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  Thule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thule as Tile on the Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus.
Thule or Tile is in classic sources a place, usually an island, in the far north, often Scandinavia.
In Procopius, Thule was a large island in the north inhabited by 25 tribes.
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 Thule Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thule had among its goals the desire to prove that the Aryan race came from a lost continent, perhaps Atlantis.
The Thule Society, which espoused ideas of extreme nationalism, race mysticism, virulent anti-Semitism, and the occult, was formed shortly after the end of World War I in Munich by von Sebottendorf.
Thule agents infiltrated armed formations of the Communist Party in Munich and plotted to destroy the party, hatching plans to kidnap the party's leader, Kurt Eisner, and launching an attack against Munich's Communist government on April 30, 1919.
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 Thule
To the ancient Greeks, Thule was the northernmost habitable region of the world.
Then he went to "Thule" which was described as the outermost of all countries, where the night was very short- 2 or 3 hours long.
On maps, Thule usually appears north or northwest of England and Ireland or in the northernmost parts of Asia.
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 Encyclopedia: Thule (myth)
Thule Society emblem Nazi mysticism is a term used to describe a quasi-religious undercurrent of Nazism; it denotes the combination of Nazism with occultism, esotericism, cryptohistory, and/or the paranormal.
Thule is also the name given to a modern settlement in Greenland.
Occult Thule is a name commonly associated with northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things: The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of Scandinavia.
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 Qaanaaq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qaanaaq (roughly pronounced KAH-nahk), formerly Thule, is a town and municipality in northwestern Greenland.
It borders on Upernavik municipality on the south, on the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park on the east, on the Arctic Ocean on the north, and on the Nares Strait, which separates North Greenland from Ellesmere Island of Nunavut, Canada on the west.
The Thule Air Base (Pituffik), which is not part of Qanaaq or any other municipality (it is, like the Greenland National Park, unincorporated territory), is a part of the U.S. network of early warning radars, and is an important facility in the recent discussion of the National Missile Defense (NMD).
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 Thule (myth) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thule is in classic sources a place, usually an island, in the far north, often Scandinavia.
In Thea Beckman's triology The Children of Thule, Thule is the name used for Greenland, which has received an enjoyable climate after the poles shifted due to a nuclear war.
The Romans used the generic phrase Ultima Thule to denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world".
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ultima_Thule   (362 words)

  
 Thule (myth) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pytheas claimed that Thule was six days north of (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) Britain, and that the (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point) midsummer sun never set there.
Thule is sometimes seen to have some commonality with (According to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake) Atlantis.
Ultima Thule is also the name of a (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland) Swedish Nationalist rock group.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thule_(myth).htm   (343 words)

  
 myth
The term is sometimes used pejoratively in reference to common beliefs of a culture or for the beliefs of a religion to imply that the story is both fanciful and fictional.
One notable genre of myth is the creation myth, a myth which explains how the Universe we observe was created, usually by God or gods.
Another genre of myth is the Trickster myth, a myth explaining events as the result of pranks or tricks played by one of the gods.
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 Reviews of The Ice Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thule stands for what is terrifying, indeed inimical in Nature, though seekers and finders, from dedicated Victorian travellers to its greatest hero and explorer Fridtjof Nansen, have been moved to the depths of their being by the beauty and majesty of northern mountains, fjords, ice-cap and floe- or berg-filled seas.
Her objective was Thule, the Atlantis of the Artic, the mysterious and unfortunately misplaced island of the ice seas.
Thule was, in many sea-faring tales, positioned not in the Arctic seas but between the earth and the world of the gods - that is, somewhere beyond the reach of mortals.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Many have viewed myths merely as poor versions of history, and have attempted to analyze and explicate them in nonsacred ways to account for their apparent absurdity.
The name of Thule was originally attached to the main settlement for the Thule Eskimos, founded in 1910 by the arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen as a trading post on the south side of Wolstenholme Fjord at the s...
Thule Thulethoo´lē, name given by the ancients to the most northerly land of Europe.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thule is a name commonly associated with northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things: The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of ScandinaviaThe Thule culture, ancestors of the InuitQaanaaq, a town in northwest Greenland formerly known as Thule* The T..
Thule Air Base, Qaanaaq, Greenland, is the United States Air Force's northernmost base (76°32' North latitude, 68°50' West longitude), located 695 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 947 miles south of the North Pole on the northwest side of the island of Greenland.
Thule Island is one of the southermost of the South Sandwich Islands.
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 Rudolf von Sebottendorf
He was an important figure in the activities of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German political organization that was a precursor of the Nazi Party.
Glauer eventually became the prime mover behind the Thule Society, which was one of the most important precursors of the Nazi Party, although the Nazi Party itself, once it had become ascendant, obliterated the Thule Society.
The Thule Society, which espoused ideas of extreme nationalism, race mysticism, virulent anti-Semitism, and the occult, was formed shortly after the end of World War I in Munich by Glauer.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Sebottendorf.html   (436 words)

  
 Thule
Scholars have tried to identify Thule with Iceland because they do not understand the meaning of the conception that Thule was at the end of the world.
Since Thule was understood to be the westernmost limit of the Egypt-centered world, the most important part of Ptolemy’s diamond is its western part.
Other geographers identified Thule with the mathematical position of the NE corner of the rectangle of the Oikoumene, which would be 63°N,0°P for Ptolemy.
www.metrum.org /mapping/thule.htm   (1633 words)

  
 Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Around this same time, the mythical nature of Atlantis was combined with other lost continent myths such as Mu and Lemuria by popular figures in the occult and the growing new age phenomenon.
Similarly, Alfred Rosenberg (The Myth of the Twentieth Century, 1930) spoke of a "nordic-atlantean" or "aryan-nordic" master race.
In response, some recent theories propose that elements of Plato's story was derived from earlier myths including that of the (now mostly sunken) Sunda Plain, which is sometimes called Sundaland in Southeast Asia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantis   (2228 words)

