Fun Fact: the finnish word for dragon literally translates as "Salmon Snake"

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

I read that in the comments to a video by Name Explain, and someone else pointed out that there was a witch called Louhi in Finnish mythology and a dragon is Louhi's snake and not salmon snake.

@taistelusammakko5088

5 жыл бұрын

@@corvus_da lohi is salmon and louhi is the witch, and louhi has no snakes in "kalevala" which is made out of different finnish mythologies. But it is literally salmon snake

@dignitashyperborea5712

5 жыл бұрын

Yes but there is some debate whether or not the Finnish word for salmon which is "lohi" is really behind the etymology of the word. One proposition it really comes from the norse word "floghdraki" literally meaning "flying snake". As F or indeed the consonant combination FL or even GH doesn't exist in Finnish they might have just taken the "flogh" and turned it into a more familiar word "lohi" and then translate the latter part -draki (snake) into the Finnish word "käärme" which means snake. It could also come from norse word "logi" meaning fire or even be made up by a Finnish scholar Mikael Agricola in the late middle ages (which was later than middle ages in other parts of Europe).

@hopebringer2348

4 жыл бұрын

Heh!

@robgau2501

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

All we need now is Shad saying "But what about Dragons?"

@forestelfranger

7 жыл бұрын

Followed by. "Oh wait never mind."

@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522

7 жыл бұрын

Exacly! Shad where are you?

@autolykos9822

7 жыл бұрын

But what about Plumed Serpents?

@y11971alex

7 жыл бұрын

He has now made a video with this precise title!

@emperorconstantine1.361

5 жыл бұрын

WISH GRANTED!!

Watch the skies, traveller.

@vitriolicAmaranth

5 жыл бұрын

What is it? Dragons?

@Prometheus7272

5 жыл бұрын

vitriolicAmaranth Have you been up at the cloud district lately

@valeria262

4 жыл бұрын

My cousin’s out fighting dragons and what do I get? Guard duty...

@gaminghunt5837

3 жыл бұрын

It's a bird,it's a plane,no It's a dragon

@ryanfaber8532

2 жыл бұрын

@@valeria262 you, you must be a dragon born.

I love this kind of video Metatron. I know many people will tell you to stick to armor and swords but as a mega Metatron fan, I love it when you branch out occasionally for subjects like this.

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you do as I love doing this sort of videos :)

@GG89x

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Metaman great presentation, maybe you could consider doing some follow-up dragon videos with more stories and details. Have a nice day !

@padalan2504

7 жыл бұрын

+1

Interesting how certain things seem to be present in most cultures. Namely, giant reptiles, religion, meatballs and the idea that pointy sticks make excellent weapons.

@moongirl786

7 жыл бұрын

+Sagrotan You mean out of Africa, right?

@secutorprimus

7 жыл бұрын

moongirl786 He means the Middle East, as the Agricultural Revolution is widely accepted to have started there, and serves as the beginning of large civilizations.

@FalconWindblader

7 жыл бұрын

Humanity was born out of Africa. however, notable human CIVILIZATION didn't begin until some moved to the middle east. just to clear things up a bit.

@secutorprimus

7 жыл бұрын

Falcon Windblade Exactly

@823850

7 жыл бұрын

And you can eat meatballs off of pointy sticks.

The heads growing back part about the Slavic dragons is Greek influence on Slavic culture. It comes from Greek mythology when Heracles fought the Lernaean Hydra. I am from a Slavic country and we actually have three different words for three different types of dragons - zmei (snake/serpeant-like), hala (for the multiple headed ones) and drakon (one-headed and can be with either two or four legs, so it's also used for wyverns). We also sometimes use the word hydra for the multiple headed ones. In my country, and I think this goes for the rest of Europe, the dragon became regarded as a more negative/evil creature after accepting Christianity. The dragon slain by Saint George symbolises the pagan polytheistic religions and the young woman saved by George is Christianity itself. But personally, I love dragons, I don't like their portrayal as evil, and that's why I prefer the Asian ones - they are not wicked, but very wise. ^ ^

@gulliverthegullible6667

7 жыл бұрын

Of the european-type dragons, only the non-metallic coloured ones are evil. Silver, gold and bronze dragons are good creatures.

@Nethan2000

7 жыл бұрын

That's just D&D. The golden dragon actually looks vaguely Asian. Most fantasy settings don't distinguish between chromatic and metallic dragons.

