The Remyth Project: Dragons
Jan. 14th, 2009 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yelosonBefore people, there were dragons. They controlled wind, rain, storms, and even waves of the ocean. No one measures when people first came, but, at some point, an accord was made. The dragons lived in palaces below the water, and people above, and gods above that. The dragons "paid tribute" by bringing the weather on time.
Or perhaps the gods paid tribute and the dragons were kind enough to grant rains.
It's really hard to say, as people are the ones who wrote the history.
An empty palace sits under waves, abandoned. And storms come harder and more fierce every year. The dragons aren't carved of ivory and jade- they sit printed on napkins and club shirts. They do not echo with the roars of thunder and storm waves, but the voice of Eddie Murphy tinning out jokes to soften "foreign stories" upon ears.
Nobility, of the spirit and not of blood, knows that it's power is not in who it commands but who it serves, how it betters the world just by being. At one time, people sought monsters, not for the slaying, but to learn their truths.
If I meet one, I'll ask her if she has lost her history as well.
Or perhaps the gods paid tribute and the dragons were kind enough to grant rains.
It's really hard to say, as people are the ones who wrote the history.
An empty palace sits under waves, abandoned. And storms come harder and more fierce every year. The dragons aren't carved of ivory and jade- they sit printed on napkins and club shirts. They do not echo with the roars of thunder and storm waves, but the voice of Eddie Murphy tinning out jokes to soften "foreign stories" upon ears.
Nobility, of the spirit and not of blood, knows that it's power is not in who it commands but who it serves, how it betters the world just by being. At one time, people sought monsters, not for the slaying, but to learn their truths.
If I meet one, I'll ask her if she has lost her history as well.
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Date: 2009-01-14 07:47 pm (UTC)This is so much the state of Asian culture in the West that it made me catch my breath to read it. Thank you for this reflective, lovely reminder of what the dragons were meant to be and the truths they might yet hold!
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