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Thule
Thule is a name commonly associated with northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things:
The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of Scandinavia. In the works of Procopius, it refers to Scandinavia.
The Thule culture, ancestors of the Inuit
Qaanaaq, a town in northwest Greenland formerly known as Thule
The Thule Air Base of the US Air Force, located near Qaanaaq
Thule Island, a small island in the territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
The Thule Society, an early forerunner of the Nazi Party
Thule, a fictional planet from the Star Wars universe
Asteroid 279 Thule
Thule asteroid group
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History and current events never were my best subjects, but this surprised me:
:On the 22nd of January 1968 a B-52 crashed 7 miles south of the Air Force Base. Nuclear bombs were lost and debris scattered over the area in the accident.
Is that true? Hmm, I felt compelled to do research, and found http://www.nautilus.org/library/security/foia/white012368.html this. Huh.
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While it's obvious which meaning it refers to, could someone make the link from foreign relations of Greenland make sense? (to summarize: why is Thule a sensitive area in Greenland's foreign relations?) Tuf-Kat
Thule Society
The ''Thule-Gesellschaft'' (Thule Society) was founded August 17, 1918, by Rudolf von Sebottendorff. Its original name was ''Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum'' (Study Group for German Antiquity), but it soon started to disseminate anti-republican and anti-Semitic propaganda.
The Thule Society was part of the volkische movement in Germany around the turn of the century. Like many other groups, it sought to find an ethnic and historical identity for Germany, which had only been united in the 1870s.
It had members from the top echelons of the Nazi Party, including Rudolf Heß and Alfred Rosenberg. Although Adolf Hitler himself was not a member, he received support from the group, and one of its members, Dietrich Eckart, actually coached him on his public speaking skills. Hitler later dedicated ''Mein Kampf'' to Eckhart.
Its press organ was the ''Münchener Beobachter'' (Munich Observer) which later became the ''Völkischer Beobachter'' (People's Observer). The Thule Society is speculated to be closely connected to the Germanenorden secret society a.ka. the "Order of Teutons" (1912).
Thule beliefs
A primary focus of Thule-Gesellschaft was a claim concerning the origins of the Aryan race. "Thule" was a land located by Greco-Roman geographers in the furthest north. The society was named after "Ultima Thule" — Latin for the "Furthest Thule", said to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, placed in the extreme north near Greenland or Iceland.
The Thulists also believed in the hollow earth theory. Thule's ultimate goal was to prove that the Aryan race came from a lost continent, perhaps Atlantis.
Rudolf von Sebottendorf
Rudolf von Sebottendorf was deeply influenced by Sufi mysticism, other Eastern philosophies, and in particular, the writings of Madame Blavatsky. He used Blavatsky's ''The Secret Doctrine'' to launch his own recreation of ancient Germanic myth, positing a coming historical moment in which he theorized
Thule (Myth)
Thule is in classic sources a place, usually an island, in the far north, often Scandinavia.
Pytheas
It was first mentioned by the Greek geographer and explorer Pytheas of Massalía (present-day Marseille) in the 4th century BC. Pytheas claimed that Thule was six days north of Britain, and that the midsummer sun never set there. Thule is sometimes seen to have some commonality with Atlantis.
The most likely locale for Thule is nowadays considered to be the coast of Norway; other historians think it was the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands or Iceland, however.
Procopius
In Procopius, it was a large island in the north inhabited by 25 tribes. It is clearly Scandinavia since several tribes are easily identified, such as the Geats (Gautoi) and the Saami (Scrithiphini). He also wrote that when the Heruls returned, they passed the Varni and the Danes and then crossed the sea to Thule, where they settled beside the Geats.
Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, the name was sometimes used to denote Iceland, such as by Bremen's Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where he probably cites old writers' usage of Thule.
Modern use
Some Occult groups, most notably the German ''Thule Gesellschaft'' (ca. 1920) thought that it was the original source of the secret wisdom of the Aryan race.
Thule was also mentioned by Traditionalist author Julius Evola in connection with Hyperborea (literally, ''far north'') and Atlantis.
Literature
In Thea Beckman's triology ''The Children of Thule'', Thule is the name used for Greenland, which has received an enjoyable climate after the poles shifted due to a nuclear war.
Ultima Thule
The Romans used the generic phrase ''Ultima Thule'' to denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world".
''Ultima Thule'' is also:
The name of a Swedish Nationalist rock group.
The name of a short story by Vladimir Nabokov.
The name of an album by the band
Thule People
The Thule were the ancestors of all modern Canadian Inuit. They arrived at Alaska in around the year 500 and Nunavut, Canada in 1000. A subgroup then moved east to Greenland by the 13th century. The appellation of "Thule" originates from the location of Thule in northwest Greenland, facing Canada, where the archeological remains of these people were first foundhttp://www.civilization.ca/cmc/archeo/cvh/arctic/earc9.htm. The links between the Thule and the Inuit are biological, cultural, and linguistic.
The Thule subsisted both on marine and terrestrial animals. They replaced the Dorset culture, which, however, did not become extinct until 1902, when whalers brought disease to the last Dorset settlement on Southampton Island (the Sadlermiut).
The Thule winter settlements usually had one to four houses with around ten people. Some major settlements may have had more than a dozen, although not all were inhabited at the same time by the fifty residents. Their houses were made of whale bones from summer hunts. Other structures include kill sites, caches, and tent encampments.
Some Thule migrated southward, in the "Second Expansion" or "Second Phase". By the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the Thule had occupied an area currently inhabited by Central Eskimo. Contacts with Europeans began and the people were henceforward known as the Eskimo and, later, Inuit.
See also: Thule
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Thule Society
Agree - this looks like a conspiracy theorist site. The only other place where I've seen Thule called the main cause of the Nazi Party is in a sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. And Hitler wasn't even a member of Thule!
It would be really cool to have some distinction between actual historical information and the mythology that the society believed in. As it is now, this page looks like a copy-paste from some random nazi ufo conspiracy site.
I think we need some citations here, or at least language that says things along the lines of "According the adherants of this theory, blah blah blah"
This was removed by 138.88.61.249. Since I can't confirm or deny, I copy it here:
:The Thule Society has documented ties with the Skull and Bones Society, of which George W. Bush is a member.
Whats up w the reverts
Discuss please. I oppose deletion of huge blocks if text as a general rule, btw. ''Sam Spade'' 22:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
:If you read the text I'm removing you can can see that our honourable anonymous editor is claiming that the Nazis had perfected anti-gravity technology. silsor 22:50, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
Yes, thats a common claim. Its also easilly verifiable. I can give you stack of references on not just that, but that they ride in said anti-grav discs thru the hollow earth and up to the moon w their reptiloid buddies. Check out Nazi mysticism. ''Sam Spade'' 23:08, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
:Seen it, got the tshirt, added it to my User:Silsor/Neo-nazi watchlist. ;) silsor 01:55, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
::It's verifiable that some people have claimed these things. It's not verifiable that any such accomplishments ever actually existed or exist today. Discussion of such claims might be encyclopedic with sources cited objectively. Inclusion of such claims as fact is unencyclopedic. Barno 19:23, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Hmm, maybe I should make a matching Stalinist revisionist watchlist ;) ''Sam Spade''
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