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ADG’s Note 2007: In The Dragon Chronicle No. 17, 2000,
the Dragon Watch column also included a material
by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Alastair McBeath:
In 1962, in the town of Constanta on the Romanian Black Sea coast,
a most interesting ancient statue was discovered,
representing the snake-god Glykon
(whose name means “the well-wisher” or “the friendly one” in Greek).
This snake-god was beloved in the later Greek religion
as a hypostasis of Asklepios, the Greek medicine god,
who was always associated with a serpent.
The cult of Glykon was introduced by the pseudo-prophet
Alexandros of Abonuteios in Paphlagonia in the 2nd century BCE.
It spread across Asia Minor and throughout the Roman Empire.
Today this statue of the coiled snake-god, with his upright head
can be seen in the Constanta Museum,
and is also reproduced on the Romanian 10000 lei banknote
which is woth about 75p.
ADG’s Note 2007: In the meantime, this banknote ceased to be available.
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ADG’s Note 2007: No.17 was the last of The Dragon Chronicle
as edited by Ade Dimmick.
Between 2000 and 2004 it had a new editor,
who changed its format and a part of its profile.
The last Romanian submission was the poem below,
published in No. 26, Spring 2004
(we reproduce its Romanian original version too):
LOCH NESS
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-
An innocent girl in a boat.
Melancholy in her soul
And the water
Undulating her thoughts:
“Why is life so beautiful?”
The Sun leaves
His last golden traces
Returning to
His unknown hermitage.
In a nearby bush,
A cruel Dragon
Lies in wait for
Tired Saint George.
(O tanara pe o barca.
Melancolia o incearca
Si apa
Ii leagana gandurile:
“De ce viata e atat de frumoasa?”
Soarele isi lasa
Ultimele urme de aur,
Intorcandu-se la
Nestiutu-i schit.
Dintr-un tufis apropiat,
Un aprig balaur
Il pandeste pe Sfantul Gheorghe
Cel obosit.)
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