Chapter 223 The Mystery of the Dragon

A strange demon stronghold was quietly established in the northwest of the demon city.

Although it is not within the territory of the Demon City and is separated by three Demon forces, Yao Yan does not think that conflict with the Demon stronghold can be avoided.

His consciousness is not located in any single stronghold. The characteristic of the phenomenal level is to allow his consciousness to exist in the form of a "whole".

If you have to use an example to explain, is it the game client?

Any crow, even if all the crows gather together, is not his main consciousness. His main consciousness no longer has a specific object.

Including the "spiritual" level, he does not have a consciousness carrier composed of spiritual power.

His consciousness has no actual carrier.

This is not just him, but also pollutants at all levels of the scale of phenomena.

Every crow is a "client".

These "clients", these crows, no matter how much they lose, whether they are completely lost or not, will not interfere with his consciousness and ability data in the "cloud".

This is also the effect level. Even if every part of the body is wiped out, he can synchronize with his "cloud" consciousness and then restore and reorganize the client. This is what the pollutants at the effect level can rely on. The traces left behind are the basis for recovery.

If the consciousness relies on a certain body part, then when the body part is destroyed, he will also lose things like memory, or even lose his ability completely.

The characteristics of phenomena and effect levels allow him and polluters to use crazy strategies without worrying about losses.

If they have not died many times in the trial space, because they need to absorb the power in the trial space to reorganize, and the pollutants cannot die at will, then the polluters will even wreak havoc on various trials with an attitude of not fearing death. space.

While thinking, his eyes fell on the body of the demon he was inhabiting.

There was a faint trace of a shadowy crow on the demon he had joined.

In her hand, black shadows like book pages were floating vaguely, and several words with slightly different fonts and sizes from the original written text were very obvious:

【.The egg-laying huge body lizard has the terrifying power of wings.】

Yao Yan's gaze passed over the black shadow on the page.

Whether it is a serpentine dragon or a lizard dragon, they are the product of a mixture of various biological signs in various cultural regions.

There was no clear "dragon" in ancient Egypt, or in other words, none of the mythical monsters in ancient Egypt were attached to the word "dragon".

From the perspective of formation, there are many theories about the origin of the image of the Western dragon.

A development trajectory that Yao Yan agreed with started from ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonia.

The origin of the "dragon" image of gods or monsters headed by Tiamat in ancient Babylon is related to ancient Egypt.

What Yao Yan knew was a monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion - the Sphinx.

As far as he knew, the Sphinx had three forms.

The most famous ones are the Sphinx, the Sphinx and the Head of a Goat, and the Head and the Body of a Gryphon.

And another key node is Sumerian mythology.

Due to geographical location, cultural exchanges between ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonia gradually became more frequent over time. While ancient Egyptian culture left its imprint on the culture of ancient Babylonia, it also had a reverse influence.

Especially the two events of several ethnic groups with Jewish predecessors moving into Egypt and moving out of Egypt.

As an important member of ancient Babylonian mythology, Tiamat's image itself is very different from the image of today's giant dragon. The image of its son "Angry Snake" is relatively close to today's Western dragon, but it is only relatively.

An animal that walks on four legs, its head, neck and trunk are covered with snake scales, its front legs are lions, its hind legs are eagle claws, its head has long horns, and its tail has scorpion needles.

There's a lot of room for manipulation with the word "relatively". 10 is closer to 100 than 9, isn't it?

The images of mythical creatures in different regions are naturally based on the experience and understanding of local humans.

The experience and understanding of local humans basically come from the creatures and various natural things in the area.

In ancient Babylon and Egypt, there was a time when lions and humans coexisted. As apex predators, it was easier to impress them than other creatures. Mythical creatures often adopted the characteristics of these apex predators or other large creatures. .

In the native mythology of the country and region where he lived, because there were no lions in the area, there would not and could not be creatures with lion characteristics when they were formed. The source of mythical images among carnivores is either tigers, leopards, jackals, or Snake, scorpion, eagle and crocodile.

Like lions and tigers and leopards.

Even if they are both "horns", the image characteristics of "horns" in the cultural monsters of ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt are often derived from antelopes, sheep, goats and wildebeests, while the country and region where he was alive are more derived from creatures such as deer and cattle.

Although most of today's Western dragons have lizard postures, from the genetic process, there is basically no involvement of lizards, but a combination of serpentine dragons and four-legged monsters such as sphinxes and chimeras.

The image of a lizard is basically formed by continuous additions from the Middle Ages to modern times.

It is easy for people to reversely describe the source as a creature close to the current image based on the current image.

This situation also existed in the country during his lifetime.

Although it is uncertain how much of the image of the Eastern dragon was formed by snakes at the beginning, the strengthening of the "snake" feature was very late, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the snake-like posture was magnified and highlighted.

The "dragon" image that can be traced back to the current Eastern dragon image is closer to the torso length of tigers and leopards than snakes.

Whether the "scales" come from snakes or fish is also worth discussing in detail.

After all, as a river civilization, it had the most contact with things in the river in the early days. Even the earliest "blue dragon and white tiger" were made of stacked shells.

Unfortunately, Yao Yan is not an archaeologist, and there are many theories about the origin of the image in society, which he cannot identify.

But now

Although the origin of the mythical creature "dragon" has basically nothing to do with lizards, there is no doubt that it was inseparable from lizards in his lifetime.

When people hear about dragons and think of Western dragons, they often associate them with lizards at the first time.

Yao Yan knows that he does not need to worry too much about the actual origin process.

But

When the image of the giant dragon was formed, if the strength of this creature was indeed far superior to other creatures, then can it be reversed to correspond to the era when these concepts originated?