Secret History of the Flying Carpet

Iranian Cultural Heritage ^ | 7/21/04 | Iranian Cultural Heritage

[freedom44]

Flying carpet stories have been passed in Persian, Arabian, Mongolian, and other Orient cultures. GGG ping

[Old Professer]

Makes a man want to walk.

[counterpunch]

Saddam's Air Force discovered!

[SunkenCiv]

Sociological ping. :')

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[fr_freak]

Just wait until we bomb the @#$%&! out of them, then watch their carpets go flying!

[Don W]

Funny, I thought that rattlesnakes were only native to the Americas. How could Arab archers use stell tipped arrows dipped in rattlesnake venom before the discovery of the Americas, and before steel had ever been smelted? Iron, perhaps, but steel? No freakin way in h-e-double hockeysticks.

[Don W]

Oh, and if these flying carpets were anti-magnetic, what allowed the user to control their altitude and direction of travel?

This is just naother loadum of hokum.

[nopardons]

Lovely fairy tale reading,just before bed.

[freedom44]

err.. i don't think these stories are meant to be taken very seriously there Don. heh

[SunkenCiv]

Quite. :')

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[Don W]

You're probably right, but it had me going for a few minutes there. (BG)

[weegee]

On Ask The Imam they still believe in genies/djin.

[weegee]

When a prisoner told them that these contraptions were more agile than the steppes pony (a blasphemy to Mongol ears, if ever there was one), the great Khan beheaded him and had his skull made into a drinking mug. He ordered all flying carpets in his vast empire confiscated.

And thus was the end of arab air supremacy.

[johnboy]

not entirely a load of hokum. in fact, i own one ... an afghani bohkara. viewed at the right angle, and in the proper frame of mind, it acts as a single image stereogram, and the carpet does indeed appear to float approximately two feet above the ground. the effect is astonishing; frankly, i nearly dropped my drink the first time i noticed. it is now an after dinner parlor trick in my home.

[DeltaZulu]

(Oh goodie ... I get to post this one ...)

We're not just going to bomb them ... we're going to carpet bomb them. ;^)

[sully777]

I'm selling a bridge in Brooklyn. Anyone interested in purchasing a slightly used bridge? Tell you what, I'll even throw in a few flying carpets.

[Junior]

Of course! But it's a rip-roaring good story, nonetheless.

[wildbill]

Rattlesnake venom on arrows? Hmm. They must've flown it in from the Western Hemisphere on their carpets because there aren't rattlesnakes anywhere else as far as I know.

"The official line was that man was never intended to fly, and the flying carpet was a sacrilege to the order of things," eg. If God wanted man to fly he wouldn't have invented carpets.

Are we SURE this article is a translation from an ancient Persian document?

[Henchman]

As Chariots of Fire are UFOs, so too are the Flying Carpets "Hover Craft". Indeed, there is nothing new under the Sun!