It is a remarkable reminder of the culture of the Getes, a Thracianpeople who were incontactwiththe Hellenistic and Hyperborean worlds, according toancientgeographers.
Imagine us as Australians, though, and the hyperborean blast must mean a heatwave scorching over from Java's scented isle, just as (though neither actually happens) Father Christmas should arrive half-clad on waterskis, and Easter should recall, to anthropologists, not the Adonis festival and the rebirth of spring but some autumn feast that has lost its way, or why not?