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LEMURIA ~~RULED BY MORGANA LUST~~
Lemuria /lɨˈmjʊəriə/ is the name of a hypothetical
"lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The
concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities
in biogeography; however, the concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by
modern theories of plate tectonics. Although sunken continents do exist – like
Zealandia in the Pacific as well as Mauritia and the Kerguelen Plateau in the
Indian Ocean – there is no known geological formation under the Indian or
Pacific Oceans that corresponds to the hypothetical Lemuria - except Sundaland.
Though
Lemuria is no longer considered a valid scientific hypothesis, it has been
adopted by writers involved in the occult, as well as some Tamil writers of
India. Accounts of Lemuria differ, but all share a common belief that a
continent existed in ancient times and sank beneath the ocean as a result of a
geological, often cataclysmic, change, such as pole shift.
In 1864 the
zoologist and biogeographer Philip Sclater wrote an article on "The
Mammals of Madagascar" in The Quarterly Journal of Science. Using a
classification he referred to as lemurs but which included related primate
groups, and puzzled by the presence of their fossils in both Madagascar and
India but not in Africa or the Middle East, Sclater proposed that Madagascar
and India had once been part of a larger continent. He wrote:
The anomalies of the Mammal fauna of
Madagascar can best be explained by supposing that ... a large continent
occupied parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans ... that this continent was
broken up into islands, of which some have become amalgamated with ... Africa,
some ... with what is now Asia; and that in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands
we have existing relics of this great continent, for which ... I should propose
the name Lemuria!
Sclater's
theory was hardly unusual for his time: "land bridges", real and
imagined, fascinated several of Sclater's contemporaries. Étienne Geoffroy
Saint-Hilaire, also looking at the relationship between animals in India and
Madagascar, had suggested a southern continent about two decades before
Sclater, but did not give it a name. The acceptance of Darwinism led scientists
to seek to trace the diffusion of species from their points of evolutionary
origin. Prior to the acceptance of continental drift, biologists frequently
postulated submerged land masses in order to account for populations of
land-based species now separated by barriers of water. Similarly, geologists
tried to account for striking resemblances of rock formations on different
continents. The first systematic attempt was made by Melchior Neumayr in his
book Erdgeschichte in 1887. Many hypothetical submerged land bridges and
continents were proposed during the 19th century, in order to account for the
present distribution of species.
After
gaining some acceptance within the scientific community, the concept of Lemuria
began to appear in the works of other scholars. Ernst Haeckel, a German
Darwinian taxonomist, proposed Lemuria as an explanation for the absence of
"missing link" fossil records. According to another source, Haeckel
put forward this thesis prior to Sclater (but without using the name
"Lemuria"). Locating the origins of the human species on this lost
continent, he claimed the fossil record could not be found because it sunk
beneath the sea.
Other
scientists hypothesized that Lemuria had extended across parts of the Pacific
oceans, seeking to explain the distribution of various species across Asia and
the Americas.
J. H Moore
writing in his book Savage Survivals (1933) wrote:
It is
believed that man evolved somewhere in southern Asia, or possibly, still
further south than the present boundary of Asia, in lands now drowned by the
Indian Ocean. This supposed land is called Lemuria.
Superseded
The Lemuria
theory disappeared completely from conventional scientific consideration after
the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift were accepted by the
larger scientific community. According to the theory of plate tectonics (the
current accepted paradigm in geology), Madagascar and India were indeed once
part of the same landmass (thus accounting for geological resemblances), but
plate movement caused India to break away millions of years ago, and move to
its present location. The original landmass broke apart – it did not sink
beneath sea level.[citation needed]
In 1999,
drilling by the JOIDES Resolution research vessel in the Indian Ocean
discovered evidence that a large island, the Kerguelen Plateau, was submerged
about 20 million years ago by rising sea levels. Samples showed pollen and
fragments of wood in a 90-million-year-old sediment. Although this discovery
might encourage scholars to expect similarities in dinosaur fossil evidence,
and may contribute to understanding the breakup of the Indian and Australian
land masses, it does not support the concept of Lemuria as a land bridge for
mammals.
