIER
  hx> perhaps SKELETAL REMAINS OF DINOSAURS
      IMPACTED EARLY HUMANS AND GAVE RISE TO
  IDEAS ASSOCIATING THEIR ENORMOUS SIZE AND
  LARGE SHARP TEETH WITH IDEAS OF
  VIOLENCE  SWALLOWING  DEVOURING  VORACITY
  note a nearly UNIVERSAL HUMAN FEAR
       FASCINATION and HUMAN REPULSION FOR
  SNAKES and SERPENTS
  hx> A FAMOUS ATHENIAN LEGISLATOR
      son of HIPPOCRATES II WAS CALLED DRACO and
  in 621 HE ENACTED SEVERE LAWS KNOWN NOW AS DRACONIAN
  note one BROTHER OF THESSALUS WAS DRACO
  hx> the name DRACULA from DRACO DRAGON became famous
      or infamous due to the misdeeds of a ruler of
  TRANSYLVANIA CALLED VLAD IV            see> VLADIMIR
  med> DRACO was a CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN perhaps
       the GRANDSON OF HIPPOCRATES and
  GALEN [#] proposed that some of the works
  attr to HIPPOCRATES were in fact by DRACO
  biol> genus DRAGON LIZARDS include the AGAMIDAE
  biol> PLINY [#] mentions DRAGONS IN INDIA THAT
        COULD ENVELOP AN ELEPHANT and also
  refers to DRAGONS IN ETHIOPIA
  in 1608 Condrad GESNER [#]
  an early compiler of NATURAL HISTORY
  CONSIDERED DRAGONS TO BE GIANT SNAKES
  BELONGING TO  THE PYTHON FAMILY
  note perhaps THE FIRE BREATHING BY DRAGONS
       MAY STEM FROM THE POISONOUS SPITTING
       BY THE COBRA OF INDIA
  note perhaps FOSSIL BONES OF RHINOCEROS AND
       OTHER LARGE EXTINCT ANIMAL SKELETONS
  GAVE RISE TO LEGENDS ABOUT
  " DRAGON BONES " AND ABOUT
  DRAGONS LIVING UNDERGROUND
  note pl ARACEOUS for being reminiscent of a DRAGON
  note rept of the GENUS DRACO VOLANS or
       FLYING LIZARD WHO ARE NATIVE IN INDIA AND
  MALAY PENINSULA
  FLYING LIZARDS HAVE A A SKIN FLAP OR PTERYGIUM or WING
  BETWEEN THE FORWARD AND REAR LIMBS
  OFTEN AS LONG AS 10 INCHES WHICH PERMITS THE LIZARD
  TO GLIDE FROM TREE TO TREE
  a similar PTERYGIUM is present in
  FLYING SQUIRRELS in NORTH AMERICA
  note PTERYGIUM LIKE SKIN FLAPS
       BELOW THE HEAD OF A COBRA
  note THE KOMODO LIZARD found in
       1912 ON THE ISLAND OF KOMODO IN THE EAST INDIES
  IS A LARGE ANIMAL USED AS A PROTOTYPE TO EMBODY
  IDEAS ABOUT HOW DRAGONS " SHOULD " LOOK
  note DRAGONS SNAKES VIPERS CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS
       WERE AND FOR THE MOST PART CONTINUE TO BE KILLED
  RELENTLESSLY AND WITHOUT MERCY A STATEMENT BY PLINY [#]
  in his NATURAL HISTORY IS OF INTEREST
  " IT MAY BE NOTED ...
    SNAKES EVIDENCE CONSIDERABLE AFFECTION FOR THOSE
    WHO HAVE TREATED THEM WITH KINDNESS ... "
  astr> A MAJOR CONSTELLATIONS IS NAMED AFTER DRACO
  art>  RELIGIOUS WESTERN ART OFTEN REPRESENTS DRAGONS AS
        SYMBOLS OF EVIL
  also  OFTEN WORKS OF ART DENOTE A SYMPATHY OF
        ARTISTS FOR THE IDEA "DRAGON"
  lit+  regarding FLYING LIZARDS
        in "The Water Babies"
  Charles KINGSLEY [#] comments
  "PEOPLE CALL THEM PTERODACTYLES
   BUT THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE ASHAMED
   TO CALL THEM FLYING DRAGONS
   AFTER DENYING SO LONG THAT FLYING DRAGONS COULD EXIST"
   note " DRAGON BLOOD " IS THE RED RESIN FROM THE
         DRACAENA TREE USED FOR GLAZE GILDING AND DECORATION
  lit+ ARIOSTO [#] and his "Orlando Furioso"
       are about the HEROIC FIGURES of
  RUGGIERO  ANGELICA and a DRAGON
  art> Cornelis VAN HAARLEM [#] IN 1588 PAINTED
       A VERY REALISTIC RENDERING OF A
  DRAGON TRYING TO DEVOUR THE HEAD OF CADMUS
  other paintings by  TINTORETTO  DOMENICHINO  UCELLO
  RUBENS  ZUBARAN  DONATELLO present DRAGONS in a
  GREAT VARIETY OF WAYS
  biol> MEXICAN DRAGON TREE named after ACAPUCLO or
        PTEROCARPUS ACAPULCENSIS  also
  DRACAENA DRACO or DRAGON TREE
  from the CANARY ISLANDS
  genus DRACAENA formed by TREES and other PLANTS
  note DRAGON BLOOD refers to RESINS from a
        VARIETY OF TREES
  note SNAP DRAGON or
       ARACEOUS PLANTS or ARISAEMA DRACONTIUM
  note FLYING DRAGON or DRACO VOLANS akin to
       KOMODO DRAGON or VARANUS KOMODOENSIS
  cont> see> TRAGO