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Meybe you are right and i mixed sth.
I always associate this image with this fragment.:
Revelation 12:7–9
7 And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back, 8but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. 9The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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.
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