*gasp!*

[ssurgul]

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

(And if you opt for this test too, just be warned that his spelling and grammar are subpar, even for the 'net.)

You are the Dragon. In medieval Europe, dragons were considered mostly evil and a generally bad omin. Christianity linked the dragon with Satan because of the dragon's snake-like apperance. However, to the Orient cultures the dragon was a symbol of widom and roalty. It was a benign animal and the fifth creature of the Chinese zodiac. It resided over the east and the sunsrise. It was also said to bring rain and the springtime. The dragon is interesting because it combines all four elements: air, earth, fire, and water. It could fly, had the horns of a ox, breathed fire, and resided over the moon.

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Re: Shocked!

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Yet again, I'll have to say I'm not sure what you're asking.

Trying to make such a distinction in this case is difficult business, at best. When dealing with mythologicals, and their archetypals representations into the collective psyche of a given society, you're immediately locked into dealing with that society and it's modes of classificiation, interaction, and psychological makeup when dealing with classification systems.

Indicating this via your own comments, (they've already figured out how to classify you independently), is somewhat misleading. They've already analyzed, to their desired ends, what it means to be A, or B, or C. The testing answers given to the typically artificial questions are meant to help sterilize the answers beyond actual interaction, and reduce responses down to their core association: underlying motivation that speaks most closely to one person, most of the time.

We as a species really do only have a set number of reaction types for each situation/case/mindset. Each of these has a specific continuum on which we reside, fluctuating from tiny jitters to massive polar swings, depending on information, outlook, mood, the stars, the tides, the butterfly in Peking and a host of other complex, interactive variables. It is the summation of those types, and how they interact that define us, both to ourselves and to the world outside. Enough of these align in most everyone that, more or less, we do tend to fall within specific parameters to be fairly readily classified as this, or that. After all, if one or two are dominant, or none is dominant, there has been an association made to something in the past that fits that bill. In some cases, you only have to look a little harder than Bullfinch's Mythology.

So to ask if this is what I am, or this is what I want society to see me as is something of a redundancy. I view myself as a dragon, more or less. But, when I say this, I am saying that I view myself within a specific set of parameters which our collective unconcious dictates is that thing known as 'dragon', and dragons behave this way and that. These behaviors line up more or less with many of my own. And thus my perception of what I am lines up with the common interpretations of that mythical being. But those interpretations come from society, told and retold down through the ages as lessons to the deeper mind. Consequently, I would have to directly answer your question as either, as with regard to these sorts of tests, there's not enough of a difference to be worth discussing.