Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

In the 17th century, Cetus was depicted as a " dragon fish " by Johannes Bayer.

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.

Examples include the Achaemenid battle standard Derafsh Kaviani, and the standards of the Roman legions such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion, or the dragon standard of the Sarmatians ; the latter was let fly freely in the wind, carried by a horseman, but judging from depictions it was more similar to an elongated dragon kite than to a simple flag.

He was intrigued by the tattoos of the Dayaks and pictures of him in later life show large snake or dragon tattoos on his forearms, presumably obtained at this time.

This new network was known as " dal's net ", after the nickname used by the administrator of the first IRC server on the network, " dalvenjah ", taken from the dragon " Dalvenjah Foxfire ", in a fantasy novel by Thorarinn Gunnarsson.

His last task was to overcome the sleepless dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece.

The dragon fell asleep, and Jason was able to seize the Golden Fleece.

Being stuck on land, he was unable to transform back into his dragon form.

The Komodo dragon was believed to have differentiated from its Australian ancestors 4 million years ago.

The Komodo dragon was formerly thought to be deaf when a study reported no agitation in wild Komodo dragons in response to whispers, raised voices, or shouts.

On December 20, 2006, it was reported that Flora, a captive Komodo dragon living in the Chester Zoo in England, was the second known Komodo dragon to have laid unfertilized eggs: she laid 11 eggs, and seven of them hatched, all of them male.

Later, the Komodo dragon was the driving factor for an expedition to Komodo Island by W. Douglas Burden in 1926.

It was also Burden who coined the common name " Komodo dragon.

At around this time, an expedition was planned in which a long-term study of the Komodo dragon would be undertaken.

Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

The Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang and Padar.

The Komodo dragon is a vulnerable species and is found on the IUCN Red List.

No true dragon ship, as defined by the sagas, has been found by archaeological excavation.

Variants include having rings along the length of the straight back edge as found in the nine-ring guan dao for use as distractions or entanglements for incoming enemy weapons, having the tip curl into a rounded spiral as in the elephant guan dao, or featuring a more ornate design as exemplified by the dragon head guan dao.

The earliest of these is Saint Carannog's mystical floating altar in that saint's 12th century Vita ; in the story Arthur has found the altar and attempts unsuccessfully to use it for a table, and returns it to Carannog in exchange for the saint ridding the land of a meddlesome dragon.

Fire-gilded European dragon | dragon's head from Ireland, found in a Viking grave at Stavanger, Norway ( Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen )

On 10 December 1823, she found the first complete Plesiosaurus, and in 1828 the first British example of the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, called a flying dragon when it was displayed at the British Museum, followed by a Squaloraja fish skeleton in 1829.

In 1899, it was found that Chinese pharmacists were selling " dragon bones " marked with curious and archaic characters.

Nyrop notes the poetical stories of the " redeeming power of the kiss are to be found in the literature of many countries, especially, for example, in the Old French Arthurian romances ( Lancelot, Guiglain, Tirant le blanc ) in which the princess is changed by evil arts into a dreadful dragon, and can only resume her human shape in the case of a knight being brave enough to kiss her.

While depictions of the dragon in art and literature are largely consistent throughout the cultures in which it is found, there are some regional differences.

Oldest known attestation of the " children of the dragon " list is found in the Shuyuan Zaji ( 椒园杂记, Miscellaneous records from the bean garden ) by Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ); however, he noted that the list enumerates mere synonyms of various antiques, not children of a dragon.

And, in a story which appeared in Uncle Scrooge entitled " The Golden Fleecing " the ducklings looked up the question, how to put a dragon to sleep, and found the answer, Pull the wool over his eyes.

These five helped Cadmus to found the city of Thebes, but Cadmus was forced to be a slave to Ares for one year to atone for killing the dragon.

Though a winged creature, the dragon is generally to be found in its underground lair, a cave that identifies it as an ancient creature of earth.

The Dragons are portrayed as very large creatures ; the largest described in the series, the gold queen dragon Ramoth, was described as being about forty-five feet ( as large as the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found ) or thirteen and one half meters ( as large as a jet plane – dragon size is an ongoing debate among fans ) in length.

" One review of published children's books and popular artwork found the tooth fairy to also be depicted as a child with wings, a pixie, a dragon, a blue mother-figure, a flying ballerina, two little old men, a dental hygenist, a potbellied flying man smoking a cigar, a bat, a bear and others.

When Glaurung found himself surrounded he crushed Azaghâl, the King of Belegost, but Azaghâl stabbed Glaurung in the stomach, and the dragon fled back to Angband, along with the beasts of the host of Morgoth.

A unique seal found here is from Bahrain — circular, with motif of a dragon flanked by jumping gazelles.

" Schoorl " was until about 200 years ago known as " Schorel " ( also part known as " Schoreldam ") and the family crest ( coat of arms ) is recorded as being St Michaels ( the dragon slayer ), and was found on a grave some 1, 000 years old.

The first chapter, The Horror in Clay, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: " My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature .... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.

In Norse mythology, the dragon Fafnir ( best known in the form of a dragon slain by Sigurðr ) bears on his forehead the Ægis-helm ( ON ægishjálmr ), or Ægir's helmet, or more specifically the " Helm of Terror ".

Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound.

A 1908 depiction of Beowulf fighting the dragon by J. R. Skelton. Beowulf returns home and eventually becomes king of his own people.

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

Heinrich von Winkelried dies after the blood of the dragon slain by him accidentally drips on him.

The name is possibly derived from a type of firearm ( called a dragon ) carried by dragoons of the French Army.

; Forgotten Futures X: The Tooth and Claw Role Playing Game: A licensed RPG based on the novel Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, set in a world with Victorian-equivalent technology which has a separate dragon nation.

The knights sent by the King to pursue the dragon are useless fops, more intent on " precedence and etiquette " than on the huge dragon footprints littering the landscape.

The village of Oakley, burnt to the ground by the dragon early in the story, may also be named after Oakley, Buckinghamshire, near to Thame.

Jason sprayed the dragon with a potion, given by Medea, distilled from herbs.