327 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Dragons!

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Universal History with Richard Rohlin, by popular demand, we finally explored the topic of dragons! We discussed the ubiquitous appearance of dragons across history and different cultures, a dragon’s essential characteristics and mythical nature, their connection to snakes, birds, and angels, and the dragon as a hybrid and guardian of paradise. We also discussed the treatment of dragons in Eastern traditions and various languages, as well as in Christianity and even in medical symbolism. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	One of the great things that modern scholars are perplexed by is why does everyone have a dragon?
0:07.0	Like, there's not a single human culture anywhere in the world that doesn't have a dragon, including people who live in places that don't have snakes.
0:46.0	Yeah. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello, everyone. We are back with Richard Rowland for another universal history episode.
0:55.3	And this week, we are going to talk about dragons, which I'm sure is going to be of interest to everybody that I know around the symbolic world. So Richard, go ahead.
0:56.7	So many people have been asking for this for so long.
0:59.1	That's right.
0:59.6	And so we already had a little bit of the dragon discussion
1:02.7	in the Bay Wolf course that we've talked about quite a bit.
1:06.1	And so you can check that out for sure.
1:07.7	But we'll see where-
1:08.7	So when Jonathan says a little bit,
1:11.2	what he means is that we actually talked about dragons for about seven hours.
1:15.3	So I just really want to like it.
1:18.2	Make sure that we,
1:19.8	I want to properly sell you on the Bay Wolf class
1:23.8	if you haven't already signed up for that, bought that.
1:26.9	I know it's a little pricey but it's literally uh uh like 20 something hours of Jonathan and I talking
1:33.3	about bailiff like total you know and we along with handouts and everything else
1:37.8	and we literally spent at least seven hours talking about the dragon between
1:41.8	the last two classes right and if you want to know the secret connection between the dragon and the
1:48.8	Grendelkin, for instance, it's not what Neil Gaiman thinks it is.
1:53.4	But if you want to know what it is and there is a secret connection, then sign up for
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