dragon is one's own binding of oneself to one's own ego." Dragonslayer characters Antiquity Enki Ninurta Inanna Marduk Ra Teshub Indra Baal El (deity) Yahweh Michael Daniel Apollo Zeus Jupiter Perseus Heracles Saint George Vahagn Tarḫunz Cadmus Rostam Fereydun Garshasp Yu the Great Erlang Shen Li Ji Eurybarus Mwindo Medieval and early Modern legend Guy of Warwick Baldr Beowulf Sigurd or Siegfried Dietrich von Bern Tristan Margaret the Virgin Heinrich von Winkelried Gawain Dobrynya Nikitich Skuba Dratewka/Krakus Drangue Susanoo Nezha Lancelot Făt-Frumos Fráech Bayajidda Bahrām Gūr Iovan Iorgovan Haymon Tokoyo Wada Heita Tanenaga John Lambton Mamadi Sefe Dekote (Africa) Benzaiten aka Saraswati Teodosio de Goñi Piers Shonks Dieudonné de Gozon Tolkien's legendarium Túrin Turambar Eärendil Fram Bard the Bowman References Further reading Bauman, Richard. "A Sixteenth Century Version of The Dragon-Slayer". In: Fabula vol. 11, no. Jahresband, 1970, pp. 137-143. https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1515/fabl.1970.11.1.137 d'Huy, Julien. (2013). "Le motif du dragon serait paléolithique: mythologie et archéologie". In: Préhistoire du Sud-Ouest. 21. pp. 195–215. d'Huy, Julien. (2014). "Mythologie et statistique. Reconstructions, évolution et origines paléolithiques du combat contre le dragon". In: Mythologie française. pp. 17–23. Jagiełło, Mieszek (2021). “Thoughts on the Symbolism and Origin of Apollo’s Fight Against the Pythian Snake”. In: Classica Cracoviensia 24 (December): 25-39. https://doi.org/10.12797/CC.24.2021.24.02. External links Mythological archetypes Fairy tale stock characters