Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

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He gave a vivid description of Mu as the home of an advanced civilization, the Naacal, which flourished between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago, was dominated by a “white race,"and was "superior in many respects to our own" At the time of its demise, about 12,000 years ago, Mu had 64,000,000 inhabitants and many large cities, and colonies in the other continents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Churchward claimed that the landmass of Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean, and stretched east–west from the Marianas to Easter Island, and north–south from Hawaii to Mangaia. He claimed that according to the creation myth he read in the Indian tablets, Mu had been lifted above sea level by the expansion of underground volcanic gases. Eventually Mu “was completely obliterated in almost a single night”after a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, "the broken land fell into that great abyss of fire" and was covered by "fifty millions of square miles of water."

 

 

 

 

 

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Churchward claimed that Mu was the common origin of the great civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Central America, India, Burma and others, including Easter Island, and was in particular the source of ancient megalithic architecture.

 

 

 

 

 

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As evidence for his claims, he pointed to symbols from throughout the world, in which he saw common themes of birds, the relation of the Earth and the sky, and especially the Sun. Churchward claims the king of Mu was Ra and he relates this to the Egyptian god of the sun, Ra, and the Rapanui word for Sun, ra’a, which he incorrectly spells "raa." He claimed to have found symbols of the Sun in “Egypt, Babylonia, Peru and all ancient lands and countries – it was a universal symbol.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Out of the Aeons

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) featured the lost continent in his revision of Hazel Heald's short story "Out of the Aeons" It focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.

 

 

 

 

 

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The story is told from the point of view of the curator of the Cabot Museum in Boston.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In 1879, a freighter captain sighted an uncharted island, presumably risen from its sunken state due to volcanic activity. From it, he recovered a strange mummy and a metal cylinder containing a scroll. A year later, the mummy is put on display in the museum, and the island vanishes without a trace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Over the years, the mummy garners a reputation as a possible link to an ancient tale from the Black Book by von Juntz of a man named T'yog, who challenged Ghatanothoa, one of the gods of Yuggoth, using the power of a magical scroll.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In his sleep, however, one of the cultists stole the true magical scroll and replaced it with a fake one, and T'yog was never seen again. When the possible link to the Black Book and T'yog reaches the general public, the narrator begins to notice more and more suspicious foreigners coming to the museum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Soon, several attempts are made to steal the mummy. During one attempt, two men die as the mummy seemingly springs to life, opens its eyes and reveals an image of the approaching form of Ghatanothoa. The image has the power of Ghatanothoa to mummify any who view it, but it only frightens the curator.

 

 

 

 

 

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Though he does not understand what he has seen, the curator is horribly shaken. He orders an opening of the mummy's braincase. The curator and all present are shocked that the mummy's brain is still alive. The mummy is the living remains of T'yog, and is aware of its surroundings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lemuria

 

"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."

"The Mammals of Madagascar" Philip Sclater 1864

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

 

 

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Ernst Haeckel, a German Darwinian taxonomist, proposed Lemuria as an explanation for the absence of "missing link" fossil records.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

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Within Blavatsky's complex cosmology, which includes seven "Root Races", Lemuria was occupied by the "Third Root Race", described as being about 7 feet 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.

 

 

 

 

 

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Some Tamil writers such as Devaneya Pavanar have tried to associate Lemuria with Kumari Kandam, claiming that it was the cradle of civilization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kumari Kandam

Kumari Kandam is the name of a legendary sunken continent mentioned in early Tamil literature and some Sanskrit literature.

 

 

 

 

 

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According to Silappadhikaram, one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature written in 2nd century AD, states that the "cruel sea" took the Pandiyan's land, part of which was present between the rivers Pahruli and the mountainous banks of the Kumari.