Dinosaurs and Dragons in History

Didn't call them dinosaur, they called them dragon.

The word dinosaur wasn't made up till 1841.

It's a brand-new word in the dictionary.

I got some old dictionaries and looked for the word dinosaur.

Even in 1891, the word was not in the dictionary.

They called them dragons. Hmm.

Bible mentions dragons 34 times.

Even in the 1946 dictionary, listed as now

rare. As the population of people began to grow

after

the flood, the population of dinosaurs began to go

down, because

nobody wants to live next door to a dragon.

How many grizzly bears are roaming loose in the woods right here

in Bucks

County?

None, right?

How many were there four hundred years ago, you think?

Probably a whole bunch of them. Gilgamesh is famous for slaying a dragon.

A Chinese legend tells about a guy named Yu.

Says after the great flood, they surveyed the land of China

and divided it into

sections. He built channels to drain the water off

to the sea and make the

land livable again. Many snakes and dragons were driven from the

marshlands. This piece of pottery from, uh, Egypt shows two

long-necked dinosaurs. Why would they put dragons and

dinosaurs on different pieces of pottery that are found from ancient

civilizations?

What are these dragons? And the Bible talks about a fiery flying

serpent. What is this? Hmm. Herodotus in four

hundred BC reported the fiery flying serpents.

You might wanna read that story sometime. The fiery flying... Anyway.

Um,

in Book of Job, it talks about out of his mouth,

Leviathan,

go burning lamps and sparks of fire leap out.

Out of his nostrils go a smoke. Alexander the Great

reported dragons when he conquered part of India.

Saddam spent a fortune rebuilding the ancient city of Babylon.

On the ancient Babylonian walls, which they rebuilt, they found

carvings of lions and dragons.

This is from six hundred BC.

How would they know about dragons in six hundred BC?

Uh, some were still alive,

still lived with man.

Why would they put dragons on the walls of the city, the Ishtar Gate in

Babylon? It's over there right now if you wanna go see.