"Amor Draco brevis, ut in aeternum" Painting

one of the most complex have widely interpreted symbols; in the West is mainly destructive force, evil; in the East — force creative and favorable man. The English word comes from the Greek dragon, "snake"; in Latin, draco means both "dragon" and "snake". In Christian culture, it is a mythical beast with a stinking breath and scaly body, lion claws, bat-like wings, and forked tongue and tail; the dragon is a symbol of death, darkness and the devil as a serpent that brought man into sin: the art often depicts the Archangel Michael with a dragon at his feet, also St. George, piercing the dragon with a spear, which symbolizes the victory of good over evil; similarly, the dragon on the chain means defeated evil, often his tail is tied with a knot, since there is a belief that, like Scorpio, the dragon has his power in the tail. Despite this characteristic, kings and emperors chose the dragon as their symbol. The dragon symbol was brought to Britain by the Romans, who carried its image on their banners; the ancient Britons made the dragon their symbol of struggle against the Saxon invaders; the Celts it symbolized the ability to inspire terror and invincibility, and hence — independence. The national symbol of Wales is the red dragon of the Welsh hero of the 7th century Cadwallader (on the Welsh flag the red dragon is depicted on a green and white field); Henry VII adopted the red dragon to emphasize his origin from the Cadwallader. On the city coat of arms of London" supporters " of the shield are two dragons, which reminds of the beliefs that once lived in the Thames Dragon guarding the city. In the East, the "winged serpent" has a cosmic, supernatural power; dragons protect treasures, they serve as symbols of fertility and strength. In China, this creature has the greatest spiritual power, a symbol of life and light; the emblem of the Chinese Imperial family is the Golden dragon. According to the Eastern horoscope, the dragon is the luckiest sign. In 1988, the year of the Dragon, Chinese parents ignored the law prescribing to give twins different names, and called them sons of the dragon. Part II. "DRAGONFIRE» (About the love Dragons and love Dragons, a brief systematization of the facts, as well as unconfirmed and unconfirmed hypotheses) 1. Dragons can love. Dragons know how to love for real! Do You know what real love... ...a Dragon? If not, you may be lucky. 2. Dragon love never has anything to do with his hatred. They never go into each other. And can exist in parallel, without interfering with each other. 3. Dragons in love are funny. And monstrous. 4. Love the Dragon always requires passion and continual stress. It's not compatible with habit. Habit and contentment make love Dragons in a completely different sense. Or maybe she's just dying. And sometimes I wish she just died… 5. Loving dragons — even the most ugly Ones-are beautiful ! But we often do not have the power to feel and think ugly lovers Dragons — the most ugly… 6. Dragons Of high Eras are distinguished by love for the beautiful (including elements of the tragic, funny, ugly, etc.) and hatred for everything mediocre. Sometimes this hatred is expressed in quite aggressive forms. 7. Dragon love is not compatible with ownership or possession. Dragon love is a constant renewal, game, conquest, uncertainty and hope. The feeling of becoming someone's property and chain turn the love of the Dragon hated the service. And at times, hated this service has a dark and terrible consequences. 8. Clever Dragons are able to control their love, and the wise Dragons — love is in control of themselves. 9. Loving Dragons always suffer, even if their love is happy. Many consider this a sign of dragon stupidity or selfishness. 10. Love Dragons begin particularly keenly aware of its gender, or even gain it. When new loves sex of Dragon may vary. Dragons, lost love, can lose all sorts of sexual characteristics, including — primary. 11. The beauty of star-crossed lovers Dragons usually inaccessible to human understanding. And because it is looking for its embodiment in the most unexpected forms. These forms often lead to severe phobias in others, and even — psychosomatic phenomena. 12. Dragons can fall in love with a variety of objects — things, animals and animals, people, other Dragons and even metaphysical creatures. They can fall in love even in non-existent phenomena, including — in the most nightmarish. 13. The reciprocal love of the object (or subject!) to the Dragon can cause have a Dragon the most strange reaction and the most unpredictable consequences. 14. Love for the Dragon, however, like many others — hard and continuous work. Sometimes a Dragon in love feels that this work is so tiring that he is not able to do anything else. It happens with even the most hard-working Dragons. 15. Love or love of the Dragon usually has nothing to do with its physical or physiological States. 16. Love a Dragon, typically, not contains impurities and not has nothing in common with such forms of pseudo-love, as: - minute desire to get personal pleasure, - the desire to get the object in permanent possession, - falling in love with your own feeling, - love to the fictional image (to the" shadow") of the object. 17. Dragon love has many different forms. But they need to be talked about at other times and elsewhere. And some of it is better not to speak I'll kill you! 18. For the love Dragons have a sense of freedom. This freedom has nothing to do with the presence , or — the number of chains and leashes, as well as does not depend on the length of the chain or leash. The only question is how often the Dragon is reminded of these chains or pulled on a leash… 19. Tenderness Dancers has a direct attitude to their love, but not always connected with their love. However, as and their rage. 20. Love Dragons can weeks to starve, or, on the contrary, begin to devour everything and everyone. And it's disgusting to get fat. 21. Have lovers dancers Can see the new talents. And close the old one. 22. Dragons can't talk about love. And they never do. But there are exceptions… And sometimes you want these exceptions were not. 23. Flame Dragons lovers sometimes helps for colds. And sometimes syphilis. 