Who knows about dragons in western mythology?

First let's look at the word "dragon"!

dragon:

1. The legendary winged, clawed, scaly, fire-breathing monster. ｛

2. A stern female guardian (of a young girl) (legend has it that the dragon is the guardian of treasures, so it was transferred to this meaning, cf. chaperon ); a vicious person.

3. the Old Dragon The demon king, or Satan. This expression is supposed to have its origin in the Old Testament reference to Satan as the Ancient Dragon.

4. Dragoons, carbines, the huge, short-mouthed cavalry guns of yesteryear. dragoon: ｛Specialized Dragoons, there were seven companies of Dragoon Guards in England.

And in role-playing games, players can expect a room full of treasure and powerful magical items after defeating a dragon, but where did the legend of the dragon's treasure collection come from? In Italian legend, Cernunus was a horned god whose job was to control all wealth and commerce, and he was also the king of the earth. Cernunus was often seen with a horned dragon at his side, which was also believed to be associated with wealth, especially underground treasures. So in the famous writings and legends of later generations, we can often see many heroes who defeated the dragon, but also received uncountable treasures, so later generations of adventurers, while sharing the dragon's treasures, do not forget to thank the dragons who put the treasures in one place!

The following are creatures that are sometimes categorized as dragons in Western myths and legends, but which are not really dragons, but often have certain dragon qualities in their form or body.

The Two-Headed Snake Amphisbaena: A creature with heads on either side of its body, it can move in two directions at once, and prey on small animals in both directions. The two heads are fearsome hunters when they work together, but disagreements can bring them great misfortune.

Fossil Snake Basilisk: A lizard-like creature that can paralyze or even turn enemies into stone statues with its terrifying gaze.

Cockatrice: a monster that looks like a rooster with a snake's tail, said to be a snake hatched from a rooster's egg, and whose gaze can be just as deadly.

The monster whose Chinese name cannot be found Chimera: a monster that spits fire, has a lion's head, a ram's body, and a snake's tail, and in some cases he is drawn as having three heads at the same time, a ram, a lion, and a snake, and he appeared in Greek mythology. He not only flew, but also liked to eat people very much, and the villages along the coasts of Greece were ruined by him. Boethius who killed him.

Griffin: In the "Battle of the Dragonshot", Griffin is a fast-flying creature with the head, wings, and foreclaws of an eagle, as well as the body, legs, and tail of a lion, and is said to be a creature that hates evil.

Hydra, the Nine-Headed Dragon: A monstrous serpent with nine heads, he was born of the mating of Typhon, the hundred-headed dragon, the father of the most powerful monsters in Greek mythology, and echidina, a female-headed serpentine monster, and there is a theory that it was the union of Pallas phallas and Styx, the river stynx. Agoth Gulf of Rona place in the swamp, known as Rona Hydra, he devoured the fields, ravaged people and animals, no evil, he spit out the poisonous gas also makes the local so-called plague swamp, but Zeus born Hercules (hercules) just because the Queen of the sky Sheila's framed and lost his mind, killed his own wife and children, in order to atone for the sins of the gods, he accepts the metaphor, to go to the service of his cousins! In order to make amends, he accepts the god's metaphor and goes to serve his cousin, the king of Mycenae, Friar Eurystheus. Eurystheus, who is not stupid, decides to do everything possible to kill Hercules in order to please Scylla, so he gives him twelve difficult tasks, the first one is to kill the invulnerable Nemia Lion, whose skin Hercules later uses as a gauntlet to carry out the second one, which is to kill Hydra, the hydra. poisonous gas, its venom is also the world's strange poison, but because Hercules is the body of the lion's skin is impervious to swords and spears, so its poisonous fangs have no way to get in, but it has nine heads, cut off each head will be regenerated, and the middle of the head is still immortal, so that Hercules was greatly hurt, but fortunately, later on, his nephew handed him a torch to let him cut off each head with a torch to burn wounds, so that he never grow a head again. And after the last head was cut off, Hercules pressed its head against a large stone so that it could never make a monster again, and finally stained all the arrows on his body with Hydra's poisonous blood, which became Hercules' most deadly weapon later on, and the reason for his final demise.

Manticore: A sphinx with the head and face of a man, the body of a lion, the tail of a scorpion or a dragon, and usually a deadly poisonous needle that could be shot out of his tail, and his roar was also very deadly.

Fire Lizards Salamander: Lizard-like creatures that can withstand high heat, spit fire, and even live in lava, some warriors will risk defeating them in order to strip them of their precious skins, which can withstand the flames, to make shields or armor.

Wyvern: A creature very similar to a dragon, except that it only has four legs, two front legs, two wings, and almost exactly the same as a dragon, except that it usually doesn't spit fire, and mostly uses their venom and claws to hurt people, and is fairly unintelligent.

Queztec quetzalcoatl, the god of light. He has wings and the body of a serpent and can fly, somewhat similar to the dragon, and is the Mexican god of the feathered serpent. Its literal meaning is "feathered serpent", and it is not only the "man of the sun", but also the god of the wind, which is derived from the Mayan god kukulcan, and which originally had the meaning of the god of thunder. In the Mexican Quetzitek temple in Quetihuacan, in addition to many flying serpents and other monsters in addition to carvings, at the same time, there is a major idol "eleven-petal flower serpent head", it is with the rain, grain, and harvest are related to the noble god is a polytheistic, he is a god of the sun, "God of the heavens," the identity of both the god and the god of the wind, and the god of thunder, the original meaning. In his capacity as the Sun God, the "Chief of the Heavenly Gods," he also takes in the changes and movements of wind, rain, thunder, lightning, sun, moon, and stars. He is the god of the wind and the atmosphere, but also of air and water, or in particular of the ripples created by the wind on the surface of the lake, which have become a symbol of the principle of the creation of life in nature, as well as of Venus, the star of enlightenment, which is symbolized by the Maya in the image of a serpent with the feathers of a woodpecker, a bird native to the Guatemalan plateau and regarded as a sacred bird by the local people. The legend of this god is also that of a great king, priest and cultural hero of the guests of the Toltecs, inventor of the calendar and creator of all religious arts and sciences. He is a very special good god, his detailed image is like this, his arms are covered with feathers, but underneath is a two-headed serpent, the head of the serpent is made like the head of a man, like a bowed arm, and underneath where the two-headed serpent meets the god's body there is a symbol in the shape of an x, this symbol is generally considered to be the "cross", that is, the symbol of the underworld. This symbol is generally regarded as the "cross", that is, the symbol of the underworld. On the one hand he has the image of a serpent, but on the other hand he is a respectable outsider with "white skin, black beard, big eyes, wide forehead, and tall stature", but his rituals are quite gruesome, as the Aztec priests sacrificed captives, or in special cases noble women, by cutting open the chest and removing the heart of the sacrifice. They would cut open the chest of the sacrifice and take out the heart to symbolize that they had gained the fiery power of the sun, and the Quetzalcoatl would use these sacrifices to gain the power to fight with the dark god Diosca de Lipogu, but somehow this good god was defeated by the dark god? /ca>