DRAGONS: Did They ACTUALLY EXIST? (Hint: YES!)
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- DRAGONS! They appear in mythologies from around the world, for millennia. But are they truly just a mythical creature, or could it be possible that they once actually existed? We're going on a quest to find out, piecing together mentions of dragons in ancient texts on natural history, medieval bestiaries, centuries worth of literature, as well as artwork, maps, the stars, and the earth itself. Oh, and of course, actual recorded dragon sightings! Join me on this epic journey!
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Thank you for the video, the research, the presentation, all well done. I'm looking forward to future topics. Love.
You are so welcome, and thank you for being here! So glad you enjoyed it :)
This was very enjoyable! I believe myths have roots in reality. Thank you so much for compiling this information! I look forward to seeing your video on the unicorn!
Thank you so much Denise! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate you watching and your comment! Stay tuned for unicorn!💖
Wow! So fascinating! Of course, they existed. Great video! Thank you for all your research and for helping us to expand our possibilities.
My pleasure! So glad you liked it and yes of course they did indeed!💖
In high school I told my friend (whom I always admired for his intellect) that I believed dragons once existed but are now extinct. In the face of this seemingly fantastical notion, he looked me dead in the face and said "it's possible paleontologists put dinosaur bones together wrong." Like my nerdy, overimaginative a** might be onto something.
IYKYK! 😄
In early days of paleontology? Yes. In today's paelontology? Less likely, and no.
It truly is an intriguing subject to read so many references to dragons in old texts. In some usages, dragon almost looks synonymous with any reptile or amphibian, but in other uses, you get these weird fantastic descriptions that appear more literal than poetic, and either way reads more like a physical creature than a spiritual manifestation. It's been a great mystery for me to really reflect on reading the ancients discuss dragons, especially when the surrounding texts has nothing out of the ordinary happening. The more you look into the history of dragons, the more strange it becomes. I'm not sure what to make of the stories.
Agreed! And we only have minimal texts to reference, I wonder how much has been lost or destroyed...
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' Dragonslayer ', 1978 Still to this day the BEST depiction of a dragon EVER. 😁
This is your first video I watched, and I already subscribed. It's that good!
Thank you so much! So glad to have you here! 😄
16:05 anyone know the name of that picture? i want to see it.
26:48 that's a dinosaur. specifically, from the clade known as Pachycephalosauria.
27:00 Dracorex Hogwartsia; "Hogwart's Dragon King", if i recall the meaning correctly. and also probably not a species anymore, most likely just a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus.
27:21 ... *sigh*
if dragons exist, know this: they'll look nothing like what you'd imagine them to be. the Kraken's a good example.
People believe what they want to believe and see evidence where there is none. Like the cyclops skulls or this reddit post where someone found the skull of a baby dragon and it turned out that it was the pelvis of a seagull.
Probably
The picture is 'Siegfried kills the Dragon' by Wilhelm Hauschild.
@@ithyphal thank you.
WOW!!! Where have you been hiding? Finally a channel I can enjoy. Thank you
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that, and am so glad you enjoyed!
I’m your 240th subscriber!
Love it! Thank you so much for being here!
Hey there.
The part with the two fighting dragons under the ground reminds me of an video I saw not long ago.
There were street workers somewhere in Asia who hat to put a hole in a street and while they are working 3 giant Alligators burst out of the little hole of the street.
It was so sureal but no fake. ✌🏻
Awesome video. I'm surprised you have so few subscribers.
I believe they existed too, that they were merely big reptiles (like the komodo dragon), but didn't breath fire. Some could fly, some couldn't, and their sizes varied.
Since it seems we have bones, could it be possible to clone them? 🤔
Thank you so much! Appreciate your comment :)
Really enjoyable video I really like how you broke down the history of dragons in myth and legend and how the symbol of the dragon was so important for ancient peoples. However the dinosaur nerd me can't help but point the "dragon skull" you mentioned isn't a dragon skull and paleontologist know this to be a real animal more specifically a dinosaur from group pachycephalosauridae from late cretaceous. Not even its own species as many paleontologists argue Dracorex is a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus (the thick skull dinosaur from North America). There is no evidence in the fossil record any non avian dinosaurs including the Pachycephalosaurus survived past the late cretaceous mass extinction so there is no real way they coexisted with humans. they also look very little like the description of a dragon past superficial similarities.
