Saint George's Day - April 23
Today is Saint George's Day, at least in England. He is probably best known for snuffing a dragon. As a child, I always heard and saw references to "Saint George and THE Dragon", leaving me to wonder if he slaughtered the last dragon, but I suspect that this is just a quirk of the English Language.
We don't know very much about that dragon, or dragons in general. but there had to be at least two on the Ark. Though they could've flown hither and yon sufficiently to give rise to the sightings all over the globe, this is unlikely. The energy needs would be horrific and food would've been quite scarce immediately after the flood. It also appears that there were once various species of dragons, perhaps as far back as the Ark itself. Not all had wings, so either there were multiple species on the Ark itself that reproduced and dispersed, or, horror of horrors, the various progeny of the original pair evolved into multiple species, at least some of which dispersed. In any event, St. George's dragon was probably not any of the dragons from Revelations (http://www.lizaphoenix.com/encyclopedia/dragon.shtml)
Insofar as they are generally depicted as being somewhat reptilian, it is likely that each species was pretty prolific. As carnivores, they would tend to disperse as juveniles. They are also reputed to live to enormous ages. Given that the one George killed was somewhere in the middle East,it more likely to be one of the originals from the Ark than the absolute last of their kind.
At any rate, Saint George became the patron saint of England somehow, so happy Saint George's Day.
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Happy Saint George's Day, el...
that record is hilarious, thanks for that. I remember reading, can't remember where, about a plausible explanation for the origin of the dragon myths. Early man, pick your time frame, more likely than not, would have run across exposed dinosaur bones and for the lack of a better explanation declared them to be the bones of dragons. I guess that's as good an explanation as any, although I do like your theory of Saint George slaying the last Dragon of the Ark. There was also this one time back in the late 60's when i thought I saw a dragon after taking...but that's another totally different story.
Meanwhile, back in East Asia
In East Asia, dragons are considered highly auspicious.
Joe Cocker in Hymn for My Soul would seem to agree:
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Dragons, Nukes, and St. George
There are interesting synchronicities about dragons, nukes and St. George.
1) Manhattan Project physicist & chemist, Louis Slotkin called "the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction as 'tickling the dragon's tail',"... Slotin, was a nuclear scientist who died of radiation poisoning from an accident.
2) "Caging the Dragon" was the term given to containing underground nuclear explosions by the DOE.
3) I'm unable to find this reference now. It is something I remember from 30 years ago: The fact that the early French Nuclear Program was called "The Dragon Project."
4) The NEA, Nuclear Energy Agency has compiled a list of ---
See it here .
5) The Japanese fishing boat, "Lucky Dragon" that was heavily dosed in the huge Bikini test. The crew members were so irradiated they suffered radiation poisoning and died.
6) St George, Utah: "The Day we Bombed Utah;" book or
summary
7) And, just because I like it and it seems similar although it mentions nothing about nukes: The St. George Grenada Airport.
Bikini was an open-air H-bomb test before it was a bathing suit
Very clever rebranding of a word with originally horrible associations, an atmospheric test of a hydrogen bomb.
And very clever diversion, replacing those unpleasant associations with overtly sexual ones.
Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays would be proud. (When it comes to propaganda, Bernays quite literally "wrote the book" in 1928.)
—Wikipedia