A MEMORY - Untitled 10 (Hyperborea)

In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond Scythia. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria — "beyond the Boreas" — was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which - if true - suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle...


Dan Holdsworth - Untitled 10 (Hyperborea)
Contemporary Artists www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Never the Muse is absent
from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry
and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed
in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.
- Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode; translated by Richmond Lattimore.

Reaching such exotic lands is never easy; Pindar cautioned:
neither by ship nor on foot would you find
the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.


Suddenly this film, reminds me of Hyperborea....It is filmed in Sweden, somehow close to the Arctic Circle, but the music is Thracian....

autumn by the lake from Bart van der Gaag on Vimeo.