Mysteries of Hyperborea in myths and legends

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According to ancient legends, this people lived in the Far North, or "beyond Boreas". These people especially loved the god Apollo, whom they tirelessly sang in hymns.

Every 19 years, the patron of the arts traveled in a chariot drawn by swans to this ideal country, in order to return to Delphi at a certain time of the summer heat. Apollo also rewarded the northern inhabitants with the ability to fly like a bird in the sky.

A number of legends say that the Hyperboreans for a long time observed the ritual of offering Apollo the first harvest on Delos (a Greek island in the Aegean Sea). But one day, after the most beautiful girls, sent with gifts, did not return (were subjected to violence or remained there of their own free will), the northern inhabitants began to leave offerings at the border of the neighboring country. From here they were gradually transferred, right up to Delos itself, by other peoples for a certain fee.

Hyperborea was famous for its favorable climate. The sun rose there only once at the summer solstice and shone for six months. It set, respectively, during the winter solstice.

In the very center of this northern state there was a lake-sea, from which four large rivers flowed into the ocean. Therefore, on the map, Hyperborea resembled a round shield with a cross on the surface. The country was surrounded by very high mountains, through which no ordinary person could cross. The Hyperboreans lived in dense forests and groves.

The state of the northern inhabitants was ideal in its structure. In the Land of the Happy, eternal fun reigned, accompanied by songs, dances, music and feasts. "There are always round dances of virgins, the sounds of the lyre and the singing of a flute were heard." The Hyperboreans did not know strife, battles, and disease.

The northern people even treated death as a deliverance from satiety with life. Having experienced all the pleasures, the man himself threw himself into the sea.

The question of what race the legendary Hyperboreans belonged to is still unresolved. Some believe that these were people with black skin. Others argue that the skin was white and it was from the Hyperboreans that the Aryans subsequently descended.

This highly developed civilization had close trade relations with many countries of the Mediterranean, Western Asia and even America. In addition, the inhabitants of this northern state have gained fame as excellent teachers, thinkers and philosophers. It is known, for example, that the teacher of Pythagoras was a man from a country where "the day reigned for six months."

Famous sages and servants of Apollo - Abaris and Aristey were considered immigrants from this country. They are also considered as the hypostases of Apollo, since they knew the designations of the ancient fetishist symbols of God (arrow, raven, laurel). During their lifetime, Abaris and Aristey taught and endowed people with new cultural values, such as music, the art of creating poems and hymns, and philosophy.

Here are a few information about the life of the people beloved by Apollo. Of course, they are not proof that the Hyperboreans really existed many millennia ago, but scientists continue to search and receive more and more new confirming facts. The researchers gleaned a lot of interesting information from the myths, legends and tales of the ancient peoples of the Earth.

Hyperborea in myths and legends

In the ancient Indian Vedas there is a text that says that the center of the universe is located far in the north, at the very place where the god Brahma fixed the Pole Star. In the Mahabharata it is also reported that Meiru, or the World Mountain, stands in the Milky Land. In Hindu mythology, it is associated with the axis of the earth around which our planet revolves.

Here is a country whose inhabitants "taste bliss."These are people who are brave and courageous, renounced from all evil, indifferent to dishonor and possessing tremendous vitality. There is no place for the cruel and dishonest.

In ancient Sanskrit legends, the first inhabited continent is mentioned, which was located near the North Pole. The legendary Hyperboreans lived here. Their country was named after the Greek god Boreas, the lord of the cold north wind. Therefore, in a literal translation, the name sounds like "the extreme northern country located at the top." It existed around the beginning of the Tertiary era.

It is known that the Greeks and Greeks knew about the northern country. Probably, before Hyperborea disappeared, it was one of the main spiritual centers of the entire Ancient World.

Reconstruction of the city of Arkaim in the South Urals. Some believe that it was built by people from Hyperborea.

There is also a mention of a great power in Chinese writings. From them we learn about one emperor - Yao, who worked hard to rule perfectly. But after the emperor visited the "white island" inhabited by "real people", he realized that he was only "spoiling everything." There Yao saw a sample of a superman, indifferent to everything and "allowing the cosmic wheel to turn."

The peoples who inhabited the territory of modern Mexico also knew about the "white island". But what is this mysterious island? Researchers also correlate it with Hyperborea as a whole or with one of its islands.

