Репост из: Thuletide
Someone asked me where the name 'Thuletide' originates.
I stole it from a Harvest Rain song of the same name but it's a mix of 'Yuletide' and 'Thule' from Greco-Roman mythology, which is often used as synonym for Hyperborea. This is explained in Julius Evola's 1934 book Revolt Against the Modern World.
Hyperborea/Thule is also referenced in a 1903 book called The Arctic Home in the Vedas by Indian nationalist and independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He posited that the Indo-Europeans originally inhabited the North Polar region but were forced out of their homeland during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Ice Age, whereafter they migrated to Europe and parts of Asia.
The book contains pseudohistory but the general premise is correct: The ancestors of the Proto-Indo-Europeans did inhabit Siberia during the Ice Age and were forced out of their homeland by climate change. Today we call these people the Ancient North Eurasians. Modern Northern Europeans trace ~25-35% of their ancestry to this population.
I stole it from a Harvest Rain song of the same name but it's a mix of 'Yuletide' and 'Thule' from Greco-Roman mythology, which is often used as synonym for Hyperborea. This is explained in Julius Evola's 1934 book Revolt Against the Modern World.
Hyperborea/Thule is also referenced in a 1903 book called The Arctic Home in the Vedas by Indian nationalist and independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He posited that the Indo-Europeans originally inhabited the North Polar region but were forced out of their homeland during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Ice Age, whereafter they migrated to Europe and parts of Asia.
The book contains pseudohistory but the general premise is correct: The ancestors of the Proto-Indo-Europeans did inhabit Siberia during the Ice Age and were forced out of their homeland by climate change. Today we call these people the Ancient North Eurasians. Modern Northern Europeans trace ~25-35% of their ancestry to this population.