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Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. [1]
"Lemuria" in Tamil nationalist mysticist literature as Kumari Kandam, connecting Madagascar, South India, and Australia (covering most of the Indian Ocean) Some Tamil writers such as Devaneya Pavanar have associated Lemuria with Kumari Kandam , a legendary sunken landmass mentioned in the Tamil literature, claiming that it was the cradle of ...
Lemuria and Atlantis: Studying the Past to Survive the Future by Shirley Andrews. [citation needed] Lost Cities of China, Central Asia & India by David Hatcher Childress [citation needed] Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean by David Hatcher Childress [citation needed] Timeless Earth by Peter Kolosimo [citation needed]
The classification of lost lands as continents, islands, or other regions is in some cases subjective; for example, Atlantis is variously described as either a "lost island" or a "lost continent". Lost land theories may originate in mythology or philosophy , or in scholarly or scientific theories, such as catastrophic theories of geology .
[17] [18] In late 1870s, the Lemuria theory found its first proponents in the present-day Tamil Nadu, when the leaders of the Adyar-headquartered Theosophical Society wrote about it (see the root race theory). [3] [19] Most European and American geologists dated Lemuria's disappearance to a period before the emergence of modern humans. Thus ...
William Scott-Elliot (sometimes incorrectly spelled Scott-Elliott) (1849–1919) was a Scottish nobleman, merchant banker, theosophist and amateur historian who elaborated Helena Blavatsky's concept of root races in several publications, most notably The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904), later combined in 1925 into a single volume called The Story of Atlantis and the Lost ...
The war between the white magicians and the black magicians continued until the end of Atlantis. The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom telepathically warned their disciples (the white magicians) to flee Atlantis in ships while there was still time to get out before the final cataclysm. As noted above, the final sudden submergence of Atlantis due to ...
The essay begins with the end of the Thurian Age (the setting for Howard's King Kull stories) and the destruction of its civilizations, Lemuria and Atlantis, by a geological cataclysm. After this cataclysm, the surviving humans were reduced to a primitive state and a technological level hardly above the Neanderthal. Several such tribes migrated ...