Again really enjoyed your video, and I liked the ending which reminded me of Carl Jung and how he thought the age of reason had "returned" religion and its symbolisms back into the human subconscious. In the same way the symbol of the dragon as science has advance remains "alive" in the imagination and subconscious of man kind as its a powerful symbol present in all cultures as you so nicely presented in your video ^-^
The only really similar Dinosaur is Yi Qi but that's more like a cockatrice.
@@trilobite3120 Yes, but even then its a real organism that happens to resemble a cockatrice. But hey, its the closest thing we got!
@@spinocario9721 Yeah, and that's pretty good. Not like we should try to insert mythical creatures in prehistory instead of appreciating all of the creatures we actually know existed.
@@trilobite3120 totally agree
Thank you so much!
I remember one of my books on mythology and folklore describing dragons on murals in one culture from antiquity (I believe it was the Sumerians) in an interesting way. Other blatantly mythical creatures often varied in their appearances in the murals, but dragons, like perfectly well-known real animals such as bulls and lions, were always created looking more or less exactly the same.
Yes they did just like the Komodo Dragon still exist.
Yes!! 🐉
First thought in my head
There was a pocket of them still living near Penyll castle well into the mid 1800's. Look into stories of well known dragon slayers and their weapons (Scaw, the Conyers sword ect) and you'll quickly see there were very real animals that were doing damage to local communities.
Amazing! Would love to find any texts from the 1800's about this :)
@@YourHerosQuest Folklore and folktales of Wales mentions the case. 1914 print though. But close enough.
@KingFluffs awesome I will check it out! Thank you
@@YourHerosQuest Reprints can be found quite cheaply. I managed to snag a first edition copy which was signed and owned by the author.
They found a dinosaur that lived around the time the first bird, or proto bird, evolved, it had bat like wings and a feathers body. when I saw it, it looked like a dragon to me. Except it had a fat beak.
Archeopterix had teeth and no beak, but did have flight feathers.
Apparently bat like wings have evolved many times, but feathers for flight, only once. So it doesn't seem inconceivable to me at all that lots of creatures that fit this version or that version of a dragon could have lived.
Great Video. Lately I've been more interested in dragons and not a lot of vids on this topic. I see the guitar in the back. May I ask what is your favorite chord? Mine is a minor 9. I like transiting into a minor 9 from a minor 7. Usually done in RnB and jazz....but just sounds legit
Thank you and glad you enjoyed! I love all the minor chords the best too
4 stringed guitar? ;)
Very well put together.
Thank you so much! I appreciate that!
I mean, saltwater crocodiles seem not too far off from being considered "dragons". Not to mention dinosaurs and even more recent prehistoric reptiles. I guess what it all comes down to is how you define dragon.
We're talking the mythical dragon! :)
I love hearing about stuff like this 😁 I will like and subscribe… but if like to make a suggestion (?) I know I’m probably gonna be dog piled, but I suffer with mysophonia and the vocal fry is like nails on a chalkboard. Your channel is possibly worth subscribing. I’ve had to unsubscribe from other channels because of this issue but I’d really like to enjoy this one 😊
It was a sad day for me when i learned that dragons were just snakes.
You can be happy to know that is not true, based on everything I presented in the video :)
@@YourHerosQuest oh, yeah. Sorry. Your video is bogus.
@@YourHerosQuestdid you skip the portion where you do etymology of the word?
Fun fact: there is a T in the word Latin and the word Mountain. Great content and enjoyed the presentation.
Baby Pterodactyls and a couple other types of dinosaurs.
Spitting an acidic substance in some cases
Huh, very interesting! I kind of doubt dragons exist, but all those eyewitness sources describing similar things is pretty convincing
Truth is stranger than fiction!
Does it even matter? Fiction has influenced the course of human affairs far more than silly little reality could ever hope to
Whether it "matters" or not, it's certainly fun to explore!
@@YourHerosQuest yeah that's nice, but what do you think?
"Dragons" as a concept? Yes
"Dragons" as portrayed in media and folklore? No
You're entitled to your opinion :)
Jstore. There's not enough solid evidence for the existence of actual dragons
One of the points is that the "solid evidence" is hard to discern because of the introduction of the dinosaur in the mid-1800's. I present all the evidence we have in other ways, and imagine what evidence has been hidden or destroyed over the ages.
@@YourHerosQuestOh olm.
Dragons existed but today we call them "dinosaurs." Samples of strata have been found containing human and dinosaur footprints, proving humans and dragons existed at the same time.
Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs went extinct 66 mya. Humans (Homo Sapiens) only got around 280.000-350.000 years ago. Not even close. You said that dino’s=dragons. And you said that dragons lived at the same time as humans. So you said that dino’s lived at the same time as humans. Not even close.
There’s a 66 million year difference in time between the last of the Archosaurs, Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs and the emergence of the Homo Sapiens (modern humans)
False. Those have been well proven to be erosion.
The history and timeline we've been taught needs questioning, hence this video topic!
That thing was disproved long ago budy.
What is the music playing at the end?
It's an excerpt from "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
The dragon vs eagle war even is shown in symbol in the mexican flag with the eagle on the cactus fighting the serpent, and the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl also can describe a type if serpentlike dragon. And closer to home, we have the famous son of Loki, Jormungandr, wich i beleive is actually a serpent dragon, and the dragon depicted as the stern and rear of the viking longships.
Yes! It's truly everywhere
Jon White at Crecganford on RUclips did awesomely thorough research on this, and he says dragons originated as animistic representations of rivers, back before modern humans ever left Africa. If you are up on a mountainside, looking down at a river in the valley below, it is shaped like a giant water snake. That’s why the oldest dragon stories are about giant snakes associated with water. Then my personal theory about how dragons became associated with fire and flying is that it is a natural interpretation of Comets ☄️ to the prehistoric mind. Anything that flies in the sky must have wings or feathers, anything with such a long tail must be a serpent, and comets appear to be on fire or “breathing fire”. That’s how you naturally end up with a flying, fire breathing serpent, with wings like in Europe, or feathered serpents like in the Americas. And human migration explains why Asian dragons are still associated with water.
I didn’t know that about the meteor shower from Draco’s head, that’s fascinating. I also hadn’t heard the story you told that sounded like a comet or meteorite sighting. I especially appreciated those. You did a really great job on this. Thanks for doing all that research and sharing it with us.
So awesome! Thank you so much for your comment and I’m so glad you enjoyed it :)
Dragons are definitely real and in the modern era we have had some sightings of them. I am looking forward to the unicorn video 😊 I send all my love your way ❤
Yes! So glad you agree. I didn't even think to look into modern sightings, and definitely will! 💖 Thank you so much for watching!
@@YourHerosQuest Some will be obviously but there's others that are not and no problem 😊.
Quit smoking pot and watching Harry Potter?
China has a lot of dinosaur fossils and a lot of dragon lore. I think there are also a lot of fossils around the Mediterranean. Alberta, in Canada, has a lot of dinosaur fossils and there are a lot of stories in North America about Thunder Birds.
The True Queen by Zen Cho is a great read full of dragons and magic!
I'll check it out, thanks!
Yeah they were stan, fallen angels
Dinosaur is one of those game changing words supporting a godless future after a reset. It’s been a big job removing the past
Totally! We have to do the digging ourselves and the true information is there! So wild the fake history they have pushed on us! Thanks so much for your comment 😄
@@YourHerosQuestWhat
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@@YourHerosQuest what fake history?
Well at least back in Biblical texts like "Bel and the Dragon" its pretty obvious that what they are talking about is a crocodile. Otherwise the story makes no sense. But yeah anyone finding Dinosaur bones when we were more primitive would have definitely been telling stories of giant Wyrms around the fire the night of their find! One place I've personally seen dragons though is in the astral plane while having out of body experiences. I kinda feel this is probably the most important place humans have come face to face with these creatures?
I think they definitely exist in the astral where we can connect with them! I've met them in meditation before as well :)
Is it just me, or when the video returns to her reading into the camera, its hard to pay attention to what she saying. She's so pretty it draws your attention to looking at her instead of listening. Enjoyed the subject tho, thanks for uploading.
Thank you so much!
Yes and still do it's called satin
Ancient civilizations obviously dug up dinosaur fossils. Had to explain them somehow?
So why couldn't they have been dragon fossils?
@@YourHerosQuest Who says dinosaurs weren't dragons? Many fit the descriptions. If all you have is skeletons then you have proof a creature existed.
@@chriscarrol9373Except for the lack of distinctive features of dragons and other dragon variations. All known Dinosaurs with wings either have bird-style wings (including the actual birds) with the exception of certain Scansoriopterygids, which had bat like wings but otherwise we're very similar to birds, lacking a long bony tail and being covered in feathered. The only prehistoric animals that really closely resemble "wyvern" dragons were early non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs like Rhamphorhynchus. Wyrms have no Dinosaur equivalents and the creatures closest in appearance to them would probably be Embolomere amphibians. Two winged, four legged dragons can't really exist based on our understanding as no known tetrapod species has more than 4 limbs. There are gliding lizards, both living and extinct, that vaguely resemble them.