  
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Thule is Iceland [northwest of Britain, Ireland, and the Orkneys] according to Solinus and Servius, in disagreement with Strabo and Pliny (however in agreement with Claudius Ptolemy).
Thule is finally mentioned and a clear definition of the solar conditions is given for the entire year span.
Thule (or northwest Norway) according to Pytheas is decreed to have 6 months of absolute sunlight while the remaining half year is spent in complete darkness during winter.
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 Laura Lee News - The True History of Humanity
The Origins of Mankind are shrouded in myth and allegory and like all good adventure stories begin with the ultimate of disasters - after which, we the reluctant viewers are asked to believe that things progress towards a happy ending where we all get to live happily ever after.
It is said that the war between the upstarts and the Gods lasted long – and myth is recorded in Greece, Rome, and the Norse sagas of the battle between the Giants, Serpents and the Gods.
Britain in myth was always known as the land of the dead or Hades and it is suggested that Hades, the isle of Skye, the Styx and many western place names and practices are still commemorated in place names and folklore.
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 Read about Thule (myth) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Thule (myth) and learn about Thule (myth) here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Roman mythologies, is a place, usually an island, in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia.
Pytheas claimed that Thule was six days north of Britain, and that the
The most likely locale for Thule is nowadays considered to be the coast of Norway; other historians think it was the Shetland Islands,
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The legend of "Thule" was a variation on the Atlantis myth.
Thule was supposed to be a nation of superbeings with a utopian civilization.
The Thule Society was a magnet for rich businessmen and aristo- crats, who provided it with considerable financial wherewithal to carry out its ambitious conspiratorial schemes.
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 Grey Lodge Occult Review :: SF, Occult Sciences and Nazi Myths ::
Thus the Atlantis myth and Glacial Cosmogony became the dominant themes of German SF in the 1920s and 1930s.
Nowhere is there a development within a species that is comparable in degree and kind to that which man must have undergone in order to cover the distance between a quasi-simian state and his present mode of being....
Myths cannot have been constructed without any foundation.
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Myths, liquor, disease, and internal dissension among Indians, along with a changing flora and fauna, all led to the success of the westward trek of Americans.\line Language: English \line Period: ca 1760-1800.\line Subject: Turner, Frederick Jackson.
They reveal myths that influence, though often unconsciously, judgments on the place of aboriginal populations in the political arena that are perceived as c ommon sense.
The most recurrent myth effecting relations of the general population with aboriginal peoples is the myth of the frontier.\line Language: English\line Period: 1990's.\line Subject: Canada.
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 Thule (mytologi) - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Thule, latin för "norden", och Ultima Thule, "yttersta norden", är begrepp inom grekisk och romersk mytologi som används för att beteckna ett landområde längst i norr.
Ptolemaios ansåg att Ultima Thule låg vid den bebodda världens allra nordligaste gräns.
Historikern Alf Henrikson har författat en roman titulerad Pytheas resa till Thule som är en blandning av historiska fakta och vilda fantasier.
sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ultima_Thule_%28geografiskt_begrepp%29   (185 words)

  
 Thule
In Classical myth, the legendary island situated in the extreme north sea.
The name of the island Foula (positioned in the North Atlantic near the Shetland Islands) is derived from Thule.
This is because the first inhabitants believed that the island was the mythical Thule.
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 Thule (myth)
Thule is, in the Greek and Roman mythologies, a place, usually an island, in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia.
Some Occult groups, most notably the German Thule Gesellschaft (ca.
Thule was also mentioned by Traditionalist author Julius Evola in connection with Hyperborea (literally, far north) and Atlantis.
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 Books | Heartless voids and immensities
Ultima Thule, the end of the world, the frozen wilderness, its scale and emptiness inimical to the limited human imagination and, both as a thought and, in the event of encountering it, a source of wordless terror.
She flies to the furthest north to get to the promisingly forbidden US Thule Air Base at 80 N. Her determination was admirable, but caused this reader some anxiety, fearing that she might actually find what she was looking for.
The Inuits who settled at the place founded by Rasmussen, which he called Thule, were moved further north in the Cold War by the US military, who needed a base from which they might conveniently bomb Russia.
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 Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some are more-or-less serious attempts at legitimate scholarly or archaeological works; others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means.
In the 19th century, the Atlantis myth became conflated with Mu and Lemuria.
Occultist Helena Blavatsky (The Secret Doctrine, 1888) introduced the idea of the Atlanteans as cultural heroes (an aspect that is absent in Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat to the Greeks), and described its inhabitants as the fourth "Root Race", succeeded by the "Aryan race".
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 Thule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thule (myth) : A Graeco-Roman name for a supposed country.
Thule (Star Wars planet) : A fictionalplanet from the Star Wars universe.
The Thule Society, an early forerunner of the Nazi Party.
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Buy Thule racks Thule car roof racks, bike, ski and cargo carriers in stock at 10% off.
Greenland -> History The earliest Palaeo-Eskimo cultures had already arrived in Greenland from Canada by c.2,500 BC The Thule Eskimo culture first arrived in N Greenland c.AD 900 and in the following 1,000 years spread to both W and E Greenland.
He analyzed myths and archaeological artifacts in an attempt to reconstruct the spiritual and social wo...
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 Armitage House/Sneak Previews
As World War II rages, the SS Karotechia, is calling upon the obscene powers of the Cthulhu Mythos to ensure a Nazi victory, meddling in powers they do not understand and cannot hope to control.
Thule was supposed to be a Nazi myth, but the defector brings proof of Thule’s reality.
But the true masters of Thule are fighting their own war.
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