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Dragons, a Global Concept, Hardwired?
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    Posted: 16-Jun-2007 at 23:13
No, the site is a bunch of crazy folk puting anything interesting on their website. But nonetheless, some of it is true (like the giants part, and probbably some of the dinosaurs part)
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I remembered the Greek myth of the Cyclops and Giants from the Greek Theogony. According to mythology they were huge man-like creatures with extraordinary power and one-eyed (remember Polyphemus in Odyssey?).
 
Fossils of small mammoth-like creatures or small Elephants were found also in Greece (Crete) and Greeks also saw Mammoth skeletons in Scythia. From the picture below it's easy to confuse the trunk-socket for an eye and the ribs and legs of the elephant as human ones. Of course this is not proof but can give a plausible explanation to the Greek myth of Cyclops. 
 


Edited by Yiannis - 17-Jun-2007 at 08:43
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