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  Hyperborea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece, near the Ural Mountains.
According to Herodotus (4.13), the Hyperboreans lived beyond the Arimaspians and were visited by Aristeas, who is said to have written a hexameter poem (now lost) dealing with them.
He also connected the Aryans and their Hyperborean gods to the Sun and the Allies and the Jews to the Moon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hyperborea   (540 words)

  
 HYPERBOREANS - LoveToKnow Article on HYPERBOREANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HY/HYPERBOREANS.htm   (529 words)

  
 Classical Greeks and the Hyperboreans (Nordics).. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The neighbouring peoples of the Hyperboreans are vying for temperate land because the nearby area is not as blessed as that of the Hyperboreans (protected from negative climate effects by a natural resource).
The legend of the Hyperboreans is undoubtedly a myth of inverted ethnocentrism or satire.
The similarities there are endless in that both the Hyperborean land and Thule are believed to be at the edge of the known world (Scandinavia), cannot be reached by land or sea in the physical sense, and share a relationship with the Mediterranean cultures to the south, socially and economically.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=151713   (3275 words)

  
 "Externae Gentes: Scandinavia Romana" (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Regardless of the identity of the Hyperboreans relatively ascribed to various ancient races by modern historians, it is their ethnographic function in Greek society that is highly relevant.
As for the Hyperboreans themselves, they have transcended humanity through political, economic, social, and religious perfection because they live at the edge of the known mortal world and the unknown numinous world ("beyond the north wind" like the Isles of the Blessed): the best of both worlds in terms of climate and prosperity.
Noteworthy is the seamless evolution and interplay among the Hyperborean, Thule, and Scandinavian traditions inherent in ancient history as a foreshadowing of things to come in the Middle Ages with the Vikings and the eventual assimilation of Scandinavia within the folds of Christendom (Europe).
www.anctil.org /users/eric/hist413.html   (7401 words)

  
 "The Hyperboreans: Classical Greek Notions of Northern Europe during the fifth century BCE" (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is hardly surprising considering that the Hyperboreans were described as living in perpetual bliss, content with what they have been provided with by the bounty of their land and thus having no reason to expand or displace their culture.
The Hyperboreans, unlike their Ethiopian counterparts, directly engage Greek values and sensibilities in the sense that they are closely related (in legend) to the foundation of two Greek sanctuaries to Apollo, Delphi and Delos.
The similarities there are endless in that both the Hyperborean land and Thule are believed to be at the edge of the known world (Scandinavia), cannot be reached by land or sea in the physical sense, and share a relationship with the Mediterranean cultures to the south, socially and economically (Stefansson, 3-23 and Chevallier, 341-346).
www.anctil.org /users/eric/hist205.html   (2925 words)

  
 Hyperboreans
They are said to be the oldest of the human race, the most virtuous, and the most happy; to dwell for some thousand years under a cloudless sky, in fields yielding double harvests, and in the enjoyment of perpetual spring.
Apollo spends the winter among the Hyperboreans, and also the heroes Heracles and Perseus visited them.
In Howard’s stories, Conan often battled a people known as the Hyperboreans, who were portrayed as evil slave traders.
bama.ua.edu /~chron001   (508 words)

  
 Behind the North Wind by Lin Carter
Homer is rather indirectly, the grandfather of the Hyperborean mythos.
The Hyperboreans, they said, were beautiful naked people who lived in the far north-the name, Hyperborea, is usually believed to come from ?pe?ß??e??, a Greek term meaning "behind the North Wind"- and their country was sometimes described as an island and some- times as part of the northern coast of Asia or Europe.
This last Hyperborean story, by the way, is the sequel to the first; for therein the thief Satampra Zeiros makes his reappearance for the first time after his introduction twenty-seven years earlier.
www.eldritchdark.com /misc/behind_the_north_wind.html   (1397 words)

  
 Eskimos - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Eskimo is slang for Hyperborean, one of the Eight Races of Homo sapiens.
They were able to navigate by dead reckoning across 1700 kilometers of frozen sea ice in whiteout conditions -- relying only on the feel of ice forming on their nasal hairs -- and then return to their starting point by the next day.
It is not true that Hyperboreans use the fat blobs behind a caribou's eyeball to lubricate their parcheesi machines.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Eskimos   (414 words)

  
 Hyperborean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first of the aboriginal Hyborian tribes to discover the use of stone in building, the Hyperboreans abandoned a primitive, nomadic way of life to settle in huge walled dwellings of stone, consequently founding the very first, but most isolated, of the Hyborian kingdoms.
Hyperborean sorcerers are highly prized in the northern wilds, but they are little respected in Hyborian lands.
According to tales, Conan was taken captive by Hyperborean slave traders early in his youth.
hyboria.xoth.net /races/human_hyperborean.htm   (439 words)

