Dragon Lore

© Eileen Holland

"The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon."
- Dion Fortune

 

DRAGON BLESSING

May dragons bring you wealth
and guard your treasures
May they banish darkness and enlighten you
May female dragons grant you inner power
May the Dragon Queen
neutralize your enemies
May Dragon Spirits
give you power over Elementals
May weather dragons
bring rain at your request
May Ti'amat effect the changes you command
May Ishtar grant you Dragon Power
May Ishtar grant you Dragon Power
 

Natural history teaches us that humans and dinosaurs never coexisted. I wonder if I am the only one who wonders if an unknown convergence of the two somewhere in Eurasia is not responsible for the dragon myths that stretch from Ireland to Japan.


MYTHOLOGY

• Other names for dragons include wyrm, wurm and firedrake
• Sacred to:
  Anantaboga, King of Underworld Dragons - Ao, the Four Dragon Kings - Dahaka - Godi - Goru - Fafnir - Illuyankas, the Dragon - Irnini - Ishhara - Ishtar - Lung-Wang, the Dragon Kings - Medea, the Dragon Queen - Nidhogger - Ryujin,  the
  • Dragon King  - Tiamat, Dragoness of Chaos - Vahagn Visapakal, Dragon-Choker - Vritra
  • Individual dragons known to us from mythology include:
  • Long / Lung, from Chinese mythology.
    Ladon, the hundred-headed oracular serpent of Greek mythology who guarded the Golden Apples of the Sun in the
  • Garden of the Hesperides. He was slain by Hercules.
  • Raja Naga, King of the Sea Serpents, largest of the ocean dragons in Malaysian mythology.
    Tiamat, or Leviathan, the five-headed dragon goddess of Mesopotamian mythology. She was instrumental in
  • Babylonian myths of the Flood.
  • Benzaitin, Japanese goddess of love and happiness, was sometimes depicted riding a dragon.
  • The magical rowan tree of Irish legend was guarded by a dragon.
    An unsleeping dragon guarded the Golden Fleece, which Jason and his Argonauts sought. Medea overcame this
    dragon by sprinkling sleep drops in his eyes.
  • Dragons are usually depicted with wings in the West, while Eastern dragons are generally wingless and move or fly by magical means.
  • Dragons symbolize yang, the male principal, in Tao.
  • Dragons are not considered evil in China, where they symbolize:  mystery - originality - the active principle
  • There are five kinds of Chinese dragons:
    1. Imperial dragons, with five claws. The others all have four claws.
    2. Celestial dragons, who guard the heavenly abode of dieties
    3. Dragon spirits, who rule wind, rain and cause floods
    4. Earth dragons, who clear rivers and deepen oceans
    5. Treasure-guarding dragons
  • Glass was once believed to be solidified dragon breath.
  • Green dragons:  Male symbol
  • White dragons:  Gold was believed to be formed of  their congealed breath
  • Purple dragons:  Rock crystal was believed formed of their spittle
  • Sea dragons:  Sacred to Hung Sheng, the Holy One, who protects fishing vessels

  DRAGON MAGICK
  Planet: Mars
  Element:
  fire-breathing dragons = Fire
  dragons as sea serpents = Water
  flying dragons = Air
  Circle Invocations: (thanks to: John/Draco)

  North: Grael, Earth
  South: Fafnir, Fire
  East: Sairys, Air
  West: Naelyan, Water

  Language of Flowers: Dragon Plant = Snare
  For: earth energy - power
  Plant: bistort, dragon's blood
  Can be positive or negative
  Portent of prosperity - enlightener of darkness
  Believed to produce rain, in China
  The Chinese assign dragons the following correspondences:

  color: green
  direction: East
  element: fire; wood
  season:  Spring
  part of the body:  liver

  
  WHEEL OF THE YEAR
  The Midsummer bonfire drives away  the dragon that causes disease.