The universe is a happy God.

Plato, Timaeus 34b

For those of you who saw our newer posts on heroic blood and noble souls and decided to subscribe, please check out some older posts on this topic:

On the habits of our noble ancestors https://news.1rj.ru/str/hyperboread/52

On women and sexuality https://news.1rj.ru/str/hyperboread/127

On the solar archetype https://news.1rj.ru/str/hyperboread/200

On beginning down the path https://news.1rj.ru/str/hyperboread/213

The Delphic Maxims, pt. 6

128. Πλούτῳ ἀπίστει Don't put your trust in wealth
129. Σεαυτὸν αἰδοῦ Respect yourself
130. Μὴ ἄρχε ὑβρίζειν Don't initiate violence
131. Προγόνους στεφάνου Crown your ancestors
132. Θνῆσκε ὑπὲρ πατρίδος Die for your country
133. Τῷ βίῳ μὴ ἄχθου Do not live your life in discontent
134. Ἐπὶ νεκρῷ μὴ γέλα Do not make fun of the dead
135. Ἀτυχοῦντι συνάχθου Share the load of the unfortunate
136. Χαρίζου ἀβλαβῶς Gratify without harming
137. Μὴ ἐπὶ παντὶ λυποῦ Have no grief
138. Ἐξ εὐγενῶν γέννα Beget good from good
139. Ἐπαγγέλλου μηδενί Make promises to none
140. Φθιμένους μὴ ἀδίκει Do not wrong the dead
141. Εὖ πάσχε ὡς θνητός Do as well as your mortal status permits
142.Τύχῃ μὴ πίστευε Do not put your trust in chance
143. Παῖς ὢν κόσμιος ἴσθι As a child be well-behaved
144. Ἡβῶν ἐγκρατής As a youth be self-disciplined
145. Μέσος δίκαιος As a middle-aged person be honest
146. Πρεσβύτης εὔλογος As an old man be sensible
147. Τελευτῶν ἄλυπος At your end be without sorrow.

HYPERBOREA

Herodotus's 5th c. BC account states "There is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas [...] This Aristeas, possessed by Phoibos (Phoebus) [Apollon], visited the Issedones; beyond these (he said) live the one-eyed Arimaspians, beyond whom are the Grypes (Griffins) that guard gold, and beyond these again the Hyperboreans, whose territory reaches to the sea. Except for the Hyperboreans, all these nations (and first the Arimaspians) are always at war with their neighbors; the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspoi (Arimaspians), and the Skythians (Scythians) by the Issedones, and the Kimmeroi (Cimmerians), living by the southern sea, were hard pressed by the Skythians and left their country."

The tribes Herodotus mentions represent real tribes; First Cimmerians to Scythians to Issedones, which Herodotus elsewhere puts "east of Scythia and North of the Massagetae," and then the mythic Arimaspians, until finally there is Hyperborea which extends "to the sea." Of very interesting note are the gold-guarding griffins, a staple of Scythian lore, with the fact that much of the famed Scythian gold came from Mongolia.


Pliny the Elder writing in 1st c. AD states "From the extreme north-north-east to the northernmost point at which the sun rises in summer there are the Scythians, and outside of them and beyond the point where north-north-east begins some have placed the Hyperboreans, who are said by a majority of authorities to be in Europe. After that point the first place known is Lytharmis [?], a promontory of Celtica, and the river Carambucis [Northern Dvina?], where the range of the Ripaean Mountains terminates [Volga region?] and with it the rigour of the climate relaxes"

According to Pliny's account, Hyperborea could be found beyond the "first place known" within "Celtica" which has geological features that have been thought to describe Eastern Russia. Since Finnic tribes inhabited that region until the Middle Ages it would connect them to Hyperborea. Pliny also mentions "Those who locate them merely in a region having six months of daylight have recorded that they sow in the morning periods, reap at midday, pluck the fruit from the trees at sunset, and retire into caves for the night." This would place it within the Arctic circle, where the sun acts in this manner.

ATLANTIS

Here is the account by Plato, by far the foremost surviving source, on Atlantis in Timaeus with an Egyptian speaking to Plato's relative Solon:
"Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state [Athens] in our [the Egyptian's] histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power [Atlantis] which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Herakles (Heracles) [i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar]; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Herakles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya [Africa] within the columns of Herakles as far as Aigyptos (Egypt), and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia [in Italy]. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits. [account of Athens defeating Atlanteans in battle] But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea."

What Plato describes here, with little stretch of the imagination, describes North America. He tells of a large continent, large enough to be called "boundless," that lies across the Atlantic Ocean, which is a "real sea" large enough to make the Mediterranean seem like "only a harbor." The great power that lay there was well under way subduing Mediterranean peoples before a great cataclysm took the world.


Plato, again, speaking as Socrates in Critias:
"Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of years since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the [Atlantean] dwellers beyond the pillars of Herakles (Heracles) [i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar] and all that dwelt within them [...] Now a large family of distinguished sons sprang from Atlas; but it was the eldest, who, as king, always passed on the scepter to the eldest of his sons, and thus they preserved the sovereignty for many generations; and the wealth they possessed was so immense that the like had never been seen before in any royal house nor will ever easily be seen again; [...] and the island itself furnished most of the requirements of daily life,--metals, to begin with, both the hard kind and the fusible kind, which are extracted by mining, and also that kind which is now known only by name but was more than a name then, there being mines of it in many places of the island,--I mean orikhalkon (mountain-copper), which was the most precious of the metals then known, except gold. It brought forth also in abundance all the timbers that a forest provides for the labors of carpenters; and of animals it produced a sufficiency, both of tame and wild. Moreover, it contained a very large stock of elephants"