Thule

Thule (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ˈ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >θj</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >uː</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >l</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >iː</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a>;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-1" >[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-oxforddictionaries.com-2" >[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-3" >[3]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language" >Greek</a>: Θούλη, Thoúlē), also spelled Thula, Thila, or Thyïlea, is, in classical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" title="Europe" >European</a> literature and maps, a region in the far north. Though often considered to be an island in antiquity, modern interpretations of what was meant by Thule often identify it as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" title="Norway" >Norway</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-oxforddictionaries.com-2" >[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-4" >[4]</a> an identification supported by modern calculations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-Germania-5" >[5]</a> Other interpretations include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney" >Orkney</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland" title="Shetland" >Shetland</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia" >Scandinavia</a>. In the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Thule was often identified as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland" >Iceland</a> or<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland" >Greenland</a>. Another suggested location is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saaremaa" title="Saaremaa" >Saaremaa</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea" >Baltic Sea</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-meri-6" >[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-veski-7" >[7]</a> The term ultima Thule in medieval geographies denotes any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world". Sometimes it is used as a proper noun (Ultima Thule) as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_(language)" title="Latin (language)" class="mw-redirect" >Latin</a> name for Greenland when Thule is used for Iceland.

<h2 >Nazi "Aryan" Thule[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thule&action=edit&section=7" title='Edit section: Nazi "Aryan" Thule' >edit</a>]</h2>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_occultism" title="Nazism and occultism" >Nazi occultists</a> believed in a historical Thule/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea" title="Hyperborea" >Hyperborea</a> as the ancient origin of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race" title="Aryan race" >Aryan race</a>. Much of this fascination was due to rumours surrounding the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oera_Linda_Book" title="Oera Linda Book" >Oera Linda Book</a>, falsely claimed to have been found by Cornelis Over de Linden during the 19th century. The Oera Linda Book was translated into German in 1933 and was favoured by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler" >Heinrich Himmler</a>. The book has since been thoroughly discredited. Professor of Frisian Language and Literature Goffe Jensma wrote that the three authors of the translation intended it "to be a temporary hoax to fool some nationalist Frisians and orthodox Christians and as an experiential exemplary exercise in reading the Holy Bible in a non-fundamentalist, symbolical way."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-37" >[37]</a>

The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_School" title="Traditionalist School" >Traditionalist School</a> expositor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Guenon" title="Rene Guenon" class="mw-redirect" >Rene Guenon</a> believed in the existence of ancient Thule on "initiatic grounds" "alone". According to its emblem, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society" title="Thule Society" >Thule Society</a> was founded on August 18, 1918.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule#cite_note-38" >[38]</a> It had close links to the Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (DAP), later the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP" title="NSDAP" class="mw-redirect" >NSDAP</a>, the Nazi party). One of its three founding members was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanz_von_Liebenfels" title="Lanz von Liebenfels" class="mw-redirect" >Lanz von Liebenfels</a> (1874–1954). In his biography of Liebenfels (Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab, Munich 1985), the Viennese psychologist and author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Dahm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilhelm Dahm (page does not exist)" >Wilhelm Dahm</a> wrote: "The Thule Gesellschaft name originated from mythical Thule, a Nordic equivalent of the vanished culture of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis" title="Atlantis" >Atlantis</a>. A race of giant supermen lived in Thule, linked into the Cosmos through magical powers. They had psychic and technological energies far exceeding the technical achievements of the 20th century. This knowledge was to be put to use to save the Fatherland and create a new race of Nordic Aryan Atlanteans. A new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah" >Messiah</a> would come forward to lead the people to this goal." In his history of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung" title="Sturmabteilung" >SA</a> (Mit ruhig festem Schritt, 1998), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_von_Oven" title="Wilfred von Oven" >Wilfred von Oven</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels" >Joseph Goebbels</a>' press adjutant from 1943 to 1945, confirmed that Pytheas' Thule was the historical Thule for the Thule Gesellschaft.

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