The Blemmyes are a race of legendary creatures that were said to live in Africa, in Nubia, Kush, or Ethiopia, generally south of Egypt. They were believed to be acephalous (headless) monsters who had eyes and mouths in their bellies. Pliny the Elder writes of them that Blemmyes traduntur capita abesse, ore et oculis pectore adfixis. ("It is said that the Blemmyes have no heads, and that their mouth and eyes are put in their chests".) Image File history File links Blemmyes. ... Image File history File links Blemmyes. ... Events April 11 - Battle of Ceresole - French forces under the Comte dEnghien defeat Imperial forces under the Marques Del Vasto near Turin. ... Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer. ... Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. ... For creatures that are wholly fictional creations, see Category:Fictional species. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ... Today Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom. ... Aerial view of the pyramids at Meroe Kush or Cush was an African civilization south of Ancient Egypt in Nubia, which is located in the modern day North African nation of Sudan. ... Acephali (from a-, without, and kephale, head) is a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader; and in particular to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter Mongus, the patriarch of Alexandria, and remained... Monster is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ...
The Blemmyes had adopted the ancient pharaonic religion, and after Egypt's conversion to Christianity, they fought the Romans and Upper Egyptians on religious grounds...
By the fourth century AD, Lower Nubia was divided between the Nubadae in the south and the Blemmyes in the north...
However, as the Blemmyes were devoted to the goddess Isis, Marcian permitted them continued access to the Temple of Isis at Philae in order to worship there.
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