Enter the DRAGON...

[Prince Arthur]

Topic on DRAGON Symbology through the ages.

To begin this thread, I thought the following observation is worthy of note:

ANDROGynous - a word that loses nothing in translation.

Is there any other word quite like it...

Devilishly DRACOnian perhaps?

ANDROG(ynous) - a mixed up DRAGON.

LEONARDO DA VINCI
O DRACONAIN DEVIL


ANDROG translation by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

A010 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

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The coat of arms of the British king Charles, as Prince of Wales showed the red dragon of Wales.


At 10 locations around the City of London the boundary is marked by a dragon, with some red details and a shield with the Red Cross of Saint George; see “The Bishopsgate Dragon”.


The double-headed Phoenix is often called eagle, but an eagle doesn’t have 2 heads and has a different head…
The Marlborough crest displays 3 dragons, 3 red (St George) crosses, 3 lions and a black double-headed Phoenix.


Here’s the coat of arms of King Henry VIII – see the crowned gold lion on the left and the red dragon on the right.


The emblem for the Italian car Alfa Romeo, features a red cross of St. George on the left, and a green dragon (or snake) eating a child (another explanation is that the child is born from the mouth of the snake).
By general consensus this is an imitation of the coat of arms of the House of Visconti (the biscione). The same symbol can be seen in Milan.
Over the years this emblem has undergone changes.


See the engraving by Lucas Jennis of an ourobourus.

[Prince Arthur]

ENTER the DRAGON...

Picking up the thread from the last image of FS's always excellent contributions - the engraving by Lucas Jennis of an ourobourus (1625).

The ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in ALCHEMY.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

Serpiente_alquimica by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

An ouroboros from a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract.

Ancient Egypt - the Tomb of Tutankhamun

Ägyptisches_Museum_Kairo_2016-03-29_Tutanchamun_Grabschatz_09 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE.

DRAGONS In ALCHEMY:

A009 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr
A015 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr
Symbolism_Two_hermaphrodites_Nuremberg_Munich by Prince Arthur, on Flickr
Symbolism of Two Hermaphrodites - 15th-century German alchemical documents.

Some Dictionary Definitions of Alchemy:
⦁ a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
⦁ a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way
⦁ an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting

SUN and MOON symbolism is a frequent theme in Alchemical texts.

A reference to SOL(o)MON's Temple perhaps, where the ARK of the COVENANT is kept - the CONTRACT of the ARCH.

A005 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

The Twin Pillars of Jachin and Boaz.

The ALCHEMical fusion of male and female to create a parthenogenic ‘HYBRID’.
The Chemical Wedding of Man and Woman, Mater and Pater, Sun and Moon, Mona and Lisa…
SOVEREIGN – to reign from above – the ‘HIGH BRID(e)’ – the monARCH.

SUPERIUS – The HYBRID(e) – monARCH – Sovereign – GOLD
INFERIUS – Man and Woman – LEAD

Figure 12 from Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer 1752 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

Figure 12 from "Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon" by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer (1752)

Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer 1752 by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

Alchemical DRAGON from “Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon” by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer (1752)

The word 'DRAGON' is 13th century.
'DRAGON' entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French word, 'DRAGON'.

ANDROGynous, however, is a much older word - from Latin androgynus, from Greek androgynos "hermaphrodite, male and female in one; womanish man".

ANDROGynous - a mixed up DRAGON.

Most interestingly, it requires very little or no translation in a significant number of languages - a UNIVERSAL word of sorts.

ANDROG translation by Prince Arthur, on Flickr

The definition of CATHOLIC - COMPREHENSIVE, UNIVERSAL.

The suggestion of this post is therefore that DRAGONs are used as symbolism for a 'SUPERIOR' monARCHical HYBRID ANDROGynous ROYAL BLOODLINE descended from the EGYPTIAN PHaraohs.

After all, the ancient Egyptian OSIRIS myth is all about ISIS conceiving HORUS without a PHallus - the original immaculate conception.

HORUS - the WIDOW's SON.

Christianity is merely a continuation of the worship of these ANDROGynous ROYAL BLOODLINES.

JESUS conceived of a VIRGIN BIRTH.