@@trilobite3120 without any modern knowledge and no universities just a feudal lords who is considered the wisest in a community and a peasant plows up these bones dragon would explain it.
@@trilobite3120 it's very easy to be a Monday coach to a Sunday game. You know exactly what to do and it all seems so obvious and well if they had just done what you say now they would have won. See how smart I am they all say. Hindsight is always 20/20.
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ok, interesting but why do you not go more then a sentence without an edit jump? like i said interesting but that editing every 20 to 30 secs makes the vid choppy. just sayin
Thank you for that feedback! I'll change up my editing for my next video :)
@@YourHerosQuest Awesome! Ill be excited to see the improvement! Its cool you are open to constructive criticism and didn't take my comment to heart.
I saw a dragon. No bs. It lives in the land between the lakes.
Omg that's amazing!! In Europe? Love it!🐉
@Your Hero's Quest nope, in the middle of the US. Ever see that clip of law enforcement officers in Kentucky hearing an ungodly scream, and they book it back to the car? That was the dragon roaring. I heard it the night before I saw it, so I know what it sounds like. Not sure how big it's home range is, but officers in Paducah caught it roaring on dashcam. And that's miles and miles away from where I saw it.
@@TC38Cole pray tell, describe it. you said you *saw* it, didn't you? tell me, what did it look like?
@jacktheomnithere2127 it looked like a dragon flying across the moonlit sky. Looked huge, long tail, wings outstretched, gliding across the night sky. I heard it roar, too. The entire forest went silent for about 5 minutes. The little caveman in the back of my head instantly froze and let me know if I move, I'm dragon food.
@@TC38Cole not very descriptive.
where were you when you "saw" it? were there any elevations? you said it glided. how big was it? give me an estimate. how bright was the night? you said the moon was shining.
as far as i know, dragons have become nocturnal. but you still weren't descriptive enough. *i need details;* every last one.
I don’t even believe in dinosaurs but wow baby you are so pretty you better believe I’d fight the scary things for u
Well I didn't believe I could save 15% or more on my car insurance by switching to geico... but we both are wrong here
Why don’t you believe in Dinosaurs? There’s tons of prove of their existence.
And the great dragon was hurled down- that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Revelation 12:9
No. Vampires and werewolves are in mythology also does that mean they're real? No.
yes they aré
Honestly, they probably are to some degree. But my research here was on dragons. I also did a unicorn video :)
YOUR OVERUSE OF CUTS IS EXCESSIVE. IT MAKES ONE DIZZY. ALSO, PREPARE YOUR SCRIPS BETTER, MAKE ALL SO THAT THE NARRATION FLOWS. YOU MAKE TOO MANY PAUSES. TRY NOT TO UPSPEAK AND VOCAL FRY.
8:58, is that a dinosaur?
Looks like one to me. I have heard of dinosaur bones being found with arrow heads stuck in them before, I can't remember where though
@@anthonyduffy6953Don't think that would be true.
@@trilobite3120 it could be. It depends on what you believe
@@anthonyduffy6953 I suppose. Without a source it's a bit harder to see if it has an alternative explanation.
@@trilobite3120 I've seen it somewher if you keep looking you will find something about it
No proof of anything. so i call BS on it.
stop thinking Game of Thrones is real 😅😂🤣
yess it us
You get to live in whatever reality you desire
@@YourHerosQuest Not in this one. you have to earn that for the next reality 😀
You give my dragon fire you Bonny little thing beautifully lady
Are you from Staten Island? Because you're enunciation and the way you pronounce words scream Staten Island. Think of the word button you don't pronounce the 'T's" in any word that you use. Using the word button as an example. You don't pronounce the t sound you just? Pronounce it as though you were using the first T and making it soft and then forgetting the second T all together. If I were to spell it, it would be like this according to your pronunciation,
"Bah On."
When you decide to be a narrator of a topic, you really need to clean up your diction because it is most disconcerting. It's kind of like a person who says "you kids" instead of saying that they would say "yous kids." I'm not talking about grammar. We're talking about pronunciation here so just thought I would mention that you have a good day.
Tartarian Empire
I need to go down a Tartarian rabbit hole!