Ancient Hyperborea and the War in Ukraine 

You're one of the first people I've seen on youtube that analyses Dugin's bizarre Eurasianism in regards to Ukraine. It's kind of wild many people don't know the impact of his geopolitical philosophy on Russian foreign policy. It's integral to understanding modern Russia. Great Video, you never disappoint.

Wow David. Thank you so much for the seriously in depth response to my question. I had no idea at all how deep and complex this subject is, let alone likened to Russian and Ukraine. The furthest I ever found in my own research was to Blavatsky.

Sounds like the Hyperboreans are featured in the movie "Midsommar" exactly as described... jumping off from a cliff at old age as well and the tribe celebrates. Taking place in a strange utopic Swedish countryside.

Well, that was thought-provoking. Thanks for a new way of zooming out on things, historically/mythologically and geopolitically. Glad to be a part of it.

When Dugen mentions the harmony when the south recognizes the authority of the north, I see a connection to the fruits of the first harvest that were gifted from the hyperboreans down to greece. And when a “transgression” had occurred, the gifts stopped or passed down from neighbors. I see this as a decay as Dugen may have been alluding too.

And this is "Why ancient history matters." Beautiful presentation.

As a sidenote - swedish scientists in the 17:th not only made connections between swedes and the hyperboreans. Olof Rudbeck (1630-1703) placed Atlantis in Sweden. He also thought The Trojans came from Sweden.

This is one of your best. I look forward to all of your episodes.

Loving the voice work with the quotes. Very reminiscent of Atun-Shei. Keep it coming!

So much great information packed in this video. Well worth watching and learning. Thanks!!

Thank you dOc, you out did yourself with this production. Informative, historical and relevant.

Herodotus being skeptical in this instance is funny to me.

There seems to have been a fair bit written about Abaris the Hyperborean - friend of the historical if poorly known Pythagoras. He was according to 3rd century Neoplatonist Iamblichus born in Hyperborea and a priest of Apollo there but traveled (because of a plague) south to the Mediterranean and was active in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy) and with Pythagoris met Sicilian tyrant Phalaris. (6th century BCE) He also had been mentioned in Herodotus (400's BCE) and Pindar (same period). He is said 8mythically) to have traveled about on an arrow. My interest is strictly in the ancient myth as opposed to modern authoritarian ideologies.

I'm loving the accent around 3:40 and another one around 5:20! love it! ok, looks like this video is full of them. Definitely keep this up for all future videos (not sure if this is the first one where you did this, but it's the first one I've seen and I really like it)

Mr Miano, congratulations on your choice of Slavic voices reading from Madam Blavatsky and respectively Dugin. Impeccable execution! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It made for a highly entertaining episode as well as educational.

Awesome vid, very informative and enlightening.

David, your Herodotus impression was pretty good but your Madame Blavatsky is dynamite!

Didn't expect to see atun shei here, love that guy. Great video. I fell in love with the hyperborean myth long ago when I first heard it and seeing all of the things I have read summarized so concisively fills my heart with joy. I think the Hyperborean myth at its core can be a guiding stone for great things to come, but whatever may happen, I am sure it will acvompany humanity along into the future like it did for the last few millennia.

Great character voice narration!!! thank you

Love your work as always. I feel like an important lesson we as a society need to teach early on in human development is that our ideas and thoughts have already probably been thought of before. This is important to teach because it encourages minds to hold an attitude okay with the action of due diligence, discussion, and contemplation.

Missied this one originally….another great well researched video thanks😊

Very well put together video, incredibly interesting.

These cameo voices are just golden! Really good effort I must say

What an outstanding video! Really interesting links between concepts in the past and present. 😬

Well put together and very entertaining 👏

You had a lot of fun doing those voices it appears. Very amusing. I had no idea about this Hyperborean conspiracy, I guess I am blessed. Interesting what people will believe without any research whatsoever. Thanks for clearing all this up so if anyone brings this up I will direct them this way.

I share his experience with your channel. I remember Hyperboria from Conan comics (and I believe the Ron Howard tales though it's been awhile since I read those.) I love the name and I'm using it as a kind of Garden of Eden for Artemis in my novel in progress. Your channel and Cy's have been so helpful in my research. Thanks a million.

