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Hyperborea

from <Qocheedy Daiin> by The Far Stairs

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The land of Hyperborea, in the far north, was home to a race of tall, pale men. Pindar said of them:

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.

The implication that these men did not get sick or die has led many to speculate that they were not human, and in fact came from a wintry planet orbiting another star, having chosen to settle in the Arctic regions of Earth. Besides lyres and flutes, they are known mainly to have played bell-like instruments of metal.

According to legend, the sun never set in Hyperborea.

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from <Qocheedy Daiin>, released February 9, 1944

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