DRAGONS

Everything, as always, started a long long time ago, when even the Greeks couldn't really remember what happened in those ancient times. Not dark, just ancient, though, it is greatly believed that nowadays are filled with mirth and light for the gods killed all the DRAGONS a long long time ago. If you were a divine being, you most probably did it:  Apollo slew Python. Indra killed Vritra. Michael defeated the dragon ("the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world - was thrown down to the earth with his angels" Rev. 12:9). Beowulf cut a dragon in half. Sigurd killed Fafnir, bathed in the dragons blood, drank some of it, after which he obtained the ability to talk to the birds (birds again, eh?) and lastly he thought to himself: no, this is not enough, I'm gonna roast the bastards heart and eat it! And what do you think happened? Sigurd could tell prophecies from that lunch forward. Tristan had to slay a dragon to get a fair girl Iseult for his uncle Mark. And all the others whom I do not care enough about to know about.

Poor dragons, who were wise and old as earth and the gods itself for a word dragon not only means a snake or a serpent. Trust me when I say that you can trust Greeks to explain you stuff properly: derkein (a form of drakon, and you don't want to know the rest for it is boring for you, mere mortals)  means "that which sees", or "the one with a deadly glance". So why would the gods and all mighty heroes make a living or reputation off of killing creatures, who have the ability to look into the world with absolute clarity, to see things as they truly are, to see ideas, not shadows in a cave and therefore to understand stuff properly, not like us, or to be exact, you, mere mortals? An act like that indicates to people that from now on, things will be the killers way. When Apollo slew a child of Gaia, it symbolised the rule of new gods and the death of the old traditions, like believing that peace and women matter. At some point, the heroes started telling a different story, that dragons are bad and evil for they like gold and virgins (what for a dragon needs a virgin anyway?). Meanwhile all the lovely dragons were trying to do was to collect back the gold, which someone somewhere wrote suppose to mean "earthblood", and to protect it from greedy men with swords and penises.

Now God,  he didn't kill a dragon. Yet. For it is said God will kill Leviathan at the end of time. Considering that God created the creature in the first place, that would be kind of a filicide. I hope, that when time comes, Jesus will say: Stop, Father, do not kill yet another son of yours for you need not to be like the other gods. You and I, we're the type that are being seduced in some desert and we love cats. And Lucifer* is my husband, so for once, Father, be a God and act not like a mere mortal.

Anyway.

And so people came to believe that they roam the Earth free, with no dragons to darken their times. The fools thought not that the magical creatures were the ones who breathed fire, therefore created light.

*The Leviathan of the Middle Ages was used as an image of Satan, endangering both God's creatures—by attempting to eat them—and God's creation—by threatening it with upheaval in the waters of Chaos. From the fourth Century Lucifer is sometimes used in Christian theology to refer to Satan, as a result of identifying the fallen "son of the dawn" of Isaiah 14:12 with the "accuser" of other passages in the Old Testamen.