Post by dionysios on Aug 23, 2015 15:02:55 GMT
According to Webster's dictionary, hyperborea is a "region of eternal sunlight which lies beyond the north wind."
It seems evident that this land is most likely synonymous and identical with the northern mountain around which the sun and moon orbit and mentioned by early Christian flat earth writers like Saint Jerome and Cosmas Indicopleustes as well as virtually every primitive pagan flat earth cosmography. It's called Mehru by the hindus, jains, and buddhists and other names in other traditions including Sufi Islam among others. Rene Guenon actually lists the names of this mountain in several major ancient civilizations and traditions in his little book entitled 'The King of the World'. Sixteenth century mapmaker Gerhard Mercator actually wrote about it and included it in his chart of the north.
I discern two possibilities for the location of this hyperborean island or continent:
1) Hyperborea is an island in the Arctic Ocean which is uncharted by modern mapmakers.
or
2) Hyperborea is North America whose mountains are daily orbited by the sun, moon, and stars by virtue of the simple fact that it is located north of or "within" the Tropic of Cancer, and it is beyond the north wind from the perspective of Asia, Africa, and Europe. This conclusion also shows that ancients who wrote about Hyperborea had knowledge of North America.
It seems evident that this land is most likely synonymous and identical with the northern mountain around which the sun and moon orbit and mentioned by early Christian flat earth writers like Saint Jerome and Cosmas Indicopleustes as well as virtually every primitive pagan flat earth cosmography. It's called Mehru by the hindus, jains, and buddhists and other names in other traditions including Sufi Islam among others. Rene Guenon actually lists the names of this mountain in several major ancient civilizations and traditions in his little book entitled 'The King of the World'. Sixteenth century mapmaker Gerhard Mercator actually wrote about it and included it in his chart of the north.
I discern two possibilities for the location of this hyperborean island or continent:
1) Hyperborea is an island in the Arctic Ocean which is uncharted by modern mapmakers.
or
2) Hyperborea is North America whose mountains are daily orbited by the sun, moon, and stars by virtue of the simple fact that it is located north of or "within" the Tropic of Cancer, and it is beyond the north wind from the perspective of Asia, Africa, and Europe. This conclusion also shows that ancients who wrote about Hyperborea had knowledge of North America.