During the Average Age, the dragoons were considered symbol of apostasía and treason, although also of rage and envies. The dragoons of several heads meant decay, oppression and heresy, although also they were considered like independence emblem.
Many dragoons represented the wisdom. To kill a dragoon was considered a passport to the wealth and the demonstration of which a hero was really capable and astute. An example of this simbology we found it in a famous one develops Germanic épica: Cantar of the Nibelungos, whose hero Siegfried (Sigfried or Sigfrido) overcomes to the Fafner dragoon -- guard of the treasure of Nibelungos --, what he allows him to become owner of this fortune and to bathe in the blood of this fantastic creature. This transforms it into a invulnerable being, practically invincible, except by the small "weak point" that will know so well to take advantage of the treasonous Hagen to overcome it.
On the other hand, in some cultures like the Chinese, or in populations near the Himalayas, the dragoons considered amulets to attract the good luck
Dragoons in the Christianity
The draco Latin word, that gave to origin to the word "dragoon", means "the serpent", for that reason the Christianity has associated it historically to this diabolic animal with and the sinful thing.
The Biblical identification of the devil with the serpent originated the connotation of "badly" associated "dragoon". In the book of Job it is described to the marine monster Leviathan with own characteristics of the dragoon, which is called "King of the beasts". In the book of Revelation 12:3 an enormous red beast with seven heads describes itself, whose tail sweeps a third of stars of the sky on the Earth. This subject is related with the fall of the angels.
Finally, in some translations the word "dragoon" is used to describe to the beast (is to say: the devil), whereas in the religious iconography some Christian saints in the act imagine to kill a dragoon
Theories on its origins
Some think that the dragoons really existed in immemorial times, being inspired by fantastic legend that therefore affirms it. Others think that they were a biological variant of the dinosaurios, although does not exist empirical evidence to support this thesis.
The archaeologists and investigators of criptozoología affirm that giant lizards of qualities similar to the attributed ones to the dragoons existed, to which called "Megalania". Nevertheless, he does not turn out viable to affirm that they were the same animal class.
Another extended belief less is than the dragoons were in fact one class of flying machines created by certain unknown archaic culture. This hypothesis, at the present time, is considered seudo-scientist.
Formerly it turned out reasonable to maintain that the first found fossils of dinosaurio were, in fact, dragoon bones. A discovery conducted by Chang Qu during century III A.C. in Sichuan, China, catalogued the rest with that label.
Heródoto -- called often the father of history -- visited Judea in the year 450 A.C. and listened to speak of the existence of dragoons enjaulados in Arabia, near Petra, Jordan. This woke up curiosity to him and decided to travel there. According to the testimonies written by this historian, in this place it found two specimens of dragoons with wings that had been locked up in an iron cage, to that characterized like true "ferocious beasts".
The newspaper of Marco Polo explains that when this one was walking by Anatolia, in Persia, it found dragoons alive that they flew and that they attacked his caravan in the middle of the desert. In these chronicles, Marco Polo explained that they were frightful beasts that were on the verge of killing it.
Another hypothesis: the cultores of the catastrofismo have suggested I commit them and meteor rains were the astronomical phenomena that gave origin to the legend about fire serpents able to cross the firmament at great speed, and the belief in the dragoons dreamed up there.
A less credible affirmation indicates that the dragoon was a compound creature. In many cultures the idea that is rooted the dragoons have characteristics of three types of predators: they have legs, claws, capacity to crawl and a feline cleverness, for that reason they are looked like the leopards.
By its capacity to fly and to have its guarida in moved away places, generally rocky, one compared them with eagles. But the dragoons keep greater similarities with the serpents; in fact, our word modern "dragoon" comes indirectly from the Greek, through the Latin, in which draco it means "serpent".
