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Hyperborea

Places · Myth & story

A far-north blessed country in Greek ethnographic and poetic speech. Later occult norths are reception, not a second map.

Hellenic religion

  • Hyperborea appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus reports Hyperboreans as a far-north people in Greek ethnographic speech, including offerings said to reach Delos. A Hellenic far-country report, not Atlantis and not a later occult north.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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