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Nomad Neighbors | Refugees Acrossthe World and HistoryTOPICS: Exodus History Homo Sapiens Migration
Nomads Odyssey Refugees Romans Sabine Women
POSTED BY: MANUEL BLÁUAB APRIL 18, 2016
Actual circumstances compel new meanings to the wordrefugee. Con ict zones in countries close to the westernworld do not seem as far away as they did at the end ofthe 20th century. As the world becomes smaller, the socalled rst world countries are receiving a dramatic waveof refugees.
Entire populations ee from their homes ndingthemselves on a pilgrimage with what can only t in theirhands and pockets. As this wayfaring keeps on anuncertain rail while creating new settlements and newencounters between unknown societies, this new state ofaffairs has many points in common with anyother displacement.
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Even before the appearance of the Homo Sapiens, entiregroups have been migrating from one place of the Earthto the other. Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, Homo Erectus,Abilis and Ergaste, among others, populated several partsof the planet motivated by better conditions ofsurvival. Based on the same grounds, the homo sapienspopulated the planet since approximately 130.000 BC.And keep to do it so in this globalized era.
Every migration movement has its own causes and griefs.The urge to abandon the place where one has been raisedand make the endeavor for a brighter future has aconsiderable cost. To leave ones country usually means tolearn a new language, to adopt a new culture, food habits,and certainly make new relationships with others.
Refugees then
Different myths and stories describe the struggles andpains of those who had to migrate as current refugees:The Exodus book tells about the exile of the Jewish peoplewho escaped from slavery and the tyranny ofthe Pharaoh1 and wandered in the desert for 40-years; the Odyssey, the story of the Troy War Hero,Odysseus, who precipitated into an adventure of ten yearswith his crew before returning to Ithaca and herbeloved Penelope2.
Maybe the myth that shows the greatest passion ofan ancient-expat between their own land and the new oneought to be the The Abduction3 of the Sabine Women:
The newly born Roman Reign was in need for women
and the Sabines were the best target. Its rst
sovereign, Romulus, designed a perverted plan:
Romans would held festival after Neptune and would
invite everyone from the vicinities. Neighbors from
every near town came, but it were the Sabines who
showing much affect for the Romans, went with
their entire families ignoring what Romulus had in
mind for them.
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The Romans kidnapped the women and assaulted
the Sabine men who weren’t ready for ght and got
defeated easily and withdrawn to their town.
As Romans compulsively married the Sabine women,
making them breeders of the new generation, the
Sabine didn’t forget nor rgave the Romans for their
treason and planned a counter-attack to recuperate
their women and honor.
A roman woman, Tarpeia, helped the Sabines
entering the city by opening the gates in exchange of
what the soldiers carried in their arms, (golden
bracelets). Instead, the Sabine soldiers killed her
with their shields and threw her from a rock known
nowadays as Tarpeian Rock.
The battle between Romans and Sabines didn’t last
much due to the intervention of the Sabine-Roman
women who declaimed:
“If you are dissatis ed with the af nity betweenyou, if with our marriages, turn your resentmentagainst us; we are the cause of war, we of woundsand of bloodshed to our husbands and parents. Itwere better that we perish than live widowed andfatherless without one or other of you.4“
Such statement put an end to the war and from them
on Romans and Sabines lived in peace and
altogether under one reign.
The Sabine women had their spirits at ease with theirpast and new home, a struggle between them would meanthe annihilation of their past and actual history,furthermore of themselves. The only possible outcome, inorder to keep being, is to have every element in tolerantco-existence.
Refugees and modern nomads face different situations intheir wayfaring but the struggle of coming to a new
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1 There is no mention in the Old Testament of the identity of such Pharaoh, though somecollations narrowed the possible identity as Thutmose I, Ahmose I or even Ramesses II.
2 This may not be the story of a new settlement but it gathers the passion and anguish ofa traumatic voyage.
3 The original translation in English is The Rape of the Sabine Women, being rape a directtranslation from the latin word raptio which means abduction.
4Ab Urbe Condita Libri 27-25 BC – Known in English as Livy, is most complete history ofancient Rome by historian Titus Livius.
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