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Title: The evolution of the dragon
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, G. Elliot (Grafton Elliot), Sir, 1871-1937
Subjects: Dragons Mythology Rain gods -- Egypt Mythology, Egyptian Aphrodite (Greek deity) Incense
Publisher: Manchester, The University press London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green & company
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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Fig. i6.—The God ok Thunder(From a Chinese drawing (? 17th Century) in the John Rylands Library)
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Fig. 17.—From Joannes de Tukkecrematas Meditationes sel-CoNTEMPLATiONES . Roiiic ; UlHch Hall, 1467 DRAGONS AND RAIN GODS 137 god Thoth, was the measuring of time and the keeping of records.The moon, in fact, was the controller of accuracy, of truth, and order,and therefore the enemy of falsehood and chaos. The identificationof the moon with Osiris, who fiom a dead king eventually developedinto a king of the dead, conferred upon the great Father of Waters thepower to exact from men respect for truth and order. For even if atfirst these ideas were only vaguely adumbrated and not expressed inset phrases, it must have been an incentive to good discipline when menremembered that the record-keeper and the guardian of law and orderwas also the deity upon whose tender mercies they would have to relyin the life after death. Set, the enemy of Osiris, who is the real proto-type of the evil dragon, was the antithesis of the god of justice : he wasthe father of falsehood and the symbol of chaos

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