Greetings, all meme magicians and meme scientists!
This is my first board creation, and like /BMW/ it relates to our budding study of memesmithing, that most ancient art. It also relates to the study of Ancient Aryans, as did the Thule Society. So it's a nice /pol/bmw/ crossover board for those times that we want to explore topics that might be a little too /x/ for /pol/.
A little history on the Thule Society:
>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: most distant North) mentioned by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem Aeneid, which was the far northern segment of Thule and is generally understood to mean Scandinavia.
>Said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, they placed Ultima Thule in the extreme north near Greenland or Iceland.
Thus we have the Ancient Aryan connection. As best I can discern, there likely WAS a landmass of some sort in the North Atlantic, but after what seems to have been a meteor impact, the land was submerged. The survivors fled to Northern Europe and bided their time, passing down their knowledge in stories and legends until pockets of humanity became repopulated. At that time those Aryans traveled to the South and East, bringing advanced knowledge and kickstarting empires, notably in China and Egypt but essentially everywhere they went.
As for memesmithing, the Thule Society suggested the swastika for the National Socialist flag.
>The swastika is one of mankind's oldest symbols, and apart from the cross and the circle, probably the most widely distributed. It is shown on pottery fragments from Greece dating back to the eighth century b.c. It was used in ancient Egypt, India and China. The Navaho indians of North America have a traditional swastika pattern. Arab-Islamic sorcerers used it. In more recent times, it was incorporated in the flags of certain baltic states.
Certainly this is a powerful memePost too long. Click here to view the full text.