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 | | The re lose connection of the Hyperboreans with the cult of Apollo D say be seen by comparing the Hyperborean myths, the characters f which by their names mostly recall Apollo or Artemis (Agyieus, ~)pis, Hecaergos, Loxo), with the ceremonial of the Apolline St rorship. |
 | | As the latter conveyed sacrificial o ifts to Delos hidden in wheat-straw, so at the Thargelia a sheaf 01 f corn was carried round in procession, concealing a symbol of A he god (for other resemblances see Crusiuss article). |
 | | Although ~ he Hyperborean legends are mainly connected with Delphi and)elos, traces of them are found in Argos (the stories of Heracles, vi ~erseus, To), Attica, Macedonia, Thrace, Sicily and Italy (Which 0 ~iebuhr indeed considers their original home). |
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