Because prehistoric men were incapable to explain certain facts in life, they began to fear about anything that was unknown to them, ultimately creating a mythology about an underworld realm where evil prevailed. When there was no light or at the middle of the night, those were the precise moments when the Forces of Evil ruled the Earth, according to the prehistoric beliefs.

By night, the Dark Abyss generated a terrible Dragon, a reptilian beast that shot fire by his jaws. The mentioned characteristics of this dragon appear in the Bible, where an “old serpent” is known as the incarnation of All Evil.

The presence of this evil being during the night anticipated the coming of plagues, battles, and other adversities. This creature is the Apocalypse Dragon, which in the Bible it is described: “In the sky appeared another signal, and I saw a dragon whose color was the fire, and had seven heads and ten horns, and on each head it had its own crown” (Apocalypse, 12:13). This last book of the Sacred Christian Scriptures generated the idea that the dragon is the symbol of Satan which must be defeated by the archangel Michael.

The religious beliefs about the “dragon slayers” originated diverse versions, some extremely bloody. One of versions is about Saint George, who managed to annihilate the dragon that scared the inhabitants of a town. Saint George ripped apart this hideous dragon because it was the representation of Evil.

Also in the old Epic, Gilgamesh, appears the “fierce Huwawa” (or Humbaba), that was a composed animal, a hybrid of giant and a dragon whose description concords with the one of the descriptions given at the Apocalypse book. It is said that the face of Huwawa is very strange, that it screams storms; its jaws shoot fire flames and it has a deadly breath.

It is no doubt that in Europe, through many centuries, dragons have been seen as the origin of Evil, associated with plagues, and tied closely to the image of the Antichrist. That is a derivation of the Biblical Hermeneutic.