• 25:27 - 29:46
Tim Swartz | The Inner Earth, Antarctica, & Conspiracy Goodness
Pytheas of Massalia, Thule and Arctic Legends
The conversation covers the 4th-century BC Greek geographer Pytheas, who sailed north to a land he called Thule. Pytheas described a "marine lung" where elements merged, which Swartz interprets as an early account of the Arctic's unique environmental conditions. The hosts compare this to Inuit and Germanic mythologies that speak of a warm, sunlit land in the far north.