This was excellent! Thanks, Doc.

Juanita, you did a great job. Excellent explanation Dr Miano

Hey man what are you doing? Exactly the right thing! I can only add some minor additions and corrections. x) You very correctly describe the developoment of Gothicism in Sweden. Maybe it was a good idea to omit Olof Rudbeck and his idea that Sweden was Atlantis -- because Rudbeck's idea was not motivated by ideology and somehow even disturbed the myth-making of the politically motivated Gothicists. Rudbeck was a real scientist and developed a lot of correct ideas while searching for Atlantis. Among them the idea of the interconnection of Indo-European languages, with some totally valid linguistic observations (which meant that Sweden did not "bring" civilization to other peoples, but that other peoples are descendants from Sweden accordig to him), and even the idea that the deeper you dig into the earth, the more you dig into the past (I don't know of any older source for this idea). x) Bailly was indeed the mayor of Paris, but during the revolution, not before the revolution. He was also the president of the first revolutionary national assembly. And he got guillotined, yes. x) Bailly mainly played on a natural scientific theory of his time: The idea that the globe cooled down from the poles to the aequator. Therefore it was believed that life came into being at the poles, first. And therefore, the first human beings came from the north, wandered to the Himalaya, and then split up in an Eastern, Western, Southern migration. The Hyperborean myth came in handy, but was not the main motivation. Therefore, Bailly did not see the Hyperboreans as "bringers" of civilization to other peoples, but as migrants into empty southern space. x) Blavatsky had different views of course, as you rightly say. For her, the Northerners were bringers of civilization to inferior peoples. But I find it exaggerated to say that antisemitism was "common in those days". It had a certain popularity, but I wouldn't say that it was common. x) Blavatsky's ideas found home in Germany? Errr .... first in Austria of course! The decaying Austrian monarchy in its backward Catholicism was full of dreamers of lost empires, they had something to compensate. x) The Thule society in Munich fell apart in 1919. Correct. Hitler took over some parts of its organization but only as an organizational hull, which he filled with his own ideas. Hitler was not a mystic dreamer but rather driven by pseudoscientific biologism. Hitler belongs into the series of "believers in the north", too, though he never expanded on the topic. For Hitler, it was enough to say that the Germanic tribes once came from the north, but he never theorized about Hyperboreans, Goths, etc. He was to a certain extent and in an certain sense an extreme positivist, and rejected the mythical elaborations of the idea in which Himmler or Rosenberg believed. x) It is very kind of you that you make a clear distinction between interest in ancient history and mythology, and dangerous ideas. x) You have forgotten an important link of the North and Russia! The state of Russia was founded in the Kievan Rus by the Wikings: Yes! Russians see themselves as Northerners! Goths, Wikings, Hyperboreans, the full package! x) The ideological link between Dugin and Putin is IMHO Vladimir Zhirinovsky. I am not an expert, but Zhirinovsky expanded quite similar ideas and he was revered by Putin (Putin visited his funeral, recently, in a very symbolic way). x) Finally, there is the typical Russian Orthodox messianism, as expanded by the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov or by Dostoevsky, which plays heavily into the whole ideological mixture. I have an idea for another video: Once there was a huge huge empire which invaded the Ukraine region ... and failed, because they did not expect the people living in the region being so mobile and clever. Sounds very much like what happens today. It was the Persian empire, of course, shortly before attacking Greece. Herodotus has it all.

This is literally the information I was researching last night for my Robert sepehr video, serendipity

This video made me a patron of the channel. I should have done that earlier, I've gotten so much out of watching your material. Thanks!

Tbh one of the best videos I've seen on youtube flat out

Very entertaining again and I feel very satisfied Thank you!

