Posted on 06/26/2018 9:10:31 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
More than a thousand years before the first European explorer reached Korea’s shores, the Persian Empire was writing love stories about Korean princesses.
Recently, historians took a second look an old Persian epic written around 500 AD and realized that, at the center of the tale, was the unusual story of a Persian prince marrying a Korean princess.
It’s an incredible discovery. Up until recently, we weren’t sure that the Persians of that time even knew Korea existed. This new revelation shows Persia didn’t just make contact with Korea – these countries were intimately connected.
The story is called the Kushnameh, and, in itself, it’s hardly a new discovery. It’s one of the most popular stories to come out of the Persian Empire, one that’s been told and retold countless times in the 1,500 years since it was written.
Korea comes into play when the story starts to focus on a young, noble prince of Persia named Abtin. For his whole life, Abtin has been forced to live in the woods, hiding from the evil Kus the Tusked. He has only one thing to keep him safe: a magic book that tells him his future. It’s almost like breaking the fourth wall – Abtin has a copy of the book we’re reading, and he’s not above flipping ahead a few pages to see how it all ends. In fact, that’s just what he does. He reads the next chapter and finds out that he’s supposed to go to the Silla kingdom of Korea, and – after briefly getting confused and going to China – he winds up being welcomed with open arms by the king of Silla.
From here, the story is just page after page of lavish descriptions of how beautiful Korea is...
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
Then they started sharing atomic secrets.
GGG subject PING!
When Turkish soldiers got to Korea to fight in the Korean war as part of the UN contingent, they and the Koreans could speak, if haltingly.
I’m not sure why anyone would be surprised.
If you take the “1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights” (the full 17 volume Sir Richard Burton edition) and you mark out on a map where many of the stories journeyed, you will find that to get to the Land of the Djinn (which is done in several stories), you will travel across Asia, through India, China and then to the Korean Peninsula then you will across the sea to Japan where the Djinn live. I suppose that means that the Japanese are the Djinn.
And you’ll also discover that Aladdin was from China.
OF course! it all makes sense now...the Djinn are what we call Ninjas!
OF course! it all makes sense now...the Djinn are what we call Ninjas!
I hadn’t made that connection, but I’ll bet you are right.
I just finished a book on the history of Japan.
It is pretty much a tangled web, maybe even weird.
One thing that is pretty much agreed on is that the current occupants originally settled in the South and came from Korea.
Turks, Koreans, Finns, and some Baltics have linguistic similarities and if you look at Finns and Baltics, like my wife’s uncle’s wife and in laws, the physical similarities are evident.
Long as in legs?
What about Alibaba?
Gangnam Bump.
So men dig Asian chicks. Stop the presses.
If you’re OK with that, sure. ;-)
He never says whether the Persian visited South Korea or North Korea. Could make a big difference.
Maybe a free unified Korea and free Iran will renew their friendship and live happily ever after, just like Obama planned. Oops...
If you read the “Song of Roland” (Also called Orlando Furioso), the story takes place in the time of Charlemagne. It is a companion to the King Arthur Legends. In it you will find Merlin and his lover Morgana and just about every beautiful and desired damsel is from the Orient and has Kung Fu skills. Evidently, the knights of old liked Asian women also.
What was really enlightening was that Morgan Le Fey is the Lady of the Lake and when Merlin created Excalibur he made 2 identical copies and gave one to Morgana. He told her the first one would be broken by Arthur and cast into the Lake. She was to hide the broken one and return the copy to Arthur.
In the Korean drama Empress Ki, it is mentioned that the Mongol empire in China prized women from Korea or Goryeo.
Here is the story of a Korean woman who rose through the ranks.
https://www1.ondramanice.io/drama/empress-ki-detail
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