@nubnakub1514

7 жыл бұрын

Kiril Petrov Actually, Zmei or Zmaj are good dragons and Hala or Ala are evil dragons

@KalishAlexander

7 жыл бұрын

I'm from Ukraine, I only know zmei as being mentioned in the folklore, but I've never heard of hala or ala, and drakon, I think, is a modern western-influenced term and I've never seen it in the folklore:|

@buzdygan5488

7 жыл бұрын

Slavic kurwa greetings Kiril :D as i see, yours "zmei" its ours "żmij", hala is something like ours "drak" or just "smok", but our "smok" describes only (or almost only) 4 legs+2 wings dragon, not wyvern (for wyverns we have "wiwerna")

Shad: but what about dragons? Metatron: hold my beer

I love how you get the pronunciation of foreign words perfectly. Your greek was amazing

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

Only that the ω in δράκων should be longer

@koffieverslaafde627

4 жыл бұрын

Corvus huh, i can still read greek pretty well

@epic321123

4 жыл бұрын

@@corvus_da Nah the ω is good

@mrmoth26

3 жыл бұрын

@@epic321123 It looks like boobs or an arse or balls.

@epic321123

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mrmoth26 growing up I always tried to imagine drawing an ass instead of ω on my tests

What's interesting - in russian, the pronounciation is almost latin - drakon. And there's just one basic dragon in russian mythology, called "Zmej Gorynych" - the Gorynych snake. Breathing fire and having three sentient heads, often having a conversation with a hero.

Acid blood would a xenomorph be considered a dragon.

@angellara7040

7 жыл бұрын

EATHER2468 there's already flying xenos

how can such a magical thing exists in so many cultures throughout the history with different representations?? makes me feel like they were real and all this mythology is based on truth

@Cookiesdiefrombehind

7 жыл бұрын

DUBDUB511 because dinosaur bones

@haraldbearclaw1856

7 жыл бұрын

I was once told by occultist that dragons are non physical beings that were seen in visions, spiritual experiences throughout world.

@VVV.12345

7 жыл бұрын

Or maybe it was an important figure of the first sapiens, that survived up till today becauseit was cool

@ilhamabdulhakim9554

7 жыл бұрын

aliens, my friend

@gamer7916

7 жыл бұрын

creationists think this is evidence humans lived with dinosaurs and that evolution is wrong and the earth is only 5000 years old and created in 7 days by magical sky daddy and other nonsense

In Wales it's interesting that you can find the ancient tribes used to call the leaders 'Ddraig' Which is the Welsh word for Dragon.

@NapoleonCalland

5 жыл бұрын

Come not between the Dragon and his wroth ;) (Quote from the title character in King Lear, by William Shakespeare). )^^,'

something about slavic dragons, i hope you enjoy! (i use polish words) I will not mention basilisk, or other that stuff that isn't dragon or dragon-like, and i will mention "żmij" (it can be translated as viper, or big, fucking, flying, viper) and other that kinda stuff mlekowy żmij - milk viper/milky viper - big snake that lived underground, and fed up mostly with milk, in the night he entered the house trought the chimney, and drank all milk there, he also could destroy dishes while drinking. smok - dragon - regular european type of dragon, fire breath, 4 legs, 1 or more heads. trusia - knoll snake/i realy have no idea how to translate it - again, big snake that lived underground (but trusia is bigger, it can have almost 20m) and trusia protects all snakes and lizzards in the village, and trusia can hide very very well. When somebody killed lizzard or snake, trusia attacked and killed that guy. żmij - big fucking viper or something like that - very, very, very big (giant, or big as city, or big as fuck) winged snake that drank water from rivers and lakes. Żmij has also lightning breathe, and live in clouds. drak - multi-headed dragon - dragon that had 7 to 9 heads (depending on the age) few pairs of wings, he could fly swim and dive very well, and it had fire breath, which could melt stone kasny - vampire dragon/vampire snake - dragon that hunted in group, and the tactic of krasny is to bite his victim, and drink its blood. Fun fact, kasny, while drinking, didn't pay attention to wounds, so many times he died with his self defending victim połoz - basilisk snake - it was snake that was not been seen for 7 years, it was big (something about 10-15m) and, as basilisk, it can kill (by changing into stone) when it look at something, the deal is, that he can also kill with his look trough walls trach - domesticated wyvern (only 2 legs) - small wyvern (about 2-3m long) that lived in western Poland, in the night he flew out of the house and steal money and stuff from neighbors ok, that's all from my bestiary, if you want more information about one of them, just ask Ps. if you think that my translation is bad, or you have better idea for translation, please tell me it

@judithwatson6859

7 жыл бұрын

Borys Kaczmarek That was great.... I'm a fan!

