Hi everybody, my girlfriend showed me a Tiktok about manga authors adding unnecessary incest plotlines to their works and I thought immediately “They are from Monterrey” (we are from Mexico).

I remembered that the States have a similar joke about Alabama and I started wondering if other countries also have a state or city associated with people who are, for some unknown reason, attrated to their cousins.

Here in Mexico there even is a kind of saying for these people «A la prima se le arrima».

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Which has a few interesting details:

    • The Hittite version claimed the Egyptians asked for peace; the Egyptian version claims the Hittites asked for peace
    • The signatories for the Hittites were the king and his wife, the “great lady” Paduhepa

    Also, about a century and a half earlier, there was nearly a marriage between an Egyptian queen who asked for one of the sons of the Hittite king, something so unheard of they commented about how mind blowing the request was. Unfortunately the prince they sent was assassinated en route, as otherwise the joint marriage would have established a kingdom the largest the region had seen or would see until Alexander the Great.

    (That story and what may have really been going on with the queen involved is probably one of the most interesting hidden details in all of history as best I’ve seen.)

    • Bananigans
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, I’d never read about Paduhepa. That’s a fun rabbit hole.