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Meaning of blemias



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

blemias
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It was a mythical people of Roman culture who were believed to live in southern Egypt and in what is now Sudan. They were characterized by being a race of headless men, with their eyes under their shoulders at the height of the nipples, and with their mouths at the height of the thorax.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

According to Pliny the Elder and the Roman mythological tradition, race of headless men with eyes and mouth on their chests who would have lived in ancient times in the area of Sudan and Ethiopia. The myth would arise from the warrior vestments of the Blemios, Blemites or Bleminges, a nomadic people who inhabited from the second millennium BC. C . in Upper Egypt and Nubia.

  










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