Many Philippine serpents were associated with swallowing the moon, with legends of Lw, a serpent from Kapampangan mythology, Olimaw, a winged phantom dragon-serpent from Ilokano mythology and Sawa, a serpent monster from Tagalog and Ati mythologiesIndia also has its own dragon legends. The Rigveda, an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns describes how Indra, the Vedic god of storms would battle a giant serpent called Vrtra.The people of the Americas created their own draconic legends completely independent from the rest of the world. The Yucatec Maya worshiped Kulkulkan, a Mesoamerican serpent deity whose origins come from the Classic Period, later adopted by the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya as Qʼuqʼumatz.
One of the most common forms of native American dragons, a recurring figure among many indigenous tribes of the Southeast Woodlands and other tribal groups is the Horned Serpent, associated with water, rain, lightning and thunder.The modern, image of a dragon developed in Europe during the Middle Ages through the combination of the snakelike dragons of classical Graeco-Roman literature, references to Near Eastern European dragons preserved in the Bible, and European folk traditions.The 11th and 13th centuries saw the height of European interest in dragons as living creatures. The oldest recognisable image of a fully modern European dragon appears in a hand-painted illustration from the medieval manuscript MS Harley 3244 which was produced around AD 1260.
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