The character of myth and the Draconic Transverse (Draco)ĭraco from the Latin dracon, Greek drakon, from drak, ‘monster with the evil eye’, cognate with Greek derkomai ‘I see’, derkesthai, ‘to look at’, Sanskrit darc (see), Avestic darstis (sight), Old Irish derc (eye), Old English torht, and Old High German zoraht, from the Indo-European root * derk ‘To see’. Subtitle: The Myth That Came to Life, The Draconic Syndrome. See Barry Long’s feature excerpted from the book The Origins of Man and the Universe. The dragon slain by Cadmus at Thebes: Boeotian Thebes, the City of the Dragon. , cognates are sling and slink, from Indo-European * slengwh– ‘To slide, make slide, sling, throw’, and maybe slang (casual speech).]ģ. And so to this day it appears with twisted body, as if recently transported to the stars.” “Today we see him forever asleep as the much-knotted, battered, and twisted Draco”. Minerva snatched its twisted form and threw it to the stars, and fixed it at the very pole of heaven. “Some also say this Draco was thrown at Minerva (Athene) by the Gigantes (Giants), when she fought them. This is in the general direction of Ursa Minor, who represents Arcas, from which the name Arcadia derives.Ģ. Ladon was a River-God of northern Arkadia (Arcadia), in the Peloponnesos.
One is the dragon, Ladon, who guards the apples in the land of the Hesperides. There are three known myths of dragons that relate to this constellationġ. Ladon, representing Draco, was the serpent-like dragon that twined round the tree in the Garden and guarded the golden apples, while tormenting the Titan Atlas (maybe Camelopardalis) as he held the heavens on his shoulders.
This pole, or the constellation Ursa Minor, was also imagined as a tree, and Draco, or the Dragon Ladon, is seen as guarding either the constellation Ursa Minor, or the tree in the garden of the Hesperides. “The constellation Ursa Minor which contains the Polestar, Polaris, as is now drawn enclosed on three sides by the coils of Draco formerly it was almost entirely so”. “‘The tree of the Summit’ was a type of the Celestial Pole, Seat of Judgment, and was guarded by the celestial serpent, the constellation Draco”. There is no fossil evidence for dragons ever having existed. Dragons are often depicted as having a snake body on four feet. ‘Dragon’ seems to be a term for any mysterious snakelike creature in mythology.
Clues to the meaning of this celestial featureĬlues to the meaning of this celestial featureĭraco is Latin for ‘ dragon‘ from Greek dracon. The Dragon surrounding the Little Bear, Ursa Minorġ. Constellations of Words Explore the etymology and symbolism of the constellations the Dragon
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