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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 ....
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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 ....
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