24. Loving Dragons live in us as often as many others. But we prefer less to notice. 25. Sometimes the universe flirts with us with the help of loving Dragons, and sometimes — they are with us with the help of the Universe. 26. Sometimes loving Dragons keep us from living. And sometimes-prevent die. 27. It is much easier to destroy a dragon in love than usual. If you, of course, have enough spirit… Or-mind. 28. Dragons in love feed on dreams. And because often are etched. 29. Loving Dragons can move much faster than the speed of light — with the speed of thought. And because - they convinced adherents of the theory of relativity, at least — "special". 30. Dragons in love are sick of primitive lust. They generally have big problems with natural physiological processes. 31. Lustful Dragons can't love by definition. If they fall in love, their lust evaporates like aether. But in its place comes a much more… 32. Falling in love dragons become much bolder than usual, and-at the same time-much more careful and cowardly. 33. Dragons can fall in love for life. If, of course, this period of existence can be considered life… 34. It is easy to distinguish a Dragon who has fallen out of love by the smell and color of the flame. 35. Beware of Dragons, the gifts that bring! Especially those who have fallen out of love. 36. Dragons sometimes appear in the Alchemical Marriage. 37. Love Dragons, has acquired the female, winged, and volatile, and the male is steady and heavy, and have a rudimentary (and pretty useless!) wings. 38. Lovers of Dragons, who found female gender, called synonymy, male — antonymy, and gained from both sexes — androgynous ("androgynous" — not to be confused with "hermaphrodite"!). 39. Mercury always keeps both the body ginalnyh Dragons. 40. Sera always encourage a spirit andronnik Dragons. 41. On SALT, we keep silent… 42. Love Dragons, really want to find Love, always pass through the stages of Death and Rebirth. 43. Dragons entering the Alchemical Marriage, risking… 44. The alchemical Marriage of the Dragon can not last more than moments, but the result is always the birth of any new entity or creature (often one and the same). 45. Otherworldly love Dragons such this-worldly, THERE, HERE. 46. The dragon, who really found Love, is easy to identify: he arrives at the whispered: "INRI". 47. Dragon love can go on a fast and slow, dry and wet, secret and open way. 48. Many loving Dragons are studying the problems of psychology, gender and character. And it often does not benefit them. But it may be good for the psychology… 49. Loving Dragons are sometimes happy to learn and even make horoscopes. And surprised! 50. Thoughts of loving Dragons often surround their heads, like a gnat or Shine: they can be observed and recognized, but it needs a good look and use special eyepieces. 51. Love a Dragon often brings misfortune to, and often-claims… 52. Dragons in love are often like butterflies or flies. And there are also stupid and annoying. 53. If the Dragon pretends to be in love for a long time, he falls in love as he could not, falling in love at once — without any pretense. 54. The object of the love Dragon can long about anything not guess. But if he guesses, he may lose his sense of proportion. 55. Hadron Dragons are often like warriors, frogs, poets and birds. Ginnie Dragons often appear in the form of warriors, frogs, moose, and snakes. Dragons are androgynous and can take any form. 56. Love Dragons, hate the shame — both to himself and to others. 57. Love Dragons sometimes say Alexandrine. But it's rarely witty. 58. What is born of the love of Dragons is often very different from the Dragons themselves. Anyway, have had only an indirect relationship… 59. A dragon who has fallen out of Love can easily die. But his body is not going away and may remain for years, the center has generated around the desert, and even slumification. 60. Love a Dragon short, as eternity. 61. Loving Dragons more often than others, remember the stars. About those stars where they lived before settling in us. The stars, where we'll all live someday. 62. Dragons in love like to think about who They were before they became Dragons. 63. Loving Dragons can cry in the most inappropriate places and from the most unexpected books, movies and situations. And many consider it vulgar… 64. Those Dragons that once lived on the stars, there, too, could love. And also-to be in a calm state of"non-love". 65. Dragons are often able to choose for themselves the love that needs to grab them and even — perhaps — to destroy. Eros, Filia, Agape. And something else. 66. Dragons who have chosen EROS are often well aware of all sides of this type of love. It is this love, is generally similar to that experienced by the Brahma to the worlds… It must be closely related to the Creator. But it is surprisingly different. EROS-logos is a love for the sublime and divine spheres, and yet — to all the Higher and Good Forces of the Universe, for it is so defined EROS Dragons who lived in the ancient Greeks. EROS-ergos is a love not only for this world, but also for his own creativity, construction, Act, process and result, to the words born and emerging canvases. Such love Dragons often embodied in action, flight, dance, embroidery or fire attack. EROS-pnevmos has a truly quivering love, the one that modern Dragons call "erotic"; and some talk more about the side of passion, and some about the connection of souls. 67. Dragons who have chosen BRANCH ("the branch"), strongly and gently They say that such Dragons begin to resemble Vishnu…

Painting:Paint on Canvas

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Size:78.7 W x 78.7 H x 1.2 D in

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