Sinbad the sailor

See also: Sinbad

Sinbad the sailor (also spelled “Sindbad”, of the Persian سندباد, Sandbād ) is the name of the legend of origin Perse which tells the adventures of a sailor of the time of the dynasty of the Abbassides. During its voyages in the seas of the east of the Africa and the south of the Asia, Sinbad saw many fantastic adventures.

The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the sailor are found, wrongly, in the 133e history (volume 6) of the tales of the Thousand and One Nights . The adventures are based, on the one hand, on true experiments of marine S of the Indian Ocean and, on the other hand, on old texts of various sources (of which the Odyssey of Homère, as well as many Persian legends and Indians).

Etymology

One allots several etymology S to the name “Sinbad”:
  • “Es-Sindibád off the Sea” (“Es-Sindibád of the sea”)
  • “Siddhapati”, word Sanskrit which mean “the lord of wise” the
  • “Bidpai” (Bidyápati)
  • “ábád”, area Perse
  • “Sind” or “Sindh”, the name of origin of the Indus and an area of the Pakistan.
  • “Baad”, means “wind” in Persian.
  • “Sānbǎo”, name with the birth of the Moslem explorer Chinese Zheng He.

Adaptations

Several films, televised series, cartoons and novels are based on its adventures, of which:

Adventures

Introduction

Thousand and One Nights , a collection of stories among which one finds the adventures of Sindbad, tell the 1001 nights when the young girl of the vizier Shéhérazade invents Conte S in order to prevent her husband to kill her in the morning, curious which it is to know the continuation of the history.

Towards the end of the 536e night, Shéhérazade begins the history from Sindbad: at the time of Haroun Al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad, a poor deliveryman of the name of Hindbad takes a pause on a bench close to the grid of the house of a commercial rich person. Whereas he complains with Allah in connection with the injustices about a world which makes it possible to the rich person to fully live whereas him must work like a navvy and remain poor, the owner of the places intends it and sends to seek the deliveryman. The Sindbad rich person called to poor Hindbad that it became rich by the chance, during its seven fantastic voyages which it now will tell.

The first voyage

After having spent the goods left in heritage by his/her father, Sindbad goes in seas in order to remake its fortune. It accosts on what seems an island, but which is actually a gigantic fish on which trees pushed. The fish plunges in the sea and the boat leaves while giving up Sindbad.

It is saved by a boat passing by there, thanks to Allah. It unloads on an island where he becomes the friend of king Mirhage, which names directing port. One day, the proper ship of Sindbad arrives at the port: Sindbad then claims its due and, after having received many present of the king, goes back to Baghdad where he saw a life of pleasures.

At the end of the account, Sindbad the sailor gives to hundred gold coins to Hindbad the deliveryman and asks him to return the following day in order to hear the history of its second voyage.

The second voyage

During the second day of the history of Sinbad, the 549e night of Sheherezade, it tells how it was tired of its life of pleasures and set out again at sea, had by the idea to travel in the world of the men and to visit their cities and their islands.

Accidentally given up by its crew, it is only found in an inaccessible valley of giant snakes and birds even more gigantic, Rokh. Trapped in the nest of one of these creatures, it realizes that the ground of the nest is papered of Diamant S.

It is learned there that merchants collect diamonds while launching large blocks of meats in the valley, blocks which the birds bring back in their nests: diamonds are stuck to the meat and the merchants collect them while bringing back the meat using a cord. In order to leave the nest, Sinbad sticks to a side of meat, carrying with him a large invaluable stone bag.

Helped by the merchants, it turns over to Badhdad with a diamond fortune.

The second voyage

(Collective Summary of the second voyage of Sindbad)

In Baghdad, Sindbad was bored and decided to embark for new adventures. It was abandoned on a deserted island from where it escaped thanks to the Rock'n'roll: this fabulous bird. It arrived on an island, in a valley decorated with diamonds, but infested enormous snakes. To protect itself some, it sheltered in a cave of which it condemned the entry for the night using a large stone. The following day, it collected the largest gems, and saw merchants throwing sides of meat in the valley to try to recover some. It clung to one these pieces of meat. An eagle sought it and took it along in its nest. When the merchants arrived, Sindbad was shown and they brought back it in their housing. With their assistance it turned over at his place.

The third voyage

Unceasingly in search of adventures, Sinbad sets out again of Al Basra.

By bad luck, him and his/her companions are imprisoned on an island by a large creature which resembles a Cyclops with a black skin, only one eye such burning coal, long and hanging lips like those of the Chameau X and the ears during on its shoulders and the nails of its hands like the claws of a Lion.

The monster eats the crew one by one, begin with largest. Sinbad works out a plan to plug the giant with a wood end soaked in fire. Thus, the crew flees with their raft which they had built going ahead of of other problems, including one gigantic snake. The friends of the cyclops had seen that it missed his eye and committed themselves at sea killing Sinbad and his/her companions (without success).

It turns over then to Baghdad, more in form that never, where the festivities of its return make him forget the horrors of its voyage.