The inhabitants of Novaya Zemlya also have legends about a mysterious country. They, in particular, say that if you go north all the time through the long ice and nomadic cold winds, you can get to people who only love and do not know enmity and anger. They have one leg and cannot move individually. Therefore, people have to walk embracing, and then they can even run. When northern people love, they work miracles. Having lost the ability to love, they die.

Almost all ancient peoples of the world have legends and traditions about the country of the Hyperboreans located in the Far North. They are the only sources of information about the legendary country. But since the myths and legends were formed by people, many facts or events that were incomprehensible to them changed. Therefore, researchers interested in ancient civilization seek to find scientific confirmation of the existence of Hyperborea.

Where did the Hyperboreans get their heat?

Among all the questions regarding the existence of the legendary Hyperborea, scientists are especially interested in the following: where or how did the Hyperboreans get heat in the north?

Even MV Lomonosov spoke about the fact that once on the territory, now covered with eternal ice, there was a rather warm climate. In particular, he wrote that "in the northern regions in ancient times there were great heatwaves, where elephants could be born and reproduce."

According to modern science, in that era, the climate in Hyperborea was really close to tropical. There is a lot of evidence for this fact. For example, in Svalbard and Greenland, the fossilized remains of palms, magnolias, tree ferns and other tropical plants were once discovered.

Scientists have several versions as to where the Hyperboreans got their heat from. According to one hypothesis, they transformed the heat of natural geysers (as in Iceland). Although today it is known that its capacity would still not be enough to heat an entire continent during the onset of winter.

Supporters of the second hypothesis believe that the source of heat could well have been the Gulf Stream. However, it also does not have enough power to heat even a relatively small area (an example is the Murmansk region, near which the Gulf Stream ends). But there is an assumption that earlier this flow was more powerful.

According to another hypothesis, Hyperborea was heated artificially. If the inhabitants of this country decided for themselves the problem of air travel, longevity, rational land use, then it is likely that they could provide themselves with heat and even learned how to manage the climate.

Why Hyperborea died

Scientists today are inclined to think that a natural cataclysm became the cause of the death of this ancient civilization, like Atlantis.

It is known that the climate in Hyperborea was tropical or close to it, but then a sharp cold snap set in. Scientists admit the idea that it happened as a result of global natural disasters, for example, the displacement of the earth's axis.

Ancient astronomers and priests believed that this happened about 400 thousand years ago. But then the hypothesis with a displacement of the axis disappears, since, according to ancient myths and legends, the country of the Hyperboreans existed at the North Pole only a few millennia ago.

Another reason for the disappearance of the continent could be ice ages following one after another. The last glaciation happened at the beginning of the X millennium BC. e. Latin America and Europe have suffered from the impact of this global process. The onset of glaciers most likely occurred very quickly (since the mammoths discovered in Siberia froze alive). As a result of the subsequent melting of glaciers, vast areas of land were found under water.

It is assumed that Hyperborea was not completely flooded and Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland, Jan Mayen, as well as Siberia and the Alaska Peninsula located in this area are the remnants of the northern continent.

There are no other hypotheses as to why Hyperborea died today. Scientists do not undertake to answer this question until they find a solution to the most important riddle: where was it?

Where to find Hyperborea?

To date, there is no scientific evidence of the existence of the legendary seventh continent, if you do not take into account ancient legends, old prints and maps. So, for example, on the map of Gerardus Mercator, the Arctic continent (where Hyperborea was supposedly located) is indicated, and the Arctic Ocean is quite accurately depicted around it.

Arctic continent on Gerardus Mercator's 1595 map

This map has aroused great interest among scientists and researchers. The fact is that the place where the “golden woman” is located is marked on it - in the region of the mouth of the Ob River. It is not known whether this is the very statue that has been searched for for many centuries throughout Siberia. Its exact location is indicated on the map.

Today, many researchers searching for the mysterious Hyperborea believe that, unlike Atlantis, which disappeared without a trace, part of the land remained from it - these are the northern territories of Russia.

According to other assumptions, Hyperborea was located on the site of modern Iceland. Although neither there, nor in Greenland, nor on Svalbard, archaeologists have not yet managed to find any traces of the existence of an ancient civilization. Scientists attribute this to the volcanic activity that has not yet ceased, which destroyed, perhaps, many millennia ago, the ancient northern cities.

