DRAGONS: MYTHOLOGIES, RITES AND LEGENDS
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More About This Title DRAGONS: MYTHOLOGIES, RITES AND LEGENDS
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In this book, the author asks where dragons come from. Are they Chinese? Near Eastern? Indo-European? What meanings are ascribed to them and what do they represent?
The Work
Dragons feature in the myths and rituals of many peoples and are often mentioned in European folk tales. They are there at feasts and in initiation rites and they play a part in great festivals celebrating the feats of gods - in Greece, India, among the Hittites, among the Celts and others - especially at the winter solstice.
Suppressed by the Church in the High Middle Ages, when they were equated with the Devil, dragons are above all a survival of former religions.
In this book, the author asks where dragons come from.
Are they Chinese? Near Eastern? Indo-European? What meanings are ascribed to them and what do they represent?
Here we discover the richness and diversity of myths concerning this fabulous creature.
Key Sales Points
- Amazon France bestseller rank: #9 in ‘Arthurian Legends for Teenagers’, #37 in ‘Arthurian Legends for Children’, #121 in ‘Myths and Mythologies’.
- Dragons feature in the myths and rituals of many peoples.
- An in-depth historical study that is nevertheless accessible to all.
- Written by a specialist in ancient history
More information: DRAGONS: MYTHOLOGIES, RITES AND LEGENDS
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As well as having a PhD in ancient history and archaeology, Bernard Sergent is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Since 1992 he has been President of the Society of French Mythology. He has written many books and collaborated to numerous journals.
He is a recognized specialist in comparative Indo-European studies.
He is a recognized specialist in comparative Indo-European studies.
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Introduction: dragons from Indo-European myths
I: Has Greece known ritual dragons?
a) The manufactured dragon: Indian and Scandinavian examples
b) The singular Chimera
c) The marriage of Perseus
d) Delphic rites
II: Delphi and Chitral
III: Saints Sauroctones and Celtic festivals
IV: The hedonistic dragon
a) A great Breton myth
b) An equally great Hittite myth
c) An astonishing parallelism
d) Celtic file: Carantec, Gengoulph
e) What is the relationship between Celts and Hittites?
f) The dragons of the winter solstice
g) The meaning of the myth
V: The dragon in the island
a) The monstrous snakes of Rhodes
b) The Rhodians in Provence
c) The island dragons of the Celts
d) Celts and Ligurians
VI: Saint-Marcel and the beaver
a) Adultery, death and the feast of Samhain
b) Beaver and dragon
VII: Héortology and origin of Saint-Véran
a) The framework
b) The feasts of Saint-Véran
c) Saint Véran and Samhain
d) Around Imbolc
e) Beltene lost
f) Lugnasad
g) The iconography of the Church of Saint-Véran
h) (Proto) history of Saint-Véran
VIII: A Lithuanian-Himalayan-Amerindian myth
a) The tale of Eglé
b) Eros and Psukhe
c) Enlargement: towards the Himalayas
d) Amerindian dispersion
IX: The dialectic of the wolf, the bear and the dragon
Classification of tales
I: Has Greece known ritual dragons?
a) The manufactured dragon: Indian and Scandinavian examples
b) The singular Chimera
c) The marriage of Perseus
d) Delphic rites
II: Delphi and Chitral
III: Saints Sauroctones and Celtic festivals
IV: The hedonistic dragon
a) A great Breton myth
b) An equally great Hittite myth
c) An astonishing parallelism
d) Celtic file: Carantec, Gengoulph
e) What is the relationship between Celts and Hittites?
f) The dragons of the winter solstice
g) The meaning of the myth
V: The dragon in the island
a) The monstrous snakes of Rhodes
b) The Rhodians in Provence
c) The island dragons of the Celts
d) Celts and Ligurians
VI: Saint-Marcel and the beaver
a) Adultery, death and the feast of Samhain
b) Beaver and dragon
VII: Héortology and origin of Saint-Véran
a) The framework
b) The feasts of Saint-Véran
c) Saint Véran and Samhain
d) Around Imbolc
e) Beltene lost
f) Lugnasad
g) The iconography of the Church of Saint-Véran
h) (Proto) history of Saint-Véran
VIII: A Lithuanian-Himalayan-Amerindian myth
a) The tale of Eglé
b) Eros and Psukhe
c) Enlargement: towards the Himalayas
d) Amerindian dispersion
IX: The dialectic of the wolf, the bear and the dragon
Classification of tales
