Historia
Draconum
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1 Tiamat, the Great Mother
Chapter 2 The Dragon's Pearl
Chapter 3 The Prophet Daniel and Toracht the Ill
Chapter 4 The Dragon Cetus and the Princess Andromeda
Chapter 5 The Great Southern Massacres
Chapter 6 Llewkalyn the Great
Chapter 7 Idnochtan the Idiot
An Introduction
This project was done for my Anthropology 3043
class. This is my version of a dragon history book, each chapter
being a legend that I have altered. This format allowed me to
essentially be a draconian historian and to create my stories as if I
were telling the stories of my people. My intention with this
storybook was to take several stories from several different cultures
and combine them to form a history of the dragons (historia draconum)
that would (hopefully) explain why people think dragons are mythical
today. Why did I choose this topic? One of the greatest
complaints I have against folklore is the awful treatment that certain
creatures (i.e. dragons, gryphons, sphinxes, etc.) receive. I
have loved dragons ever since I read Patricia Wrede's book Dealing with Dragons and in
fact the idea for the Historia Draconum came from this novel.
This project was my chance to tell the stories of the dragons as they
should be told. In doing this, however, I have greatly changed
the myths, contorting a few almost beyond recognition so that dragons
are shown as the peace loving creatures they really are as opposed to
the bloodthirsty beasts that folklore likes to portray them as.
For details on how the legends were changed, as well as the sources
that I used for the basis of each story, a link to a bibliography is
provided for each page. An Author's Notes page also exists for
details that I want to mention but am not able to fit into the
bibliography. The sources in the aforementioned bibliography are
varied. Books from the University of Oklahoma Library were
invaluable, as was Blackdrago's website The Circle of the Dragon.
If anyone should wish to learn more about famous dragons this website
is one of the best I have found. Anyone with a passion for
mystical creatures (especially dragons) should enjoy my contribution to
the History of the Dragons.
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