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  2. Drakaina (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The drakaina was a sacred female spirit dragon generally slain only by gods or demigods. Zeus slew Delphyne and Campe, Apollo slew Python, and Argus Panoptes slew Echidna. [citation needed] Echidna was the mate of Typhon and the mother of a huge brood of monsters, including

  3. List of dragons in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Odd-headed dragons are symbolic of male energy while even headed dragons symbolize female energy. Traditionally, a neak is distinguished from the often serpentine Makar and Tao, the former possessing crocodilian traits and the latter possessing feline traits. A dragon princess is the heroine of the creation myth of Cambodia. Filipino dragons ...

  4. List of dragons in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Name Origin Notes Acnologia Fairy Tail: Acnologia, also known as The Black Dragon, and fearsomely reputed as The Black Dragon in the Book of Apocalypse and the Herald of New Ages, is a cataclysmically powerful Dragon Slayer that can take the form of a Dragon, that assaulted the Fairy Tail core Mages on Tenrou Island in the Year X784.

  5. List of dragons in film and television - Wikipedia

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    Gorbash is the house dragon, Smrgol is Carolinus' dragon, and Bryagh is Ommadon's dragon, there are many other unnamed dragons, including an Asian dragon named Shenzou ridden by one of Carolinus's brothers and a female dragon named Lunarian ridden by another of his brothers.

  6. Jiaolong - Wikipedia

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    The term jiao has thus been translated as "flood dragon" [25] [26] or "scaly dragon", [27] [28] with some qualifier to indicate it as a subtype. But on this matter, Schafer has suggested using a name for various dragon-like beings such as "kraken" to stand for jiao: The word "dragon" has already been appropriated to render the broader term lung ...

  7. Zennyo Ryūō - Wikipedia

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    For this gesture the dragon king was honored with a courtly rank, as was commonly offered to deities." The c. 1212–1215 CE Kojidan "Talks about Ancient Matters" specifies this dragon's name and history. The dragon cave on Mt. Murō is the dwelling place of the Dragon King Zentatsu 善達. This Dragon King previously lived in Sarusawa 猿沢 pond.

  8. Longnü - Wikipedia

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    "The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of Mo-Shan: Gender and Status in the Ch'an Buddhist Tradition". Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 5 (1): 19– 36. Levering, Miriam L. (2013). "The Dragon Daughter". In Vanessa R. Sasson (ed.). Little Buddhas : Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions. Oxford University ...

  9. List of dragons in literature - Wikipedia

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    Gary Gentile, A Time For Dragons (1989), Dragons Past (1990), and No Future For Dragons (1990): Various dragons. Rick Cook , Wizard's Bane (1989), LRD, little red dragon guards the compiler book. Jean Marzollo , Baby Unicorn and Baby Dragon (1989): A young dragon named Moon to match the crescent mark on his head.