By Phil Masters
Sinbad the Sailor provides a retelling of the tales of the main well-known adventurer from a thousand and One Arabian Nights, with extra details protecting the heritage of the tales and the age during which they're set.
Stories say that during the age of the Caliph Haroun al-Rashid, within the port urban of Basra, there lived a prosperous guy named Sinbad the Sailor. Sinbad had nice stories to inform, of the seven voyages on which he bought his fortune, of the strangeness and terror he encountered alongside the best way, of big monsters and weird humans, and of storms at sea and lands past the horizon.
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He was called Sinbad,’ said the captain. At that, I looked at him closely, and realized that this was indeed the captain I knew, though he had been burned by the sun and weathered by hardship. ’ The captain scowled. ‘There is no strength save in Allah,’ he declared, ‘and no trust among men. You are trying to take our companion’s property for yourself! ’ I realized that I had been even more changed by time and circumstance than him. And so I drew breath, and told him the tale of how I had survived the giant fish.
As soon as I realized this, I formed a plan. I looked around and gathered up as many large diamonds as I could, filling my pockets and the folds of my garments. Then I removed my turban and once again twisted it into a rope. As I was doing so, another carcass came tumbling down, and I used my turban to lash myself to that, lying flat on the ground underneath it. After just a moment, I felt something grasp the carcass. One of the eagles had indeed picked it up, and I was carried up to the heights.
It’s just as likely that Homer’s story survived in the oral tradition of the eastern Mediterranean, merging with Arab folk-tales. A similar tale of a one-eyed man-eating giant who is blinded and then slain by a hero certainly also appears in Turkish legends. Unfortunately, it is very hard to guess exactly how the oral tradition worked across thousands of years and multiple languages, so the relationship between these stories may remain forever a mystery. Still, Sinbad and Odysseus, lost sailors facing monsters and the whims of fate, are definitely both part of a grand tradition.
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