@CzornyLisek

7 жыл бұрын

Żmij end żmija. Well first one is masculine-animal/personal while other nonmusciline(femine)-object/animal. It may be that as żmij as dragon is taken as person-animal while żmija just as animal-thing. Also from what I know żmij end żmija were not used interchangeably. They were distinct words with own meanings. Just now in modern times we get word "smok"(dragon). so that word żmij become anarchism end people forged difference between żmij end żmija. So probably they are not related to each other to much, just are familiar. żmij = dragon only in modern times it become viper żmija = viper end always been that way

@buzdygan5488

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly, everything corect, i used "viper" for translation of "żmij" because of this things: 1) (why żmij isn't a dragon) żmij is (in pictures that i have seen) just winged, or even not snake, while "smok" (dragon) in my bestiaries look as western european dragon 2) (why żmij isn't a snake) i wanted to make diffrence betwen giant snakes, żmij, and dragons, also i used viper instead of snake because word "żmij" is very similar to "żmija" which means exactly viper But still, żmij mean mostly dragon, more specific type of dragon (in poland existed word "draco" which was also dragon, but as far as i know it wasn't very common used), but still dragon, not viper as snake

@velessnake4501

7 жыл бұрын

Hello Borys, could you tell me what book did you get this from? Seems like an amazingly fun thing to read

@buzdygan5488

7 жыл бұрын

Veles Snake all this is from "bestiariusz słowiański, rzecz o skrzatach, wodnikach i rusałkach" and "bestiariusz słowiański część druga, rzecz o biziach, kadukach i samojadkach", i must say it is only in polish :( Fun fact: Veles, or weles (but in polish "w" is the same as english "v", and "ł" is english "w") is slavic god

Peanuts are actually really good. Like normally I just like peanut based products but I had a peanut m&m today and it was really good!

@katenaccios

7 жыл бұрын

A dragon is a dragon if the lore says so and if there aren't similar mythological creatures in the context

@TheCloverskull

7 жыл бұрын

Well, wyverns would be the more realistic version of dragons, since like most animals they have four limbs, 2 legs and 2 wings, whereas the normal western dragon has 6 limbs, 4 legs and 2 wings, which is commonly found in insects.

@fatguyfrommy8421

7 жыл бұрын

i don't know but i do think what is considered a dragon or wyvern is based on the lore of that particular world.

@absolutelyheretical7132

7 жыл бұрын

There isn't any difference. Also bethseda are allowed to portray dragons however they want, it's called a fantasy game. Stop arguing over things that don't even exist LOL

@Pellaeon159

7 жыл бұрын

And even in insects this isnt common at all, they do have six "limbs" (even though they dont have internal skeletons so its all pretty different) but its not separated in 4 walking limbs and 2 wings. Its just 6 walking limbs and 2 wings that are of different origin. But hey, these are dragons, they arent based on evolutionary biology, they can have whatever ammount of limbs they need :D I like both wyvern, serpent and regular dragons, if they are well portraied.

Hello, You forgot one type of dragons, that exist until today: The ""House Dragon"(German: Hausdrachen)*....... Moin Oli *means your wive leading the family ;)

@thiamuller9398

4 жыл бұрын

well more like terrorizing it ;)

Love videos about mythology. Especially if they are so well researched and knowledgable like this. I'm always dissapointed that such good videos are so short, i could watch it for hours.

Few things i know about Korean Dragon. 이무기 ( Yi Mu Gi) are giants snakes that lived for over 500 years and are not yet a dragon and needs to train and get the orb to become a full fledged dragon. After training it waits for a person, when thee person sees the Yimugi and says "a dragon" it becomes a dragon, if the person says "a snake" then they have to wait for another 1000 years. Only the King had dragons with 5 claws, everyone else has 4 claws. Also when there was a drought, the king would pray to the dragon. but if the drought continues they would make a clay model of thee dragon and whip it so it would rain.

@andreagullo1700

6 жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, even a gumiho (nine-tailed fox) can own the orb but the orb in the hands of a dragon is much more powerful.

I love when you do cutral retrospective. it's fascinating.

Yes! I've been waiting for this one since you mentioned it to me about a week ago, great work as always :)

Ho scoperto il tuo canale da poco ... mi sto facendo una maratona dei tuoi video ! DIAMINE sono una droga ! Continua così Metatron !

