Dragons | The History & Origin Stories You Were Never Told 

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Dragons are by far the best magical creatures 🐲

Dragons, Unicorns, Werewolves, Elves and Vampires are the most iconic fantasy creatures.

Finally they've done a deep independent video on dragons. This is exactly the type of video I've been waiting for from this channel!!!!!! Thank you

Dragons have got to be the most versatile creatures in history, whether they genuinely existed or just through pure imagination. Dragons are said to be a mix of different animal characteristics. And, they’ve also been depicted to be of different elements which the closest animal we have to this is a Chameleon. In the west, we see dragons as mighty scaly beasts with wings and fire breathing capabilities. Yet, asian cultures view these mighty creatures with a snake-like body with no wings. In certain Asian cultures, they also live underwater or deep in mountain caves. Dragons are just really awesome and diverse. They’re amazing

The ultimate apex predators are fiction! Technically Tiamat was the very first dragon and/or serpent in existence in mythology’s. Also you should’ve talked about the Aztec serpent god.

I always love to see Dragons they are so powerful, so fantasy and so legendry 🐉🔥🏰🗡

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I just gotta love the Nordic tales. Except for one element they are always very inventive ! That one thing being Loki making some mess and then having to fix it

As somebody born in the Rhine area of Germany between the cities of Cologne and Bonn the legend of Siegfried and the dragon from the Nibellungen saga is a firmly established part of local culture and folklore. The mountain known as Drachenfels (dragon´s rock) is a popular destination for a day trip as it is said to be the place where the dragon used to live before it was slain.

My list of dragons that I know Amphiptere, Hydra, Lindworm, Ouroboros, Wyvern, vetrovnjak/zmajeviti, Zduhac, Zmajeviti, zmey, Zmeu, Aiatar, Amphisbaena, Asdeev, Baxia, Beithir, Bian, Bixi, Bukavac, Burrunjar, Chaofeng, Chiwen, Dahag, Denglong, Jabberwock, Jiaotu, Longgui, Mbielu, Odontotyranno, Pulao, Pyrausta, Qilin, Qiuniu, scitalis, Suanni, Taotie, Tatzelwurm, Tizheruk, velue/peluda, Yazi, Niu, Xi, Balaur, Herensuge, Tiamat, Zirnitra, Bakunawa, Minokawa, vibria, sárkany, drakaina, drak, drac

I ❤ Dragons!!🐉✨ So majestic!

I love this video! As an ardent admirer of dinosaurs, Filipino and Indian cultures and the Targaryen dynasty, I was hoping this video also covered their associations with dragons. Regardless, great job!

So if the Lernean Hydra had nine heads when Heracles went after it, it must have started out with an uneven number of heads and then grew more as people tried to slay it, right? I wonder how many heads it had when it originally hatched, just three?

Dragons are my favorite mythical creatures. It's nice to hear some historic background, how dragons change over time and how different cultures saw them. Great work! Tolkien's Glaurung was a fire breather. Look in the Silmarillion to a Dagor Bragolach and Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

My most favourite of all the magical creatures! 🐉

Do a part 2. You missed India, South America, and Australia. 😊

There are more depictions of Dragons from other lores not discussed in this video...I will excitingly wait for part 2.

In a fantasy novel I'm designing, dragons are like natural custodians. They leave their lairs only to destroy whatever thing is upsetting the environment. When they do this, their fiery breath (or other elemental power) reinvigorates and purifies the land to allow for new growth. Dragons are served by wyverns who hunt for them and protect their lairs. There's also a dragonic mortal race they've created called Draken, to which dragons often forge covenants with, allowing draken to access dragonic powers in exchange for letting the dragon perceive the mortal world through their eyes. I pride myself on emphasizing moral shades of grey in my writing, especially when it comes to relationships between people, cultures, and species. When it comes to dragons, I didn't want them to be inherently evil, while involving the whole dragons burning down villages thing. So, I had to create a reason as to why they'd do that. Essentially, I don't see people as inherent good vs inherent evil. It's more like contradicting and opposing needs and desires. Granted, yes, there are dragons who are evil. The idea is that good and evil can exist in individuals, not groups. As for the religious element, I can best put it this way. Gods are on the side of their followers. Except for a small few other races, that's mostly human. Dragons, though, favor nature. The conflict between the two is a representation of man vs nature.

Always loved dragons And whats not to love about them They have great desings from alll over the world

BRO YOU DID ONE ON DRAGONS, LETS GOOOOOOOOO

I've always wondered when the day would come that my favorite mythical creature would be covered on this channel, and you did not disappoint. This was delightful; thank you. The idea of dragons originally being more snake-like before being depicted as they are now is something interesting for me to think about.

I think that Ann McCaffrey's dragons from her best selling series Dragon Riders Of Pern. They are large, largest is 40 meters nose to tail, intelligent, beautiful, they fly, and they form a lifelong unbreakable mind to mind bond with 1 person. I wish that someone will make a live action movie based on her books.

Always glad to see more dragons.

