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I might be wrong, hard to know when things have been obscured for hundreds of years!
Great passage and picture of St Michael. I also like the legend of St George and the Dragon and the dragon of . There is a common theme of dragons/snakes being crushed. Satan's days are numbered.
I think more is hidden than anyone could have imagined. Human culture and, for example, stories about dragons have survived in very fragmented forms, and in addition, those who rewrote them often distorted them. Only by checking the same story from several sources and in several languages can you spot errors. Maybe here is one story in different versions because each social group treated it as its own?
It's remarkable that many cultures tell similar stories. You have St Michael defeating the dragon Satan, Thor crushing the serpent Jormungandr, the Polish King Krac, St George, St Patrick, Sir Lancelot and King Pellas hunting the dragon, the woman and the serpent in Genesis and Revelation, and even the eagle and the serpent with the ancient Aztecs and Norse. Who or what is the serpent? Is it a metaphor for an ancient enemy or something more literal? What is the serpent guilty of? Chaos, decay, lust, murder, deception, eating livestock, women and the innocent. But then in some cultures, the dragon is celebrated or admired, which throws a wrench in the narrative that begins to emerge.
Sometimes I have the impression that it is about the struggle of the descendants and the children of god, good with the ancient serpent, ugly race, or the source of evil. Look again at the faces of the Archangel Michael and the damned, the face of , or even . You mentioned the Polish king fighting the dragon. In Hungarian, Poland is Lengyelország and literally means the land of angels.
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