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Magical Flying Carpets- ( Myth or Real? )

                 We all have heard and seen about this Magical Flying Carpets in the stories of  "Sinbad and the 1001 Arabian Nights" and later seen in the television for the first time in more modern versions of the tale, most visibly Walt Disney’s 1992  'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp'.

These carpets are known also as Magical flying carpets, as they transport their owners from one place to another through the air.


Making of Real Magical Flying Carpets:

                               A group of university graduates from Princeton in America recently managed to create a technology called 'Ripple Power' which was able to make a small piece of material float. By driving air under a thin sheet of plastic using an electrical current they can make it move at around at a rate of around one centimetre per second. 

This doesn't seem much at the moment, but its inventor thinks with more research they might be able to introduce more expansive movements to the prototype, so perhaps seeing a real magic carpet isn't fantasy after all.

Using Of Name "Operation Magic Carpet":

The name 'operation magic carpet' has twice been used in history for ferrying large numbers of vulnerable groups to safety. 


> The first occasion, which coincided Allied victory in World War Two, saw over 8 million American military personnel being transported home from Europe and various Pacific locations. Over 370 navy ships were used during this enormous procedure which wasn't completed until September 1946. 

> The second time, the term was actually a nickname for a similar process officially called 'Operation On Wings of Eagles' which saw 50,000 Jews relocate to Israel from deprived parts of Yemen.
  
History of Flying Carpets: Real Evidence


Factual evidence for what was a long-standing myth has now been found by a French explorer, Henri Baq, in Iran. 

Baq has discovered scrolls of well-preserved manuscripts in underground cellars of an old assassin castle at Alamut, near the Caspian Sea. Written in the early thirteenth century by a Jewish scholar named Isaac Ben Sherira,these lost manuscripts shed new light on the real story behind the flying carpet of the Arabian Nights.

The discovery of these artefacts has thrown the scientific world into the most outrageous strife. Following their translation from Persian into English by Professor CGD Septimus, the renowned linguist, a hastily organised conference of eminent scholars from all over the world was called at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. 

Baq’s discovery came under flak from many historians who insisted that the manuscripts were forgeries. 

M. Baq, who could not attend the conference because of the birth of his child, was defended by Professor Septimus, who argued that the new findings should be properly investigated. The manuscripts are now being carbon-dated at the Instituto Leonardo da Vinci, Trieste.

According to Ben Sherira, Muslim rulers used to consider flying carpets as devil-inspired contraptions. Their existence was denied, their science suppressed, their manufacturers persecuted and any evidence about incidents involving them systematically erased. 

Although flying carpets were woven and sold till the late thirteenth century, the clientele for them was chiefly at the fringe of respectable society. 

Ben Sherira writes that flying carpets received a favourable nod from the establishment around 1213 AD, when a Toranian prince demonstrated their use in attacking an enemy castle by positioning a squadron of archers on them, so as to form a kind of airborne cavalry, the art otherwise floundered, and eventually perished in the onslaught of the Mongols.

The earliest mention of the flying carpet, according to Ben Sherira’s chronicle, was made in two ancient texts. 

The first of these is a book of ancient dialogues compiled by one Josephus and the other is a book of proverbs collected by Shamsha-Ad, a minister of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar

None of these works survives today, however, with their aid, Ben Sherira compiled a story relating to the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon that is not found elsewhere. 

Located at the southern tip of Arabia, the land of Sheba occupied the area of present-day Yemen, although some geographers claim that Ethiopia or ancient Abyssinia was also part of its territory. 

This country was ruled by a beautiful and powerful queen who is remembered in history as the Sheba of the Bible, the Saba or Makeda of the Ethiopian epic Kebra Negast, and the Bilqis of Islam.

At the inauguration of the queen in 977 BC, her alchemist-royal, a Talmudist, demonstrated small brown rugs that could hover a few feet above the ground. Many years later she sent a magnificent flying carpet to King Solomon. 

A token of love, it was of green sendal embroidered with gold and silver and studded with precious stones, and its length and breadth were such that all the king’s host could stand upon it. 

The king, who was preoccupied with building his temple in Jerusalem, could not receive the gift and gave it to his courtiers. When news of this cool reception reached the queen, she was heartbroken. 

She dismissed her artisans and never had anything to do with flying carpets again. The king and the queen eventually reconciled, but the wandering artisans found no abode for many years, and eventually had to settle near the town of Baghdad in Mesopotamia in c. 934 BC. 

Making Of Historical Magical Carpet:

In the Ben Sherira chronicle, certain passages describe the workings of a flying carpet. Unfortunately, much of the vocabulary used in these parts is indecipherable, so little has been understood about their method of propulsion.

 What is understood is that a flying carpet was spun on a loom like an ordinary carpet; the difference lay in the dyeing process. 

1. Here, the artisans had discovered a certain clay, ‘procured from mountains springs and untouched by human hand’, which, when superheated at ‘temperatures that exceeded those of the seventh ring of hell’ in a cauldron of boiling Grecian oil, acquired anti-magnetic properties. 

2. Now the Earth itself is a magnet, and has trillions of magnetic lines crossing it from the North to the South Pole. What the scientists did was to prepare this clay and dye the wool in it before weaving it on a loom. 

3. So, when the carpet was finally ready, it pulled itself away from the Earth and, depending on the concentration of clay used, hovered a few feet or several hundred feet above the ground. 

4. Propulsion went along the magnetic lines, which acted like aerial rails. Although they were known to the Druids in England and the Incas in South America, only recently are physicists beginning to rediscover the special properties of these so-called ‘fey-lines’.

References: 
> Ancient Origins

> Rug Doctor

> The Secret History of the Flying Carpet 

7 comments:

  1. Very Informative blog! Keep it up!!

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  2. Hey keep posting such good and meaningful articles.

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  3. Hey keep posting such good and meaningful articles.

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  4. i believe in magical flying carpet.. i have witness it twice in my childhood. i saw a flying carpet miles from our house. its flying west from my place...

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