Guides to museums and other attractions in Peru will tell you that native tribes only depicted what they saw on their everyday objects. What inspired them to draw the dragon shown in the photo?
Peru is an interesting country. There are mountains, rainforests, coasts and deserts (in fact, this country has one of the driest deserts in the world). But dragons are considered another fascinating feature of Peru.
As in many other parts of the world, there is evidence that dragons had a place in Peru's life in the past. In some cultures, only oral legends about dragons have survived, in others only pictograms or petroglyphs (drawings on the walls of caves or wall prints), and in Peru, along with other evidence, drawings on pottery objects have been preserved.
On a recent trip to Peru, where I was privileged to see magnificent ancient ruins such as Machu Picchu, the Nazca and Sacsayhuaman geoglyphs, I often heard from guides that representatives of these cultures only painted what they saw. Therefore, on the objects of pottery, we saw many images of birds, monkeys, spiders and other ordinary animals, clothes and even the famous Nazca geoglyphs, which can be distinguished only by looking from above.
The jug presented in the National Museum of Lipa, Peru (Museo de la Nación), like all other exhibits, belongs to the Moche culture, whose peak dawn falls on AD 400-1100.
Therefore, when we encountered a jug with a dragon depicted on it, it was logical to conclude that the Moche artists saw these creatures too. Of course, very often people scoff and say that there could be no dragons. However, when you think about the connection between dinosaurs and dragons, it becomes easy to imagine them.
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Like all other land animals, dinosaurs (or dragons) were created on Day Six (Genesis 1: 24-31), entered Noah's Ark (Genesis 6:20), and then left the Ark, ending up in the post-Flood world (Genesis 8: 16-19). It is quite logical that many peoples could see these creatures from time to time before they became extinct. And the ancient inhabitants of Peru are no exception.
I've always wondered how the world would react to dinosaurs if researchers simply called them "dragons" when they first dug up their bones. However, in 1841 Sir Richard Owen coined the word "dinosaur", which means "terrible lizard." If then he used the word "dragon", I wonder what controversy about this would sound today?
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Peru is home to some of the most incredible ruins and artifacts created by the peoples who inhabited the world after the fall of the Tower of Babel. The Moche culture was one of the many civilizations that left us with data on the first settlers of the Western Hemisphere and the animals they encountered.