Here are six epic legends that show why dragons continue to ignite our imagination. Ngwhi, a serpent-like deity in various mythologies, inspired concepts like Valhalla and the Midgard Serpent ...

It was often prefixed by the word drákōn, which can be interpreted as either “serpent” or “dragon,” and so visual representations of the ouroboros have also changed between the two.

Drawing on various ancient sources, the Spanish theologian classified the dragon as belonging to the serpent family and being the largest of all the animals. According to Isidore, dragons were ...

Tiamat, a Mesopotamian goddess sometimes portrayed as a serpent or dragon Alamy The ancient people of Mesopotamia—a region that stretched over what’s now Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey ...

There’s a giant five-piece serpent with what looks like a dragon’s head in the children’s garden. The pieces of the serpent were installed in the garden in January and were purchased with ...

such as the Chinese Dragon which pays homage to the Zodiac calendar, theQuetzalcoatl references the feathered-serpent god of Mesoamerican mythos and folklore and the Manticore dragon draws on ...