  
 Chapter 2 The Otherworld, from Lundy Isle of Avalon by Mystic Realms
He departed from his temple at Delphi for three months every year to live among the Hyperboreans, from whom straw-wrapped offerings were delivered each year to the temple of Apollo on Delos.
The Greek poet Pindar wrote of a temple sacred to Apollo, the sun god, in the land of the Hyperboreans.
It is also said that from this island the moon appears very near to the earth, also that Apollo visits this island every nineteen years, one complete revolution of the stars.
www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /lioa/ch02.htm   (2517 words)

  
 The official homepage of Arild Andersen
In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans were a race who inhabited the northern portion of the earth, beyond the great mountains whose caverns were thought to send forth the blasts of the north wind that chilled the people of Hellas.
The Hyperboreans were especially favoured by the god of light, Apollo, whose mother Leto had been born amongst them.
To promote Hyperborean, the nine-piece Andersen ensemble incorporating the Cikada Quartet is touring Norway, Sweden and Denmark in October.
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 Apollo greek roman sun god, from Lundy, Isle of Avalon by Mystic Realms
Another legend describes the return of Apollo travelled from the land of The Hyperboreans to Delphi in a chariot drawn by swans.
Hecateus quoted by Diodorus; 'The Greeks link 'Apollo' with the Hyperborean land (the lands at the back of the north winds)'....'His mother 'Leto' was born there.' He describes a country that may be Britain...
In this Hyperborean land a magnificent sacred precinct of Apollo and a notable temple which is adorned with many votive offerings and is spherical in shape dedicated to Apollo to which he returned, in person, every nineteen years'.
www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /godsetc/apollo.htm   (573 words)

  
 The Hyperborean Page
There is also a city, sacred to the same God, most of the inhabitants of which are harpers, who continually play upon their harps in the temple, and sing hymns to the God, extoling his actions.
The Hyperboreans use a peculiar dialect, and have a remarkable attachment to the Greeks, especially to the Athenians and the Delians, deducing their friendship from remote periods.
It is related that some Greeks formerly visited the Hyperboreans, with whom they left consecrated gifts of great value, and also that in ancient times Abaris, coming from the Hyperboreans into Greece, renewed their family intercourse with the Delians.
www.geocities.com /Hyperborean   (1631 words)

  
 The Nazi UFO Enigma.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Traditionally, the Hyperboreans were in contact with extraterrestrials or ‘alien cultures’, in some versions of this, there was interbreeding.
This escalated into the use of atomic weapons, resulting in a pyrrhic victory for the Hyperboreans, who, as well as defeating their enemies, virtually destroyed themselves in the process.
In common with radiation damage in recent times, the surviving Hyperboreans were soon faced with the prospect of mutated and otherwise damaged offspring.
www.fsr.org.uk /spi/nazinth.htm   (2080 words)

  
 The Internet Classics Archive | The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
They declare that certain offerings, packed in wheaten straw, were brought from the country of the Hyperboreans into Scythia, and that the Scythians received them and passed them on to their neighbours upon the west, who continued to pass them on until at last they reached the Adriatic.
The damsels sent by the Hyperboreans died in Delos; and in their honour all the Delian girls and youths are wont to cut off their hair.
As for the tale of Abaris, who is said to have been a Hyperborean, and to have gone with his arrow all round the world without once eating, I shall pass it by in silence.
classics.mit.edu /Herodotus/history.4.iv.html   (11190 words)

  
 SlowMotionDoomsday.Com - Hyperborea & The Rhipaean Mountains
HYPERBOREI: The legendary race of the Hyperboreans, though mentioned neither in the Iliad nor Odyssey, are spoken of in the poem of the Epigoni and in Hesiod and occur in traditions connected with the temples of Tempe, Delphi, and Delos.
The region of the "Griffins" and the Hyperboreans commences beyond the North slope of the "chain of the Aegipodes" (the Altai).
The legends connected with this imagined range of mountains lingered for a long period in Grecian literature, as may be seen from the statements of Hecataeus of Abdera and Aristotle.
www.slowmotiondoomsday.com /rhipaean.html   (1758 words)

  
 Adventures with Cassiopaea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hyperboreans also have a language, we are informed, which is peculiar to them, and are most friendly disposed towards the Greeks, and especially towards the Athenians and the Delians, who have inherited this goodwill from most ancient times.
Diodorus remark about the relations between the Hyperboreans and the Athenians reminds us of the statement of Plato that the Atlanteans were at war with the Athenians, and we wonder if the Hyperboreans are the real "early Athenians." After all, the Greeks are said to be "Sons of the North Wind," Boreas.
The legendary connection between the Hyperboreans and the Delians leads us to another interesting remark of Herodotus who tells us that Leto, the mother of Apollo, was born on the island of the Hyperboreans.
www.cassiopaea.com /cassiopaea/adventures233.htm   (1819 words)

  
 Stonehenge - Who Raised its Megaliths?
Hecateus wrote that the Hyperboreans regularly sent offerings to the island of Delos via a network of couriers, indicating that they had trusted contacts across west and central Europe.
By the terms of their treaty with the Mycaeneans they were permitted to set sail for Britain, where they joined the Hyperboreans in 1171 B.C. Before the 3113 tidal wave, astronomical knowledge in the north had belonged to the Faan and to their close relatives in Ireland, the Danaan (see 'The United Kingdom').
The histories which record the line of Hyperborean kings record also the earlier presence of Chaldees, the wizards of the Danaan and of the Faan.
www.angelfire.com /home/thefaery4   (1493 words)

