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 that I saw him as in my childhood.         On his seven voyages, Sinbad encountered every obstacle one could …showed first 75 words of 512 total…

…showed last 75 words of 512 total…love for adventure. But now, I tend to think that Sinbad the sailor may not have been the great adventure that he has been made out to be. Maybe there is more to the tale of Sinbad than we know. Maybe something was lost in the translation from Arabic. Maybe parts of the story vanished over the years. Who knows? Either way, I don't think we are getting the whole story of Sinbad the sailor.