{"id":3923087,"date":"2025-12-06T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hyperborea-atlantis-rival-land-to-the-north-and-the-homeplace-of-the-gods\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:01:15","slug":"hyperborea-atlantis-rival-land-to-the-north-and-the-homeplace-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hyperborea-atlantis-rival-land-to-the-north-and-the-homeplace-of-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperborea: Atlantis\u2019 Rival, Land to the North, and the Homeplace of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Our planet is filled with incredible stories, myths, and legends about incredible civilizations and cultures that inhabited Earth tens of thousands of years ago, before written history.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {<br \/>\nif (d.getElementById(id)) return;<br \/>\nvar js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;<br \/>\njs.src = '\/\/cdn4.wibbitz.com\/static.js';<br \/>\nd.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(js);<br \/>\n}(document, 'script', 'wibbitz-static-embed'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Among all these fascinating legends, including Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, and Shambala among others, there is one especially suggestive for which the ancient Greek historians were interested.<\/p>\n<p>It was the so-called land of Hyperborea, which was said to rival the mythical Atlantis. A place in which, according to the myths, the gods who descended from heaven lived, a place of incredible prosperity, technology, and history.<\/p>\n<p>This mythical land is said to have been like no other.\u00a0Hyperboreans were said to have been immortal, in addition to being described as Gods. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Phylos\/Hyperborea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyperborea was said to have been a theocracy<\/a><\/strong> ruled by three priests of the god\u00a0Apollo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34329\" style=\"width: 1158px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-code.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/greenland_anomaly_prv2_by_julian_faylona-db8rifx.jpg\" alt=\"Greenland Anomaly by Julian Faylona.\" width=\"1158\" height=\"689\" title=\"Hyperborea: Atlantis' Rival, Land to the North, and the Homeplace of the Gods 1\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Some authors argue that Hyperborea may have been located near or at the arctic circle. Image Credit: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/julian-faylona\/art\/Greenland-Anomaly-679848477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julian Faylona<\/a>.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Furthermore, the god Apollo drove his flying vehicle to this region every nineteen years to rejuvenate.<\/p>\n<p>It is also said that Medusa was banished to those lands. Various fragments about Pythagoras claimed that he came from the Hyperboreans.<\/p>\n<p>Located far to the north, somewhere near the icy regions of the <strong>North<\/strong> <strong>Pole<\/strong>, the legends speak of an ancient and almost forgotten civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Mythical in character, it is said that the Hyperborean civilization flourished in the northernmost region of planet Earth at a time when the area was suitable for human life and development.<\/p>\n<p>Certain esoteric systems and spiritual traditions speak of Hyperborea as the terrestrial and celestial principle of civilization. In other words, the home of the ancient people. The original human.<\/p>\n<p>Some authors have even proposed several theories suggesting that Hyperborea was the original Garden of Eden, the exact place where the earthly planes and celestial planes meet.<\/p>\n<p>The land was described in a number of legends as being the perfect place on Earth, hence its connection to the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperborea is said to have been a land where the Sun shone twenty-four hours a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greek Mythology and the Hyperboreans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is in Greek Mythology where we find a lot of details about this mythical land. According to Greek literature, Hyperborea was a place inhabited by a race of Giants who were described as living in a place \u2018beyond the north wind\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Ancient Greek believed that Boreas, the God of the North Wind inhabited Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea was commonly referred to as a place located far to the north of Thrace.<\/p>\n<p>As the Greek described Hyperborea as a place where the Sun shone twenty-four hours a day, modern authors have suggested they may have described a location within the North Circle of our planet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25650\" style=\"width: 907px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-code.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Arctic.jpg\" alt=\"Arctic\" width=\"907\" height=\"506\" title=\"Hyperborea: Atlantis' Rival, Land to the North, and the Homeplace of the Gods 2\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>1599 map by Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz illustrating what is believed to be the Arctic Circle composed of a number of islands.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, some authors argue that Hyperborea had no actual location. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/odesofpindar035276mbp\/odesofpindar035276mbp_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Pindar, a Greek poet<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>neither by ship nor on foot would you find<\/p>\n<p>the marvelous road to the assembly of the <strong>Hyperboreans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pindar also described the <em>otherworldly<\/em> perfection of the <strong>Hyperboreans<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Never the Muse is absent<\/p>\n<p>from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry<\/p>\n<p>and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.<\/p>\n<p>Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed<\/p>\n<p>in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it is Greek historian Herodotus who describes this incredible place with detail in his book <em>Histories<\/em>\u00a0(Book IV, Chapters 32\u201336).<\/p>\n<p>Herodotus reported three initial references that apparently mentioned the Hyperboreans, including\u00a0<strong>Hesiod\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Homer<\/strong>, the latter purportedly having written about Hyperborea in his lost work\u00a0<strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epigoni_(epic)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epigoni.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Herodotus also recorded that the 7th-century BC poet\u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aristeas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aristeas<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>wrote of the ancient Hyperboreans in a poem (now regrettably lost) called\u00a0Arimaspea which speaks about a journey to the\u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Issedones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issedones<\/a><\/strong>, who are thought to have lived in the\u00a0Kazakh Steppe.