Thursday, December 31, 2009

Dragons Yipped

That Dragons emitted a rather weak yipping sound is further supported by G. Elliot Smith in the Project Gutenberg's The Evolution of the Dragon:

This naturally suggests the possibility that the similarity of the sounds of the words may have played some part in creating the confusion: but it is impossible to admit this as a factor in the development of the story, because the Hebrew word probably arose out of the identification of the mandrake with the Great Mother and not by any confusion of names.

1 comment:

  1. Yes!
    It's about time someone exposed this egregious fallacy. Thank you.

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