“As earthquakes rumbled through the ground long-buried rocks shifted that had been in place for thousands of years. Deep underground, in the darkness, copper wires snapped. And a dragon awoke… (Sutherland 366).” Basilisks play a major part in this novel, along with other stories. However, dragons, to some, are more than just a character in a book. Many dragons play a role in people’s beliefs from around the world; these dragons have interesting traits. Some affirm dragons are far more than a legend, whether that be because of their beliefs, culture, or sightings of the reptilian-like creature. Even though the evidence for the existence of dragons has been provided, there are still skeptics who believe dragons are either mislabed or completely…show more content… In fact, they have many stories of scaled-beings (Daneshvari 22). “One of the most interesting avatars of the Avestan azi is the three-headed, six-eyed, and three-mouthed Azi-Dahaka who survives with certain mutations, via Arabic in Pahlavi and New Persian texts as Zahhak. Schwartz has shown, that the epithet Dahaka means man-like, thus translating Azi-Dahaka as the hominid serpent (Daneshvari 22).” Unlike the hominid dragons, the majority of Islams believe nonhominid hybrid dragons are those that Satan takes the form of; these dragons own features of a number of different animals, similar to a sphinx (Daneshvari 25). Astrological dragons are what many people imagine when they hear the word dragon. According to the Islamic faith, these deceivers are forced to stay only in the sun (Daneshvari 27). Just like the Christian faith, such oddities also symbolize something. Most of the dragons symbolize something, like darkness (this is why the Islams think that there is day and night). Darkness isn’t the only thing the legendary creatures represent (Daneshvari 56). Not only due the Christians believe in beasts of immense power, but the Muslims also believe they are
