Howard describes them as a powerful and warlike race with the average individual being tall, tawny-haired, and gray-eyed. In the essay "The Hyborian Age", Howard writes that followers of Mitra are urged to forgive their enemies (though many of them fail to do so). Although his Black Sea is also dry, his Caspian Sea, which he renames the Vilayet Sea, extends northward to reach the Arctic Ocean, so as to provide a barrier to encapsulate the settings of his stories. The Mediterranean Sea formerly dried out intermittently, alternating with floods over the Straits of Gibraltar. The Nile, which he re-named the River Styx, takes a westward turn at right angles just beyond the Nile Delta, plowing through the mountains so as to be able to reach the Straits of Gibraltar. Howard imagines the Hyborian Picts occupying a large area in the northwest. They continued their expansion south while in turn displacing defeated Hyborians to the south. Khitai is his version of China, lying far to the east, Corinthia is his name for a Hellenistic civilization, a name derived from the city of Corinth and reminiscent of the imperial fief of Carinthia in the Middle Ages. Its location in the south of Aquilonia could point to Provence, which is in the south of France. [3] More recently, Dale Rippke proposed that the Hyborian Age should be placed further in the past, around 32,500 BC, prior to the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum. The name is derived from the Khitan language for, Japan. His worshippers are monolatristic, since at least one tale depicts priests of Mitra recognizing the existence of Set. The continental homelands of the Angles and Saxons who invaded Britain, which is the origin of the name, though the civilization is similar to that of medieval Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. This was a mythical place far to the north that was not cold and where things did not age. After this cataclysm, the surviving humans were reduced to a primitive state and a technological level hardly above the Neanderthal. [5], Howard had an intense love for history and historical dramas; however, at the same time, he recognized the difficulties and the time-consuming research needed in maintaining historical accuracy. Some of them were already migrating south at a "leisurely" pace in search of new areas in which to settle. The Kothian capital of Khorshemish corresponds to the Hittite capital of Carchemish. Not only are his Baltic Sea and English Channel dry, but most of the North Sea and a vast region to the west, easily including Ireland, are too. Also hints of Italy in regards to the indigenous population's names and culture. Khawarizm Castle: By Vincent N. Darlage. The only exception to their long isolation from other cultural groups came due to the actions of a lone adventurer, unnamed in the essay. Howard labels the populace of his Argos as "Argosseans", whereas the folk of the historical Argos are known as "Argives". They had instead evolved into apemen and, according to his description, were by then numerous. Its territory covered Aquilonia, Nemedia, and Argos. The name derived from the town of Aquilonia, Avellino, Campania, Southern Italy, although it also resembles Aquitaine, a French region ruled by England for a long portion of the Middle Ages. Mitra is a personification of good popular amongst people of the era. The name is based on "Cymru", the Welsh word for Wales. Although his Black Sea is also dry, his Caspian Sea, which he renames the Vilayet Sea, extends northward to reach the Arctic Ocean, so as to provide a barrier to encapsulate the settings of his stories. A fallen kingdom corresponding to the Roman Empire. China, Marco Polo's Cathay. Various seafaring traders of the Mediterranean. Within another five hundred years, the Hyborian kingdoms dominated the western part of the super continent. In changing the name to Darfar, Howard unwittingly changed the Arabic meaning to "the abode of mice". The mixed-blooded Hyborian tribes were in turn forced to defend their new territories from pure-blooded Hyborian tribes which followed the same paths of migration. Wales, with an overlay of colonial-era North America. In earlier times, the territory of Stygia included Shem, Ophir, Corinthia, and part of Koth. The Tower of the Elephant: From the d20 adventure adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Tower of the Elephant story. Egypt. Crom is specifically and uniquely considered a Cimmerian god, with other civilizations paying him little attention. Whether REH realized that is hard to say. (likely, although the name reminds of Poitou, a province Northeast of Aquitaine, but not mediterranean, and not properly part of the South). Aquitaine (?) Nemedia was the rival of Aquilonia (which corresponds to the Carolingian Empire/France), and depended on Aesir mercenaries for their defence (as the Byzantines hired Vikings as the Varangian guard). He had traveled past the Arctic Circle and returned with news that their old adversaries, the apes, were never annihilated. In lands corresponding to Asia and Africa, Mitra is, at best, one god among many, and worship of Mitra is altogether banned in Stygia (Egypt and North Africa). Perhaps Vendhya had something to do with this? The Don and/or the Volga. I was only familiar with ~1932 REH's hand drawn maps. In Vendhya, the followers of Asura seek truth beyond the illusions of the physical world, and the Hyborian devotees of Mitra are almost Christian in their merging of asceticism with a commitment to compassion and justice. Howard devised the Hyborian Age to fit in with his previous and less-well-known tales of Kull, which were set at the time of Atlantis. While Mitra and his followers are in general presented favorably in the Conan stories, in Howard's The Hour of the Dragon they show prejudice and persecute followers of Asura. He attempted to recruit a significant military force to campaign against them, but most Hyborians were not convinced by his tales; only a small group of foolhardy youths followed his campaign. In the philistine (Pelishtia) city of Ekron, there was an important oracle of Baal-Zevul (Beelzebuul). 