Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Way, way.. Waay...

This passage reminded me of something I have wondered about:

'.... T. rex and kin dominated the Earth for over 150 million years. They endured extreme temperature changes, rising and falling oceans, and super-volcano eruptions, and they diversified as their home—the supercontinent of Pangaea—literally broke apart. Dinosaurs were prehistory’s ultimate survivors ...'

No one doubts that dinosaurs (except their relatives--birds) did not co-exist with human beings.  But why, then, do all cultures (most anyway) have stories about--- dragons.  Dragons look and act like dinosaurs. What is the difference, besides one being agreed on as fictional?

Surely the stories about dragons point to the reality of an ancestral memory, the existence of which is something Plato and Jan Cox agree on. Then though, this memory must go way way, WAY, back.

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