Talk:Hyperborea

Hyperborean imagery in neo-Nazi social media content
I have added a sub-section to modern depictions explaining trends highlighted by the thinktank ISD. This is one of my earlier edits on a more popular page, so discussion and feedback is welcomed on my page Jjamieallen (talk) 21:30, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Untitled
Removed this: "Many think that the almost-immortal women who live in Hyperborea are named the Naiads, and are well-known for their beauty." "Many" indeed! A few, more deeply-read, know what a naiad actually is, however. --Wetman 19:38, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

"In Greek maps from the time of Alexander the Great..." This editor is unaware that no maps from the time of Alexander the Great survive. A statement supported by spectral evidence is quite likely to be poppycock. Editors might look more critically at the statement supported by this particular "evidence" in this article. --Wetman 19:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Carl P.Ruck
"Carl P.Ruck places Hyperborea beyond the Dzungarian Gate into northern Xinjiang, noting that the Hyperboreans were probably Chinese[8]."

IIRC Xinjiang ("New Territory") was not Chinese, it was full of Tocjarian caucasians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.239.22.113 (talk) 17:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

"Modern interpretations" containing a grave error
Places north of the Arctic Circle does NOT have midnight sun half the year! To believe that you have to live much closer to the Equator, probably within 50 degrees. The myth probably comes from a confusion of the Polar Regions with the Poles themselves. In reality, at the Arctic Circle the sun never sets on a single day (the Summer Solstice). On the other hand the sun never rises on the Winter Solstice. As you travel northward the number of days with midnight sun gradually increases. So does the number of days without sunrise. At the North Pole the sun only rises and sets once a year: it rises on the Spring Equinox and sets on the Autumn Equinox. (The same is true for the areas south of the Antarctic Circle but at the opposite time of the year. Consequently, the South Pole has midnight sun half the year and polar night the other half.)  However, all over Scandinavia there is much difference between the length of day in the summer and winter. North of 60th degree dusk lasts all night during part of the summer. This is called white night and should not be confused with midnight sun. Statements about the real conditions were most likely exaggerated through rumouring when reaching the Ancient Greeks. They lived south of the 45th degree and did not know the mechanisms involved. So they might well have believed it. Unfortunately, some people still believe that but about a smaller area.

2006-12-19 Lena Synnerholm, Mästa, Sweden.

I have learned that the expression “the sun is up” is somewhat ambiguous. At least it is in Swedish. To me the expression means that the sun is visible at or above the horizon or at least could have been if there where no clouds in the way. I am not sure if this is really a problem in English. But I wanted to explain in the case someone got confused.

2010-08-11 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.247.167.70 (talk) 12:27, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hyperborean: Poker AI
"Schaeffer was part of the team that designed Hyperborean, a poker-playing computer that recently went undefeated at two tournaments hosted by the American Association of Artificial Intelligence."

http://technology.sympatico.msn.ca/News+and+Trends/ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=29356021&feedname=CP-TECHNOLOGY&show=True&number=5&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

Might not be notable yet, but will soon be.

Mathiastck 22:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

This ethymological explanation seems to me slightly risky: "it was known as Siberia, translated from Sanskrit as Shivarya (Land of the God Shiva). " Then, how comes that in Russian, Siberia is pronounced "Sibir'?" Please, provide some more elaborated evidence about it. Thank you.

Svetlana

Unsourced legend potpourri
If any of the following can be sourced and related to Hyperborea--not "Siberia" etc-- do return it to the article (Wetman 04:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)):
 * According to Hindu mythology, the original five races of mankind originated in the Arctic Circle. They called their primeval homeland Uttara Kuru, meaning the "Northernmost Kuru."  Kuru is the original name of the Turkish peoples.  Another name of the Turks is Ari (Aryan or Noble Ones).  The pre-diluvial Turks lived in a type of paradise, with lifespans of up to a thousand years, were always in a stat of bliss, and could leave their bodies at will and travel all over the Universe.  The Greeks called this place HYPERBOREA.  Among the Turks, it was known as Siberia, translated from Sanskrit as Shivarya (Land of the God Shiva).  The Tibetan Buddhists call it Khedar Khand or Shambhala.