Purposeful searches for Hyperborea have never been carried out, nevertheless, at the beginning of the 20th century, a scientific expedition set off to the Seydozero and Lovozero region (Murmansk region). It was led by the famous travelers A. Barchenko and A. Kondiain. During their research work, they were engaged in ethnographic, geographical and psychophysical study of the area.

Once the travelers accidentally stumbled upon an unusual hole going deep underground, but they could not penetrate it for a strange reason: everyone who tried to go down there was seized by a wild, inexplicable horror. Nevertheless, the researchers photographed a strange passage into the depths of the earth.

Returning to Moscow, the expedition submitted a report on the journey, but the data was immediately classified. The most interesting thing in this story is that in the most hungry years for Russia, the government approved the preparation and financing of this expedition. Most likely, great importance was attached to it. A. Barchenko himself, as a leader, was repressed and shot on his return. The materials he received were kept secret for a long time.

In the early 90s of the XX century, Doctor of Philosophy V. Demin became aware of A. Barchenko's expedition. Having familiarized himself with its results and having studied in detail the legends and traditions of the peoples in which the mysterious northern country was mentioned, he decided to go in search.

In 1997-1999, an expedition was organized to the Kola Peninsula in search of the legendary Hyperborea. The researchers had only one task - to find traces of the ancient cradle of humanity.

Seidozero

It may seem strange why it was in the North that they tried to find these traces. After all, it is believed that ancient civilizations existed in the Middle East, in South and East Asia between the XII and II millennia BC. e., but before that their ancestors lived in the North, where the climate was completely different.

As a result of research work, it turned out that those peoples who live near Seydozero still retain respectful respect and awe of this area.

Just two centuries ago, the southern shore of the lake was considered the most honorable burial place for shamans and other respected people of the Sami people. Even the representatives of this northern people caught fish here only once a year. In the Sami language, the name of the lake and the afterlife are identified.

For two years, the expedition discovered many traces of the ancestral home of civilizations on the Kola Peninsula. It is known that the inhabitants of Hyperborea were sun worshipers. The cult of the Sun existed in the North in subsequent times. Here were found ancient petroglyphs depicting the Sun: a point within one or two circles. Similar symbolism can be seen among the ancient Egyptians and Chinese. She also entered modern astronomy, where the symbolic image of the Sun remained the same as it was many thousands of years ago.

Artificial labyrinths aroused great interest among researchers. It was from here that they spread throughout the world. Scientists today have proven that these stone structures are a coded projection of the sun's passage across the polar sky.

Stone blocks on Vottovaara mountain in Karelia

In the area of the sacred Sami Seydozero, a powerful megalithic complex was discovered: giant structures, cult and defensive masonry, geometrically regular slabs with mysterious signs. Nearby were the ruins of an ancient observatory built in the rocks. Its 15-meter trough with sighting devices is directed into the sky and strongly resembles the famous Ulugbek observatory near Samarkand.

In addition, the researchers discovered several destroyed buildings, a road, stairs, an Etruscan anchor and a well under the Kuamdespahk mountain. They also made numerous finds indicating that once upon a time there lived peoples who were excellent at handicraft art.

The expedition discovered several rock carvings of a lotus and a trident. Of particular interest was a huge cross-shaped image of a person - "old man Koivu", who, according to legend, was walled into the rock of Karnasurta.

These findings, of course, are not proof that a highly developed civilization once existed here. But quite often it happened like this: the most daring hypotheses, broken in their time to smithereens, were subsequently confirmed.

So far, no specific data has been received on the location of the island or the mainland of Hyperborea. According to modern scientific data, there are no islands near the North Pole, but there is an underwater Lomonosov Ridge, named after its discoverer. It, together with the nearby Mendeleev Ridge, relatively recently sank under water.

Therefore, if we assume that in ancient times the ridge was inhabited, then its inhabitants could well have moved to neighboring continents in the areas of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Kola and Taimyr Peninsulas, or in the eastern delta of the Lena River. It is on this territory that peoples live who have preserved the legends about the "golden woman" and, as a result, information about the legendary Hyperborea.

We will have to find out the answers to these and many other secrets in the future.