Description
Beyond the North Wind leads readers through the magical and spiritual history of the North. Documented through physical records, such as runestones and megaliths, but also through mythology and lore. “The North” is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. It continues to resonate today in our modern culture.
This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as “Hyberborea”–the “Land Beyond the North Wind.” They considered the North as the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization. Through the Greeks, this concept of the mythic North would spread throughout Western civilization.
The North Is Not Just a Compass Point, But a State of Mind
It has a geographical location, at the same time it exists wherever its call is felt. Certain words and names evoke it: Thule, the northern promised land; Asgard, home of the Nordic gods.
Product Details:
ISBN: 9781578636402.
Paperback, 256 pages.
Publisher: Weiser Books, Published: May 1, 2019.
Size: 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches, Weight: 0.992Lbs.
Author
Christopher McIntosh has ranged far and wide as an author. Spending most of his life pursuing a varied and wandering career. Working as a journalist, a publisher, a United Nations official and a university lecture. He lived in many different places including Edinburgh, London, New York, Hamburg and Bremen. While his work as an author includes travel-writing, literary criticism and biography, his main focus is on the esoteric traditions of the West. His novels, Return of the Tetrad and The Lebensborn Spy have established him as a skilled writer of fiction.
Editorial Reviews:
“This is an amazing and deeply original book; a work of immense erudition written in an elegant, approachable, and luminously intelligible style. Its quiet wit tempers its awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying perspectives. I have been educated and delighted by this book.” —Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas
“Beyond the North Wind is a masterful example of academic detective work, leading to the astounding conclusion that our Arctic northlands were once home to a lost prehistoric civilization. Highly recommended.” —Herbie Brennan, author of The Atlantis Enigma
“Unique among scholars, Christopher McIntosh knows Iceland and the leaders of its Pagan revival; Russia, with its new wave of art and literature; and the popular genres of folk music, fiction and film. All, backed by [his] profound knowledge of Western esoteric traditions. In his new book Beyond the North Wind, he not only chronicles the rise of the Northern egregore but contributes his own loyalty and learning to it. He argues persuasively for the reality of Hyperborea as a prehistoric circumpolar culture, and for the perennial value of its legacy.” —Joscelyn Godwin, author of ARKTOS: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and many other books
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