Hyperborea (disambiguation)
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In Greek mythology
Hyperborea is the northern land of the Hyperboreans, "beyond the North Wind".
The name has also been used for:
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
Hyperborea is the northern land of the Hyperboreans, "beyond the North Wind".
The name has also been used for:
- Hyperborea (Finnish folk music group)Hyperborea (Finnish folk music group)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...
- Hyperborea (album)Hyperborea (album)Hyperborea is an album of electronic music released by Tangerine Dream in 1983. It spent two weeks on the UK album chart peaking at No.45....
- Clark Ashton SmithClark Ashton SmithClark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...
wrote a cycle of ten stories set in an ancient version of GreenlandGreenlandGreenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
during a warm habitable phase: see Hyperborean cycleHyperborean cycleThe Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea . Various elements in Smith's cycle have been borrowed by H. P. Lovecraft, most notably the "toad-god" Tsathoggua...
. - H. P. LovecraftH. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
used Hyperborea in his Cthulhu MythosCthulhu MythosThe Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...
for his version of AtlantisAtlantisAtlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....
. - "Hyperborea" is a track on the 1997 album SubstrataSubstrata (album)Substrata is an ambient music album by Biosphere, released in 1997 by All Saints Records. It is considered to be a classic ambient album, consistently in the top 5 in surveys on the Hyperreal ambient mailing list....
by BiosphereBiosphere (musician)Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen , a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his "ambient techno" and "arctic ambient" styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty... - "Hyperborea" is a track on the 2007 album A Natural DeathA Natural Death-Overview:Frontman Nathan Winneke states: "A Natural Death is about the futility and arrogance of creation and destruction, the overwhelming scale of space and time, and the brutal majesty of nature, the horror of birth and the beauty of death. Everyone who will ever live will die a natural death,...
by HORSE the BandHORSE the bandHorse the Band is a band from Lake Forest, California who are best known for their 8-bit Nintendo-influenced sound combined with metalcore. Frontman Nathan Winneke once described their sound as "Nintendocore".-Biography:... - The black metalBlack metalBlack metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band Bal-SagothBal-SagothBal-Sagoth is a symphonic black metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 1993.Originally formed as an epic/symphonic black metal band with strong death metal elements, vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts took the name 'Bal-Sagoth' from the Robert E. Howard short story "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth"...
wrote a rock epic, divided over three albums, called "The Splendor of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire". - 1309 Hyperborea1309 Hyperborea1309 Hyperborea is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1931 by Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Observatory. This asteroid was named for the homeland of the Hyperboreans a group of people from greek mythology.- References :...
an asteroidAsteroidAsteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
. - Hyperborea (A Bulgarian death metal band)