Dragons

A dragon is a mythical creature found in the folklore of cultures throughout the world. It is generally reptilian or serpentine in form and often possesses a variety of predatory features, such as claws, wings, scales, or horns. Dragons are typically portrayed as intelligent beings capable of manipulating natural elements. Their appearance commonly incorporates reptilian, mammalian, and avian traits.

constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere

thumb|upright=1|Bas relief of a seraph Isaiah 6|carrying a hot coal on the walls of the [[Jerusalem International YMCA.]]

thumb|right|A dragon-like ouroboros in a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract

saint (275–304) usually shown with a dragon (292–307)

fifth sign of Chinese zodiac

thumb|260px|Mušḫuššu bas-relief in the [[Pergamon Museum]] The mušḫuššu (; formerly also read as or ) or mushkhushshu () is a creature from ancient Mesopotamian mythology. A mythological hybrid, it is a scaly animal with hind legs resembling the talons of an eagle, lion-like forelimbs, a long neck and tail, two horns on its head, a snake-like tongue, and a crest. The most famously appears on the Ishtar Gate of the city of Babylon, dating to the sixth century BCE.

mythological creature

chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel in the Septuagint

phrase used on maps to indicate uncharted areas

village in Guildford, Surrey, England

serpents in biblical narrative

mythological serpent

The Piasa ( ) or Piasa Bird is a creature from Native American mythology depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois, at present-day Alton, Illinois. The original Piasa illustration no longer exists; a newer 20th-century version, based partly on 19th-century sketches and lithographs, has been placed on a bluff in Alton, Illinois, several hundred yards upstream from its origin. The limestone rock quality is unsuited for holding an image, and th

Bune is a demon listed in demonological grimoires such the Lesser Key of Solomon (including Thomas Rudd's version, as Bime) Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, and the Livre des Esperitz.

Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz (literally ''Dragon's Cave of Mixnitz) is a long cave with a wide and high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of above sea level. Cave bear of the species (Ursus ingressus) and other bone fossils that people found during the Middle Ages were deemed to be the bones of dragons, a belief that culminated in the saga of the "Dragon slayer of Mixnitz"''. The cave is one of the largest caves in the Alps where bears occupied an area that stretched over a length of way over , by an average width of up to an

Biblical Hebrew term

thumb|Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin, depiction by [[Klavdy Lebedev (1889)]] Tugarin () is a mythical creature in Russian byliny and fairy tales, which personifies evil and cruelty and appears in a dragon-like form. Tugarin is depicted as a giant and an opponent of Alyosha Popovich.

The Scholomance ( , Solomonărie ) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania. Folkloric accounts state that the Devil himself ran it. The school enrolled about ten students to become the Solomonari. Courses taught included the speech of animals and magic spells. The Devil chose one of the graduates to be the Weathermaker and tasked with riding a dragon to control the weather.

serpent or dragon deity from Andean mythlogies

Ḫedammu, Hurrian Apše ("Snake"), is a sea-dragon from Hurrian-Hittite mythology, which caused trouble on the Syrian coast. His Hittite counterpart was Illuyanka.

right|250px|thumb|The Destruction of Leviathan by [[Gustave Doré (1865)]] Lotan (Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎚𐎐 LTN, meaning "coiled"), also transliterated Lôtān, Litan, or Litānu, is a servant of the sea god Yam defeated by the storm god Hadad-Baʿal in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. Lotan seems to have been prefigured by the serpent Têmtum represented in Syrian seals of the 18th–16th century BC, and finds a later reflex in the sea monster Leviathan, whose defeat at the hands of Yahweh is alluded to in the biblical Book of Job and in Isaiah 27:1. Lambert (2003) went as far as the claim that Isaiah 27:1 is a

military standard of the Roman cavalry

Biblical creature

One of the seven legendary monsters in Guarani Mythology

thumb|300px|Pihuicheñ of the Mapuche

The Labbu Myth is an ancient Mesopotamian creation epic. Only one copy of it is known from the Library of Ashurbanipal. It is commonly dated no later than the Old Babylonian period, although recent work suggests a later composition. It is a folktale possibly of the Diyala region, since the later version seems to feature the god Tišpak as its protagonist and may be an allegory representing his replacement of the chthonic serpent-god Ninazu at the top of the pantheon of the city of Eshnunna. This part is played by Nergal in the earlier version. It was possibly a precursor of the Enûma Eliš, wher

Moñái is the third son of Tau and Kerana and one of the seven legendary monsters of Guaraní mythology. This creature has an enormous serpent-like body with two straight, colorful horns over his head, which serve as antennae. thumb|180px|Depiction of Moñái

Mythical beast in French folklore

thumb|The Weather god, armed with lightning, fighting a Bašmu dragon, on a Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal (9th/8th Century BC)

type of early Caucasian carpet