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond these lived the one-eyed\u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arimaspi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arimaspians<\/a><\/strong>, further on the gold-guarding\u00a0griffins, and beyond these the Hyperboreans.<\/p>\n<p>Herodotus thought that Hyperborea prevailed somewhere in\u00a0Northeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>So, if Hyperboreans did exist, where was it located then? Different sources indicate different locations.<\/p>\n<p>Some authors argue that the ancient Hyperboreans were located somewhere beyond the snowy\u00a0Riphean Mountains\u2013a mountain range mentioned by various authors of classical antiquity but whose locations remains a profound mystery. (The\u00a0<a title=\"Montes Riphaeus\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montes_Riphaeus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Montes Riphaeus<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<a title=\"Mountain range\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mountain_range\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mountain range<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on Earth\u2019s Moon is named in honor of the Riphean Mountains.)<\/p>\n<p>If we take a look at the work of\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Pausanias (geographer)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pausanias_(geographer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pausanias<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cThe land of the Hyperboreans, men living beyond the home of Boreas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Homer, Boreas was in Trace, so\u00a0Hyperborea was in his opinion north of Thrace, in\u00a0Dacia.<\/p>\n<p>But, as the Riphean Mountain\u2019s location was a heavily discussed topic in ancient time, it was a difficult task to agree on the location of both the mountains and the land where the Hyperboreans lived.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<strong><a title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hecataeus_of_Miletus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hecataeus of Miletus<\/a><\/strong>, an early\u00a0Greek\u00a0historian, and\u00a0geographer, the Riphean Mountains were located near the Black Sea. Pindar, however, was convinced that the Ripehean Mountains and Borea was located near the Danube, while\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Heraclides Ponticus\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heraclides_Ponticus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Heraclides Ponticus\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Antimachus\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antimachus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antimachus<\/a><\/strong>, in contrast, identified the Riphean Mountains with the\u00a0<strong><a title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alps<\/a><\/strong>. They were also convinced that the Hyperboreans were a Celtic tribe who lived beyond the Riphean Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperborea was also identified as Britain by\u00a0<strong><a title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hecataeus_of_Abdera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hecataeus of Abdera<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the 4th century BC. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Roman\/Texts\/Diodorus_Siculus\/2B*.html#note36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>In a fragment by Diodorus Siculus<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>we read<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the regions beyond the land of the Celts there lies in the ocean an island no smaller than\u00a0Sicily. This island, the account continues, is situated in the north and is inhabited by the Hyperboreans, who are called by that name because their home is beyond the point whence the north wind (Boreas) blows; and the island is both fertile and productive of every crop, and has an unusually temperate climate\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plutarch, on the other hand, wrote in the first century AD that the Hyperboreans were most likely the Gauls, who attacked and sacked Rome in the Fourth century BC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legends speak of mighty ancient civilizations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To the ancient Greek and Romans, Thule and Hyperborea were one of several terrae incognitae,\u00a0regions that have not been mapped or documented.<\/p>\n<p>In these uncharted lands,\u00a0<strong>Pliny<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Pindar<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Herodotus\u00a0<\/strong>among others believe that people lived incredible longevous lifespans, surpassing the age of one thousand years.<\/p>\n<p>According to a number of ancient authors, the sun supposedly rose and set only once a year, meaning that if such civilization existed, it was most likely located above or on the arctic circle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1032\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-code.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/atlantis.jpg\" alt=\"An artists illustration of Atlantis.\" width=\"713\" height=\"512\" title=\"Hyperborea: Atlantis' Rival, Land to the North, and the Homeplace of the Gods 3\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>An artists illustration of what Atlantis may have looked like.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hyperboreans were allegedly once on the verge of war against a race of soldiers which many authors suggest may have been the Atlanteans. However, the war never happened as the soldiers realized the inhabitants of Hyperborea were far too strong.<\/p>\n<p>This account was preserved by <strong>Aelian<\/strong>\u2013a Roman author and teacher of\u00a0rhetoric. Some beleive the account by Aelian was a work of satire or comedy<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image Credit: <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/julian-faylona\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julian Faylona<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/julian-faylona\/art\/Kada-ne-Atoll-753056916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Posted with permission<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-code.com\/hyperborea-atlantis-rival-land-to-the-north-and-the-homeplace-of-the-gods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our planet is filled with incredible stories, myths, and legends about incredible civilizations and cultures that inhabited Earth tens of thousands of years ago, before written history.<\/p>\n<p>(function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = &#8216;\/\/cdn4.wibbitz.com\/static.js&#8217;; d.getElementsByTagName(&#8216;body&#8217;)[0].appendChild(js); }(document, &#8216;script&#8217;, &#8216;wibbitz-static-embed&#8217;));<\/p>\n<p>Among all these fascinating legends, including [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}