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Why is the dragon idea globally distributed when no such creature existed? This book argues that the idea of dragons evolved from preliterate attempts to explain the causality and nature of rainbows.

v. 1. "Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples - Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans - and non-Indo-European ones - Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians - coexisted with each other for extended periods of times during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke and in the texts they wrote. By combining, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the complementary approaches of linguistics, history and philology, this book offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that was the bridge between the East and the West. With the contribution of Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Maurizio Viano, and Ilya Yakubovich"--