The American dragon has feathers instead of scales. (Quetzalcoatl)

@christopherstube9473

7 жыл бұрын

Most of the Chinese theropods have turned out to have brown or black or white feathers. At least fluffy types of feathers.

@ksortakhkraxthar5019

6 жыл бұрын

Quetzalcoatl is a single deity. Not a type of dragon.

@Oddness

6 жыл бұрын

Deity or not, it is interesting that something like a dragon makes an appearance in South American culture as well.

@CrystallizedBlackSkull

5 жыл бұрын

I think you meant _B I G A N I M U T I D D I E_

@richardsanchez9190

5 жыл бұрын

That isnt "American" that was Aztec. Way before an America was discovered.

Remember, Dragon Age Origins was the game that brought up the animation of the melee fighter climbing up the dragon head and smashing it in an execute move, while riding the neck, not Skyrim.

This is your most interesting video yet. please make more like this, on different myths and creatures from different cultures!

Sad it's missing some Norse mythology like Sigurd, nidhogg ygasill or the Midgard serpent

@morriganmhor5078

5 жыл бұрын

Nidhog is Midgard serpert. Yggdrasil is the worldtree.

@AetherKirin

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't Sigurd a hero with dragonskin? Are you talking about Fafnir, the dragon that Sigurd slayed?

@ryansather8851

4 жыл бұрын

Sigurd and Siegfried are the same with minor details, but both from the Niebellungenlied (song)

@robertappl89

4 жыл бұрын

@@morriganmhor5078 Actually no. Jormungandr is the Midgard serpent. Nidhögg is a different serpent that gnaws on the roots of Yggdrasill

@lordsakai3450

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Sigurd IS Siegfried.

You may have left out American (south, central, and north) amphitheres. Quetzoqatl, Mayan or Aztec chief god.

Very cool video. Have you ever read the Inheritance books? It's one of my favorite fantasy book series.

Cool video. Very nice to see the same theme compared in different cultures.

One of your best videos!!!

It makes me so happy when people know the difference between dragons and wyverns :D

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

Smaug has two legs. Smaug is a dragon.

@LamantinoElettronico

5 жыл бұрын

The official heraldic definition of "wyvern" is "a two legged dragon"

@dirandrous7682

4 жыл бұрын

The Roaring Wyvern.

@prdalien0

3 жыл бұрын

@@corvus_da Movie idea, Tolkien himself drew him with four legs.

Serpents are reptiles, mate. I think you meant "lizard".

@mohitkm7266

5 жыл бұрын

Lizards are reptiles too

@purpple2271

4 жыл бұрын

Mohit I believe he meant Lizard to identify western dragons

@herohamza1196

3 жыл бұрын

are Quetzalcoatls are dragons?

wow man you sure do try hard on these great videos i really appreciate it

Excellent video as always!

European Dragons ultimately come in 4 types. Drake (4 legs plus wings), Wyvern (Two legs plus wings), Wyrm (wings but no legs), And Sea Serpent (no wings or legs).

@thomas.cloutier-guay

7 жыл бұрын

i also saw one with six legs and no wings in france.

@expressionlessicesnow6540

6 жыл бұрын

I know it off the list but what about Chinese dragon?

@ksortakhkraxthar5019

6 жыл бұрын

Europe is a different place than the Forgotten Realms. Your definitions hold in D&D but they have no base in european mythology. The term wyvern comes from heraldry, not mythology. Other people who do definitions based on modern fantasy use the term drake for four legs without wings, by the way. Shows how this term has no base in mythology either. Wyrm comes from worm, with the norse using the term worm for everything of that shape, including serpents. Which means that here we are looking at a norse word that means the same as the romano-greek word draconis. And how do you get the idea to think that something called sea serpent is a term for a dragon without wings or legs? I mean, the term is SEA serpent. Obviously, this is a serpent from the sea. Please, next time you think about posting something like this, at least do a quick search on wikipedia, okay?

@ksortakhkraxthar5019

6 жыл бұрын

@Sagrotan: A tatzelwurm has not any amount of legs but either two or four, depending on the local legend. Like a quick image search easily shows. Especially since as they are local folklore, there are several statues of those all over the alps. The tatzelwurm is even seen as a cryptid by some people since he could actually exist, being a creature somewhat comparable to the Mexican Mole Lizard. As for the lindwurm, this is nothing but a regional name for dragon. Remember Metatron mentioning that dragon comes from draconis, which is latin for snake? Lindwurm means essentially snake-snake or croaching snake in old german. Note that this might be counterintuitive to modern germans, who might intuitively think that it means lime tree worm.

