ANCIENT ORIGINS

Hyperborea: The Northern Land Turned Into a Myth

In Book IV of Herodotus, written in the fifth century BCE, there is a story about offerings sent to Apollo. The Hyperboreans sent them south. The offerings passed through several peoples, from the Scythian world to the Greek island of Delos. The Greeks did not claim to have travelled to Hyperborea. They said the bundles moved through a long chain of carriers while the northern land remained beyond their view.

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In Book IV of Herodotus, written in the fifth century BCE, there is a story about offerings sent to Apollo. The Hyperboreans sent them south. The offerings passed through several peoples, from the Scythian world to the Greek island of Delos. The Greeks did not claim to have travelled to Hyperborea. They said the bundles moved through a long chain of carriers while the northern land remained beyond their view.

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