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Deriving elements of its ideology and membership from earlier occult groups founded by List ( Guido von List Society, established 1908 ) and Lanz von Liebenfels ( the Order of the New Templars, established 1907 ), the Thule Society was dedicated to the triune god Walvater, identified with Wotan in triple form.

For the Society's emblem Sebottendorff selected the oak leaves, dagger and swastika ( Thomas 2005 ).

The name Thule ( an island located by Greek geographers at the northernmost extremity of the world ) was chosen for its significance in the works of Guido von List.

According to Thule Society mythology, Thule was the capital of Hyperborea, a legendary country supposedly in the far North polar regions, originally mentioned by Herodotus from Egyptian sources.

In 1679, Olaf Rudbeck equated the Hyperboreans with the survivors of Atlantis, who were first mentioned by Plato, again following Egyptian sources.

Interestingly enough, Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ) began his work Der Antichrist ( The Antichrist ) in 1895 with, " Let us see ourselves for what we are.

We are Hyperboreans.