Chapter 216 The Mystery of the Dragon
A strange demon stronghold was quietly established in the northwest direction of the demon city.
Although it is not within the territorial radiation range of the Demon City and is separated by three Demonic forces, Yao Yan does not believe that it can avoid conflicts with the Demonic Staff.
His consciousness does not lie alone in any stronghold. The characteristic of the phenomenon level is to allow his consciousness to exist in the form of a "whole".
What example should I use to illustrate, that is... the game client?
Even if all the crows gather together, they are not his main consciousness. His main consciousness has no specific real objects.
Including the "spiritual" level, he also does not have the carrier of consciousness composed of spiritual power.
His consciousness has no actual carrier.
Not only him, but all pollutants at scale and levels of phenomena are like this.
Every crow is a "client".
These "clients", these crows, no matter how much they have lost, whether they are completely clean, will not interfere with their awareness and ability data located in the "cloud".
This is also the effect level. Even if every part of the body is eliminated, he can synchronize with his "cloud" consciousness and then recover and reorganize the client. This is the basis for the effect level pollutants can rely on the traces left behind to recover.
If consciousness relies on a certain body part, then when the body part is destroyed, it will lose memory and other things, or even completely lose its ability.
The characteristics of the phenomenon and effect level allow pollutants to have a crazy strategy of using without any concerns about loss.
If the pollutants do not die many times in the trial space, because the power in the trial space needs to be absorbed for reorganization, the pollutants cannot die at will, and then the pollutants will even rage various trial spaces with a fearless attitude of death.
As he thought, his eyes fell on the body of the demon whom he was living in.
A shadow-like crow trace appeared faintly on the demon he had joined.
On her hand, a black shadow like a page was also floating faintly. Several words with slightly different sizes from the original written font and size were very obvious:
【...Orange birth...huge body...Lizard...Wings...Terrifying power...】
Yao Yan's eyes flashed over the black shadows on the pages.
Whether it is a snake-shaped dragon or a lizard-shaped dragon, it is the product of the combination of various biological signs in various cultural regions.
There was no clear "dragon" in ancient Egypt, or in other words, there was no "dragon" among the mythical monsters of ancient Egypt.
From the perspective of formation, there are many statements about the origin of the image of the Western dragon.
One development trajectory that Yao Yan agrees more is that it starts from ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonia.
The source of the image of the "dragon" of the gods or monsters headed by Tiamat in ancient Babylon is related to ancient Egypt.
What Yao Yan knows is a monster with an eagle head and a sphinx - Sphinx.
As far as he knows, there are three forms of Sphinx.
The most famous sphinx, the head of the sheep, the head of the eagle.
Another key node is the Sumerian myth.
Due to geographical reasons, cultural exchanges in ancient Egypt and the ancient Babylon region gradually became frequent with time. While ancient Egyptian culture left a mark on the culture of the ancient Babylon region, it also had an inverse influence.
Especially the two incidents of several ethnic groups from the predecessor of Jewish migration into Egypt and out of Egypt.
As an important member of the ancient Babylonian mythology, Tiamat's image itself is very different from the current dragon image. The image of the "angry snake" among his sons is relatively close to that of the current Western dragon, but it is only relative.
Animals with four-legged walking have snake scales on their head, neck and torso, lions on their front feet, eagle claws on their back feet, long horns on their heads, and scorpion needles on their tails.
The word "relative" has a lot of room for operation, and 10 is closer to 100 than 9, isn't it?
The mythical biological images of different regions are naturally understood by local human experience as a carving knife.
The experience and understanding of local humans basically comes from organisms and various natural things in the region.
In ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt, there were eras of coexistence between lions and humans. As a top predator, it was easier to leave an impression on them than other creatures. Mythical creatures often adopt the characteristics of these top predators or other large creatures.
In the country and region where he lived, in the native mythology, because there are no lions in the area, when it is formed, there will be no and no creature with lion characteristics. The source of mythological images among carnivores is either tiger, leopard, jackal, or snake, scorpion.
Like a lion and a tiger and a leopard.
Even though they are both "horns", the image characteristics of "horns" in ancient Babylonian and ancient Egyptian cultural monsters are often from antelope, sheep, goats, wildebeests, and the countries and regions during his lifetime are more from creatures such as deer and cattle.
Although most Western dragons nowadays have lizard postures, from the perspective of the process of occurrence, there is basically no lizard participation, but it is a combination of images of serpentine dragons, sphinx and four-legged monsters such as Chimera.
The image of a lizard is basically formed after being continuously added since the Middle Ages to modern times.
It is easy for people to describe their source as a creature that is close to the current image based on the current image.
This situation also existed in the country and region during his lifetime.
Although the image of the oriental dragon is uncertain how much proportion of snakes accounted for in the initial formation, the strengthening of the "snake" characteristics was very late, especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the snake posture was amplified and highlighted.
The "dragon" image that can be traced back to the current oriental dragon image is closer to the length of the torso of a tiger or a leopard than a snake.
Whether the "scales" are the source of snakes or fish, this is also worth explaining in detail.
After all, as a great river civilization, the earliest "green dragon and white tiger" were all made up of shells stacked.
Unfortunately, Yao Yan is not an archaeologist, and there are many sayings about the origin of images in society, and he cannot recognize them.
But now...
Although the source of the mythical creature "Dragon" has basically nothing to do with the lizard, there is no doubt that in his lifetime, it was already closely related to the lizard.
When people hear the dragon and think of the Western dragon, they often associate it with the lizards at the first time.
Yao Yan knew that he didn't need to worry too much about the actual origin process.
but......
Chapter completed!