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Although the use of Chinese dragon as a motif has a long history, using dragon to represent the Chinese people only became popular since the 1970s. During the pre-modern dynastic periods, the dragon was often associated with the rulers of China and used as a symbol of imperial rule, and there were strict stipulations on the use of the dragon by ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Divine dragons in mythology and religion. Subcategories. This category has the ...
Huangdi represents the hub of creation, the axis mundi (Kunlun) that is the manifestation of the divine order in physical reality, opening the way to immortality. [15] As the deity of the centre of the four directions, in the Shizi he is described as "Yellow Emperor with Four Faces" (黄帝四面 Huángdì Sìmiàn). [24]
There is debate whether Jesus claimed to be divine, or whether divinity was attributed to him progressively by his followers. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] Jesus did not make public claims of divinity. [ 102 ] In the first three centuries of the Christian movement, Jesus' identity and relation to God were often subjects of debate and controversy, and the ...
Two other Japanese examples derive from Buddhist importations of Indian dragon myths. Benzaiten, the Japanese form of Saraswati, supposedly killed a five-headed dragon at Enoshima in 552. Kuzuryū (九頭龍, "nine-headed dragon"), deriving from the nagarajas (snake-kings) Vasuki and Shesha, is worshipped at Togakushi Shrine in Nagano Prefecture.
The nine sons of the dragon is a traditional name for a set of mythological creatures whose imagery is used in certain types of decorations. The concept was first mentioned by Lu Rong in the Ming Dynasty, although similar set of creatures (not necessarily nine) is recorded even earlier.
However, the story, dubbed Con rồng cháu tiên ("Descendants of the Dragon and the Immortal"), is labeled as a truyền thuyết ("legend"), a "type of folkloric tale about historical characters and events, usually embellished with fantastical elements," [7] and is more akin to other fantastical legends, such as the story of Lê Lợi ...