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Daniel: dragons in Babylon
1. Daniel: dragons in Babylon
The story of the dragon in Daniel is part of the Apocrypha and is in Daniel chapter 14.
2. Babylon
Dragons are part of Babylon legends and folklore.
3. Marduk
Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, is pictured with a dragon.
4. Bel and the dragon
And there was a great dragon in that place and the Babylonians worshiped him. Daniel 14:22.
And the king said to Daniel: Behold thou canst not say now that this is not a living god: adore him therefore. Danial 14:23.
And Daniel said: I adore the Lord my God: for he is the living God: but that is no living god. Danial 14:24.
But give me leave, O king, and I will kill this dragon without sword or club. And the king said, I give thee leave. Danial 14:25.
5. Roto-rooter
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them together: and he made lumps, and put them into the dragon's mouth, and the dragon burst asunder. Daniel 14:26.
This sounds like something Roto-Rooter would get involved with. Here Daniel is clogging the drain rather than unclogging the drain.
6. Ishtar gates
The Ishtar gates at Babylon.
7. Old walls of Babylon
Dragons and lions on the old walls of Babylon.
8. Berlin museum
There is a dragon from the gate that is now in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin.
Some of the Ishtar Gate from Babylon, now in the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, show lions and dragons.
9. Babylon
A Babylonian cylinder seal (circa 600 B.C.) shows a man and a dragon. The man appears to have hold of the dragons arm, possibly to cut it off with the implement in the other hand.
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