Year Of The Dragon 2024
Put on your spiritual armour and keep yourself, family, and home anointed with oil. Make sure your in Covenant with Yahusha so that you can be counted worthy to escape all that is coming. 2024 will be much warfare. ~ Jamie Ebling ~
Dragons Don’t Exist. So Why Are They Everywhere?
Dragon Origin Stories
Mesopotamian stories of monster battles are the best candidates for the earliest writings about dragons.
In the Babylonian version, a serpentine deity-monster called Tiamat emerged from the sea to threaten all of creation with a return to primordial chaos. The heroic young god Marduk takes up the challenge, slaying Tiamat and rescuing the cosmos.
As with other Mesopotamian myths, the Bible contains echoes of this battle. Among other references, the Psalms and the Book of Job tell how the Elohim of Yisrael vanquished the Leviathan, which is something like a cross between a whale and a snake.
Variations on the story of Tiamat will show up many times in the Mediterranean and European traditions. The opposition of a dragon or similar monster and a heroic savior forms one of the key aspects of Western dragon myths. In many cases, the dragon exists only so that the hero has something to slay.
Greek mythology includes several battles with serpent-monsters as well. Zeus secures his rule over the heavens and Earth by using his thunderbolts to kill Typhon, the fire-breathing dragon creature with snakes for legs. The Greeks’ Typhon myth follows an earlier storyline borrowed from neighboring civilizations, including the Hittites.
That the Greek word drakōn gives us the English word “dragon.” But the ancient Greeks seemed to use their word to mean something more like a big snake, so it isn’t a perfect translation.
The word drakon, in term, comes from a verb meaning “to watch,” and the connection becomes apparent in the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
This precious but heavy piece of outerwear was under the constant guard of a sleepless dragon. Jason’s significant other, Medea, is skilled in folk pharmacology, and so they manage to get the giant creature to doze off for a bit. Such Greek myths contain additional motifs familiar to the canonical dragon cycle — in this case, the characteristic of dragons as jealous guards of a golden treasure.
Photo: The ancient Babylonian creation myth of Tiamat (left) dates to at least the second millennium B.C.
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