Lemuria

• Lemuria
• India Or Australia?
• DragonFly And Dodo

Lemuria

The following information regarding "Lemuria" is based on legends, speculation and conjecture.

The mythical lost continent of Lemuria is also often referred to in the Tamil language (Southern India) as "Kumari Kandam".

What is actually most interesting about this statement is the fact that it actually has a name which is still remembered "in India" to this day.

While this supposed missing landmass supposedly has a name, it is often and (IMO) quite deliberately confused with ancient accounts of a lost continent (as well).

You often see where the British renamed places, stories and even went as far as trying to erase an entire sect of holy men because they felt threatened, in fact this arrogance by the British led to the "Amritsar Massacre" ("1919" and AKA: Jallianwala Bagh massacre). The "British Raj" were also responsible for the "1857 Massacre" and the cultural disruption by systematic displacement of the teachings of Guru Shishya Parampara - which instigated and mainly carried out by missionaries even to the point of having many of the teachers killed. +

But all of these deaths are insignificant compared to the British colonial policies in India caused an estimated 100 to 165 million excess deaths between 1881 and 1920, according to researchers Dylan Sullivan and "Jason Hickel".

Side note ↟↟

"India" collided with Asia approx 55 Million years ago and this raises another conundrum.

It is "reported" that (the modern made up name of) an ancient land mass called "Lemuria" was between the Indian ocean and the Pacific ocean.

Some speculate that this landmass was also called MU but I doubt that since "MU" is a very Asian word and is actually still used today in China, Japan and Korea.

MU literally means "nothingness" (Pinyin 無), "without" in (Korean 무), "nothing" in (Japanese (無).

Firstly: IF there were (supposedly) no people around 55 ++ Million years ago, how could this "oral tradition" be passed down?

Secondly: This land mass could only have been India or Australia.

The quandary is that IF it was India, then these stories would have to be at least 60 million - 100 million years old. Long before India "crashed" into Asia.

(Speculation) Given that India travelled North much faster than Australia, it "seems" more likely that India was the source of this "ancient legend" which was well known in Southern India and by the Zulu's of SE Africa.

Kumari Kandam

"Kumari (कुमारी)" means "young girl" / "priestess" / "goddess (representative)" and this ceremony is still performed in Nepal to this day - and Kandam (கண்டம்) has many translated meanings, one of which is still associated with Continent, Land and Mountains in Tamil.

We are told that the legend of the Kumari Kandam landmass refers to land which was swallowed up by the oceans when it rose 12,000 - 10,000 years ago - but my question is this.

What if that hypothesis is wrong?

What IF the modern story of Kumari Kandam was actually combined with more ancient stories about a long forgotten land "island" mass which no longer appeared to exist because the people were now standing ON that Island which was now joined to the Asian Plate?

Also consider that the "travelling" land mass of the Sub-Continent up through the Indian ocean would have been much easier to "sail" to than it would have been to sail to Australia (and back) given the prevailing winds including the Katabatic wind from the South Pole.

I am not saying that it would have been impossible to sail back, but you need to remember that what we know today about the "Trade Winds" is vastly different from what people who supposedly sailed canoes would have known back then - unless they were more advanced than we give them credit for - hence the Piri Reis map.

India Or Australia?

Lemuria

Not The Actual Name ↟↟

FYI: Lemuria was NOT the actual name of the purported land mass. The name Lemuria is derived from the word "LEMUR" which are antiquated animals living in Madagascar. Lemurs evolved from the "Loris" still found today on mainland Africa.

Final FYI: both Australia and India are still moving North.

The name Lemuria is an invented name for a mythological "land mass" purported to be in the middle of the Indian ocean and stretching to the Pacific ocean which only leaves you with 2 possibilities.

• Lemuria is India or
• Lemuria is Australia

A few points.

Remember that Australia was much further South than it is today when this event supposedly occurred.

If and I say If India was the so-called land of Lemuria, then this "story" has been passed down for up to (or longer than) 80 - 100 million years - but the question is ... by whom?

