From the Nasiri book:
Al Kalbi recited that God Most High brought a hundred horses out of the sea for our Lord Solomon, and they had wings, and that they were called “goodness”. And God knows best.
A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
From the Nasiri book:
Al Kalbi recited that God Most High brought a hundred horses out of the sea for our Lord Solomon, and they had wings, and that they were called “goodness”. And God knows best.
This is interesting in light of Zad al-Rakib’s association with the sea in the Guarmani version, as best I understand it; I think I may go re-read Guarmani’s section of the creation myths of the Arab horse, because I also have some recollection of him linking sea horses to Solomon. (I could be hopelessly garbling things here as well, of course.)
Kate, you are correct. The sea horses seems to be a topos in Arab horse mythology. It may come from Greece or it may an older Semitic substrate (see winged Phoenician horse: http://www.antiquities.org.il/hoards_eng.asp)