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It's claimed that the Welsh dragon of their flag was adopted from Dacian or Alan troops in Britain in Roman times. However, both the Dacian design and horned dragons were Babylonian , derived from Sumer.
"The religious association of the dragon with the wolf or the lion is first found around the year 1120BC, on a stela of Nebuchadnezzar I, where an exact representation of the symbol of the Dacian dragon is found in the fourth quarter."
"The ram-horned serpent is a well-attested cult image of north-west Europe before and during the Roman period. It appears three times on the Gundestrup cauldron, and in Romano-Celtic Gaul was closely associated with the horned or antlered god Cernunnos, in whose company it is regularly depicted. This pairing is found as early as the fourth century BC in Northern Italy, where a huge antlered figure with torcs and a serpent was carved on the rocks in Val Camonica. A bronze image at Étang-sur-Arroux and a stone sculpture at Sommerécourt depict Cernunnos' body encircled by two horned snakes that feed from bowls of fruit and corn-mash in the god's lap. Also at Sommerécourt is a sculpture of a goddess holding a cornucopia and a pomegranate, with a horned serpent eating from a bowl of food. At Yzeures-sur-Creuse a carved youth has a ram-horned snake twined around his legs, with its head at his stomach. At Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Cernunnos' legs are two snakes which rear up on each side of his head and are eating fruit or corn. "
The Lypiatt snake in Gloucestershire is carved around a cylindrical post. These are clearly not Dacian flags. Evidently the tradition arrived with Indo-European languages , probably carried along the Danube , the danu "bountiful giver". The German Oak of Donar has features of Yggdrasil tree of Nidhoggr and British temples likely had snake-heads as Norse temples did.
"The religious association of the dragon with the wolf or the lion is first found around the year 1120BC, on a stela of Nebuchadnezzar I, where an exact representation of the symbol of the Dacian dragon is found in the fourth quarter."
"The ram-horned serpent is a well-attested cult image of north-west Europe before and during the Roman period. It appears three times on the Gundestrup cauldron, and in Romano-Celtic Gaul was closely associated with the horned or antlered god Cernunnos, in whose company it is regularly depicted. This pairing is found as early as the fourth century BC in Northern Italy, where a huge antlered figure with torcs and a serpent was carved on the rocks in Val Camonica. A bronze image at Étang-sur-Arroux and a stone sculpture at Sommerécourt depict Cernunnos' body encircled by two horned snakes that feed from bowls of fruit and corn-mash in the god's lap. Also at Sommerécourt is a sculpture of a goddess holding a cornucopia and a pomegranate, with a horned serpent eating from a bowl of food. At Yzeures-sur-Creuse a carved youth has a ram-horned snake twined around his legs, with its head at his stomach. At Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Cernunnos' legs are two snakes which rear up on each side of his head and are eating fruit or corn. "
The Lypiatt snake in Gloucestershire is carved around a cylindrical post. These are clearly not Dacian flags. Evidently the tradition arrived with Indo-European languages , probably carried along the Danube , the danu "bountiful giver". The German Oak of Donar has features of Yggdrasil tree of Nidhoggr and British temples likely had snake-heads as Norse temples did.