hyperborean
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“Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C.
From The New Yorker
According to other accounts their home was among the Hyperboreans.
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South of Greece, also near the great river Oceanus, dwelt another nation, just as happy and virtuous as the Hyperboreans,—the Ethiopians.
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The nationality of the magicians quoted in the book may be remarked—they are Libyan, Syrian, Arab, Chald�an, Egyptian, and "Hyperborean."
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The same worship prevailed among the Hyperboreans, as we may judge from the names of the sacred women who used to come annually to Delos; they were priestesses of the Tauric Goddess.
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