Born and raised in Chelsea((Manhattan) NYC of Puerto Rican parents,I love Dragons,also like Bats,Wolves,cats,birds of prey,reptiles,practice Dragon style and Wing Chung Gung Fu(won first place in begginers forms competitions in madison square garden NYC at S.Henry Cho's all American open championships representing Wing Hong Yips Dragon style Kung Fu club NYC 1988)soon after joined the Navy & became aviation mechanic during the first Gulf war was on the Samuel B.Roberts(FFG-58)during my tour of duty now a pensioned war vet,I like the Gothic sub-culture Fashion & music, Magicks:Kabbala,Wicca,I read The teachings of The Messia Yeshua (Messianic Judaism) I like to read The Bible and The book of Tao.I play Latin percussion & some bass guitar,graduated from Art and Design HS NYC(paint& draw) Free Twisted layouts at twistedsiblings.com
glitter-graphics.com To the Chinese, the Imperial Dragon or Lung, is considered to be the primary of four benevolent spiritual animals, the other three being the phoenix, the unicorn and the tortoise. Having unrivaled wizdom and power the dragon symbolized the Emperors of China themselves, who were actually called dragons. Hsi, China's first emperor, was said to have a dragon's tail. Shen Nung, his successor was supposed to have been fathered by a dragon. The Chinese Emperor sat on a dragon throne, rode in a dragon boat and slept in a dragon bed. To distinguish the Chinese imperial dragon from all other dragons, only the Imperial Dragon bore five claws.
glitter-graphics.com....The dragon represented a combination of the ancient elements, Earth/Fire and Air/Water, endowing the creature with powers of Fortitude and Fluidity ... Wisdom and Immortality,in addition to being notorious shape shifters. A Yang symbol, the Taoists saw the dragon as a personification of the Tao itself--"the Dragon reveals himself only to vanish." Shaolin Buddhists saw him as a vision of enlightened truth, to be felt, but never to be held. Certain very old men were called dragons,,, these being well versed in the life-supporting skills of herbal medicine, agriculture, and kung fu. In early China, these skills were surely a matter of life or death, and those so educated were held in high esteem.