In 2013,
the study of grains of sand from the beaches of Mauritius lead to the
conclusion that a similar landmass would have existed between 2,000 and 85
million years ago.
Blavatsky,
Elliot, and Bramwell
Map of
Lemuria superimposed over the modern continents from Scott-Elliott's The Story
of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria.
Lemuria
entered the lexicon of the Occult through the works of Helena Blavatsky, who
claimed to have been shown an ancient, pre-Atlantean Book of Dzyan by the
Mahatmas. Lemuria is mentioned in an 1882 Mahatma letter to A.P. Sinnett.
According to L. Sprague de Camp, Blavatsky's concept of Lemuria was influenced
by other contemporaneous writers on the theme of Lost Continents, notably
Ignatius L. Donnelly, American cult leader Thomas Lake Harris and the French
writer Louis Jacolliot.
Within
Blavatsky's complex cosmology, which includes seven "Root Races",
Lemuria was occupied by the "Third Root Race", described as being
about 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, sexually hermaphroditic, egg-laying, mentally
undeveloped and spiritually more pure than the following "Root Races".
Before the coming of the Lemurians, the second "Root Race" is said to
have dwelled in Hyperborea. After the subsequent creation of mammals, Mme
Blavatsky revealed to her readers, some Lemurians turned to bestiality. The
gods, aghast at the behavior of these "mindless" men, sank Lemuria
into the ocean and created a "Fourth Root Race" – endowed with
intellect – on Atlantis.
One of the
most elaborate accounts of lost continents was given by the later theosophical
author William Scott-Elliot. The English theosophist received his knowledge
from Charles Webster Leadbeater, who communicated with the Theosophical Masters
by "astral clairvoyance". In 1896 he published The Story of Atlantis,
followed in 1904 by The Lost Lemuria, in which he included a map of the continent
of Lemuria as stretching from the east coast of Africa across the Indian and
the Pacific Oceans.
James
Bramwell described Lemuria in his book, Lost Atlantis, as "a continent
that occupied a large part of what is now the South Pacific Ocean." Bramwell
described the people of Lemuria in detail and attributed them with being one of
the "root-races of humanity." According to Bramwell, Lemurians are
the ancestors of the Atlanteans, who survived the period "of the general
racial decadence which affected the Lemurians in the last stages of their
evolution." From "a select division of" the Atlanteans – after
their promotion to decadence – Bramwell claims the Aryan race arose.
"Lemurians, Atlanteans, and Aryans are root-races of humanity",
according to Bramwell.
Lemuria and Mount Shasta
In 1894,
Frederick Spencer Oliver published A Dweller on Two Planets, which claimed that
survivors from a sunken continent called Lemuria were living in or on Mount
Shasta in northern California. Oliver claimed the Lemurians lived in a complex
of tunnels beneath the mountain and occasionally were seen walking the surface
dressed in white robes.
This belief
has since been repeated by Guy Warren Ballard, followers of the Ascended
Masters and the Great White Brotherhood, and Bridge to Freedom, The Summit
Lighthouse, Church Universal and Triumphant, and Kryon.
Kumari Kandam and Lemuria
"Lemuria"
in Tamil nationalist mysticist literature, connecting Madagascar, South India
and Australia (covering most of the Indian Ocean).
Some Tamil
writers such as Devaneya Pavanar have tried to associate Lemuria with Kumari
Kandam, a legendary sunken landmass mentioned in the Tamil literature, claiming
that it was the cradle of civilization.
Members:
Morgana Lust: ruler of Lemura; mother of Nicolaes: http://www.fandomain.org/view_profile.php?member_id=886
Nicolaes Lust: mate of April Lust; father to Candy: http://www.fandomain.org/view_profile.php?member_id=909
Serena Lust: daughter of Nicolaes and April,
greatgranddaughter of Desdemona, granddaughter of Galatea, Michael and
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