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Thule is, in the Greek and Roman mythologies, a place, usually an island, in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia. First mentioned by the Greek geographer and explorer Pytheas of Massalía (present-day Marseille) in the 4th century BC. Pytheas claimed that Thule was six days north of Britain, and that the midsummer sun never set there. Thule is sometimes seen to have some comonality with atlantisThe most likely locale for Thule is nowadays considered to be the coast of Norway; other historians think it was the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands or Iceland, however. In the Middle Ages, the name was sometimes used to denote Iceland, such as by Bremen's Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church , where he probably cite old writers usage of Thule.
Some Occult groups, most notably the German Thule Gesellschaft (ca. 1920) thought that it was the original source of the secret wisdomNazi mysticism sometimes called Esoteric Hitlerism by practitioners, is a philosophical undercurrent of Fascism and National Socialism. High ranking Nazi officials such as Heinrich Himmler are widely known to have been interested in mysticism and the para of the Aryan raceThe Aryan race is a concept which reached its height of popularity during the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Inspired by the discovery of the Indo-European language family, 19th century ethnologists speculated that all " white" European.
Thule was also mentioned by Traditionalist author Julius EvolaJulius Evola aka Giulio Evola or Baron Giulio ( May 19, 1898- June 11, 1974), was a controversial Italian esotericist, who wrote prolifically on matters political, philosophical, historical, and religious from a Traditionalist point of view. Born Giulio C in connection with HyperboreaIn Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria ("beyond the Boreas ( north wind)"), was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours (literally, far north) and Atlantis.
1 Ultima Thule
The Romans used the generic phrase Ultima Thule to denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world". Ultima Thule is also the name of a SwedishThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf Nationalist rock group.
2 See also
- ThuleThule is a name commonly associated with northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things: The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of Scandinavia The Thule culture, ancestors of the Inuit Qaanaaq, a town in nort
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