![]() ![]() ![]() This map depicts "a traditional Islamic projection of the world as a flat disk surrounded by the sundering seas which are restrained by the encircling mountains of Qaf". And because of the S-shape, the Sun being positioned in the middle of the S, it's transported simultaneously to the top and the bottom ends of the S, visible above and below the Earth by the same paths of aether that allows for crossing the equator.Taken from Zekeriya Kazvinî's "Acaib-ül Mahlûkat" (The Wonders of Creation). Right at the centre, you'd need to be at a very high altitude to be visible that's where the Sun is. To cross the equator at a higher altitude, you end up closer to the centre of the discs. ![]() (There are other things in the 'iris' to abuse the analogy, but we're focused on the Sun). It's like an eye you have the white, where there's no space, the iris, where there is some, and the pupil right in the centre as the Sun. That's what's key to the Sun, because now we go back to remembering that there is a bubble of space, right in the centre. The higher you are like, say, in a plane, the further from the inside edge of the discs you'll be. ![]() There's no distance to travel, so you immediately cross to the right hand side, and you're still moving down, so you'll come out still moving left on the bottom right corner. You're still being pushed down by the flow of aether (gravity), as well as carried inwards. On the top left corner of that diagram, you move left to cross the equator. He's sketched the paths through the inside, as well. That's not relevant just yet, but just including it for the sake of completion).Ĭloser to the inside of the discs though, on that diagram, there is no space. There is where all the aether from above and below flows to, and it flows in and can't immediately flow out, so there's a bubble of space. (The one exception to that rule is right at the centre, between the two discs. You've got an ever-decreasing amount of aether as you descend, until you get inside the Earth. The basic idea is that at the equator, there's no aether as it always flows on. For reference purposes, here's JRowe's sketch of the whole thing: ![]()
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