[blam]

Dragon's are frequently associated with comets by ancient people.

Also, it is my opinion that the people living in Northeast China at that time (or close to that time) were Caucasian tribes with names like Saka, Xiongnu, Yuezhi. Comments?

[blam]

Ping.

[EggsAckley]

I have heard of the Caucasian people there. In fact, a close inspection of some of the paper money from certain districts shows pictures of very caucasian people.

There is a story of one district being made up of one of the lost tribes of Israel.

[joesnuffy]

The northern Chinese people are pretty neat...many well over 6ft tall... freckled...
And highly intelligent...

[Texan5]

The many programs on the Discovery channel about the Caucasian mummies from China would certainly seem to support that. I am always saying that these scientists who scoff at early trading and migration over great distances (such as the Ainu and Africans on the American continent before 12,000 years ago) are not taking into consideration how clever and industrious humans are. We didn't get that way overnight, so to speak-all anyone had to do was build a seaworthy boat and have a need to leave where they were, or an urge to trade goods further afield. I think the scientists who recognize this perfectly logical fact will be proven right.

[Mike Darancette]

It is hard for me to grasp the concept that these people can look to their land and say that my ancestors have been here for thousands of years.

[farmfriend]

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[JimSEA]

At a somewhat later period, an IndoEuropean group -- Tocharian -- moved to the edge of Mongolia. I would not be out of reason to suspect a Caucasian language group were in turn pushed before them to the east. However, the problem I would have with this is that the "Jade Culture" art is quite typically a continuation of earlier neolithic art in the region. The startlingly different art is found further to the south near the Tibet Plateau and into the Sichuan Provence.

Both Pottery and Jade images from 2500 BCE to 4,700 BCE show Asian facial features. However both "slanted" and "round" eyes are found in the Liangzhu Culture (3,200 to 2,000 BCE), outside the Yellow River Valley (and frustrating the CCP). There were multiple culture centers in China -- North near Present day Korea, South along the Coastand Pearl Rover, from Beijing to the Yellow River and strung out along what was to become the silk route, and Southeast to Southwest along the Yangzi. The more recent day Caucasians were, of course near and North of the Silk Route. The Tibet Plateau and rainforests south of it were difficulties to Indic cultures until 200 /300 BCE. Any Caucasian groups would have been most likely to have come through the Yellow River.

Sorry for the disconected thoughts. Do you recall any Dragon immages in Scythian art or Scytho-Dravidian?

[Fedora]

I know northern Chinese are often taller than southern, which might conceivably reflect Caucasian genetic influence. On dragons, they're also often associated with rivers and water, due to the snakelike appearance of the winding shape of rivers; and also, due to the way a snake periodically sheds its skin and renews its skin, snakes and dragons are frequently associated with the cycles of the Moon and the renewal of the year at New Year. I'd imagine the association with comets functions in that context, though I don't know much about that aspect of it.

[e_engineer]

Dragon's are frequently associated with comets by ancient people.,

And with serpents

The solar wind can cause the comet's tail to twist and appear to writhe. This is illustrated by this APOD picture of Comet Ikeya-Zhang:

We don't see too many large comets these days, or this effect would be much more widely known.

[SunkenCiv]

just a ping, no reason. ;')

[Redcloak]

Did someone misplace an Unas?