Daughter of the Yellow Dragon: A Mongolian Epic: 1 (Fractured Empire)

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Charlesworth, James H. (2010), The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-14082-8

Schwab, Sandra Martina (2005). "Dragons". In Gary Westfahl (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. Vol.1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp.214–216. ISBN 0-313-32951-6. Scholars disagree regarding the appearance of Tiamat, the Babylonian goddess personifying primeval chaos, slain by Marduk in the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Eliš. [35] [36] She was traditionally regarded by scholars as having had the form of a giant serpent, [36] but several scholars have pointed out that this shape "cannot be imputed to Tiamat with certainty" [36] and she seems to have at least sometimes been regarded as anthropomorphic. [35] [36] Nonetheless, in some texts, she seems to be described with horns, a tail, and a hide that no weapon can penetrate, [35] all features which suggest she was conceived as some form of dragoness. [35] Levant [ edit ] The Destruction of Leviathan (1865) by Gustave Doré Japanese dragon myths amalgamate native legends with imported stories about dragons from China. Like some other dragons, most Japanese dragons are water deities associated with rainfall and bodies of water, and are typically depicted as large, wingless, serpentine creatures with clawed feet. Gould writes (1896:248), [80] the Japanese dragon is "invariably figured as possessing three claws". A story about the samurai Minamoto no Mitsunaka tells that, while he was hunting in his own territory of Settsu, he dreamt under a tree and had a dream in which a beautiful woman appeared to him and begged him to save her land from a giant serpent which was defiling it. [64] Mitsunaka agreed to help and the maiden gave him a magnificent horse. [64] When he woke up, the seahorse was standing before him. [64] He rode it to the Sumiyoshi temple, where he prayed for eight days. [64] Then he confronted the serpent and slew it with an arrow. [64] Unlike Manduhai, Daenerys compromised in political marriages. The first to Drogo was, at the start, none of her choosing. Another to Hizdhar zo Loraq proved a mistake. She abandoned Daario, a man who loved her unconditionally, for political opportunity. She placed her heart in Jon’s hands; he betrayed and killed her. Mayor, Andrienne (2000), The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-05863-6We know what happened after the great hopes of the Mongol empire faded into disunity. Left behind by a queen who would never return to carry the burden of her legacy, what might we learn from the eventual fate of Daario Naharis? Skeat, Walter W. (1888). An etymological dictionary of the English language. Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press. p.178. Daenerys too was the Daughter of the Dragon. Not simply a Targaryen (after all, Jon Snow was a Targaryen too). Daenerys was the Dragon. The Unburnt.

In tomb numbered M189, one of 400 tombs, the team found fascinating finely-carved pair of gilded silver dragons were unearthed. Xiongnu orHun state territory covered a vast area from Lake Baikal to Chita in the north, the whole of present-day Mongolia, and as far south as the Yellow River and Ordos in China organized defenses against the marauding nomads, developing their cavalry and building fortifications. Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China, John Man, Bantam Press (June 2019) McNeal, R. "Constructing Myth in Modern China." The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 71, No. 3 (AUGUST 2012), pp. 679-704.

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I think Daario would have left in the night, once the alcohol wore off, taking only his knives with him, no food and no water, making his way north, losing himself in the tall grasses of the Dothraki Sea among the ruins of cities long gone. He wouldn’t gallop—he would trot, fighting off the occasional hrakkar half-heartedly, wishing for death. Sikorski, Czesław (1997), "Wood Pitch as Combat Chemical in the Light of the Jan Długosz's Annals and Some of the Old Polish Military Treatises", Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Wood Tar and Pitch: 235

It would have been unimaginable to erase Visenya and Rhaenys Targaryen, Aegon’s sister-wives, from the histories. Women without whom Aegon could not have conquered Westeros, their symbolic value is too grand…but generations later, the legacy of female Targaryens had dwindled, and Daenerys is seen as merely an attractive pawn to be sold to the highest bidder, as happened eventually to the Borijin princesses. Berman, Ruth (1984). "Victorian Dragons". Children's Literature in Education. 15: 220–233. doi: 10.1007/BF01137186. S2CID 162244996.She wasn’t a Borijin, but she captured the spirit of the Great Khan in ways no other ruler had in two hundred years.

West, Martin Litchfield (2007), Indo-European Poetry and Myth, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-928075-9Mayor, Adrienne (2005), Fossil Legends of the First Americans, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-11345-9