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{{Short description|Mythological creature}}
[[File:Schedel'sche Weltchronik-Reverse feet.jpg|thumb|A [[Nuli|Nulos]], similar to an abarimon. [[Woodcut]] from [[Hartmann Schedel]]: ''Nuremberg Chronical'', 1493, p. XIIr.]]
'''Abarimon''' or '''antipode''' in [[mythology]] are people whose feet are reversed, however, in spite of this disability, were able to run at extreme speeds.

This majestic tribe was first described in Europe by [[Pliny the Elder]], in his book, ''Natural History'' (VII 11), who believed them to be native to [[India]]. A tale that is alike is depicted by [[Aulus Gellius]] in ''Attic Nights''.

They coexisted with wild animals and any endeavor to capture them was unsuccessful because they were so ferocious and barbarian. In his book, Pliny points out information that derives from [[Baiton]], [[Alexander the Great]]'s Land Surveyor. Because of the special quality of air, the ''abarimons'' were only able to breathe the air of their own domestic valleys, according to Baiton. If the special quality of air was breathed for a long period of time, breathing any other type of air would be impossible. Because of this, the inhabitants were not able to depart from the valley and live elsewhere in the world. Therefore, it was impossible to entrap them and shepard them to the courts of a distant ruler, or to the great Macedonian conquest.<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Plinius]], '' [[Naturalis Historia]] ''7, 11.</ref>

It is very feasible that this is an overly designed ethnographic description of a prehistoric wildlife strain in the areas near [[Himalayas]].<ref>W. Tomaschek, RE I, 1, Sp. 16.</ref>

As stated by a different [[legend]], Abarimon is referred to as a landscape found in [[Scythia]], a valley of Mount Imaus, (which may be indistinguishable to [[Hindukush]] or the [[Himalayan Mountains]]).

Later, Abarimon has been summarized in Thomas Cooper's ''Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae'', as a tribe in the country ''Tataria''. Throughout the [[Middle Ages]], after a familiar [[heliocentrism|heliocentric]] view, some map drawers made creatures in the shape of Abarimon people and positioned them at the outermost border of the world.

==See also==
*[[Ciguapa]]
*[[Curupira]]
*[[Nuli]]

==References==
<references />
*''Natural History of Pliny''. [[John Bostock (physician)|John Bostock]], [[Henry Thomas Riley]], translators. George Bell & Sons, 1890.

==External links==
* http://www.lizaphoenix.com/encyclopedia/abarimon.shtml {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064534/http://www.lizaphoenix.com/encyclopedia/abarimon.shtml |date=2018-03-26 }} The Phoenixian Book of Creatures.

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