The fourth voyage

Always in the search of adventures, Sinbad takes again the sea and, as the practice, its ship runs aground. The naked savages with which it finds give them to eat a plant which removes any will to them. Sinbad refuses to eat this plant and, when the Cannibale S are wearied of him, he escapes. A group of itinerant merchants bring back it on their own island, where them king éprend of friendship for Sinbad and gives him a rich person and beautiful life.

A little too late, Sinbad learns a particular habit from the island: with died husband or of the wife, the other partner is buried alive with that or this one, both in their more beautiful atours. Despite everything her attention, the woman of Sinbad falls ill and dies a little later leaving Sinbad imprisoned in an underground cave, a tomb commune, with a water pot and a few pieces of bread. At the time when its thin provisions are past, another couple, the husband having died and the alive woman, are thrown in the cave; Sinbad kills the woman and takes her rations.

Soon, it has a good quantity of bread and water and much of gold and jewels, but is always unable to escape, until the day when an wild animal shows him a passage towards outside, high with the top of the ocean. From there, a ship collects it and brings back it to Baghdad, where it gives its richnesses to the poor and starts again with living a life of pleasures.

Note : This episode points out the history of Aristomenes of Messénie which escaped from the hole, where it had been thrown, thanks to a fox. At a certain time, the Arabs studied much the Greek Littérature.

The fifth voyage

After one moment of rest and pleasures and by looking at its assets, Sinbad forgets all the dangers and the suffering which he lived and feels still the need to take the broad one.

While passing close to a deserted island, the crew of Sinbad notices a gigantic egg that Sinbad recognizes as being that of a Rokh. Curious, the crew unloads, breaks egg and ends up making cook the oisillon for supper. Sinbad recognizes the imprudence of their gesture and recalls his crew on board.

However, the parents of the egg rokh catch up with the ship and destroy it while launching there large rocks which they transport in their claws. Failed again, Sinbad is made slave, with the service of the Old man of the sea which travels on the shoulders of Sinbad, his legs around its neck. They travel nights and days, until Sinbad wishes to die. It ends up convincing the old man to drink until enivrer, kills it shortly after and escapes.

A boat brings back it in the city of the Monkeys, a place where the inhabitants at sea spend each night on boats, whereas their city is abandoned with the monkeys man-eaters. In spite of the monkeys, Sinbad gathers its fortune and possibly finds a ship which will be able to bring back it to Baghdad.

(In the translation of Mardrus, the monkeys are not anthropophagous, but the inhabitants of the city grow rich because of them. They launch stones on the monkeys perched in trees known as “coconut of India”. Mad, the monkeys launch in answer of the coconuts, which are sold expensive. Sindbad takes part and is made a considerable fortune in it.)

Note : The Old man of the sea could draw his origin from the African habit to travel on the back of his slaves.

The sixth voyage

Sinbad set out again at sea and is failed this time on an island whose rivers are filled with invaluable stones whose floods shine of Ambergris.

However, there is no food and his/her companions die the ones after the others, until it only finds. By its gift to escape, it finds the city of the king de Serendib (Sri Lanka). The king is curious by what Sinbad tells him in connection with Haroun Al-Rashid and asks him to bring present of its share to Baghdad: a cut cut in single a Ruby, a made bed of the skin of the snake which swallowed an elephant, a hundred and thousand pots of Aloès Indian, a young person and beautiful slave, as well as other present.

When Sinbad turns over to Baghdad, the caliph is very interested by what he says to him of the ground of Serendib.

The seventh voyage

Sinbad takes again the sea with the usual result.

Lost on an afflicted island, it manufactures a raft and floats to a big city. Over there, the chief of the merchants Marie Sinbad to his daughter, names it like heir and dies.

The inhabitants of this city transform themselves once a month into birds and Sinbad is made carry by one of them until highest of the sky, where he hears the angels glorifier Allah. However, hearing it, the angels launch fire to him which consumes the man-bird. The man-birds are annoyed against Sinbad and isolate it on the top from a mountain where two young people, being used them as Allah, give him a gilded stick.

From return downtown, Sinbad learns by his wife that the man-birds are malefic, but that itself and his/her father is not like them. According to the suggestions of his wife, Sinbad sells all her assets and turns over with it to Baghdad, where, finally, it ends up living quiet, not seeking more adventures.

In one second version of the seventh voyage, one adds that Sinbad is seen requiring by caliph Haroun Al-Rashid to turn over a gift to king de Serendib. Although reticent to take again the sea, its adventures having been rather unhappy, Sinbad its only diplomatic voyage undertakes. King de Serendip is very happy gifts of the caliph and enriches Sinbad by present. With the return, the usual catastrophe occurs: Sinbad is captured and sold like slave. Its Master asks him to kill out of the elephants with an arc and arrows, which it does until the king of the elephants transports it to the cemetery of elephants. The Master of Sinbad is so happy by the quantity of Ivoire that it finds there that it releases Sinbad which turns over to Baghdad, rich in ivory and gold.

Conclusion

Here finishes the history of Sinbad the sailor, whereas king Shahryar is content with the history of Shéhérazade, without another mention of Hindbad the deliveryman.

Anecdote

Sinbad the sailor is one of the Pseudonyme S which Edmond Dantès employs in the novel the Count of Assembles-Cristo of Alexandre Dumas.

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