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10. Flying Carpets & Ancient Airports: A Grab Bag of Bad Theories!

It‘s Probably (not) Aliens!

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Idolatus and the Ark of the Covenant

In the cabra nagast, there is a scene where the queen of sheba receives a flying carpet from king solomon. And despite saying it's a flying carpet, they relike, well, if you like re interpret words,. If a throne can just be a flying object, then obviously a flying carpet could be a spaceship. That's exactly right. It was the original chariots of the gods. Flying carpets show up throughout middle throat history in sort of north africa, the middle east, an also ethiopia. Some cultural transfer going on herehere.

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