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[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 26: Ancient History XIII and Earlier

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for Fun, not to change anything, what would you pick?

Language of the people crossing the Bering Straights Land Bridge

Shingi Waō aka Himiko Queen of Yamatai-koku in Wakoku, Yayoi Period

Origin of the Cagots

Pre-Celtic Britain

Invention of Damascus Steel 500CE

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[maklodes]

Cagots feel like they’re from some planet on a trite 1963 1967 Star Trek episode about how stupid bigotry is or something. Like, no one can tell why so many people hated Cagots. They had no apparent physical, cultural, or religious differences from the surrounding population. There were theories about why they were despised, but they were mostly stupid. People were just like "FUCK those guys" for no discernable reason.

[kandikyssis]

Thinking about the Cagots again

[elisheanblog]

Du sang bleu, des dieux bleus et une noblesse plutôt noire

Du sang bleu, des dieux bleus et une noblesse plutôt noire

Le sang des humains possède une couleur rouge et ce depuis, sans aucun doute, son apparition sur cette terre. Mais il existe bon nombre d’allusions aussi au sang bleu…

En Amérique du Sud, le nom de « sang bleu » était donné aux métis nés d’un croisement d’indigène, de Noir et d’Européen (sangre azul).

Lamartine utilise aussi ce terme en parlant du « sang rouge des Francs et du sang bleu des…

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[elisheanblog]

Cagots, Nagas, Dropas. Peuple serpentesque ou Reptiliens venus d'ailleurs

Cagots, Nagas, Dropas. Peuple serpentesque ou Reptiliens venus d’ailleurs

Qui étaient les Cagots) qui vécurent près de six siècles en Europe, et surtout d’où venait réellement ce peuple qui… tomba du ciel ?!

On ne sait pas d’où vient ce peuple. On le dit « tombé du ciel ».

Dans le cas d’une hypothèse extraterrestre, on est en droit à juste titre de s’étonner du manque de remous que cette affaire semble avoir créé. Comment à une époque ou le moindre fait particulier est…

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[activitesparanormales]

Le Mystère des cagots - A.P. / d.h. photomontage, 4 tirages numériques

[beautiful-basque-country]

Explain Cagots.

Ask nicely instead of giving us orders, and we might.

[pilferingapples]

Today in The Discovery of France liveblogging (although this is actually from some earlier chapters): Cagots! Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did EVERYONE ELSE IN FRANCE hate them?!?

Seriously. There were apparently people in an awful lot of villages called the Cagot (and variants thereof), and they were super discriminated against- all the classic social Jerk Moves, like no shared fountains/worship/roads/ fields, couldn't use the same tools, had to take the jobs no one else wanted, etc. And...no one appears to know why?  I mean there were all SORTS of stories, from like "they are the descendants of Roman Invaders" to "WE are the descendants of Romans and they're not" and the usual "because supernatural and/ or religious reasons" but nothing lines up? Like the best guess is that they were descendants of an old carpenter's guild but then what's wrong with carpenters?!?

anyway it held for multiple otherwise very different communities (see the whole Romans thing there) andI don't have any deep knowledge or thoughts to bring to this

I am just baffled and apparently want everyone to share that, so uh. There you all go. Cagots! Be baffled with me!