DRAG ACTS
The term "DRAG" refers to the performance of exaggerated masculinity, femininity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes. Drag usually involves cross-dressing. A drag queen is someone who performs femininity and a drag king is someone who performs masculinity.

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Picking up the thread from the last image of FS's always excellent contributions - the engraving by Lucas Jennis of an ourobourus (1625).

Thanks for the compliment... and good to see you back!

I think that the most important explanation behind the information in this thread is really... enlightenment and/or rebirth.
In mystical, occult religions the main objective is to transcend (kill) the ego to become (return to being) enlightened. There can be a killing (maybe this is also pictured in the crucifixation) or travelling theme that can be pictured by a boat (arc) of for example a gateway (arch).
The notion of becoming enlightened is really a variation of the belief that you can become god (or god-like) yourself, which is central to Satanism.


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[/url]Symbolism_Two_hermaphrodites_Nuremberg_Munich by Prince Arthur, on Flickr
Symbolism of Two Hermaphrodites - 15th-century German alchemical documents.

This looks to symbolise that you can transcend the female and male (yin and yang) to become your true enlightened self (id).


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The ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in ALCHEMY.

The word ouroboros is Greek – tail-eater – ouro (tail) boros (eating). Possibly before the Egyptians it was already used in Babylon or Sumer.
Greece, China, India, Japan, the Middle East, Romans, and Native Americans have all made drawings that represented this symbol. Freemasons, and Theosophical societies often reference it as well.
The double ouroboros is a symbol for infinity, when flipped vertically.

The Garter represents the ouroborus...

The Garter or Gartier, was a small, buckled belt worn by women around the top of the left thigh or just below the left knee on men. Apart from being a menstrual badge and a semantic symbol of the womb and the Grail, it was also a representation of the serpent eating its own tail. The Garter therefore was the alchemical symbol of the Orobourus, the serpent who, in consuming itself, has become a Dragon, a vampire. Here we will remember the opening prose at the beginning of this collection of essays.

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In his 19th-century book Transendential Magic, Eliphas Levi illustrated: “The great Symbol of Solomon. The Double Triangle of Solomon, represented by the two Ancients of the Kabalah; the Macroprosopus and the Microprosopus; the God of Light and the God of Reflections; of mercy and vengeance; the white Jehovah and the black Jehovah.”




One of the famous story themes in dragons, is the slaying of the dragon, like for example in the killing of the dragon by St. George, the patron saint of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

See the bas-relief with 3 saints riding, including George (on the right), St. Sergius (middle) and St. Theodore who is the only one fighting a dragon (on the left). An early depiction of St. George from Armenia, first half of 10thcentury.


See St George of Labechina, Racha, Georgia, 11th century.


George was often represented with Theodore, who was fighting a dragon.
Until the 11th century there wasn’t a single story about St. George killing any dragon: he was a soldier-martyr that had converted infidels.
The first know picture of George slaying the dragon is from Cappadocia, the church of St. Barbara in Soganli (11th century).


One of Emperor Constantine´s bronze coins shows a labarum piercing a serpent, 326-330 AD.

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Cadmus consulted an oracle in Delphi, which ordered him to give up his quest and follow a special cow, with a half moon on her flank, and build a town on the spot where she would lie down exhausted.
At the moment that Cadmus intended to sacrifice the cow to Athena, some of his companions were slain by the spring's guardian water-dragon at the nearby Ismenian spring. Cadmus in turn killed the dragon.

Athena then told him to sow the dragon’s teeth in the ground, from which sprang a race of fierce armed men, called the Spartoi (sown). Cadmus threw stone among them, which caused them to fight one another. When only 5 of them were still alive Cadmus told them to stop fighting. These 5 assisted him to build the Cadmeia or citadel of Thebes, and became the founders of the noblest families of that city.

See Cadmus and the dragon, on an amphora from Euboea at the Louvre (ca. 560–50 BC).


Danaus was the son of the Egyptian king Belus (a.k.a. Bela) and the cousin of Cadmus and Phoenix. According to legend, Cadmus travelled from Egypt to first Phoenicia and then to Greece where he slayed the Ares dragon and founded Thebes. Phoenicia was named after his brother Phoenix (that also represents rebirth).
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