A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE GREAT NAGA AND DRAGON FROM RELIGION AND FAITH POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

          Faith is one of the thought that human beings hold on to. We can say that “Faith engenders worship”. The fear of snakes is one of the important factors to cause the worship of snakes for the sake of morale. Nowadays, many people believe in the snakes from the stories of the Great Naga and Dragon which appear in the Buddhist scriptures. From the Comparative Study between the Great Naga and Dragon from Religious point of view, it was found that both creatures share something in common. Both animals had the desire to be liberated from being an animal. Together with listening to the sermon, then they obtained the spiritual eyes, believed in Buddhism, and later were liberated from being an animal to become god, Besides from the religious point of view, the Comparative Study between the Great Naga and Dragon from Faith point of view showed that they shared there were both similarities and differences as follows; both of them were worshiped as the symbols of luck and abundance. However, they had different supernatural power, the Great Naga can spit fire and the dragon can fly. Both animals still cannot be proved whether they existed or not since they often appeared in myths and tales.