Saracens
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Saracens is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 29, 2024 and September 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “just before the Saracens’ final victory over the Crusaders”; “nickname “the Pale Death of the Saracens”“. It most often appears alongside India, Israel, Mormonism.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 29, 2024
- Last seen: September 24, 2024
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- Mormonism (2 shared issues)
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- A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
2: Italy’s Basilica of the Holy House is supposedly built atop the house where the Virgin Mary raised Jesus. Why is the Virgin Mary’s house in Italy? Supposedly angels carried it there from Israel just before the Saracens’ final victory over the Crusaders. Sounds suspicious, but the house in the Basilica appears to be a genuine 1st century Palestinian dwelling. One theory: it was shipped to Italy by the Angelos family, and the angels story was a later mistranslation.
Inline links: Basilica of the Holy House
I was walking my dog and passed a place where I stood two years ago and googled to figure out why Emperor Nikephorous II Phokas had the nickname “the Pale Death of the Saracens,” which I had read somewhere. As I walked by yesterday, I remembered doing that.