Hyperborean

see also: Etymology of Hyperborean

In the Greek Mythology, the Hyperboréens (in Greek old Ὑπερϐόρεοι/ Hyperbóreoi ) were people which lived with the septentrional borders of the inhabited world. The etymology of the name Hyperborée is not only derived from the Greek, of the wind of North, Borée. The word " bor" (from where Borée) also comes from the Albanian and means " neige". According to Albanian one can include/understand the direction of the name of Hyperborean = the people beyond snows, from where " Boréals" , people of snow. And finally the wind Borated, in Albanian, means the wind of snow (cold). " Bor" (snow) is one of presques the 800 root-words of pelasgic origin preserved in the Albanian language.

Their ground, called Hyperborée (“beyond Borated, wind of north”), was perfect, with the Sun which shone there twenty-four hours per day. According to Diodore, Apollo (solar divinity), spent his winter to their sides, his mother Léto having incipient in Hyperborée. Thésée and Persée visited also the Hyperborean ones.

Great quantities of Or were there, kept by the griffon S.

The Hyperborean ones in philosophy

It is made mention, in the Antichrist of Nietzsche (aggregate of Philologie and specialist in the old Greek) the Hyperborean ones, symbols of the richness and happiness, exceeding contradictions of humanity, her pseudos-values and its decline.

The Hyperborean ones in works of fiction

The cycle of Conan the barbarian, of Robert E. Howard, proceeds during one hyperborean era fictitious, by presenting Hyperborée like a Scandinavian remote ground, inhabited by barbarians with the fair hair, the north and the east of the native Cimmérie of Conan.

Inspired by Howard, Lovecraft used this name in its Mythologie for its version of the Atlantis.

In Némédia, the Celtic chimerical roleplay, Hyperborée is the remote ground of the demons Formoirés. It is a kingdom halfway between the ground of human and the sidhe where resident the gods Tuatha Dé Danann.

In the Video game of adventure Indiana Jones and the Fate off Atlantis , of LucasArts, the archeologist Dr. Bjorn Heimdall called to the player that he believes that Hyperborée was the Iceland. Later, it reveals that Iceland was a colony of Atlantis.

It is also question of Hyperborean in the Cartoon of the series Bob Morane: Operation black Knight , of Henri Vernes and William Vance. In this episode, the two heroes try to come to assistance of a civilization in the process of disappearance and very advanced technologically: the Hyperborean ones.

Sources

(I, 4,4; II, 5).
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(IV, 13 and 32-36).
(I, 4,4; I, 31; V, 7; X, 5).

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