HARRY POTTER DRAGON

Mural royal painted metal dragon, ideal to decorate a room with child.

The Dragon, fabulous monster with body of reptile, in mythologies European and Eastern, which resembles a crocodile, and often represented with wings, claws, a tail of snake and spitting of fire.

In Antiquity, in the Middle East, the dragon symbolized the evil and the destruction. This design is found, for example, in Enuma Elisha, epic work of the literature mésopotamienne (v. 2000 front J. - C.). Incarnation of the oceans in the form of dragon, the Tiamat goddess, one of the principal characters of this legend, orders with the hordes of chaos and its destruction precedes the appearance of the ordered universe. In Egyptian mythology, Apopis, the dragon of Darkness, was overcome each morning by Rê, the god of the Sun.
In the Hebraic writings, the dragon is compared to died or the Evil. Christianity inherited this symbolic system, as the figure testifies some to the dragon in the Apocalypse and all the Christian tradition. The art which is inspired some makes dragon the image of the sin and paganism, over which with glare the saints and the martyrs triumph. The legend of George saint and the dragon constitutes an eloquent example of it.
The dragon is a guard equipped with higher capacities in mythology gréco-Roman; also the dragon of Ladon takes care it on gold apples of the garden of Hespérides. In the same way, with the Middle Ages, one allotted to him the role of geôlier of the captive girls. For the Greeks and the Romans, the dragons had faculty in addition to include/understand the secrecies of the ground and to transmit them to the mortals, and the animal was frequently reproduced on the Roman standards.
The dragon is sometimes terrifying, sometimes beneficial in the popular legends of the pagan tribes of Northern Europe. In the epopee of Nibelungen, Siegfried kills a dragon and conquers invincibility, after having covered itself with the blood of this last. The Scandinavians decorated the prow of their drakkars (derivative of the word “dragon”) of sculptures reproducing the features of the monster. The Celtic warriors who invaded England chose, for their part, the dragon like heraldic emblem, symbol of sovereignty. The dragon was reproduced on the shields of the teutonic tribes which invaded England in turn and, until XVIe century, on the war flags of kings d' Angleterre like on the armorial bearings traditionally carried by the prince of Wales.
In the mythology of many countries of the Far East, in particular in China and in Japan, the dragon represents the supreme spiritual power. It is the oldest emblem of Eastern mythology and the reason generally represented in art. The dragon symbolizes the celestial and terrestrial capacity, wisdom and the force. It lives in water, brings prosperity and chance, and, according to the Chinese belief, the beneficial rain. At the time of the traditional processions of the Chinese New Year's Day, the dragon is supposed to push back the bad spirits during the new year.

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