Summarizing the accumulated facts and summing up the general state of the problem of the so-called ice ages, Academician I. G. Pidoplichko noted: “Science still does not know such facts – geological, paleontological or biological – from which it would follow with logical inevitability that there would exist or on Earth at any time during its development of continental (non-mountain) glaciations. And there is also no reason to predict that such facts will ever be discovered.”
The above fully applies to the Kola Peninsula: glacial glaciation’s here, of course, was not one, but not on such hypertrophied spatial and temporal scales as is customary to draw in accordance with a tradition that does not withstand criticism. This is also confirmed by numerous data from Arctic archeology. It is enough to look at the archaeological maps of the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions in order to make sure that for many millennia life has been in full swing along the shores of the ocean, seas and rivers (the same applies to other areas, up to Chukotka).
According to various estimates, the age of the Paleolithic Byzovskaya site on the banks of the Pechora ranges from 40 to 20 thousand years (which in itself does not interfere with glacial dogma). Many finds were given by Svalbard.
There are no boundaries for northern archeology (conditionally, they can be considered only the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, where archaeologists, unfortunately, have not looked at yet).
Living beyond Borea
Literally, the ethnonym Hyperboreans means “those who live beyond Borea (the North Wind)”, or simply – “those who live in the North.” They were reported by many ancient authors.
One of the most respected scholars of the Ancient World, Pliny the Elder wrote about the Hyperboreans, as about the real ancient people living at the Arctic Circle and genetically associated with the Hellenes through the cult of Apollo Hyperborean. Here is what literally is said in Natural History (IV, 26): “Beyond the Riphean mountains, on the other side of Aquilon, the happy people (if you can believe this), called the Hyperboreans, reach very advanced years and are glorified by wonderful legends. They believe that there are loops of the world, and the extreme limits of the circulation of the stars. The sun shines there for half a year, and this is only one day when the sun does not hide (as the ignorant would think) from the vernal equinox to the autumn, the stars there rise only once a year during the summer solstice and only set during the winter. This country is all in the sun, with a favorable climate and devoid of any harmful wind.
Homes for these residents are groves, forests; the cult of the Gods manages individuals and society; strife and all manner of diseases are unknown there.
Death comes there only from the satiety of life… There is no doubt in the existence of this people.”
Even from this small excerpt from Natural History, it is not difficult to get a clear idea of Hyperborea.
The first – and this is the most important thing – it was located where the Sun may not set for several months. In other words, we can only talk about the circumpolar regions, those that in Russian folklore were called the Sunflower Kingdom.
Another important circumstance: the climate in the North of Eurasia at that time was completely different. This is confirmed by the latest comprehensive studies conducted recently in the north of Scotland under an international program: they showed that even 4 thousand years ago the climate at this latitude was comparable to the Mediterranean and there were a large number of thermophilic animals.
However, even earlier, Russian oceanographers and paleontologists found that in the 30—15 millennium BC the climate of the Arctic was quite mild, and the Arctic Ocean was warm, despite the presence of glaciers on the continent.
Approximately the same conclusions and chronological framework came to American and Canadian scientists. According to them, during the Wisconsin glaciation’s in the center of the Arctic Ocean there was a temperate zone favorable for such flora and fauna that could not exist in the polar and polar regions of North America.
The main confirmation of the indisputable fact of a favorable climatic situation is the annual migration of migratory birds to the North – a genetically programmed memory of a warm ancestral home.
Indirect evidence in favor of the existence in the northern latitudes of an ancient highly developed civilization can be found here powerful stone structures and other megalithic monuments located everywhere (alley of menhirs in French Brittany, stone labyrinths of Solovki and the Kola Peninsula).
A map of G. Mercator, the most famous cartographer of all time, based on some ancient knowledge, where Hyperborea is depicted as a huge Arctic continent with a high mountain in the middle, has been preserved.
On the other hand, ancient authors, in particular Strabo in their famous “Geography”, write about the outskirts of the northern territory, the polar tip of the Earth, called Tula (Tula). Thule just occupies the place where Hyperborea or Arctida should be calculated (more precisely, Thule is one of the ends of Arctida).
According to Strabo, these lands are located six days sailing north of Britain, and the sea there is gelatinous, resembling the body of one of the varieties of jellyfish – the “marine lung”.
If there are no reliable texts, but material monuments are either not recognized or hidden under the Arctic ice, language reconstruction can help: it, as the keeper of the thought and knowledge of disappeared generations, is no less reliable monument in comparison with stone megaliths – dolmens, menhirs and cromlechs. You only need to learn to read the meaning hidden in them.
The verbal tracing of the ancient Arctic land of Tule (Tula) is the name of the ancient Russian city of Tula. Of course, it is unlikely that the Russian city of Tula has a direct relationship (by belonging) to the ancient Hyperborea (Tula).
However, it is quite possible that the people associated with Hyperborea (Thule) were once forced to migrate from the legendary country and assign the name Tula to the new place of settlement (literally, “a hidden place”). According to the Dahl Dictionary, this is precisely the meaning of the concept of “Tula”: a hidden, inaccessible place (“tulit” – to hide, hide, hide).
Toponyms with the root “tul” are extremely widespread: the cities of Toulon and Toulouse in France, Tulchin in Ukraine, the river in the Murmansk region – Tuloma, the lake in Karelia – Tulos. The city of Tula, the ancient capital of the Pre-Columbian Toltec state (in the territory of modern Mexico), is also known on the American continent.
Despite the scarce information of historians, the ancient world apparently possessed extensive ideas and important details about the life and customs of Hyperboreans. And all because the roots of long-standing and close ties with them go back to the ancient community of the pra-Indo-European civilization, naturally associated with the Arctic Circle, and with the “end of the earth” – the northern coastline of Eurasia, and with the ancient mainland and island culture.
It is here, as Aeschylus writes: “On the edge of the earth”, “in the deserted desert of wild Scythians”, on the orders of Zeus, the rebellious Prometheus was chained to the rock: contrary to the prohibition of the Gods, he gave people fire, opened the secret of the movement of stars and lights, taught the art of composing letters, farming and sailing.
But the region where Prometheus tormented by the dragon-like kite languished, until Heracles (who received the epithet Hyperborean for it), was not always so deserted and homeless.
Everything looked different when, a little earlier, the famous hero of the ancient Perseus came to the Hyperboreans here to fight the gorgon Medusa and get magic winged sandals here, for which he was also called Hyperborean.
Polar Homeland
Could it be that the ancient inhabitants