- published: 02 Oct 2011
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A sail is a catchment device designed to receive and redirect a force upon a generous surface area. Traditionally, the surface was engineered of woven fabric and supported by a mast, whose purpose is to propel a sailing vessel. Sails may be configured in many ways to include traditionally understood maritime purposes, as well as land vehicles and solar collection purposes. The rich encyclopedic history of maritime sails suggests alternative uses of the technology well documented.
Archaeological studies of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture ceramics show use of sailing boats from the sixth millennium onwards. Excavations of the Ubaid period (c. 6000 -4300 BC) in Mesopotamia provides direct evidence of sailing boats. Sails from ancient Egypt are depicted around 3200 BCE, where reed boats sailed upstream against the River Nile's current. Ancient Sumerians used square rigged sailing boats at about the same time, and it is believed they established sea trading routes as far away as the Indus valley. The proto-Austronesian words for sail, lay(r), and other rigging parts date to about 3000 BCE when this group began their Pacific expansion.Greeks and Phoenicians began trading by ship by around 1,200 BCE.
It's just some of the things he said
Keep going 'round my head
I'm gonna save my soul
Before things get impossible
I should've seen the signs
And they were right before my eyes
He could've saved my soul
A fog across the bay
I think I saw him sail away
Now like those before
I'm just another body washed up on the shore
A curse on my bones
We made a pact among the stones
He could've saved my soul
He could've saved my soul
Take me in your arms...
Do you recall the time
I think you just must have lost your mind
Affected by the sun
And how the heavens lined up as we made our run
Blood stained the lanes
And I could barely feel the pain
I loved you so much more
I loved you so much more
Take me in your arms...
We saw gunpowder paint the sky
Demons hung out to dry
How many hours to go
Before the next ice age suffocates the globe
Sandstones remain
A sea of angels crossed the plain
They never save my soul
They never save my soul
Take me in your arms...
Pact among the stones