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The term "Hyperborean" still sees some jocular contemporary use in reference to groups of people who live in a cold climate. Under the Library of Congress Classification System , the letter subclass PM includes "Hyperborean Languages", a catch-all category that refers to all the linguistically unrelated languages of peoples living in Arctic ...
Articles relating to Hyperborea, the far northern part of the known world in Greek mythology.Later writers disagreed on the existence and location of the Hyperboreans, with some regarding them as purely mythological, and others connecting them to real-world peoples and places in Northern Europe (e.g. Britain, Scandinavia, or Siberia).
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
A daughter of Boreas, one of the Hyperborean maidens, who brought the worship of Artemis to Delos, whence it is also used as a surname of Artemis herself. (Callim. Hymn. in Del. 292; Nonnus, Dionys. v. p. 168; comp. Spanheim, ad Callim. l. c.) [1] [2] Oupis (Ancient Greek: Οὐπις, romanized: Oupis, Opsis, Upis) represented aim. A ...
In Greek mythology, Abaris the Hyperborean (Ancient Greek: Ἄβαρις Ὑπερβόρειος, Ábaris Hyperbóreios), son of Seuthes (Σεύθης), was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, which he fled during a plague.
Hyperborean cycle, a cycle of ten fantasy stories by Clark Ashton Smith; Hyperborea, a collection of Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean stories; Hyperborea, a nation in the fictional world of Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard, see also the Hyborian Age for Howard's fictional version of ancient Eurasian history.
Bidens hyperborea (common names estuary beggarticks, [5] northern beggarticks, [6] or estuary bur-marigold [7]) is a variable species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known from estuarine regions in northeastern North America. It is similar to Bidens cernua, Bidens laevis, and Bidens eatonii.
1309 Hyperborea / h aɪ p ər ˈ b ɔːr iː ə / is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 57 kilometers in diameter.It was discovered on 11 October 1931, by Soviet astronomer Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula, and given the provisional designation 1931 TO. [17]