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
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