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Beyond the North Wind

Beyond the North Wind

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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. 

Map of North Pole from 1600 byMercator


During the great age of exploration in the sixteenth century the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) produced a map of the north polar region based on a description which he said he had copied from an earlier author he does not name. In Mercator’s depiction, the polar region is a vast land divided by four rivers which flow inward from the surrounding ocean and disappear into an enormous whirlpool. In the midst of the whirlpool, exactly at the Pole, is an island of magnetic rock. This is an interesting reversal of the biblical description of Eden, where four rivers flow outward from the center. Today Mercator’s map of the North Pole remains iconic for aficionados of the Hyperborean theory.

 

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

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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.

 

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