Everyone has heard thousands of stories about fantastic and incredible creatures who were in some extent representing evil and some others representing good. Though, this particular topic we will discuss will be focused on dragons.

All of those legends are produced in different societies and vary according to their history and ethnicity. However, those stories made deep roots in a lot of people’s fantasy and lived long in the memories of the kids whom they were retold to. Nobody can actually say who was first introducing these legendary creatures but it is obvious that they still exists in our minds. An actual dragon or dragon’s bones have never been found, if they have existed, that is why a lot of people wonder why there is so much talk about dragons. The purpose of the dragon was meant to be for spiritual beliefs and just to make up stories and legends.
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It is necessary to define where the dragons originally come from. It is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that’s the feature they are known for in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

The two traditions may have evolved separately, but have influenced each to a certain extent, particularly with the cross-cultural contact of recent centuries.Though almost all dragons were thought to be magical beings. In many dragon legends, they were very intelligent and capable of human language.European dragons often had wings and could have any number of legs. The Toltec and Aztec serpent dragons usually had feathery wings, but no legs. And the Oriental dragons resembled huge snakes with four legs (sometimes they were legless).
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The European dragons were considered evil. Often European dragons were said to be poisonous or breathe fire out of their mouth. Many were depicted as hatching from eggs. Some myths presented them with dorsal spines; other dragons have scaly or feathered bodies. Sometimes they were pictured as having very large eyes. Frequently, the European dragonswere described as having an underground lair or cave greedily guarding their treasure.

For the Asian people, dragons represent longevity, wisdom, religion, the universe, or the primal forces of nature. Most were water deities connected to rainfall or bodies of water. Also the majority of Oriental dragons was regarded as good-hearted, and could become human.In the early days of the dynasty’s some of the dynasties worshiped the dragon as their lord and some actually even asked them for help and guidance. [ADS2] The first and 15th of every month they use to perform rituals to worship the dragons. The nine dragons on the Japanese culture are mostly related to the elements of the earth. The fire dragon is the most talked about and the most popular. The fire dragon is known to be in legends the most competitive and expects a lot from people. One of the other traits of the fire dragon is that it is very ambitious and very short-tempered, as everyone already knows. The fire dragon has to have a master in order to learn how to communicate without force. Another one of the dragons, which is one of the elements, is the water dragon.

The water dragon is one of the quieter one’s besides the fire dragon. Some of the characteristics of this dragon is that is has a more positive attitude on things and also it has a more positive approach and also is less selfish and less power hungry than most dragons are. That is why that this dragon is on the most worshiped next to the fire dragon.

All those myths and legends get hundred times more interesting and fascinating as the year of dragons follow the Rabbit and recur every twelfth year. According to the Chinese horoscope 2012 is dragon year which promises to be a dynamic year with plenty of changes underway and plus is considered fortunate time period for our lives.

Thus, let me wish you all the best of luck, happiness, calm and peaceful year full of joy and success.

Happy new dragon year to everyone.

The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 –hence, the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
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Ancient Maya cyclical calendars are the longest of which last renewed itself approximately 5,125 years ago and is set to end again, supposedly with catastrophic consequences, in 2012. It’s often mentioned that ancient Egyptians saw 2012 as a year of great change too. All of those stories are often strengthened with the reviews of NASA scientists, who predict a sharp increase in the number of sunspots and sun flares for 2012, which will cause electrical failures and satellite disruptions.

Interviews were made randomly among the population of different countries. Lots of the respondents express the huge fear about how all this is going to end. They create their own stories, which often could sound exaggerated to scientists: “First, a polar reversal will cause the north to become the south and the sun to rise in the west. Shattering earthquakes, massive tidal waves and simultaneous volcanic eruptions will follow. Nuclear reactors will melt, buildings will crumble, and a cloud of volcanic dust will block out the sun for 40 years. Only the prepared will survive, Geryl said, and not even all of them.”
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However, the truth is that some are getting ready to fight against the cataclysm by all means they have got so far, while others waved and claim this to be the “End of the World”.

Two years ago, Patrick Geryl, then 51, quit his job as a laboratory worker for a French oil company. He’d saved up just enough money to last him until December 2012. After that, he thought, he wouldn’t need it anyway.

Instead, Geryl, a soft-spoken man who had studied chemistry in his younger years, started preparing for the apocalypse. He founded a “survival group” for likeminded men and women, aimed at living through the catastrophe he knew was coming.
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He started gathering materials necessary to survive — water purifiers, wheelbarrows (with spare tires), dust masks and vegetable seeds. His list of survival goods runs 11 pages long.

The stories vary according to respondents’ names, locations but are similar with their content. Thus, the question appears, how trustful this predictions could be based on reliable sources and studies.

Hence, it’s interesting to review what the NASA credible scientists worldwide say about it. First of all they affirm that earth is facing no such threat as an attack of planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris. They claim that neither Nibiru nor Planet X exist in reality and if they were astronauts would have noticed it long before those allegations came to the surface. They find it ridiculous to talk about the end of Mayan calendar in December, 2012, explaining: “Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then — just as your calendar begins again on January 1 — another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.”

Truth is that panic among the population is already widespread. Nothing can change the fact that either side has their own theories based on their evidences, which are more or less consistent. However, there is nothing more left than waiting to see towards what the mankind is leading to.