A recent discovery of evidence indicates the Saqqaq people were the original settlers of the region within the Arctic Circle. A tentative conclusion could be ventured that the Hyperboreans of legend originated with these people. http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/stone-age-settlers-new-world.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.239.81 (talk) 20:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


 * As editors, we can't draw conclusions (see WP:OR, we need to wait until reliable sources suggest this. Dougweller (talk) 21:30, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Corbin on the Aryan-Sufic Hyperborean Paradise
From Henry Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth (trans. Nancy Pearson, Princeton University Press, 1989, pps. 71-72).

"...That is why the progression, which this mode of thought makes it possible for us to conceive, is not a horizontal linear evolution, but an ascent from cycle to cycle, from one octave to a higher octave. A few pages from the same Shaikh, which have been translated here, illustrate this. The spiritual history of humanity since Adam is the cycle of prophecy following the cycle of cosmogony; but though the former follows in the train of the latter, it is in the nature of a reversion, a return and reascent to the pleroma. This has a gnostic flavor to be sure, but that is exactly what it means to 'see things in Hurqalya.' It means to see man and his world essentially in a vertical direction. The Orient-origin, which orients and magnetizes the return and reascent, is the celestial pole, the cosmic North, the 'emerald rock' at the summit of the cosmic mountain of Qaf, in the very place where the world of Hurqalya begins; so it is not a region situated East on the maps, not even those old maps that place the East at the top, in place of the North. The meaning of man and the meaning of his world are conferred upon them by this polar dimension, and not by a linear, horizontal and one-dimensional evolution, that famous 'sense of history' which nowadays has been taken for granted, even though the terms of reference on which it is based remain entirely hypothetical.

Moreover, the paradise of Yima in which are preserved the most beautiful of beings who will repopulate a transfigured world, namely, the Var that preserves the seed of the resurrection bodies, is situated in the North. The Earth of Light, the Terra Lucida of Manicheism, like that of Mazdeism [Zoroastrianism], is also situated in the direction of the cosmic North. In the same way, according to the mystic Abd al-Karim Jili, the 'earth of the souls' is a region in the far North, the only one not to have been affected by the consequences of the fall of Adam. It is the abode of the 'men of the Invisible,' ruled by the mysterious prophet Khizr (Khadir). A characteristic feature is that its light is that of the 'midnight sun,' since the evening prayer is unknown there, dawn rising before the sun has set. And here it might be useful to look at all the symbols that converge toward the paradise of the North, the souls' Earth of Light and castle of the Grail...." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.10.2 (talk) 18:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Cultural References
the following two statements are found under the Cultural References section:

"# The electronic music group Tangerine Dream have published an album named Hyperborea."

"# The band Tangerine Dream have an album "Hyperborea" dating from 1983."

I guess I'll combine them into one. For the record, the Southern California doom metal band Keen Of The Crow named their only album Hyperborea as well, but I don't see the point in listing that here. Another thing: "...Desert claims Eden, And Hyperborean, Visions of Utopia are driven from the sun..." Did Cradle of Filth really get the punctuation so wrong? "Hyperborean" is an adjective (or possibly an adverb); thus, these lyrics don't make sense, syntactically, unless there is either a comma before "Hyperborean": "...Desert claims Eden, And, hyperborean, Visions of Utopia are driven from the sun..." (meaning that the manner of driving the "visions of Utopia" are "hyperborean" in nature); or no comma after it, with "Hyperborean" and "Visions..." on the same line; thus: "...Desert claims Eden, And hyperborean visions of Utopia are driven from the sun..." (meaning that the Visions, themselves, are "Hyperborean") ...and in either case, "hyperborean" would be lowercase. If the online lyrics sites can be believed (mostly, they just seem to parrot each others' mistakes), the spelling in the lyrics really is the -n ending adjective form... in which case we have to wonder whether CoF just spelled it wrong, to rhyme with "Eden"? Occam's razor seems to prefer this last theory. rowley (talk) 19:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Cultural References II
Right.... regardless of the grammatical and artistic considerations of the music - or your obvious distaste for the group - If there is to be such a sweeping section such as "Cultural References" for Hyperborea, I see no reason why this would not fall within it. Most of the other cultural references are equally useless from a reference point, not much different from a trivia section. But if the "Cultural References" section is deemed suitable for the Hyperborea article, for whatever reason, then the COF reference is just as relevant as those other crappy bands.

