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| Enigmas, Paradoxes Seemingly unresolveable: Yet somehow, if one relaxes one's heart and opens one's mind, and wonders the right wonders, they become resolvable. Take Saint George and his dragon. If earth is a good world, one asks oneself, Why the dragon? Because he was needed. Can you, in fact, imagine any way George could have made it to sainthood without him? |
According to the Golden Legend, the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place somewhere he called "Silene", in Libya; the Golden Legend is the first to place this story in Libya as a sufficiently exotic locale, where a dragon might be found. In the tenth-century Georgian narrative, the place is the fictional city of Lasia.
