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I was thinking about holidays and new years and such, and looked up the Chinese New Year to see how their calendar began. Wellp, I found out that they measure time beginning with the reign of the Yellow Emperor. Huang Di is historically remembered as a dragon because some scholars believe that the Huang Di used a snake as his coat of arms....

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Date: 2005-12-25 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dogemperor.livejournal.com
Interesting...VERY interesting indeed. :3

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Date: 2005-12-26 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fendahleen.livejournal.com
"As he defeated enemies he would incorporate their emblems into his own... That explains why the Chinese dragon has the body of a snake; the scales and tail of a fish, the antlers of a deer, the face of a qilin (a deer-like mythical creature with fire all over its body), two pairs of eagle talons, and the eyes of a tiger-lion."

That's really interesting. I always wondered about the rationalization for that that. One assumes some lesser functionary was reponsible for the Platypus.

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Date: 2008-03-14 07:46 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] helen99.livejournal.com
Oh but no. In order to conceive such a creature, the deity must have been far, far in advance of ordinary conceptualizers (deities).

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