Thank you Dr. David 🤗 informative! As usual 💕

I love this video not only is it open minded towards hyperborea and not out right claiming it fairytale but acknowledges that it could be somewhat rooted in reality. Thank you for keeping an open mind

Not even the Ancient Greeks knew where the Hyperboreans lived. Some believed Scandinavia or somewhere else North in Europe, while others believed it could be accessed through a Scythian Trade Route leading to a group of people in Central Asia called the Issedones, then to another group called the Arimaspi who apparently fought with griffins guarding treasure, then to Hyperborea itself, which may be in current day China (obviously not in the realm of the dominant Central Plains Civilization). So it was based on certain experiences, especially depending on the geographic knowledge of the Greeks at the time. The Scythian trade Route variant was narrated by Herodotus who mentioned a semi-legendary epic poet named Aristeas who traversed this route guided by some Scythians, and he made an epic poet about it that is lost today. Keep in mind that Aristeas is not even known to actually exist. However, this shows decent geographic knowledge of the Ancient Greeks at an early age, and this makes sense considering both Aristeas and Herodotus were Asiatic Greeks who had more contacts with the rest of Asia and were eventually conquered by Persia. This variant of myth could have either been created due to the Persian Empire have control of a vast area in Asia, or Ionian Greeks like Aristeas in the 7th Century BCE actually did have better geographic knowledge than the rest of the Greeks due to greater trade contacts built by older civilizations like the Hittites as well as contemporary inland Anatolian civilizations such as Phrygia and Lydia, as well as Ionians functioning as mercenaries for foreign Asian kingdoms as well as Egypt. Either way, Hyperborea reveals at least a little of how much the Greeks knew of the world, although sadly the true extent is only known due to material culture, as people with better knowledge such as traders and mercenaries never wrote large texts it seems.

The impression of Dr. foreign parents were from Futurama was impressive and I had to play it again soon I could understand it after I stop wiggling thank you very much for your content

My brain has not been Tiktoked, I watched a 40 minute video!

People at the time probably had a common misconception that areas to the North with constant sun would be tropical and full of groves...

Excellent!. Thank you very much.

Great content!

You are a river to your people! Incredible video, and just shows how necessary your work on debunking bad histories really is... when ideas like this can end up involved in modern geopolitics :(

Loved it! 👍

Have to love the voices XD Great video :)

Love how you do their voices!

I also learned about this channel through *History with Cy*

As listeners we all need to appreciate how much work David does to educate us

The committment to all the different voices was great lol

Thank you so much, I didn't know Dugin also believed in the hyperborean myth. I did know though, that russian neo Nazi Dobrovolsky who influenced Dugin, believed that atlantis is the home of the Jews, and hyperborea (russia) is their eternal enemy

I am enjoying the voice narration of the writings!

Thanks for the insight!

Excellent video

Oh boy, I knew this one was gonna get weird but at about 28:00 the wheels come off. Thanks, I've been wondering where all these hyperboria threads on 4chan come from.

Thank you for covering this topic i was looking everywhere for a credible person reviewing this bizarre conspiracy

I thought I hyperborea was just where the Nordic bronze age took place just because the scandinavians back then did In fact jump off cliffs when they are old and it's in the north and if you go further north you have strange day and night cycle

Hyperboreans...my first thought was Ron E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian! Very much appreciated your thoughts on these matters Professor Miano.

Sweet. New video. Too bad I gotta go to work. I'll have to watch later.

Strabo sounded just like Richard Nixon? Amazing, you learn something everyday. Thankyou.

Super cool. Thank you

"Oh, this guy should be interesting..." Pleasantly surprised. Nice content

Never paid much attention to Hyperborea on reconstructed maps of antiquity - I thought they were the Greek equivalent of Roman Transsilvania and Black Forest, i.e. a name for danger zones, not an earthly paradise. Thanks to Prof. Miano, I now remain more enlightened.

This is a really interesting dive into a part of history I hadn't run across before. Ukraine and long gone myth so related? Cool, and bizarre, in equal measures!

If anything, the story of human self observation is constant. We always manage to put ourselves on some kind of pedestal.

Voice work is easy to overdo, but it was well done here. You got range Doc.

Evening Doctor Miano🦋

Great video. Pleasently surprised

Very entertaining, educational as to how mythology has been used in politics. Great production of the video.

