Chapter 6

Hyperborea

In the golden age.

The paradise Leto lived in was Hyperborea in it’s  golden age. The non space that was her non home was called Hyperborea in the myths of people who came later,  the non time that was her non lifetime people later called the golden age.  In the many myths that tried to explain our past, Hyperborea was a place that was in the before, in mystical time, in mythical time. It was kind of sort of maybe out of time and space. In the Myths, after her grandmother Gaia, the mother earth, made soil and made the beginning of places, from her songs and dreams, she made the most beautiful place ever dreamed of, Hyperborea, for her children to make love and have babies. Hyperborea was a warm, tropical land of flower, scents and ambrosia. It had tropical forests, ancient plants not seen since. It had stones that were just awakening and still spoke, it had flowers that sung as they breathed. It had animals that could speak and fly and change shapes. It had colored lights that flickered in the night like the most beautiful paintings ever made. The air in Hyperborea smelled of flowers and moisture. The sky changed colors every moment, the winds, if you could call them winds, were like kisses, the water like a lover’s vaginal fluid, the soil soft like the inside of your mouth.

In after times, historians, philosophers, poets and mythologists wrote tomes about where Hyperborea was in relation to modern earth that followed . The word Hyperborea means beyond (Hyper)  the Boreas  (north wind), so they usually place it in the far north. But of course this made no sense since it was so warm. They placed it over the mountains of the southern countries and each county said it was their ancient land before the ice ages. England, Russia-Siberia, China, Germany all say they were Hyperborea in ancient times. The Celts claim Hyperborea as their own, the English say Stonehenge was actually an ancient Hyperborean temple.  Some say Atlantis was Hyperborea and Shambala was Hyperborea. Pindar the Greek poet was probably more perspicacious to say it was unreachable by normal means. The only way to get there from Greece was by flying on a magic swan, you could not travel there by walking or horseback or ship. But.. interesting enough, Greeks went there and Hyperboreans came to Greece. Magical Greeks could fly by swan or other means, Hyperboreans could likewise come in their own way and later on this exchange of humans and Hyperborean was critical to all mythology and history of Greece.

The animals that lived in Hyperborea were not like animals now. The beings, like our Leto, were not humans. They were called by mythologists, Titans, they were the first beings, they were giants with supreme powers. They could fly, shape shift, tell the future and the past. They were one with all around them, they were what was and what was to be. They were the first. The animals too were about seeing, feeling, and being. They remembered the past and future too, they could fly and they each carried a special energy that was particular to their being. They could speak without words, communicate with each other and with the stones, plants and with the Titans.

Life in Hyperborea was far beyond perfect. There was no illness, no wars, no suffering. The beings lived long long lives hundreds of thousands of years, and when they died, they went to sleep in a dream. There was no money, no ownership of objects, no work. All the food they needed was around them in abundance. There was no jealously, since there were no objects. There was no law since there was no crime. There was no power, no hierarchy of wealth of position, no society of production and poverty.

In Hyperborea there was no word for art- for all was art. All was song, dance, poetry, and painting. Art was the way the gods communicated with the titans who lived there and later with the first peoples. Life in Hyperborea was completely spiritual. Hyperboreans could go into a spiritual consciousness and be one with all, they could be everywhere at once, they could know the past and future like it was the present. They could talk and communicate with spirits, ancestors, the earth, gods, animals plants stones all before and after them. They could shape shift and become any animal plant or human. Because of all these characteristics, Modern authors write that “The normal life of Hyperborean would later become then basis of most Shamanic practices and magic ceremonies and is still used today by sorcerers, magicians, shamans, mediums and psychics.” Interesting enough, many cultures of humans in the afterwards tell the same story of a golden age. Myths tell  the history of a people’s world taking place in several different ages. For the Native Americans, it is the first world to the fifth world. For the Hindu it is the 4 Yugas or ages, and even for the the bible it is  the kingdoms of Nebruknaza’s dreams. And, in each of their stories/ memories the first age is the purest and it goes downhill from there, the present age is always a mess.