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Dragons

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I think about dragons every now and then, and the fact there is some kind of legend or myth about them across most continents. So, like the other articles Giants, Fairy Tales and Myths, Monsters & Legends, I try to piece together what it is about it that makes me thinks there is something to it. It was particularly the fire breathing aspect that I kept mulling over, because we have lizards today which almost fit the bill, small ones with flaps of skin looking like wings, large heavy set lumbering ones without any form of wings. But while discussing the phoenix the other day, and descriptions of it bursting into flames, I thought of a fire breathing dragon. Then I thought of a few other mythological creatures that seemed similar once I lined them up in my head. And when put together as below, you can see why I thought of all of them all in turn.

Phoenix – a magnificent creature that was a symbol of renewal and rebirth.

Sphinx – mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle.

Griffin – mythical creature known as a half-eagle, half-lion.

Chimera – a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts.

Dragons feature in all sorts of stories though, Archangel Michael slaying a dragon, St George known for the same. Each of the ancient stories and fantastical tales featuring a winged creature, that had the ability to kill you on the spot or some great power to overcome and defeat.

Sphinx Gate – Neverending Story
Ark of the convenant

Another came to mind based on its description, although the visual portrayal I had for this myself was from a movie, so didn’t fit until I gave more thought to the aspect of serpents in all these stories. Medusa being the most ‘famous’ of these I believe.

Gorgons – snakes for hair, wings, claws, tusks, and scales.

If we did happen to find any remnants of things like that today, we might think they looked like dinosaurs or pterodactyls perhaps, or just a plain old snake or bird – or a snake eating a bird, if you have both in the same fossil. Maybe. I know it sounds like reaching a bit, but I like to consider all options. So of course, they really could just be fantastical and outrageous stories we like to retell and pass down through the ages. For no reason other than to entertain it would seem, and to make us think of a time that never was. Or, there is the far-fetched possibility that we really did have a more fantastical time that came before, and something they haven’t been able to get rid of, so rewrite them instead, giving them different names and meaning, scattering the truth to the far-flung corners of the earth for it to be diluted and lost. Until such time of course, that it comes back, as truth often does…

Gorgon

(c) K Wicks

The Old World

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There are scatterings of the old world throughout the lands and even submerged off coastlines. Relics, buildings, monuments and rather grand things to show we missed quite a spectacular time. These are what are being called Tartarian currently, to represent grand things of a time past. It is mentioned on maps and was known as a region, now covering Russia, China and lots of Europe. As the range of photographs from the 1800’s and early 1900’s show, they are all over, and the buildings we have left to speculate on about their true nature, show a grandness and beauty we are simply not capable of today. Or it would appear that way with our modernistic, square and unflattering building techniques. Very much built not to last, or look good in any way, often barely even functioning for its purpose.

In the last 100 years or so, many of these old unique buildings and monuments have been destroyed, burnt, bombed and demolished – throughout various countries. Some of them strangely not long after construction apparently. World fairs being a classic example of build something grand and disposable, quickly at great cost, then tear it down. Although some of the ‘temporary features’ built still stand today. But we lost the skills of that time it would seem. And world wars seemed to have served as a great cover to get rid of others that would have been noticed and probably stopped otherwise. Ancient, not so ancient and modern alike, sweep and clear missions hold no regard for what has come before.

And of those previous skills, I still find it difficult to get my head around there being enough skilled craftsman, and materials available to find their way to every continent, and multiple countries to build all these architectural masterpieces within what seems to be a relatively short time frame. The similarities are striking. Post offices, city halls, asylums, schools etc. Seemingly way too large for the communities and infrastructure of the towns at that time. Dirt roads and pillared giant neoclassical buildings, for a population of only a few hundred in some cases, or less. Where we are also led to believe people were rather illiterate, and didn’t get pushed into formal education until early 1900s. Someone was writing a lot of letters, or there was a great need for shipping things around small towns though for there to be so many massive post offices. And a big need for overly large buildings, and somewhere to house all the people deemed crazy or unfit for their new society rolling out. Maybe I’m missing something there.