  
 Mythic detritus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The remnant Atlanteans had known of Iona, which they called Aberuk, or ‘distant place of the heart', from the canticles of the Hyperboreans, who came to Atlantis from the North polar region long before that Atlantic continent's demise.
The Hyperboreans, who were descendants of a Sirian star race, called the place Iuma, meaning ‘bright land'.
Most of the Hebridean islands were at one time visited and inhabited by Hyperboreans, and then after Atlantis' demise, by the Hyperborean-Atlantean mixed race, the Rutans.
corbidity.blogspot.com   (1551 words)

  
 Grey Lodge Occult Review :: Issue #6 :: Invisible Eagle
The war between the Hyperboreans and the Demiurge resulted in the founding of a Second Hyperborea at the North Pole, taking the form of a physical, circular continent from which the Hyperboreans began to organise the spiritualisation of the Earth.
The Hyperboreans' plans seemed to be going well enough, until they made the mistake of having sexual intercourse with the creations of the Demiurge.
Serrano believes that the Hollow Earth is still inhabited by the First Hyperboreans and that the Nazis found a way through to their realm via the South Pole, a belief shared (apparently) by the French writer Jean Robin - although it must be added that Robin is no denier of the Holocaust.
www.greylodge.org /occultreview/glor_006/invisible.htm   (3212 words)

  
 THE MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN OF THE GUANCHES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Actually, the Hyperboreans were held to live in the mysterious Thule, the divide of the world that lay beyond the ocean.
So, the mythical Hyperboreans, the mysterious "peoples that live beyond the Boreal winds" are not those who lived in the Alps, above Europe, but the ones who lived beyond the monsoon winds that blow in the northern coasts of Indonesia and nearby regions.
The reality of the North European Hyperboreans could never be established in realistic bases, and their postulation has only led to paradoxes and difficulties.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_guanches.htm   (6464 words)

  
 Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols by Laura Knight-Jadczyk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
And in the same way Abaris, a Hyperborean, came to Greece in ancient times and renewed the goodwill and kinship of his people to the Delians.
That there was regular contact between the Greeks and the Hyperboreans over many centuries does not seem to be in doubt.
The Hyperboreans were said to have introduced the Greeks to the worship of Apollo, but it is just as likely that the relationship goes much further back.
www.cassiopaea.org /cass/Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/article-lkj-04-03-06-f.htm   (3792 words)

  
 The Interpretation of Scythian, Sarmatian and Meotian-Sarmatian Motifs and Records by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
I believe that two virgins from the Hyperboreans, Arga and Opis (The History of Herodotus: Book IV), are indeed the Scythian goddesses.
I think that the winged gods denote Hyperboreans, and the whole plot denotes their country (the place of the dead).
A bear may be a symbol of some feasts celebrated on March 24, April 12, May 9 and September 14 in the Slavonic pagan beliefs (35).
public.kubsu.ru /~usr02898/sl29.htm   (7158 words)

  
 The Northern Lights Route - Myths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The classical Greeks dreamed of the Hyperboreans that lived to the north of the northern wind.
Nietzsche, the philosopher, used the Hyperboreans as a simile for his "Übermensch".
Poets of the Romantic Age had reveries, too, of the far North.
www.ub.uit.no /northernlights/eng/myths.htm   (231 words)

  
 History and Overview
Diodorus Sicilus includes Britain among the Hyperborean islands and says that the soil produces two harvests a year there.
The most famous of these antediluvian mainframes is of course the Hyperborean Monolith, Stonehenge.
But Stonehenge was one among many monolithic computing devices which were networked together across the isle of Britain and no doubt connected to much more advanced devices at the Hyperborean base at the north pole.
www.jbum.com /idt/history.html   (978 words)

  
 Hyperborean Mainframes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Perhaps the most famous of Hyperborean mainframes are the famous Stonehenge monoliths, described by Sicilus as a "huge, round temple" for worshipping Apollo, the sun god.
It is obvious that the Hyperboreans did not use solar power, as the weather in this part of the world is not conducive to the manufacture of an efficient solar cell.
It is also obvious that they did not use wind power, as the massive structures required for such an undertaking would surely have survived.
www.jbum.com /idt/hyperboreans.html   (285 words)

  
 Built Up Logically
The Sea of Amalcius at the Pole itself (we'll speak of the legendary Open Polar Sea another day), the island of Elixoea in the sea; a river Carambyca on the island, and a Parapanisus River leading from the outer country (past Cimmeris?) to the sea.
Beyond these mountains the country of the Hyperboreans reaches down to the other sea." Since the gryphons live between the Arimaspi and the Hyperboreans, they must dwell in these mountains.
I suggest Mount Meru and Uttarakuru lie to the east of the Rhipaeans, as India lies east of the Caspian Sea.
www.geocities.com /laxaria/gryphonworld.html   (2897 words)

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