@CollectorsTeam

5 жыл бұрын

I thought drakes didn't have wings.

What's with the armor. I thought You've said You hated LARP.

@forestelfranger

7 жыл бұрын

He is showing off his hunting skills. He slayed and gutted the dragon his self and turn it into the armor you see him wearing.

@RedScypsi

7 жыл бұрын

same thought, he did say he had friends that larp so many he borrowed it.

@XwerffX

7 жыл бұрын

Kharmazov He said, a few times, that it doesn't work for real (historical) tests, because it's usually non realistic nor very resiliant to damage.

@gamer7916

7 жыл бұрын

armor has other uses, like intimidation and finding a mate

@XwerffX

7 жыл бұрын

gamer7916 Yhea, but the first one is protection and if an armor doesn't protect you well the intimidation has little use

That's awesome that your video has brought people from around the world to talk about their homelands' names and folklore of dragons!

hey this is actually quite the cool video, nice topic met!

Good video as (almost) always but I do take issue with the point about wyverns and dragons. The distinction is only made with regards to _heraldry,_ not mythology and while I might be mistaken only dates back to the 17th century. See also wyrm, worm, and lindworm (among others).

glad someone finally awnsered the question "but what about dragons"

Very informative

Great one. Keep going!

Why do American dragons never get love

@LouisKing995

7 жыл бұрын

RememberReach777 Rip Jake Long

@renarddubois940

7 жыл бұрын

because it's culture appropriation.. there is no such thing as historical american dragon

@gpgpgpgp1000

7 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as cultural appropriation. That is a social justice warrior fecal construct.

@renarddubois940

7 жыл бұрын

was trolling

@gpgpgpgp1000

7 жыл бұрын

Well, thank goodness for that!

Seems the term dragon is a catch all for powerful scaly things, so direct comparison between east, south, near, north, and western dragons is akin to comparing fruit of one species of tree to another. Not to say there isn't anything to be learned from a comparison. For example we can learn about people's disposition towards such large scary things and how challenging situations are preferred to be resolved within a culture. That said, I am very interested in long-tailed-bipedal-toothed-feathered-things from historical times from England to east of India. If your anthropologist friend knows anything about those I'd love to compare notes as an anthropologist myself.

I would love more videos on comparing myths of different cultures

I didn't know I needed this until I saw it. Awesome.

Dragon is something of a catch-all term for many different reptilian legendary creatures. Sometimes with legs and/or wings, sometimes not.

@davidbodor1762

7 жыл бұрын

With legs from anywhere between 0 to 8 so yeah...but dragons breathe fire is the definition I prefer...

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidbodor1762 Not even that. There is a dragon species in LOTR that cannot breathe fire, therefore being called 'cold-drakes'.

@davidbodor1762

5 жыл бұрын

Well then I guess giant reptile that flies is a better description. Yes dragons do breathe ice or fire or other stuff in fantasy...but fire is the most common.

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidbodor1762 Aaand - big surprise - there are also dragons in LOTR that can't fly. But they do breathe fire.

@davidbodor1762

5 жыл бұрын

Are they still dragons if they can't fly or are they just dragonkin aka related to flying dragons?

Then we heve our strange little dragons here in Hungary, which have multiple heads (3, 7, 12 or 24) and still so human-like, that you can miss them for a pricess if veiled, live in castles, most don't breath fire but use human weapons and like to marry to witches. Oh, and some keep herds of sheep (and one can change his shape too, but in that story the hero could too which was most likely a reference to another mithologycal "creature").

