14 Facts About Hyborian Age

1.

Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian.

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Howard described the Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded ancient history.

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Hyborian Age had traveled past the Arctic Circle and returned with news that their old adversaries, the apes, were never annihilated.

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Hyborian Age believed they were quickly evolving to human status and would pose a threat to the Hyborians in the future.

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5.

Hyborian Age attempted to recruit a significant military force to campaign against them, but most Hyborians were not convinced by his tales; only a small group of foolhardy youths followed his campaign.

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The mixed-blooded Hyborian Age tribes were in turn forced to defend their new territories from pure-blooded Hyborian Age tribes which followed the same paths of migration.

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7.

Hyborian Age was devised by author Robert E Howard as the post-Atlantean setting of his Conan the Cimmerian stories, designed to fit in with Howard's previous and lesser known tales of Kull, which were set in the Thurian Age at the time of Atlantis.

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8.

Howard's Hyborian epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Age, is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists.

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9.

Hyborian Age is acknowledged as the chief god by the lead character Conan, and his proto-Celtic Cimmerian people.

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10.

Hyborian Age is the only member of the Cimmerian pantheon named with any regularity.

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11.

Hyborian Age is probably loosely based on the Vedic and Zoroastrian figure by the same name, and in the Hyborian universe, his worship generally represents Christianity.

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Mitra is the chief god of most of the civilized Hyborian Age kingdoms, including Aquilonia, Ophir, Nemedia, Brythunia, Corinthia, and Zingara.

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Hyborian Age's worshippers are monolatristic, since at least one tale depicts priests of Mitra recognizing the existence of Set.

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14.

Hyborian Age is symbolically represented by a phoenix in Howard's writing, by an Ankh in the Age of Conan MMORPG, and by a bronze colossus in the survival video game Conan Exiles.

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