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2013-07-18 7:43 AM

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Subject: St. George's Dragon
On my Wednesday group run, the route comes up a small hill and the cross street near the top of the hill is "St. George's Hill." This is in the second half of the route. My oxygen deprived brain siezes on the sign and jumps right to dragonslaying.

So...the amateur philosophical question for CoJ is this:

What is the dragon that St. George slayed?

Does the dragon represent an external threat (war, famine, or even the hill I must climb at that part of the route)?

or

Does the dragon represent an internal threat (selfishness, or my desire to walk up the hill instead of run up)?

Here is a picture of St. George slaying a dragon



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2013-07-22 2:33 AM
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Subject: RE: St. George's Dragon
The versions that I found after a quick search seem to me to indicate it being representative of external threats illustrated in a romanticised manner. Mostly it seems to be about Christian faith prevailing over some perceived threat (the dragon, sometimes presented as plague-bearing) with a fair maiden thrown in for good measure (always a plus!). Since it seems to take place around the time of the Crusades an in Libya, I think it may have been a middle-ages parable of Christianity "prevailing" over Islam, or something similar.

So I say take it as you prevailing over The Hill and an indication that you should have faith in yourself and your ability to defeat your own dragon.

Maybe? 'Sounds good to me, but my personal philosophies are pretty goofy, so take it as worth what you paid.
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