The other rather splendid buildings we have, which are earlier it is said and we also have plenty of, are churches and cathedrals. So even further back, less people because of all the plagues and wars, yet grand building projects requiring money, time, people, skills, construction etc. Seems to defy belief really when you really think it through. Or maybe it’s just the timeline I have been taught doesn’t quite add up, thinking we had Romans building great things, then the skills just disappeared for a few hundred years during some ‘dark ages’, followed by peasants and medieval Europe, the crusades etc. Leading us to believe people again were just poor and busy trying to live, with skirmishes, revolutions, wars and religious domination also occurring. The 1493 papal decree, the inquisition, the church of England split and the war on monasteries. Oh, and chuck in some plagues, huge fires engulfing entire cities, invasions, fall of empires etc. Just seems like what we see, and what we are told don’t quite match up. And we must have had great numbers of people to keep losing millions, every decade and century to what we would call ‘an untimely end’.

When you realise potentially lots of people have been deliberately removed, from either society or the records, it would be much easier to retell it as you want it remembered. Because you would want a certain version of events to be carried down, the chosen history to be taught and retold. Usually children would be very important to that, and being separated from their parents of course, makes this much easier. Funnily enough, there was a fair amount of movement of that nature in the 1800 and 1900s. Check out my article A Train Of Thought for more on that. But again, many countries and continents have moved a great number of children under the guise of for your ‘safety & health’, or for just plain old social experiments or excuses for ‘education’, displacing natives and trying to eliminate cultures, language and traditions that way. It’s a tried and tested method, still going on today unfortunately.

So, given what we know of how those who control society behave, and their methods and motives for things, I find it easy to understand why they wouldn’t want beautifully crafted buildings around to remind people of what came before. Also, whether they are a representation of a mysterious time or not, they are of a previous time and mindset, and one they don’t want people having anymore. To start over, you need to get rid of what came before. And people can be very good at remembering, but only if they actually knew in the first place…

Tartarian Architecture

(c) K Wicks

The Great Conjunction

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This article is looking at the film The Dark Crystal, it’s fiction and a children’s film no less, but one I like and it’s one of those films that pops back up in thought now and again. More so recently.

I have mentioned it before in relation to a process within it, of draining energy from creatures by way of the crystal and turning them into slaves. But the overall premise of the story is a long stretching one, with conflict, battles and prophecies. Of cycles and a change in the order of things when the conjunction occurs.

“The Great Conjunction is the end of the world! Or the beginning. End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. ~ Aughra”

It reminds of giving thought to the Phoenix event story we have in our reality, even though it is apparently a simulated one, and of alignments in our ‘solar system’, looking like spiral path being followed. With eclipses and a termination point, or recycling point, where it all starts over. Like a clock having a countdown, or a reset I guess, as we do every day when the sun rises and we start over again.

But in The Dark Crystal, three suns align and a new age dawns – with a fair amount of adventure and peril in between of course, yet the idea of multiple suns kept coming up in mind. Making me also think of the multiple suns in Star Wars visible on Tatooine, wondering if there are other lands further from us on this realm, that have a different view from us. And when they talk of blocking out the sun, could it be because it will start to become obvious? Of the pending conjunction or that there is more out there in close proximity than is being admitted? Perhaps that is why we have stories of Niribu, one of the other suns that is visible now and again on its route, or a shadow of it is. Because while we usually think of suns as bright and glowing, perhaps there is a black sun, which may almost look as a black hole would in our astronomical imagination. But perhaps that is what Niribu is, a dark sun as the opposite of our known light sun, and I even went as far as to think that the moon may have also once been a sun – or in fact still is. As it seems to have its own light source to a point, could it be that it’s a super dim small version, but still part of the mechanical system. Playing its own more noticeable part. Just a strange a wandering thought…

(c) K Wicks