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Mythic Heros: Sinbad The Sailor - Paper

Mythic Heros: Sinbad The Sailor

When I think about mythic heroes, for many years the first name that
came to mind was Sinbad: Sinbad the sailor. In his days as an adventurer, he
went on seven fantastic voyages which earned him fame for the rest of his life.
Yet, now in retrospect, I no longer consider him to be the great adventurer that
I saw him as in my childhood.
On his seven voyages, Sinbad encountered every obstacle one could
possibly think of. He and his crew met up with: a fish so large, many mistook
it for an island, an island where rocs (enormous birds (their eggs were often
mistaken for buildings)) still lived, cannibals, giants, and even herds of angry
elephants. On each and everyone one of his famed ...

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adventure. These
amazing things just seemed to always happen to him. He normally set out as a
merchant, carrying goods from one exotic land to another. Yet, on each of these
trips, something incredible happened to him and his crew, resulting in a dead
crew and a fantastic story for Sinbad the sailor.
Secondly, all of Sinbad's great adventures occurred sequentially. In
other words, he went immediately from one adventure to another without so much
as a nap in between. This man never had a quiet boat ride in the entire span of
time in which his adventures took place.
Another interesting point is the manner in which Sinbad always left and
returned to his home port in Baghdad. All seven times, he left with a full crew
and carrying the goods of a local merchant. Yet all seven times he returned, he
was alone, the crew having died in the early part of the respective adventure.
All seven times, he returned without the goods that he was to take to market,
but he often returned with ...

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Added: 8/31/2007 11:41:24 AM
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