3. Important Note I: Large parts of the gazetteer text is taken from "A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age World of Conan" compiled by Dale E. Rippke, but may appear here in edited form. Just south of the Pictish Wilderness was the fertile valley known as "Zing". Its setting is prehistoric Europe and North Africa (with occasional references to Asia and other continents). For 500 years, the Hyborians spread towards the south and the west of their nameless continent. Maybe the exchange of a non-human master-race for an inhuman one was nothing for these people to be happy or grateful for, but the conquerors from the east slyly understood to play on this and turn it to their own advantage. The Mitran cult never practice sacrifice and values aesthetic simplicity. Mitra's involvement has a significant effect on Conan's career. The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian. Reply. Ásgard is the home of the Æsir (Aesir) in Norse mythology. Hellenistic Egypt had a political religion of state, the. It's underwater west of Scandinavia, when current Europe's map is superimposed. The name comes from the city of Zamora, Zamora province, Castile-Leon, Spain. These nomads lived in tents made out of the hides of horses, but soon abandoned them in favor of their crude but durable stone houses. They were named after their highest ranking god deity, Bori. He is acknowledged as the chief god by the lead character Conan, and his proto-Celtic Cimmerian people. According to Howard himself (in "The Phoenix on the Sword"): "...between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas...". [7] The essay begins with the end of the Thurian Age (the setting for Howard's King Kull stories) and the destruction of its civilizations, Lemuria and Atlantis, by a geological cataclysm. The name "Hyborian" is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of "Hyperborea", literally "Beyond the North Wind". or Byzantine Empire (?). [1] Howard described the Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded ancient history. Includes Overview, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Temple of Tarim, Sari Tanri Temple and Ewqaf Temple. He imagines the Picts to occupy a large area to the northwest. The wandering Hyborian tribe which conquered them found other people already settled there. On the other hand, at the north of the continent, the fair-haired invaders from the Arctic Circle had grown in numbers and power. There are also a few islands, reminiscent of the Azores, but his stories are not about naval tactics. Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia (. The Hyborians expanded outside their familiar territories, beginning a new age of wanderings and conquests. The Kira-Khitai were a prominent tribe amongst Mongol steppe tribes. 1 Overview 2 History 3 Points of Interest 4 Notes 5 See Also 6 Links and References 6.1 Footnotes Hyboria was a world-continent that existed during the Hyborian Age.6 The northwestern part of the landmass was known was the Hyborian Lands,7 which was populated by the Hyborians (or earlier the Hybori), and included the Hyborian Kingdoms.8 South of the Hyborian Lands were the Southern … Using Crom's name as an expletive immediately identifies Conan as being a Cimmerian. Pictish Scotland, with an overlay of colonial era North America, possibly even colonial era New York. [12] In Khoraja, which is on the border between the Hyborian kingdoms and the Semite ones, the worship of Mitra was largely forgotten in favor of the Semite gods – but in hours of great need, Khorajans still call on Mitra and are answered ("Black Colossus"). Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Conan stories are set on Earth after the final sinking of Atlantis and before the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago. He is probably loosely based on the Vedic and Zoroastrian figure by the same name, and in the Hyborian universe, his worship generally represents Christianity. This was a mythical place far to the north that was not cold and where things did not age. However, being omnipresent and incorporeal, Mitra is not considered to reside in the icon, nor share its appearance. Please visit the original site at Dark Storm Legends. Conan, a Cimmerian, has an Irish name, as do his parents. Even Hyperborea was conquered by one of these barbarian tribes. They drove them southwest, where they slew and drove out in turn the Serpent Men. The idol itself has the appearance of an idealized, bearded male figure and is the primary direction of Mitran worship. A millennium after the Great Cataclysm, the descendants of the Lemurian refugees who had been enslaved by the East Folk overthrew their overlords. The survivors of the defeated clans merged with their conquerors, passing on their racial traits to new generations of Hyborians. Their southern offshoots, however, had been practicing animal husbandry on cattle for centuries. From the kingdom of Kush and Nubia in North Africa. It's truly a wonderful map! Mapping/cartography is a very arcane science when you start getting beyond the micro level. Afghanistan. Its setting is Europe and North Africa – with some curious geological changes that were thought up prior to the ascendancy of the geologic theory of plate tectonics, though somewhat similar to what geologists 1 What is the Hyborian Age? https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Hyborian_Age?oldid=17818. It would be beyond awesome to have a Howardian globe of Hyborian Age Earth. Believing the apes were destined to perish, the humans turned to taming their harsh new home. Tibet (This isn't an original Hyborian Age country, it's created by. The Carolingian Empire, medieval France, with occasional hints of England. