We are Hyperboreans–we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar,in his day, knew that much about us. Beyond the North, beyond the ice, beyond death–our life, our happiness – Friedrich Nietzsche, Antichrist (originally published 1859) Hyperborea was described by the Greek poet Pindar as a mythical land that lay beyond the Borea north wind. It was idyllic; the sun shone twenty-four hours a day, and the inhabitants were said to live to the age of one thousand in complete happiness. The basis for […]
