Hyperboreans
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spoken of as
1 expressionthe Hyperboreans1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
But on the first journey, the Hyperboreans sent two maidens bearing the offerings, to whom the Delians give the names Hyperoche and Laodice, and five men of their people with them as escort for safe conduct, those who are now called Perpherees and greatly honored at Delos.
in the texts
Stromata
Legendary northern people described by Hellanicus as taught righteousness.
And Hellanicus relates that the Hyperboreans dwell beyond the Rhipaean mountains, and are taught righteousness, not eating flesh but using acorns and the like;
The Histories
A people said to live beyond the north wind, known chiefly through poetic mention and through the Delian tradition of offerings passed from nation to nation to Delos.
But on the first journey, the Hyperboreans sent two maidens bearing the offerings, to whom the Delians give the names Hyperoche and Laodice, and five men of their people with them as escort for safe conduct, those who are now called Perpherees and greatly honored at Delos.
They say that offerings wrapped in straw are brought from the Hyperboreans to Scythia;
namely, that when the Thracian and Paeonian women sacrifice to the Royal Artemis, they have straw with them while they sacrifice.
Hymn 7 to Dionysus
A distant mythic people named as a possible destination for the captive.
I reckon he is bound for Egypt or for Cyprus or to the Hyperboreans or further still.