@princekrazie

7 жыл бұрын

TELL ME MOR

@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522

7 жыл бұрын

And they say Poles are the wierdos

@Ninacska93

7 жыл бұрын

Well, I looked it up for you in a book about folklore. It turns out that there are four types of dragons in our folklore. First ine it the zomok, which is slavic in origin. This one looks like a snake, lives in swamps and eats sheep and pig mostly, sometimes they hunt for people too. The zomok can turn into a dragon-snake that has wing and become a ride for the garabonciás (a garabonciás is a learned, myhical man, borns with teeth or extra fingers, can bring bad weather or death if someone insults him, but sometimes drives away bad weather and brings whealth). The third tipe is the many-headed dragon, the one I wrote about. It has tree subtypes, as it can live in the underworld, the middle world or in the overworld. The one living in the overworld can fly. All of the live in castles that turn on "duck-legs". The last one compleatly looks like a human, often quite good-looking. Theese sometimes seduce girls and it is said that if a woman gives birth to twins, then dragon-blood runs in her family. This type is unque to the region where I live (north-east Hungary) and probably has it's origins in the shamanic religions and is actually a bad "black" shaman. So, this is it, in short, without translating a few pages. I only remembered the many-headed dragon from my childhood and I can now remember, that I read about the dragon-snake when I looked up the garabonciás, it just skipped my mind the other day. I have to thank you for asking, as otherways I wouldn't heard about the zomok or the human-like dragon. The last one is embarassing, since this one is specific to my home, but it turned out that my grandparents didn't find those stories tasteful for children and they didn't told them and later tought that I grew out of fairytales and didn't told them later.

@Ninacska93

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I think every nation has it's weird side, you just have to find it ;)

@bmxriderforlife1234

6 жыл бұрын

that is one weird ass fucking dragon. 24 heads? did a gorgon or a hydra bang a dragon or something?

Hello Metatron...I sincerely like your channel, your topics and the fact that you are one of the very few people that has a youtube channel and is at the same time cultured and intelligent. I, myself, am Portuguese...and also Canadian and I'm a teacher and professional musician and have been for many years. My field being mainly music languages and literature, although music is practically all I live for...though I speak 4 languages fluently and have a limited knowledge of Latin because at university I had 2 years of Latin with an optional 3rd...I never thought that I would develop an interest for the middle ages, classical Europe, swords, armour myths and dragons but here I am...completely hooked mostly due to the very professional approach with which you present all these topics. great job and keep these videos coming. Cheers. Mike.

i like this video. i still hope you upload more videos about dragons.

well, Chinese dragon should only be associated with imperial dynasty after Qin or Han dynasty tho... the kings and lords in warring state period, or even earlier, often dress themselves in dragon (which is later prohibited). If I recall correctly, there were rules about how many dragon you could put on your clothes in comparison to the king of Zhou in Zhou dynasty...

@joshuakusuma5953

6 жыл бұрын

Brian82406 The Ming Dynasty emperors had dragons on their clothes.

@userequaltoNull

6 жыл бұрын

I can't see the dot on your political compass. That's bad.

@cheeeeezewizzz

5 жыл бұрын

Dragons in chinese culture are one of the first examples of copyright laws. Only nobles of certain status were allowed to use certain dragons. The emperors symbol was the 5 clawed golden dragon and anyone else found using it would be executed. Also the chinese dont believe they descended from Dragons....the first Chinese mythologically (roughly because chinese myth is all over the damn place) was the yellow emperor (interesting fact referring to the chinese as yellow is actually not racist, they actually call themselves yellow people in their own language). The yellow emperor HuangDi (Meaning yellow emperor or yellow diety) was capable of taking the form of a dragon but was not in fact a dragon.

I will talk about that with my cousins who has a PHD in indian mythology and mythology (...)" I'd really like to see your family party during the holidays :P

I recently discovered this channel and I love it! I'm a little disappointed he didn't mention Fafnir, killed by the hero/king Sugurd Volsung. After killing Fafnir and eating his heart, Sigurd gained the ability to speak with birds.

In Polish (slavic) mithology there is: 1"Smok" basicly 4 leged winged dragon breathing fire. Fun fact there is permian dinosaur-like lizard called smok. 2 "Wiwerna"-wyvern 3 "Żmij"-giant snake 4 "Bazyliszek"-Basilisk

@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522

7 жыл бұрын

But if we wonna see origins we would gave to go back to protoindoeuropean

No mention of dragons in viking culture except short thing from beuwulf? :|

@Cookiesdiefrombehind

7 жыл бұрын

Crille Poetic Edda mentions Niddhog and Jormungandr

@jeova0sanctus0unus

7 жыл бұрын

Jormungandr I once watched an anime that was named that

@Cookiesdiefrombehind

7 жыл бұрын

The Midgard serpent, yes, but what is a dragon really? Ever notice how much "wyrm" looks like the word "worm"?

@Beardshire

7 жыл бұрын

Viking culture mostly discuss sea serpents in the water (Ormurin langi), and the superstitious type put a serpent head on the front of their long ship to disguise the ship as a serpent itself. although later on it turned to just tradition and intimidation. Níðhöggr is thought to be carved on runestones/longships and talked about in the sagas as a dragon (dreki) that lived in the roots of Yggdrassill.

