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    the Riphean Mountains (also Riphaean; /rɪˈfeɪən/, or /rɪˈfiən/; Ancient Greek: Ῥιπαῖα ὄρη; Latin: Rhipaei or Riphaei montes) were a supposed mountain range...
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  • Riphean may refer to Riphean Mountains, mentioned by authors of classical antiquity Ural Mountains, believed by some to be the Riphean mountains Riphean...
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    equated the Hyperboreans with the Scythians, and the Riphean Mountains with the Ural Mountains. Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian writers...
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    named after the Riphean Mountains in the geography of classical antiquity. Johannes Hevelius was the first astronomer to apply the Riphean label to a feature...
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    ancient name "Riphean Mountains", sometimes identified with the Ural Mountains. The Riphean has been divided by geologists into the Early Riphean (1600–1400...
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    Scythia who lived in the foothills of the Riphean Mountains, variously identified with the Ural Mountains or the Carpathians. All tales of their struggles...
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    following Russian sources, that there are mountains behind the Pechora and identified them with the Riphean Mountains and Hyperboreans of ancient authors,...
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  • elder brother, Ashkenaz). Riphath has often been connected with the Riphean Mountains of classical Greek geography, in whose foothills the Arimaspi (also...
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  • Arimaspi, a group of legendary humanoid creatures said to inhabit the Riphean Mountains. In 1964, a Soviet scientist from the Soviet Academy of Sciences proposed...
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    the concept of the Riphean Mountains – an area of which the location is uncertain. The Riphean Mountains referred to the Ural Mountains. The Ural was considered...
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