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  61.                   <div class="submitted">Posted on October 20th, 2010 by Jennifer Liang</div>
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  67. <p>Taken from <cite>Man, Myth and Magic</cite> (volume 5, pages 693-4):</p>
  68. <blockquote><p> "The most striking of these is that the dragon in China is not, as in the  West, a representative or symbol of the powers of evil. On the contrary,  according to the old Chinese Book of Rites, the dragon as the chief of all  scaly animals is one of the four benevolent spiritual animals. This  reflects the general principle stated by Jung that 'every psychological  extreme secretly contains its own opposite,' which is expressed in Chinese  thought through the classical doctrine of Yang and Yin. That this principle  underlies the dragon's transformation into a beneficent being is confirmed  by Wang Fu's statement that the dragon's scales number 117, of which 81 are  imbued with Yang and 36 with Yin, because the dragon is partly a preserver  and partly a destroyer. Yang is also the male element and, as its  representative, the dragon also became at an early period a symbol of the  Emperor, and appeared on the Chinese flag. During the Manchu dynasty, the  dragon was held in especial esteem, and everything used by the Emperor was  described in terms of it: there was the dragon throne, dragon bed and so  on.
  69. </p><p>"Although Chinese dragons appeared at favorable moments to presage periods  of prosperity, and had been known to emit foam which had supernatural  powers of fertilization, they could also, when offended or disturbed, cause  a drought by gathering up all the water of a district in baskets, or they  could eclipse the sun. To propitiate them, the Chinese flew dragon kites,  especially at the mumming parade in the New Year."</p>
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  71. <p>The parallels with Rand and LTT are obvious.</p>
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