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Thread: Snake = Sun's heat. Dragon = Old Snake = destructive Sun's heat of the late summer early autumn, which causes drought...
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But not in China...Chinese dragon is a rain deity that fosters harmony...Why? Because of Chinese climate...
Dragons appeared in China for the first time during Neolithic...
Bronze dragon, marble epitaph, from Shi Siming's tomb near Beijing, a Turko-Sogdian general who proclaimed himself an emperor in the rebellion against Tang dyn in 8th c. His Sogdian name -suat-kan- is a Manichaean term for "flame"; his posthumous name -Zhaowu- refers to Sogdiana. pic.twitter.com/dLruJ6pppF
— Jin Xu (@xujnx) January 20, 2021
In Mesopotamia
https://t.co/MLyf5rhw9F
In Bactria
https://t.co/0OMFUIZLYI
In Europe
https://t.co/IUNbywqfYm
https://t.co/TsN8My80HJ
But not in China...Chinese dragon is a rain deity that fosters harmony...Why? Because of Chinese climate...
Dragons appeared in China for the first time during Neolithic...