Georgia is one of a cluster of three northern Coptic people, the other two being Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Armenians are the least caucasian of the trio, in physical features, which makes them self conscious and assertive. I watched a documentary last week which featured Georgia. Many names ended in Valli or Villi, one was very close to my town of Olavalli (Olaulim ) which pleased me to no end. They no longer share a border with Muslim lands, so none of the old forays that once saw the killing of a Georgian queen who later became an Orthodoax saint. Her bones were moved to Goa by a monk, forgotten for three hundred years in the ruins of St. Catherines church and were unearthed by a Portuguese -Hindu historian. We loaned them the relics and looked the other way when the returned a set of fakes. A very grateful nation has since showered Goa with numerous gifts. Most of them resemble Parsis. Many had the high, pointed cheek bones of Saraswats. The low Keltic set bring instant recognition of the Irish in England, and disparagement.