Perhaps only include cultural references from literature only? Or maybe not at all since Hyperborea itself is a "cultural reference"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.195.198 (talk) 06:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

71.239.87.234 (talk) 17:01, 6 April 2013 (UTC)I'm under the impression that any reference cultural or otherwise should be notable according to Wikipedia standards. If cultural reference sections seem like trivia sections, then so be it, I see no problem with that. pedia can be elite without becoming elitist. One reference that I think should be included in this section is the notable Conan the Barbarian literature. the cultural connection here is that the setting of the characters in these works takes place in the "Hyborian age", which wikipedia notes elsewhere in its articles is a term derived from the Hyperborean mythology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian_Age. If I get around to it I may add an entry to this literature myself, but I'd prefer to simply make the suggestion and leave it to more experienced editors.71.239.87.234 (talk) 17:01, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Attribution for second theory
"One theory holds that Hyperborea was derived from a logical (though erroneous) explanation of the Greeks for the fact that embedded inside the amber arriving in their cities by trade with northern, cold countries were insects which obviously originated in a warm climate.

Not aware of the explanation offered by modern science (i.e. that these insects had lived in times when the climate of northern Europe was much warmer, their bodies preserved unchanged in the amber) the Greeks came up with the idea that north countries being cold was due to the cold breath of Boreas, the North Wind. Therefore, should one be able to get beyond him (Hyperborea literally means "beyond Boreas") one would find a warm and sunny land."

This theory appears in Avram Davidson's "Adventures in Unhistory". I can't find my copy, so I can't be of much help beyond that, but hopefully someone will be able to do something with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.191.22.133 (talk) 15:52, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Fit this material in somewhere
The Judeo-Christian Bible contains what appears to be cryptic references to a polar-Hyperborean mythos: "Mount Zion in the Far North is the city of the great King," Ps 48, 2; Job 37, 22; Isaiah 14, 13; Ezek. 1, 4, etc. The Catholic New American Bible alludes to this biblical representation of the supreme "North as a symbol of God's mysterious abode." .

If not in this entry, somewhere else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.163.41.102 (talk) 04:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Hyperborean Languages
The Library of Congress Classification System include Hyperborean Language works in subclass PM. The use of the term is, evidently, based on a secondary definition of Hyperborean, 'of or relating to the far north; arctic,' that is not discussed directly. Further complicating matters, the LOC article links to this article for the term, and the article on the subclass links to Paleosiberian languages. Can someone having more knowledge on this than I, please, update this article with something appropriate? Kevin/Last1in (talk) 17:12, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

HyperboreaN(S)
The term appears to be mistranslated here. All ancient sources mention either Hyperborean or Hyperboreans. This comes from ὑπέρ/(h)yper + Βορέας/boréas, with "hyper-" always being either +genitivus or +accusativus. "Boreas" can then either be "Boreou" (gen) or "Borean" (acc). Since it's "Hyperborean" and not "Hyperboreou", I'm quite convinced this is an acc. Hyper here is not location-wise, it is "stronger than" or "more (than)". "Stronger than the Borean (the Northern wind)", or "more Northern (than us)". Bataaf van Oranje (talk) 14:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Please look at the actual form attested in Ancient Greek mentioned at the beginning of the article. It does not end in -ean. The English ending has nothing to do with the Ancient Greek accusative. It's simply the -an suffix found in many English ethnonyms such as Romans or Tibetans (ultimately from Latin -ānus, via French) added to Hyperbore(a). In German, for example, they're called Hyperboreer, with the German suffix -er, and in French, Hyperboréens, with the French suffix -en. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:44, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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Location of Hyperborea
Why is Bridegman cited as a source? Why not the original ancient sources? --109.193.45.30 (talk) 15:58, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Lachezar Filipov claims Hyperborea was at the North Pole. SChalice (talk) 14:08, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Article on "The Dangers of Pseudohistorical Conspiracy Theories" using Hyperborea as an example
Doug Weller talk 07:57, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Reorganization of the page
I have preliminarily reorganized the page since various additions of the last months have put a couple of things together under one heading that are vastly unrelated to each other, like honest attempts by historians to find a factual core in Herodotus' account next to Russian far-right crackpotism and neo-Nazi memes under "Modern interpretations", or Blavatsky, Serrano and (again) neo-Nazi memes in "Hyperborea in modern esoteric thought". I am sure there is a better or more fine-grained solution to it, but at least we don't have Carl P. Ruck next to people like Dugin in one section. Austronesier (talk) 11:05, 3 October 2023 (UTC)