Tolkien loved all of that Northern Mythology. So yes, as I heard you telling the story it did take me to him and the Hobbit. Dragon went through such a transformation across the ages.

doing gods work man, another excellent video

I didn't catch the similarity to The Hobbit because I was thinking it was like the opera about a magical ring. 😅

Always wanted to know this information. Thank you for this video.

Can you cover the Ouroboros?

I guess the norse story shows that your mistakes dont just affect you, but it can affect those around you.

Next the history of the Giants

Hell yeah! Dragons!

Thanks👍! Awesome video!

I really appreciate this look at a subject, like dragons, across different culutres. Could you do others? LIke the Fae, Bigfoot, Kraken etc? thnx!

One of the best videos about dragons I've seen to date!

I always love you expaineding your Dragon video library. 🐲🐉

Finally history of my favorite mythological creature

This is exactly the type of video I've been waiting for from this channel!!!!!! Thank you

I just 💚 Deadly #Dragon's🐲🐉who breathes 🔥 & 💛 all your videos mate👍

The fafnir one reminded me of magnus chase but eh

Are dragons our friends or are they ancient enemies?

Please make a video all about the mythical creature plus mythical race called Giants from before and now please

He has returned.

Still at the age of 30 I still love dragon they are so fierce yet mystical I think growing up the midevil dragons were my favorite but now as an adult I love the eastern depiction because of how beautiful and magical they can be also how terrifyingly powerful they were

I was waiting for you to talk about dragons for a LONG time.

Would love a revisitation to the Cthulhu mythos with some more readings and explanations !!!

I like all dragons from different cultures

Loved the video , wished you made the video longer talking about dragons 🐉 for alot longer . Whilst they're Not my favourite fictional animal/trope , My Mum is born under the Chinese zodiac sign of the dragon 🐉. Watching this from Australia , where technically there's another version of a dragon mythology you failed to mention : Creation of the Australia's landscape by the rainbow serpent in Aboriginal walkabout dreamtime stories 🐲🌈🦚

I've created an AD&D campaign centered around five (5) brothers whom are all half dragons. But they are not fire breathing dragons but rather DreamDragons whom are serpents of Asian appearance. Your video here affirms the fact that my instinctive choices were correctly done. Thanks for adding to the mix of my concept.

The whole 'burnt finger on magical food' motif also shows up w/ the legends of Fionn Mac Cumhaill - in fact, looking into it it shows up in a couple european folklores, and the broader 'eat the special food without permission and acquire magical insight' motif even shows up in one of the tales of the brothers grimm... It has a type number and everything - 673.

Pretty good video. My favorite dragons are probably the Zmei of Eastern Europe. It's like they combined both Western and Asian dragons together.

Interestingly, Skyrim has a dragon priest named Volsung, and in their dragon language, Volsung means "horrible." Since a lot of the game's mythology and culture of the local people in it is norse-based, it's entirely possible that the priest was purposefully named after that story with Fafnir.

Ancient Egyptians sometimes believed that when there was a solar eclipse or a particularly cloudy day, Apep had temporarily won the battle against Ra and his task force of other really cool gods.

Terrific video! 🗡🔥🐉 Truly one of the best channels on youtube.🙌

I really liked how you presented a timeline of the changing depictions of the European Dragon image. You touched a little on the Chinese and Korean dragon, I hope you do another video of how those images have changed over time.

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This is the video I've been waiting for since I've been subbed 🥰🐉

Yamta no Orochi is my favorite serpent.

As a big fan of dragons This video was much needed

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Looooved your video! First of, let me just say thank you so much about the acknowledgement that wyvern are a TYPE of dragon. Second of, an honorable mention for the least dragon-looking dragon, I emplore everyone to look up the tarrasque from before it was a DnD monster! It falls under the category of monster tamed/defeated by some kind of saint, as far as I recall, but my god a weird amalgamation of creatures! Enjoy your day people!

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Love this channel man! Could you do one about Gilgamesh please? Preferably a lengthy one? 😊

YAAAAAASSSSSS, Dragons will never make me boring.

I was told the legend of dragons began when people started mining. They found dinosaur fossils along with the gold, silver, diamonds and other metals. Hence the association with dragons guarding treasure.

Wow you comeback again and I love it mythology and fiction explained return forever and I will be fan for like inspirational stories telling of mythology, history & fiction literature that is become desire for true legends. Dragons is my beloved it popular favorite mythical creatures of all time use to inspired make it pet fight battle and help journey adventure like a realm of fantasy. Thank you for I love this watching these video of all time and keep it up in the hope future and I am Filipino will be upcoming creative video contents Philippines Mythology. 👍🙏💗💚🐉🐲

*Dragons are my favorite animals🩵❤️🌸🐉🐲*

So strange how all these different cultures (most of which had no contact with eachother) all describe dragons of some kind . Even more interesting is how much the Asian and Aztec dragons were so much alike and these two civilizations NEVER had contact. Makes u really think

"We love dragons!!! So fascinating. So interesting. So cool." St George: "Here's a pet dragon. Aint it wow? I'll behead it..... if you promise to go to church everyday." crowd: "Yeahhhhh!!!! " ** kills dragon ** ** builds church instead **

Hello. I really admire what you do, you are one of my favorite channels, and this video has helped me a lot to give me a few ideas about what I want to do on my own channel, where I will start to analyze and present different types of dragons and legends about these. Thank you so much for your hard work, it really lifts my spirit and helps inspire me.

