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In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans (, ; ) were mythical people who lived "beyond the North Wind". The Greeks thought that Boreas, the god of the North Wind (one of the Anemoi, or "Winds") lived in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea indicates a region that lay far to the north of Thrace.
This land was supposed to be perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which to modern ears suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle. However, it is also possible that Hyperborea had no real physical location at all, for according to the classical Greek poet Pindar,
neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.Pindar also described the otherworldly perfection of the Hyperboreans:
Never the Muse is absent from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling. Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.Hyperborea is the nineteenth album by Tangerine Dream. It spent two weeks on the UK album chart peaking at No.45.
"No Man's Land" makes heavy use of sitar. "Cinnamon Road" also utilizes sitar, but with a conventional pop music structure. The longest track, "Sphinx Lightning"', recapitulates every style explored by Tangerine Dream over the previous decade.
The album title refers to Hyperborea, a mythical, idyllic land in the Ancient Greek tradition, supposedly located far to the north of Thrace and where it was claimed the sun shone twenty-four hours a day.
Hyperborea is a folk music group, comprising four Finnish musicians. They are:
- Piia Kleemola - fiddle, viola, kantele, vocals
- Antti Paalanen - accordion
- Petri Prauda - cittern, mandolin, bagpipes, vocals
- Paula Susitaival - fiddle, keyed fiddle ( nyckelharpa), vocals
They have released two albums on CD – Perinnearkku (2004) and Semmosta (2006).
Prior to Antti Paalanen joining the group in 2002, the initial trio mainly played French and French Canadian music. Since 2002 they have focused on Finnish traditional tunes. The lyrics of their song "Viikoksi viriä mieli" (from Perinnearkku) follow a similar rhythmic pattern to the great Finnish epic Kalevala (although this pattern cannot be exactly replicated in English).
Hyperborea were the 2006 band of the year at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival held annually in the small community of Kaustinen, Central Ostrobothnia, Finland.
Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, notably Weird Tales.
The book collects one prose poem and ten tales of the author's Hyperborean cycle, set on a prehistoric lost northern continent Smith named for the mythological land of Hyperborea, with an introduction and map by Carter. One story from the sequence, the fragment "The House of Haon-Dor," is omitted. The editor also includes in the collection four additional tales of Smith's from what he took to be a similar but more fragmentary sequence of stories.
Hyperborea, in Greek mythology, were mythical people who lived "beyond the North Wind".
Hyperborea may also refer to:
- Hyperborea (band), a Finnish folk music group
- Hyperborea (album), an album by Tangerine Dream
- Hyperborean cycle, a cycle of ten fantasy stories by Clark Ashton Smith
- Hyperborea (collection), a collection of Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean stories
- Hyperborea (game), a board game
- "Hyperborea", a track by Biosphere from the 1997 album Substrata
- "Hyperborea", a track by Horse the Band from the 2007 album A Natural Death
- 1309 Hyperborea, an asteroid
- Hyperborea (moth), a monotypic genus of tiger moths
- Hyperboria, an experimental computer network built on the cjdns peer-to-peer networking system
Hyperborea is a monotypic genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The females are brachypterous (have reduced wings). The genus contains only one species, Hyperborea czekanowskii, which is found in the Russian Far East (Nzhnyaya Tunguska river, northern Yakutia, Kolyma river, Koryakia, Chukotka, Wrangel Island, Kamchatka, Stanovoi, Udokan) and Alaska.
The wingspan is about 37 mm.
Usage examples of "hyperborea".
Tens of thousands of units, each self-sustaining and comparatively simple, spaced millions of kilometers apart, were arranged in vast, concentric spheres, the outermost of which lay at a distance of several astronomical units antisunward from Hyperborea.
ELEVEN On returning to her office, the commander found waiting for her a small pile of communications that had arrived within the hour, carried to Hyperborea on a crewless interstellar courier that had been delayed many days in flight.
All communication between Hyperborea and Good Intentions had been routinely coded, as well as tight-beamed, on the assumption that berserkers or goodlife could be almost anywhere, and anything that could make it harder for them to listen in was worth a try.
And I knew that the demon of the ring had fulfilled its promise, and had now gone back to those remote and ultramundane deeps from which the sorcerer Eibon had drawn it down in Hyperborea to become the captive of the purple gem.
Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons ofAryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold.