Abarimon

Schedelsche Weltchronik , man with feet turned back, 1493

According to the older Pliny, Abarimon was the name of a large valley in the Imavus Mountains , the location of which is to be sought in the area of ​​the Himalayas . People are said to have lived there with the soles of their feet turned backwards, who could still have run very fast and roamed through the woods with wild animals. Pliny also quotes information from Baiton , the Bematist of Alexander the Great , that the inhabitants of the Abarimon region supposedly only breathe in the air of their home valley and therefore could not live anywhere else; therefore it was not possible to bring them to the courts of neighboring rulers or to the great Macedonian conqueror. Perhaps it is a description of a wild, ancient tribe of the Himalayas, embellished with exaggerated fables.

literature

• Wilhelm Tomaschek : Abarimon . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 16.
• Abarimon . In: Wilhelm Vollmer (ed.), Dictionary of Mythology . Stuttgart 1874, p. 2.

Remarks

1. ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 7, 11.
2. ↑ W. Tomaschek, RE I, 1, col. 16.