These dragon stories are coming from the stars. They are pointing out Draco, the wings of are the Dippers, Ursa Major and Minor. In Ancient Egyptian religion, Taweret is Draco, her legs belong to a lion, her head and body are those of a hippopotamus and the tail of a crocodile trails behind her, something like the Chimera. Typhon was the father of the Chimera, and Typhon is the Thigh of the Ox Leg, which is Ursa Major. The Sumerian Ur means Dog, but also a wild beast, and the "sa" of Ursa, is seen in the hand of goddess Taweret. The Egyptians know Typhon as Set/Seth the god of Chaos, Set's thigh was then chained to the pole star, whereupon it became the Big Dipper (or as the Egyptians called it, “the Bull's Thigh”). Ursa minor was known as the Dog's Tail (Ur), our pole star today, 12,000 years ago it was the She Goat Star we call Vega, known as the Dog Headed Goddess Bau-Gula, mother of the dying and rising god of rebirth and healing "The Child" Damu, associated with the Swine star, the head and first coil of Draco. Seth/Set is found on the Thigh of Orion, seen as Osiris, but cut in half, upper part is Horus, below the belt is Seth, we call The Sword of Orion, the bright star at the tip of his sword, located on his thigh, Hatysa meaning Slaughter, in Hebrew 'haat' means "To Sin", 'yasa' means "savior", read backwards "Savior of Sinners". The Sword is not a sword, but where his Club once hung, cut from the Orion Nebula, a waterfall of Orion's blood, the same blood as Seth's, his brother. The Sumerian word Haya means Grain, he is the god of Scribes, known as the Door-Keeper, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna were Gate keepers, guarding the gate to the underworld. The Club of Orion carries the seed of Osiris, on the Day of the Summer Solstice, you find the Sun at the Tip of Orion's Club, the Sun takes the seed to the cave entrance, the 7 main stars of Ophiuchus, our hidden 13th sign, but on the day of the Winter Solstice, when the Sun Dies in sky for 3 days. On Dec. 21, the sun stops moving southward, pauses, and then starts moving northward, does this next to Spiculum meaning Spear, a little bloody red spot is Sagittarius, in astrology, Sagittarius is the Thigh, in mythology, Sagittarius is Pabilsag, the father of Damu and husband of the goddess Bau-Gula known as the first physician. Ophiuchus can be seen as a Mountain, a Cave Door, or even the Belly of the Goddess, her womb, as Scorpio is the sexual organ, Sagittarius the Hips & Thighs, squeezed in between is Ophiuchus, our 13th, as the club of Orion is the 14th missing part of Osiris, the two location of the Gold and Silver gates, Sagittarius stands at the center of our galaxy, where stars are born, they called gods and goddess. The Golden Gate of the Gods is Sagittarius, play the words "Say There Is A Guest" in reverse, you hear it echo "Sagittarius", The Silver Gate of Man is in Orion, play the words "They All Rule" in reverse to hear Orion is its echo, a little Dragon Speak, Gemini and Taurus is part of this gate, they speak too, "Say Oath" will echo "Taurus" and "Beyond The Mist" will echo "Gemini". Something a Gate-Keeper would know.

I frickin love dragons, as they are my favorite mythical beasts of old. Since they aren't real, I see salt water crocodiles as dragons of the river so that's why I love crocodiles as well, seeing them as a suitable representation of the real thing.

Love video

can you do the history and origin of the sheepsquatch.

Dragon - and proud of it ;)

Thanks!

There’s also a story the little dragon was bothering someone’s cows, and he whacked it with a stick and taxidermy it

U should do audio sounds with a keyboard or something like wings flapping or fire breathing f etc would be dope

What’s up with the dragon wit the old man’s face on the thumbnail??

So basically, the moral of Fafnir's story is that Loki will cause a mess (Otr's death) and when asked to clean up, he creates another mess? (Hreidmarr's death and Fafnir's whole affairs)

I love dragons 🐉

Nicely done! ~The Dragon Master~ Founder, The Dragon Society {Est. 1984}

What is it exactly these creatures are dragging , and where are they dragging it to ?

Dragons are my favorite mythical creature. Full of magic and mystical powers.

Can you make a special about demons?

Bro how do you get your photos move like that I'm actually curious??

Can you do a video about the Earth deities?

2:01 who is that guy in the bottom left 😍

Dragons are kind of my favorite mythical creature ❤❤🐉🐲

Great video.

You know, I actually have this theory that some guy from ancient times came across what we now know as dinosaur bones and that's where the myths and legends about dragons came from

Broski brought me here

Fun fact : Godzilla’s arch nemesis is a Three Headed Dragon from outer space.

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Personally my favorite Dragon will always be Ancalagon the Black from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion

this is literally me

2024 YEAR OF THE DRAGON 🐉💚

Banger

We call them dinosaurs today, they belong to the sea.

My last name (Ormsby) means home of serpents, land of dragons🥰