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The
national Dacian banner
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The problem of the national Dacian banner is complicated enough.
This animal represented always in an offensive position, that is as a religious symbol of defense, can be found simultaneously in the Caucasus mountains, too. Evidently, their origin is in Former Asia, in the nervous and fierce Assyro - Babylonian art. But the bearers and modelers makers of this type could not have been on the European land others than the Traco - Cymmerians. The snake - body brings entirely new and special concepts into discussion. Thus, in case of the Dacians, it is about religious syncretism connected with other more complicated concepts. An allusion has been made above to the character of the Dacian dragon used on banners: it is a demon of the air and not a snake of the earth. Popular mythology has kept up till now the ancient Dacian concept of serpentine form of dragon that flies in the air under the Slavic name of 'zmeu' The ' Danubian Knights' also called 'Thracian Knights' , the ancient double indo - European divinity Acvinii - Discuri, the twin stars that ride on horseback through the air ruling over the tempests and saving people from death - are sometimes represented on the monuments in our region holding a Dacian banner. The ' Danubian Knights' are celestial Gods. They control the hurricane from which they took their zoomorphic symbol. And the supreme God that unbridles the hurricane, is the God of the thunderbolt, the God of the ' double hatchet' is Zamolxis. The snake - body which throws itself about in the blowing of the wind is the image of the tempest itself.' An English version by Sanda Nicoara
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The
Dacian 'Dragon' is represented on Traian's Column by a wolf head prolonged
in a snake body formed by some texture - strips which in the blowing
of the wind belly and thus constitute a horizontal, serpentine - form
banner.