@Cri11e

7 жыл бұрын

I know Metatron is not hot on viking stuff but it was a clear oversight to not include under the european/western umbrella?

Cool video! I had once after drinking to much an idea: the myth about dragons origins to the day when humans where still in africa and someone found the skull of a dinosaur, they created the myth about something dragonlike and then the "protodragon" myth spread out over the world when the human spread out and then developed different in the different cultures to the dragons we know nowadays.

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

This could really be possible

That's a very interesting summary about dragons. Thanks for doing the research. Love the green armour; it wouldn't be a "real" Metatron video without something like that. I'm really looking forward to the video on Indian mythology you mentioned.

Asian Eastern Dragon: " i shall bestow upon you wisdom and guidance young one." Western Dragon: " all of you will burn."

DRAGONS!!!

@ra_alf9467

4 жыл бұрын

"Never should have come here"

9:44 bloomers? you mean an early feminine underpant? oooohhh,you meant bloopers! ha,so funny how one little letter can entirely change the meaning of a word...

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

I'll make a video to show you why I make this sort of typo as there is a reason! :D

@judithwatson6859

7 жыл бұрын

Metatron Ahh... I KNEW you had a reason behind that!!

@dabash00r

7 жыл бұрын

a bloomer can also be translated into "a big/bad mistake" or "bad blunder" :)

@cobraglatiator

7 жыл бұрын

o rlly now? guess i'll just have to wait for that video then...

@cobraglatiator

7 жыл бұрын

huh,that so? learn somethin' new everyday i guess.

pretty good video, I would love to see a similar video with a great eagle/ griffin/ phoenix/ garuda.

Amazing vid! Would love to hear from your cousin assuming that video hasn't already been made and I just missed it. Keep up the good work and know you have a new subscriber :)

Have to go with the European ones

rathalos is actually a wyvern

@camil3545

7 жыл бұрын

Dynesaurus it is kinda funny since he makes that distinction later on in the video as well

@philipearakaki

6 жыл бұрын

Wyverns are Subspecies of dragons, in the same way that Lion and Bobcats are both Felines

really interesting video

pls more mythology this is great!

D for Dragon!

@vitriolicAmaranth

5 жыл бұрын

Please do not sexualise the dragon.

Grigori wins, all other dragons are mere drakes by comparison to his gloriousness.

@UrielOmega

7 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Jernigan did you just make a Dragons dogma reference?

@CaptainLekirk

7 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Jernigan Ancalagon the Black is probably the greatest dragon in lore, that I have seen, at least. his death destroyed three volcanic mountains by falling on them.

@nathanieljernigan1147

7 жыл бұрын

UrielOmega take back what is yours, Arisen!

@UrielOmega

7 жыл бұрын

Yay, another Dogma player!

@TheTruth-xp2of

7 жыл бұрын

What a large tree.

Nice video as always metatron

please, more of this!

Creature! Not monster! Watch your micro aggressions bro! :)

@Nethan2000

7 жыл бұрын

Stop monster-shaming. Dragons are monsters and proud of it.

@ra_alf9467

4 жыл бұрын

For the western, yes. But the Eastern, they shall disagree with you

I do look forward to your cousin with a PhD. in Indian Mythology. Boy the controversy it will create! There are literally hundreds of versions of Indian History. And many easily butt-hurt people. I was born and brought up in India. It will be fun and controversial, but worth it.

this was very interesting!

This was great you should do more mixology videos

Who here /notificationsquad/

@StormHowl

7 жыл бұрын

PredalienPlush present!

@RunItsTheCat

7 жыл бұрын

PredalienPlush Aye

@tripplehD

7 жыл бұрын

PredalienPlush late but here

Instant thumbs up for the dragon vs wyvern comparison.

Cool story bro, needs more dragons

In the Journey to the West, Sun Wukong has some rather entertaining dealings with the dragon kings. Not to mention one of his traveling companions was a dragon horse. You should do a video on the Journey to the West. Or a whole series on it, there's so much there you could probably get any arbitrary number of videos out of it :)

@bondrewdthelordofdawn3744

6 ай бұрын

The sea dragon

Wyvern is a subclass of Dragon, and is still a dragon. I absolutely love this video!

Good stuff.

I don't know how I got here from hearthstone videos but this was interesting.