Central and North Asia is endlessly fascinating. Scythia, Hyperborea, Bactria, Tartaria, Gog and Magog, Prester John... Truly a magical region which always provoked imagination. Loved the Atun-Shei voice-overs too 😂

Hyperborea is within you. It’s not a place, it’s a mindset. You are the key, the gate and the location.

Pretty cool connection of myth through the ages persisting.

Incredible response by David here.

I was researching some mythological history and observing Vibes of Cosmos Moon map to find this channel. Everything said here lines up with the map locations.

a fine example of what happens when our beautiful minds become obsessed with our beautiful minds.

Thank you! I honestly love it. May your life be a fruitful tree 🙏

Very very interesting, but when are you going to tackle this Hugh Newman guy (ancient aliens) on Lost Giants

great voice overs

I love the voice for Pliny.

Wow. That last guy is insane

I liked the different narrating voice, especially the Attenborough style. 😆

Love the voice acting

I found theosophical stuff interesting but never felt for it - it always had a strange cultist vibe of European aristocracy adapting exotic stuff to feel important. I appreciate now knowing where it all came from and - an extra point of interest to me - learning about Jean Sylvain Bailly: lots stuff cooked up around the French Revolution. Great video!

Awesome vid

Thank you for such an incredibly eye-opening history lesson!!! It's amazing how stories can be twisted and molded to shape political discourse, but to know these stories originate from such ancient times and to see how they changed through time is even more incredible. Dugin's line of thought is absolutely bizarre and so alien to someone like me who lives in the western world, but the way you explained it helps me to understand how and why he has those opinions, and how this impacts so many currently. It's also mind-blowing to me that even in the 21st century, mythology and mysticism can play such a detrimental and pivotal role in politics, war, and flies in the face of progress and evidence-based ways of life and learning. Understanding history and more importantly CONTEXT are so crucial to our ways of life.

Another gem

curious about the gifts the hyperboreans brought, any ideia what were them?

Great Cy impression! 🤣

The human mind is both amazing and terrifying. Amazing how we can come up with the most fantastical, entertaining and sometimes even educational fairytales, but also terrifying when you see how easily some people confuse these fairytales with factual truth and use them as propaganda for warfare.

Beautiful 😊👍

I'm so glad i found this video Very well explained and laid out! Also, about that one writer you quoted ( I forget her name, but i believe she was russian or of some slavic ethnicity) who talked about the religious centered around phallic worship created by the "fake aryans", I think - although this is such a stretch on her part - she isn't entirely wrong. I highly recommend looking into pre indo-iranian cultures of South and S.W Asia, such as Caucasoid groups like Oxusites/B.M.A.C., neolithic Zagrosians, Elamites, Dravidians, Mlecchas (Indus Valley Civ), and even groups in genetic proximity to Austronesians and Denisovans (such as the pre neolithic inhabitants of HImalays and Gangetic Plains, and even Southern India and Eastern Iran before Caucasoid race migrations). Although that writer is making a huge stretch with this, and definitely exaggerating, you can kind of see where she's coming from if you were to closely study cultural archetypes of aforementioned peoples. Anyways, you've earned a new subscriber!

Wish we knew more about the hyperboreans their name sounds so cool

i love how we cant associate happy people with humans also growing fruit in the northest place kinda wild

Nice to see you have a fall back as a voice actor if this whole History Professor thing doesn't work out.

Until this video my knowledge of the hyperboreans was the name. After the ancient text’s I can’t help but think about the legends of Shangri-La and it possibly being influenced by them

Nice vid, thanks for the upload! You made a couple of mistakes, but your area of expertise is history not politics, so I'll forgive those. It was well worth getting the voice actors, it made all the difference! 😉

Hyperborians be off kicking it old school with Prester John

Thanks!

Now I want Hemerius and Pliny to narrate my life.

Dugin is such a weirdo, yet he is legitimately threatening all the same. I was introduced to him by a Religious Studies professor of mine who introduced me to a conspiracy of his that Francis Fukuyama is in fact a gay android. EDIT: It was a Dugin conspiracy, not my professor's.

Thank you.