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India) referring to the Vedic era lands. Conan, being a "barbarian", does not share this "civilized" prejudice and protects Asura's followers, who prove helpful later. Hyborian Age [edit | edit source] 500 years later, the kingdoms of the Hyborian Age were clearly established in the lands that used to make up the empire of Acheron. Crom is the chief god of the Cimmerian pantheon, and he lives on a great mountain, from where he sends forth doom or death. However, Koth is situated in southern Europe including the ancient lands of Illyria, Thrace, the Adriatic sea, and the central Italic peoples. Together with Koth they make for an early Roman Empire. There is little consistent evidence in his works that Crom actually exists; the existence of demons and highly advanced aliens is confirmed (as in the stories "The God in the Bowl" and "The Tower of the Elephant"), while the story "The Phoenix on the Sword" implies that Set is one of H. P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones. The probable intended correspondences are listed below; notice that the correspondences are sometimes very loose, and are portrayed by ahistorical stereotypes. One problem with this map, which the people who published it (Mongoose Games) are a bit infamous for making: It should be labelled the Hyborian Age, or the Hyborian World, not the "World of Hyboria." Fictional period created by Robert E. Howard, For Howard's essay describing the Hyborian Age, see, An princess named Yelaya, who presumably becomes a consort for the lord of the underworld, plays a important role in this story. The Hyperboreans were by then the most advanced of the Hyborian tribes and set out to expand their kingdom by attacking their backwards neighbors. By this point, the various related but independent Hyborian tribes had spread throughout the northern regions of their area of the world. Howard's Hyborian epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Age, is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists. The Hyborians had yet to encounter other cultural groups, but engaged in wars against each other. The Munhumutapa Empire (Its capital city was the Great Zimbabwe). Mongolia, Ukraine (Hyrkanians = Scythians), Finland, Russia, and the Baltic countries (Hyperborea was a land in "outermost north" according to Greek historian Herodotus. In his fantasy setting of the Hyborian Age, Howard created imaginary kingdoms to which he gave names inspired by or adapted from a variety of mythological and historical sources. Most of the tribes still relied on hunting for their nourishment. They started their own migration to the south, displacing the northernmost of the Hyborian tribes. One thousand five hundred years later, the descendants of this initial group were called "Hyborians". The name "Hyborian" is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of "Hyperborea", … On a map Howard drew conceptualizing the Hyborian Age, his vision of the Mediterranean Sea is dry. Mitra's religion is missionary; its adherents sometimes lose their lives trying to spread their faith to hostile peoples. Mitra is the chief god of most of the civilized Hyborian kingdoms, including Aquilonia, Ophir, Nemedia, Brythunia, Corinthia, and Zingara. Howard explained the origins and history of the Hyborian civilization in his essay "The Hyborian Age". The name is derived from the Khitan Empire (Chinese 遼朝 Liáo cháo or the Liao Dynasty) and the people who ruled northern and northeastern China. The name comes from the "Kesh", the Egyptian name for Nubia. Once there was a land-bridge across the English Channel between England and the Low Countries (but not across the Irish Sea) such that the Thames once flowed into a northern extension of the Rhine. It instantly rekindled my interest in Conan. The City of Shumballa: By Vincent N. Darlage. The name derives from Turan, the areas of Eurasia occupied by speakers of Ural-Altaic languages. In the Hyborian Age, Amazon is a kingdom ruled by women, located near the Black Kingdoms. Hyborian Age. Temples, palaces, dungeons, etc. NOTE: Uttara Kuru is not an original Hyborian Age country, it appear in Conan the Avenger by Björn Nyberg. The southernmost of the early kingdoms was Koth, which was established north of the lands of Shem and soon started extending its cultural influence over the southern shepherds. A vicious territorial war ensued until the humans drove the apes further North, past the Arctic Circle. Howard's Hyborian Age, described in detail in his essay "The Hyborian Age", is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists. Celtic Ireland/Britain/Scotland of ancient times. Tribes who defended their territories lost them and were forced to migrate elsewhere. The probable intended analogues are listed below; notice that the analogues are sometimes very generalized, and are portrayed by non-historical stereotypes. The name "Hyborian" is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of "Hyperborea", literally "Beyond the North Wind". Often, the new invaders would wipe away the defenders before absorbing them, resulting in a tangled web of Hyborian tribes and nations with varying ancestral elements within their bloodlines. The Nile, which he renamed the River Styx, takes a westward turn at right angles just beyond the Nile Delta, plowing through the mountains so as to be able to reach the Straits of Gibraltar. By conceiving a timeless setting – a vanished age – and by carefully choosing names that resembled our history, Howard avoided the problem of historical anachronisms and the need for lengthy exposition.