You know how it is when you read or hear about something...
and then see it everywhere?
I have been reading a wonderful, amazing story set in Medieval Persia. The mythical creature The Simurgh is a main feature in the story. A few days later I was minding my own business looking up "Ottoman tulips" on eBay. I found a gorgeous robe from Uzbekistan with tulips embroidered on it. I can never leave well enough alone so I looked at the seller's other items. I found a robe embroidered with a "mythical bird." Hmmm, I thought, the illustration in the story, and the embroidered bird, as well as the description of the Simurgh were all the same. My conclusion was what a coincidence.
But wait! It gets weirder.
Before finding the robe on eBay I was perusing the items of another seller. I was looking at costume jewelry and had bookmarked a pin in the shape of a bird. Once I found the robe I thought: Wait a minute! The shape of the pin and the design of the mythical bird on the robe were identical.
As my coworker would say, commence singing "It's a Small World After All."
It's also nifty that a costume jewelry designer incorporated that myth in their jewelry. I wonder what the other pieces were produced in that season's collection.
(I wish that I had bought the pin, but I really didn't have any need for it and at $10 I thought it was too much for a broken pin even if it was the Simurgh. In retrospect I was wrong, I do need it.
I have been reading a wonderful, amazing story set in Medieval Persia. The mythical creature The Simurgh is a main feature in the story. A few days later I was minding my own business looking up "Ottoman tulips" on eBay. I found a gorgeous robe from Uzbekistan with tulips embroidered on it. I can never leave well enough alone so I looked at the seller's other items. I found a robe embroidered with a "mythical bird." Hmmm, I thought, the illustration in the story, and the embroidered bird, as well as the description of the Simurgh were all the same. My conclusion was what a coincidence.
But wait! It gets weirder.
Before finding the robe on eBay I was perusing the items of another seller. I was looking at costume jewelry and had bookmarked a pin in the shape of a bird. Once I found the robe I thought: Wait a minute! The shape of the pin and the design of the mythical bird on the robe were identical.
As my coworker would say, commence singing "It's a Small World After All."
It's also nifty that a costume jewelry designer incorporated that myth in their jewelry. I wonder what the other pieces were produced in that season's collection.
(I wish that I had bought the pin, but I really didn't have any need for it and at $10 I thought it was too much for a broken pin even if it was the Simurgh. In retrospect I was wrong, I do need it.