“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.

This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as “Hyberborea” (Land Beyond the North Wind) which they considered to be the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization.

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The Infinite Spiral is an underused symbol in my opinion. Symbolizing the cycle of reincarnation, as well as the infinite. It would be placed on graves and shrines as a way of communicating the liminal space of the grave, and of the connection to the dead and the living, as well as the cycle of rebirth. It was eventually appropriated along with many other symbols by the Catholic Church, notably with the Triskelion which became a symbol for the trinity. An old custom of painting the eternal spiral on a pregnant woman's belly to wish for an ancestors reincarnation, or for the ancestors to pump memories into the new child allowing it to flourish and grow faster existed in some Irish families and likely in other areas as well. -TLK