[6]. Crom is never depicted as directly intervening or otherwise explicitly causing any event to occur in the original Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. They consider that during the Ice Age, Europe was quite different. They discovered the region to be safe, but covered with snow and already inhabited by a race of vicious white-furred apes. Most of these correspondences are drawn from "Hyborian Names", an appendix featured in Conan the Swordsman by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.[8]. Maps. And both the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea were once fresh-water lakes, the former (renamed the Ancylus Sea, after a fresh-water clam) covering much of the eastern half of what is now Sweden. "Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and in the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with … They established the kingdom of Zingara and absorbed the defeated elements into their tribe. Howard's story "Black Colossus" features a princess vocally directed by Mitra to transform Conan into her champion,[11] yet Crom makes no such appearances. Include… Hyborians, Picts, and the unnamed kin of the Shemites would merge into a nation calling themselves Zingarans. He believed they were quickly evolving to human status and would pose a threat to the Hyborians in the future. The Hyborian Age was devised by author Robert E. Howard as the post-Atlantean setting of his Conan the Cimmerian stories, designed to fit in with Howard's previous and lesser known tales of Kull, which were set in the Thurian Age at the time of Atlantis. By 13,000 BC the Hybori had conquered Acheron. Culturally, they were accomplished artists and poets. I'd like to know more about how you came up with your version. Howard's Hyperborea is a northern "evil empire", ruled by wicked wizards, perhaps akin to the perception of the 1930s Soviet Union). The continuing wars and migrations would keep the state of the other areas of the continent for another five hundred years. Due to the god's involvement, Conan – who hitherto had never commanded more than a "company of cut-throats" – emerges victorious from a historically important battle involving tens of thousands of soldiers. On a map Howard drew detailing it, his vision of the Mediterranean Sea is also dry. This may also have inspired the role of Bit-Yakin in the story. The name comes from Acheron, a river of the underworld in Greek mythology. Toward the north, the savage Picts and the descendants of the Atlanteans, t… May 2020. The Nile, which he renamed the River Styx, takes a westward turn at right angles just beyond the Nile Delta, plowing through the mountains so as to be able to reach the Straits of Gibraltar. Meanwhile, the west coast of Africa on his map lies beneath the sea. Having done Thurian Age maps, I know that 2-D maps always distort. Others fled the path of Hyperborean expansion before ever engaging them in war. Hyborian Age", is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists. Meanwhile, the west coast of Africa on his map lies beneath the sea. 1. The essay mentions that Bori had actually been a great tribal chief of their past who had undergone deification. [13] He is also symbolically represented by a phoenix in Howard's writing,[14] by an Ankh in the Age of Conan MMORPG, and by a bronze colossus in the survival video game Conan Exiles.[15]. They encountered the Picts and forced them to limit themselves to the western wastelands, which would come to be known as the "Pictish Wilderness". Vanaheim is the home of the Vanir in Norse mythology (Njörd - god of the sea; Freyja - goddess of fertility, love, beauty, and war). They conquered many smaller clans of various origins. They encountered other tribal groups for the first time in millennia. The first organized Hyborian kingdom to emerge was Hyperborea. Mitra's worship is strong and dominant, effectively the state religion, in the Hyborian countries corresponding to modern Western Europe. The name Crom is probably derived from the ancient Celtic deity Crom Cruach or Crom Dubh. Though Conan's career would know many more ups and downs, this was an important step towards eventually becoming a king. The name comes from Nemed, leader of colonists from Scythia to Ireland in Irish mythology; perhaps the name is also meant to allude to Nemea, home to the Nemean Lion of Greek myth. Several such tribes migrated to the northern areas of what was left of the Thurian continent to escape destruction. The name comes from the Argo, ship of the Argonauts; or perhaps from the city of Argos, Argolis, Peloponnesos, Greece. It reflects the cultures of the Roman Age. The Ottoman Empire (?) 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Howard as the post-Atlantean setting of his Conan the Cimmerian stories, designed to fit in with Howard's previous and lesser known tales of Kull, which were set in the Thurian Age at the time of Atlantis. From Mitra's point of view, Conan was evidently the best choice to defeat a sworn enemy of the Hyborian kingdoms. Khitai is his China, far to the East, deriving from an ancient name; Corinthia is his name for a Greek-like civilization, a name slapped together from the name of the city of Corinth and a reminiscence of the Middle Ages province of Carinthia.

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