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North I go, drawn by my flying dragon, Steering my course to the Dong-ting lake: My sail is of fig-leaves, melilotus my rigging, An iris my flag-pole, my banner of orchids. Gazing at the distant Cen-yang mooring, I waft my magic across the Great River. ... The stream runs fast through the stony shallow, And my flying dragon wings swiftly above it.
The t'eng snake springs up into the mist; the flying ying dragon ascends into the sky mounting the clouds; a monkey is nimble in the trees and a fish is agile in the water." The "Discourse on Forests" (17) 說林訓 , [ 1 ] has tengshe 騰蛇 in the same 遊霧 "drifts into the mist" phrase, "The ascending snake can drift in the mist, yet it is ...
This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures; Angel; Arkan Sonney; Basilisk; Boobrie; Cockatrice; Djinn; Devil; Dragon; Elemental - a being of the alchemical works of Paracelsus; Erinyes; Fairies; Fenghuang; Fionnuala
A sky dragon, essentially the same as the Chinese lóng. Like the lóng, yong and the other Korean dragons are associated with water and weather. In pure Korean, it is also known as 'mireu'. Imoogi: A hornless ocean dragon, sometimes equated with a sea serpent. Imoogi literally means, "Great Lizard".
Qian 乾 "The Creative", Yijing Commentaries on these explain: Because the holy man is clear as to the end and the beginning, as to the way in which each of the six stages completes itself in its own time, he mounts on them toward heaven as though on six dragons. 大明終始，六位時成。時乘六龍以御天 — Commentary on the Decision (彖傳) 'Flying dragon in the heavens.' This ...
Japanese dragon myths amalgamate native legends with imported stories about dragons from China, Korea and the Indian subcontinent. The style and appearance of the dragon was heavily influenced by the Chinese dragon, especially the three-clawed long (龍) dragons which were introduced in Japan from China in ancient times.
The Chinese dragon or loong [1] is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture generally. Chinese dragons have many animal-like forms, such as turtles and fish, but are most commonly depicted as snake-like with four legs.
Bruce Lincoln has proposed that a Proto-Indo-European dragon-slaying myth can be reconstructed as follows: [90] [91] First, the sky gods give cattle to a man named *Tritos ("the third"), who is so named because he is the third man on earth, [90] [91] but a three-headed serpent named * Ng w hi steals them.