HYPERBOREA

Hyperborea has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the People, Dates, Places and Events category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

Hyperborea is one of the most important place in the history of european integration and will probably have influence on the future of United europe, considering that it could be the originary land of most of the European peoples of nowadays and the northern part of the continent called "Europa" since the ancient times by Greeks, who narrowed the first news on this mysterious far place in their myths and books.

Greek mythology started to talk about the Hyperboreans (ὑπερβόρε(ι)οι) as a mythic people living in the far northern part of the known world: their name derived from Boreas, the God of the north wind (today it refers to the northern emisphere of Earth and to the top side of Sky map), and Hyperboreans were believed to inhabit a sunny, temperate, and divinely blessed land northern of the Riphean Mountains, which separated the greek world from the over sites. The oldest myths portray them as the favorites of God Apollo and probable founders of his shrines at Delos and Delphi, so relating Hyperborea to ancient Greeks: in the ancient traditions of Egyptians and Greeks, Hyperborea was called "Thule", while Scandinavians named it "the green land" and Icelanders indicated it as the Ashgard land, whereas the Babylon culture described Hyperborea as "the land on the other world" whose capital Thule was in the centre of the northern garden and saved the ancient human knowledges in the hand of a super-clever people survived to the great glaciation. Then, it is evident that all ancient civilties knew about Hyperborea existence...

By reading at the greek literature, Herodotus reported the Aristeas poem about the Hyperboreans living beyond the one-eyed Arimaspians land, who were estimated to have lived in the Kazakh Steppe (Scythia) until thay had been erased by Apollo. Other greek writers narrowed that the all greek heroes as Perseus, Theseus and Heracles made journeys to find or visit Hyperborea, that Aristo placed further northern the Riphean mountains on the borders of Scythia. Pomponius placed it further north in the vicinity of the Arctic, while Plutarch connected the Hyperboreans with the Gauls who had sacked Rome in IV century B.C.. The ancient scholars knew that in the regions beyond the land of the Celts there lies in the ocean an island no smaller than Sicily situated in the north and inhabited by the Hyperboreans, both fertile and productive of every crop, with an unusually temperate climate: it could be Greenland or Iceland. Diodorus Siculus wrote that the Sun was supposed to rise and set only once a year in Hyperborea, which means this place is above or upon the Arctic Circle or even in the arctic polar regions.

The most important traces about Hyperborea in greek Myth are the cosmogonic tales on the second continent emerged from the ocean waters after the Titanomachy, when the Olympiad Gods winners went to live in the "northern garden" and procreated under the rule of Zeus king of cosmos, the beginning of a new world order hierarchic made of Gods, hald-gods, heroes sons of Gods and "living being" on Earth. Sadly, time after the monster Typhon freezed great part of the northern planet emisphere so forcing the Olympiads to leave Hyperborea together with their originary people: at the end of that global conflict it emerged the new continent Atlantis, kingdom of Poseydon ruled by his sons, but also the other gods started their genealogies of european peoples and royal dinasties, especially Zeus and the titan Hyperion family... (read this article). Instead, the northern cultural traditions of Balts, Dani e Vikings connect those peoples to Scandinavia region, where they are told to have always lived since the times of the "last Thule", then they could correspond to mythic Hyperboreans: it is the case of Nordics people, tall with white skin and bright eyes, used to the "stone axe" myth related to the kingdom of Ashgard ruled by Wotan in the Caucasian region and to the ancient hyperborean inheritance of Thule.

Hyperborea has been related to the Arya tradition, too: at the end of the "mother age" in the IV Great Year (around 17.500 B.C.), Thule became the seat of Vishnu, the vedic God leader of avatars, rishi and Deva warriors (Ksatrya), fulvous haired people owning the soul and the great knowledge of humankind, priests of the Olympiad Gods walking on the "Nirvana path" towards the Pamir and Sogdiana regions during the trasversal migration of Nordics along the "Aryan Belt". Someone though they are the "fathers" of the Aryan/Vedic civilty and peoples like Indo-europeans, Indo-Aryans and Indo-Iranics: for example, J.G. Bennett who wrote a research paper entitled "The Hyperborean Origin of the Indo-European Culture" in which he claimed the Indo-Europeans homeland was in the far north, that he considered the Hyperborea of classical antiquity. Instead, the soviet indologist N.R. Guseva and ethnographer S.V. Zharnikova (influenced by Tilak's book "The Arctic Home in the Vedas") argued for a northern Urals Arctic homeland of the Indo-Aryan and Slavs people. Even the theosofic school drove the hypothesis of the polar origins of mankind (see J. Jeffrey, H.P. Blavatsky, R. Guénon and J. Evola) starting from Hyperboreans, representing the Golden Age center of civilization and spirituality. Perhaps, since Herodotus placed the Hyperboreans beyond the Massagetae, a Central Asian people, it appears they may have lived in Siberia (where Heracles probably sought the golden-antlered hind of Artemis, homeland of reindeer and bear): it is said Arya lived separated by Humankind because had been created by a superior consciousness and succcessively married Earth women and educated their descendents (called "awakened"), further founder of the traditional culture of Celts, Germans and Vikings when in 4000 B.C. they had been obliged to leave Thule, towards south and east to settle in central Scandinavia region and central Europa to end their journey in the Gobi desert and the mythic Agarthi.

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