I didn't realize what you said in mandarin at the first time, but you got it at the last!

good video, please use some visuals, it would really help to keep watching if I knew exactly what you meant

It would be interesting to see a follow up video on the dragons symbolic meaning, In the west the story of saint Georg is a relatively modern telling of one of the oldest known stories,. that being the dragon (a representation of chaos) being slain by the hero (a representation of order). It would be interesting to know why dragons are seen as benevolent in eastern mythology, I was thinking maybe it had something to do with the concept of yin yang, maybe the dragon represents the fraction of order that exists within chaos, would be interesting to hear your opinion x

I bloopers in italiano sono la ciliegina ad un bellissimo video!

Your intros are so cheesy i love them))

I've never clicked so fast in my life, I love dragons!

Hey Metatron. Big fan of your videos. Can u make a video on Bloodborne weapons analysis?

In Old Norse culture dragons are more commonly referred to as "lindworms", mostly wingless, bipedal, snake-like creatures, such as the Midgard Serpent Jörmungandr, Nidhöggr (who gnaws at the roots of the world-tree Yggdrassil) or Fafnir (slain by Siegfried). They are often said to have a poisonous bite/ breath.

good video

I found out if you dig a little deeper into some of the dragon lore in any particular region​ you can find some really interesting and sometimes physically impossible specimens. Oftentimes they were such a good storytelling device for different world views that the story tellers ad-libbed a lot to the point the story sounded more fantastic than the real thing. Nowadays it's now the other way around and we have fantastic animals named after legends. Guan Long is a feathered tyrannosaur. Mei Long was named because they were fossilized asleep. We have an ancient painting in America, inspired by a Native American Dragon Legend, the Piasa, that was originally painted above a raging waterfall or at least near a waterfall? Well, I'm no expert. I just happen to find these creatures to have a fascinating history. Nic video by the way.

The Chinese mentioned dragons way back in 5000 bc? I did not know this, great video man.

Awesome, you're rare creator that mentions Slavic stuff also, people tend to ignore it. :) Few curoisities - zmaj in south slavic languanges also means a male snake (zmija - female snake, zmaj - male snake), but in modern languanges we use word zmija for both male and female, and word zmaj is for dragon, ergo zmaj isn't used anymore for male snake. But that shows us that dragons were percieved more like snakes. Also in some sources dragons are depicted like hairy (not scaly) serpent like creatures. :)

Thumb up video. Also remember the legend of St Martha taming the dragon called the tarasque in Provance France on the Rhone River. That will be celebrated in June. :)

Hey Metatron! Really interesting video, I am Greek and I come from a village high up in the mountains and this village is associated with Saint George, we have a myth that says about a dragon that guarded the only well that our village could get water from and Saint George liberated it and the young ladies that the dragon requested to allow water for the villagers. I can elaborate if you are interested.

Interesting. I was always under the impression that a Wyvern was a kind of dragon, opposed to being something very different, as you say.

An interesting add to the discussion, Asian Turks (I'm not sure about non turkic civilizations such as Monghols) believed the dragons to be, ultimately, the laws of the universe, hence the name for dragons in ancient Turkish "eviren" or "evran" became "evren" in modern Turkish, meaning "the universe". In this mythology, two dragons were responsible for the rotations of the earth and the universe, and lived high up in the skies, or even space as we would see it today. Interestingly the Turks believed the Earth to be round, as seen from this representation of a dragon. Perhaps due to living in the steppes that stretched flat all the long of the central asia and were able to see the top of the trees or mountains before they saw the bottoms (similar to the greek philosopher and physicist of whom I forgot the name). But, these were not the only dragons as far as it seems; in some accounts, Dragons are described to have really long lifespans and were essentially snakes or lizards, and had 3 other phases before they bcame a dragon. The time it required to become a dragon is varied, some saying 500 years, and others up to 5000 thousand years. That's my little contribution to the topic of the video. Piece and solidarity !

@corvus_da

5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Eratosthenes?

Really informative. I used to prefer the Welsh style dragon but I've become a much bigger fan of the Chinese style. P.S I've made another followup following your response video.

I love the idea proposed by the Dragonology book (a very fancy toy book supposedly written by a researcher of dragons in the 19th century). It says that the Eastern dragon lays a single egg and then always carries it around until it hatches - hence the orb/pearl/sun that appears on the images. I think it's really sweet.

this video just got you another subscriber, why you may ask? because I love dragons.

can u plz reference your data? (I am rly enjoy the channel! nice work)

ciao metatron, hai mai pensato di mettere dei sottotitoli, anche in inglese magari? ti seguo, capisco l'80% di quello che dici, ma vorrei arrivare al 100% ahaha