Here Be Dragons (Lord of the Rings and Dragon-Lore from Greece, China, and Central America)

from Animal Magic · host j. SNODGRASS

Watching the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings with my Kids I wonder - What's Humanity's great Fascination with Dragons? Where does the word come from, and what kind of Dragon-lore (good, bad, and ugly) might we find in Greek, Mayan and Chinese Mythology? And what might our long Multicultural Love-Hate Relationship with Scary Reptiles have to tell us about what it means to be Human?

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