Once upon a time, in the ancient city of Samarkand, lived the brother of the great King of Kings Shahryar -, whose name was Shah Zaman, he being also a Sultan, indeed the very Sultan of Samarkand.
He, that is, Shah Zaman, perchanced, as grievous fate befell him thus to see it, upon his first wife sleeping with the Royal cook, and witnessing such effrontery to himself, he cut them both twain.
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| Qasr-al-Sarab... al... Sarab Take note. |
Now everything is not exactly as it is today, in our modern times, in this ancient city of Samarkand, for things happen there concerning people who are well-hid from the eyes of modern man today.
What walked casually and almost openly amongst the ordinary population of this ancient city, today is counted with the breed of that which is jnn - that is, hidden, or 'of the Jann,' the well hidden, and the adapted...
It happened on the occasion of the incident of our story, that the elder brother of Shah Zaman, the great Shahanshah (King of Kings) Shahryar, himself, arrived at the palace of Shah Zaman, to make visit upon the opening of the Great Month of Blessings (we call it 'Ramadan') upon his younger brother the Sultan of Samarkand.
After sitting together for awhile, they came to the opinion that all among the breed of women were most evilly deceitful and duplicitous and wicked, and thus it was, that the Great King of Kings himself, purposed and vowed, to marry to himself a new bride each day, and to execute her by the next morn.
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| Today - tabletop fire bowls; no magic. |
Visiting Samarkand at the same time as Shahryar, was Ahmed, Prince of India - and he befell upon the beauty of Peribanou, Princess of the Fairies. Albeit it that that, is itself another tale.
Yet even so, Peribanou was a good friend of Dunyazad -, sister to the maiden Scheherazade whose name means 'of noble lineage.' Now, no one can be of truly noble lineage, who is not daughter of God Himself, and so, we must insist this is the great Zara (Sarab), Daughter of the King of All The Universe, disguised as a noble woman of the city of Samarkand, who, having heard of the vow of Shahryar, has herself purposed to enact a plan - since Mankind makes plans, but god is the Best of Planners.
We need go on no further in this account of ours here, except to make small mention of the family (the Banu) of the Fairies (the Peris). And alas, we would feign expand upon this surely, in high degree, just like the magical tent of Prince Ahmed, which, like the flying ship of the...
...very Queen of Amorous Affairs herself - which was able to expand in size as to fit an whole army, and contract so that it could go into one's pocket - alas but the accounts of all these affairs at Samarkand of this moment are lost in time, forgotten in the sands of ancient history, and blown away by the winds.
Thus to you all: Salaams! Lorang Jakzang! Baraka! Baraka! ...Amadaad. Till the next day.
I used to read 1001 Nights but never thought of the Jinn as ETs. Last night I was rather grossed out to find the concept of shared agency more or less being advanced in "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull." Spielberg's concept is actually more advanced than that though, as it demonstrates an equivalence between the biological creature and its "crafted" avatars. Thinking here of the scene where the crystal aliens spin around and blend into each other, to emerge as a rather cranky ET alien.
ReplyDeleteWasn't that cranky - just burned her eyeballs and her brains out. Was a bit ugly though. Yeah funny though, about the 'circle.' 'Jinn' is from 'jnn;' means unseen, hidden. Like when someone shoves you onto a disguised man-hole down into a 23 foot drop and you break both your legs in the fall. A little slip here, a little slip there. 'I want to see, I want to see!' Watch Hollywood to 'see.' Read here... ...to KNOW.
ReplyDeleteLet's see... there's 4 movies by Spielberg that I've seen, in addition to approx 12 hours of spielberg mini series "taken", plus the usual sci-fi like stargates which deal with ET conspiracies. The only original information I've noticed in your blog has been my own personal contributions, to the effect that most of the human psychology regarding the concepts of agency and self are basically mental illusions. I'm sure that stuff is already all out there already though. I have a few things to add but you are so quick to jump on whatever shallow political bait I throw out, quick to deflect, slow to absorb and fold in, I'm not sure I can see a way forward to any "real disclosure" in this space. Of course you have provided the rather vague stuff about the human brain and the "neutrino matrix." Without much of an explanation about how that would actually function, given that our brains would be whizzing through this univesal substance at enornmous speeds as we circle the sun and the sun circles the galaxy... You could ask your ET teachers about this... but you don't... because the rest of us are not worthy of the knowledge... of course.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime I'm over here watching the lights in my eyeballs take more interesting and complex forms, wondering if such things could possibly be the products of my own tiny imagination. To say nothing of the lights I have seen doing strange things in the sky. But those stories pale in comparison to the stuff spewed out on a daily basis on r/ufo.
My own limited attempts to "reach out" seem to be greeted with the response "do you really need to talk to us about this stuff, when you could make so much progress on your own yet..." So it seems that even if a real ET greeted me in the park with a nice Strabucks drink to pass the time, the best I could come up with these days would be "hello! ah... can I get back to you?"
Oh and then there's CS Lewis. And accoring to him it all comes from WG Wells. He wouldn't mention Jules Verne, of course.
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