"India" hit the "Continental Mainland" of Asia approximately 50 million years ago.

50 million years ago, Australia was almost 1,180 miles+ (1,900 Kms) further south than it is today. (based on 1.5 inches per year x 50 million years).

So IF India was the purported land of Lemuria, then this would have had to have been recorded at least 50 - 60 Million years ago.

However, Consider that IF India was still much further south than it is today, then the "legend" of "Lemuria" may easily be even many 10's of millions of years earlier when the sub-continent was still in transit. Travel history of Australia + India

IF India broke away from Gondwana 100-120 million years ago, then this would have put Australia as still attached to Gondwana (Sth Pole) and thus potentially out of the Lemuria race.

The approximate distance between the South Pole and the Himalayas is roughly 18,000 kilometers (11,200 miles).

For India to travel this distance in ± 50,000,000 years, it would have had to be traveling faster than 35 cms (14 inches) a year. Especially when you consider the screeching halt when it hit the Eurasian Plate.

How many earthquakes a year was that for 50 million years?

Think about that for a minute or 6.

Interestingly ↟↟

In Tamil (Southern India), the associated land mass we now call Lemuria is known as "Kumari Kandam" (குமரி கண்டம்).

It is sometimes said that "Kumari Kandam" is an ancient sunken landmass, often associated with the concept of a Tamil homeland lost to the ocean.

However, some Tamil scholars and nationalists connect "Kumari Kandam" to the ancient continent of Lemuria, suggesting it was the cradle of Tamil civilization.

This would put people on this planet for at the very least 50 millions years.

Sunken Landmass or Sunken City? ↟↟

I suspect that the term "Sunken Landmass" may in fact refer to the oceans reclamation of the land we call the "Continental Shelf" which borders most land masses with oceanic views.

There is debate as to whether or not "Kumari Kandam" was a sunken landmass (continental shelf) or sunken cities or even an entire sunken continent (according to some).

2 very famous - and proven - sunken cities are ancient (now underwater) "Dwarka" + and the cities surrounding the Mahabalipuram pagodas.

Off the coast of Mahabalipuram , Tamil Nadu, South East India, on the Bay of Bengal side, lies the submerged ruins believed to be part of the legendary "Seven Pagodas".

These ruins, including temple structures, walls, and carved stones were rediscovered after the 2004 tsunami.

The early 19th century, (scholars) decided that Indian mythology was fairy talk and decided to combine these ancient legends into 1 volume.

There was actually precedent for this combining dating back at least to biblical times and even in the remote modern era such as the Grimm Brothers (fairy story fame) who combined many "stories" into a single event - such as the Pied Piper tale which was a combination of over 20 different "tales" being told and in fact, if you look up the town (Hamelin) and the mountain (Koppen-berg Mountain) in the story, you will see that they are extremely far apart (approx 80 Kms or 50 miles).

I have been told by several elderly Germans that slavers used to entice the children away from their homes with music and then enslave these children and sell them - often through Constantinople.

Back to the story.

The conundrum or whether the "fables" referred to cities, continental shelves (land masses) or an entire continent was changed by a party of Tamil evangelicals by linking stories of sunken cities with the folk traditions of "Pandyan" , a purported continent lost in the ocean, which was described in ancient Tamil and Sanskrit literature.

The authors claimed that there was an ancient Tamil civilization that existed on a continental sized landmass ("Lemuria") before being lost to the sea after a catastrophic and "tragic" event.

NOTE: It should also be noted that the "Land Of PUNT" (Seychelles islands chain) supposedly also suffered the same catastrophic submergence.

This raising and subsidence is exacerbated when you factor in the Glacial Isostatic Adjustments (also referred to as Post-glacial rebounds) caused by ice ages.

