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Beyond the North Wind
- The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture. McIntosh leads listeners, chapter by chapter, through the magical and spiritual history of the North, as well as its modern manifestations, as documented through physical records, such as runestones and megaliths, but also through mythology and lore.
This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as "Hyberborea" - the "Land Beyond the North Wind" - which they considered to be the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization. Through the Greeks, this concept of the mythic North would spread throughout Western civilization.
In addition, McIntosh discusses Russian Hyperboreanism, which he describes as among "the most influential of the new religions and quasi-religious movements that have sprung up in Russia since the fall of Communism" and which is currently almost unknown in the West.
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- Rowan Carr
- 08-12-2021
Little bit of Nordic insight
Beautifully written, enlightening and worthwhile Thankyou will listen again
Putting a minimum amount on words for a review is pointless, annoying and idiotic!
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- Deedee
- 11-05-2024
Epic pronunciation and information
Well researched collation of information. So much to take in and go do further research on that I've listened to it 3 times :)
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- Dave
- 25-11-2022
Pseudoscience and wild speculation
While some of the information is interesting things about some theories, a lot of what is presented is pseudosciences and dismissive of scientific evidence. There is a lot of "it is conceivable" nonsense.
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- Naomi
- 14-11-2021
Useless pseudoscience
When a modern author's sources are mainly over 100 years old, there has to be a problem. Modern historians and archaeologists were ignored, old theories based on woefully incomplete knowledge were proffered by this author as accurate and influential sources. Half the book was a history of modern Asatru/Heathenry combined with a ridiculously outmoded and thoroughly debunked theory of a "great northern civilisation". His research on the topic was shallow and selective. This book is a farce.
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