• Akkadian:
  • Basmu
• Babylon
• Canaanite:
  • Anat
  • Yam-nahar
  • Lotan
• Dahomey:
  • Aido Hwedo
• Greece
• Hittite:
  • Illuyankas
• Islam:
  • Draco
  • Jawzahr
  • Serpentarius
  • Thuban
• Persia
• Roman:
  • General
• Sumeria:
  • Anat
  • Gandarewa
  • Humbaba
  • Kulili
  • Kur
  • Zu / Anzu
  • The people of Susa and Sumeria both saw their lands as being surrounded by water - "an encircling serpent" (Source: Dragons and Dragon Lore pg 19.)
• Other:
  • Tale of Etana

• The Milky way was also called "Snake River" and the "River of the Abyss". (Source: Nature of Spirit, Spirit of Nature pg 6.)
• A serpentine head with horns was found in Assyria. (Source: Dragons and Dragon Lore pg 24.)
• "The antiquated dragon still stood at the gates of the Assyrian king's palace and Ea, the fish-god, reappeared on the shores of the Mediterranean as Dagon of the Philistines". (Source: Dragons and Dragon Lore pg 32.)
• Not surprising, many dragon tales start where water or weather is paramount - Egypt, Mesapotamia, etc
• Heroes and gods were often killed at some point, either before or during the main battle
• Also, if a male dragon and female dragon are in the same battle, often it is the male dragon that is killed first.

"Near Elean Pylos H fought and killed a brigand Sauros (Lizard), who molested wayfarers...." (Source: Python, pg 330.)

Mimetic Combat is "mythologized as the battle of the divine champion against the Dragon or similar monstrous adversary." (Source: "Thespis Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East" pg 36.)

• "When, for example, [the Psalmist] describes the god as shattering the heads of the Dragon, he is but echoing the words of the Caananite Poem of Baal where that monster is portrayed as a kind of hydra possessing 'sevenfold heads.'" (pg. 80-81)
• "[a] psalm was written to celebrate the rout of Sennacherib's army in 701 BC. Shorn of all mythology, it is represented, not as a conflict against Sea or Dragon, but as a battle waged successfully by Israel's God against human enemies." (pg 81.)

"Sulgi ... "I am a lion ... born of a dragon" (Source: "CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: lion-dragon myths")

According to Survive 2012, "the Assyrians knew Venus as the 'fearful dragon ... who is clothed in fire.'"

There is a libation vase in the Louvre that dates from around 4000 BC, but the verse is circa 2025 BC. It was found in Lagash (Mesopotamia) and has 2 snakes entwined around the rod (Yggdrasi tree?). It is similar to the rod with snakes that Hermes carries.

The Dalton Libraries have a tale of how 3 Mighty Heros Saved the Sun and the Moon from the Dragon. The tale originated from Chuvash and involves 3 giants who defeat the Great Dragon and his 2 sons and save the people.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the first epic of a human verses a dragon and appears as clay tables of Semetic origin.

Herodaotus's Historiai (5th century BC) tells of Arabian winged snakes and small winged serpents who guarded spice trees.