A line of dancing camels from the 11thC Old English Hexateuch :) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html …pic.twitter.com/AScVMBs3sG
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A L8thC silver+gilded dragon's head w/ protruding rolled tongue! Found W.Ilsley, Berkshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/95117 …pic.twitter.com/AF2vkUJgZ5
@caitlinrgreen adding that I do not remember dragons in Egyptian myths are dragons European and Chinese?
@morangles That is not my area, but an interesting question! Have heard it suggested that dragons came along the steppes, so to speak?
@caitlinrgreen Do Indian legends include dragons? Navajos mention Gila monsters (dragon equivalent) and Quetzacoatls in South Americas
@morangles @caitlinrgreen to fast too many questions. The modern day western dragon was a Christian/Viking invention
@Kelleth1989 @caitlinrgreen I grant you Christians of the conversion early period have numerous saints dealing w/monstrous snakes but
@morangles @caitlinrgreen not what I meant. I should have typed Christianized vikings. Stories like beowolf
@caitlinrgreen @arienmaia Fabulous website
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