It should be pointed out that "Glacial Isostatic Adjustments" occur up and down and where the land mass is compressed downwards in one area (N or S pole regions), it "may" (does currently) cause upheavals in other areas which may explain how the "Cuba Pyramids are 700 - 800 meters below sea level - while "Post-glacial rebounds" happen after the ice caps (mostly) melt and the pressure is released from the land in one area thereby (potentially) causing subsidence elsewhere.

Even though the ice retreated long ago, North America and Europe are still rising where the massive layers of ice pushed it down. ("NOAA" )

When you combine the size of Europe and North America rising even by millimeters a year, think of the water displacement globally over a protracted time period as water levels adjust and suddenly you have global warming causing oceanic water rises in "some" areas.

Back to the Mahabalipuram story.

These educated men of plastic medicine and science basically combined the Mahabalipuram event (and others) with a supposed ancient landmass and called it scientific evidence "anew".

Thus, in the twentieth century, Tamil writers used the name "Kumari Kandam" to describe this flooded "continent" or should we say "Landmass"?

Although the above theory was later proven obsolete due to continental drift theory (tectonic plates) - it still remains in print and supposedly based on scientific evidence which gazumps Indian folklore.

Ultimately we may never know what is correct - unless we can access the "Akashic Records" - but until then, it will all be speculation and supposition.

And even if someone could access the Akashic Records, they would only get the level of truth which is in their own heart.

Adam's Bridge / Rama's Bridge ↟↟

There is one thing that I am 99.999% sure of and that is the "Adams Bridge" to Sri Lanka is definitely not "Kumari Kandam" and any suggestion that it is (IMO) is pure ignorance.

Further Reading

• Curiosities of Tamil Literature by C. Brito (1884 edition).
• Recipes For Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India by Richard S. Weiss.
• Encyclopedia of Imaginary and Mythical Places by Theresa Bane.

Silurian Hypothesis ↟↟

What is there was evidence for at least 1 advanced civilization over 60 million years ago?

How would you feel waking up tomorrow?

You may find the "Silurian Hypothesis" interesting at least.

DragonFly And Dodo

I postulate that India was ancient Lemuria for (at least) the following 2 reasons.

Let us start with the Dodo bird.

The Dodo supposedly originaled from the Nicobar Islands (Indian Ocean near West Malaysia) with the closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon, while its closest relative was the also extinct Rodrigues solitaire.

There are many bird species which migrate unbelievable distances every year like the Arctic Tern (around 55,000 miles - approx 90,000 Kms), so we know that extreme migration is something which occurs every year on many continents.

It is believed that their ancestors decided to settle on Mauritius around 10 Million years ago.

There is no data on how long these birds (pigeons) were flying to Mauritius before that.

If India was Lemuria, then it is quite feasible that the ancestors of the Dodo would have found the journey from India to Mauritius a lot easier when India was half way up the India ocean compared to where it is today.

Of course this can be easily dismissed as speculation but the next interesting critter is harder to dismiss.

Globe Skimmer Dragonfly ↟↟

Weighing less than the average paperclip, millions of these Globe Skimmer Dragonflies ("Pantala flavescens" ) leave India in Autumn (Fall - mid-September to mid-November) and fly over thousands of miles of open ocean on their migration to Africa.

The direct air distance between India and the African continent ranges from approximately 6,000 to over 8,000 Kms (3,700 to 5,000+ miles).

Consider this yearly journey of approximately 200 hours for an insect with very limited fat storage capacity.

The "Globe Skimmer Dragonflies" found in India and Africa are also found in Texas and they are geneticaly identical.

So my question to you is how can a simple insect with Zero Fat reserves decide that Africa is the place to be and then for no logical reason, pack up and fly there?

India is not Alaska or even Canada - so food is not a problem and India (at sea level) does not need to contend with snow either.

So why migrate at all?

I realize that some of you will point to the Monarch butterfly ("Danaus plexippus") and say that they also have a massive migration distance, but they do not fly 200 hours +- over open ocean.

Trivia Du Jour

The Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) is another extrordinary traveller (if you want to watch a short video). +

Bar-tailed godwits breed on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska, and overwinter on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of Australia and New Zealand.