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El arco iris en la concepción de los zenúes
The dragon, defined as a hybrid animal which one of the parties is that of a snake and is related to water, is known everywhere on the planet. We studied how people imagine the dragon by analyzing 69 features in 23 regions of the world. To do this, we used tools belonging to evolutionary biology (Bayesian tree parsimony, NeighborNet) and statistics (principal component analysis, principal coordinates, non-metric multidimensional scaling). These tools have allowed us to demonstrate the existence of a historical link between multiple representations of the dragon motif whose evolution follows some of the great migrations that allowed the settlement of the planet. We then statistically reconstructed proto-narrative, first during the coming out of Africa, then in Paleolithic Europe, and put it in parallel with the headless snakes discovered in the caves of Montespan and Tuc of Audoubert in French Pyrenees. Finally, we proposed a neural mechanism able to explain the permanence of the pattern through the millennia.
Erratum: la référence à Aarne et Thompson 1981 doit naturellement être remplacée par: Thompson, Stith. 1955–1958. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folk-Tales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediæval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends I–VI. 2nd rev. edn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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