List of Dragons: A
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Dobrynya Nikitich slaying Zmey Gorynych, by Ivan Bilibin
The various figures now called dragons probably have no single origin, but were spontaneously envisioned in nearly every different culture around the world, based loosely on the appearance of a snake and/or large bird of prey and possibly fossilized dinosaur and Tertiary mammal megafauna remains.
Persian serpent with symbolic significance in Gnosticism. Also spelt Anbraxas or Abrasax.