In addition to Atlantis, among alternative-minded researchers of the past, legends and hypotheses about Lemuria, a sunken continent located in the Indian Ocean in ancient times, are very popular. Interest in this topic flourished at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries thanks to the Theosophists led by Helena Blavatsky.
Rutas or Lemuria
The first to talk about the continent absorbed by the Indian Ocean was the French writer Louis Jacolliot (1837-1890). He worked for a long time in various courts of law in the French colonies and collected Sanskrit legends during his time in India. Among others, he discovered the legend about the vast land of Rutas, which was swallowed up by the Indian Ocean. However, Jacolliot did not waste his time on trifles and believed that Rutas also occupied part of the Pacific Ocean. In his bizarre book A History of Virgins, People, and Lost Continents, he painted a vast continent that existed several hundred thousand years ago and sank due to geological upheavals. Fragments of this land, Jacolliot argued, "can be found in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the main islands of Polynesia." “All these islands,” wrote the Frenchman,- once formed two huge countries, inhabited by yellow and black people who were always at war; and the gods, tired of these quarrels, ordered the Ocean to calm them down and swallow two continents … Only the ridges of mountains and high plateaus escaped the flood by the will of the gods, who too late realized their mistake."
Third eye and other oddities
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky often quoted Louis Jacolliot's fantasies in her Isis Unveiled. Everything that she says about Lemuria has as its source the hypothesis of this Frenchman, who wrote not only ethnographic, but also works of art, which, by the way, were very popular in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The English theosophist William Scott-Elliot, in turn, developed prehistoric concepts already by Madame Blavatsky herself. He attributed the flowering of Lemuria to the Mesozoic era with its dinosaurs and other terrible creatures. It was Scott-Elliot who described the appearance of the Lemurians without specifying the source of this information. They were supposedly about 12-15 feet tall, that is, 3.6-4.5 meters, had dark skin, a flat face with a protruding muzzle. Small eyes were set so wide that they could look not only forward, but also to the sides. The Lemurians also had a third eye on the back of the head, which we have preserved in the form of the pineal gland of the brain. The hands and feet of these strange creatures were disproportionately large, and the heels protruded so far that they could walk not only forward, but also backward.
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Cradle of humanity
Oddly enough, with the development of science, the topic of Lemuria did not rest in Bose. On the contrary, serious scientists are interested in it. Thus, the Soviet professor Yuri Georgievich Reshetov wrote a monograph in 1966 in which he argued that Lemuria should be sought in the area of the Middle Indian Ocean ridge, including a number of archipelagos, as well as the islands of Madagascar, Ceylon, the Indian subcontinent and the shelf area of the Arabian Sea. And it is by no means accidental: geographical studies and analysis of the topography of the Indian Ocean bottom show that the continent really existed and sank to the bottom as a result of snow melting at the end of the Ice Age.
The idea of the existence of Lemuria is supported by a number of anthropologists. Because if we assume its existence in the Indian Ocean, then all the inconsistencies in the theory of the settlement of primitive people are easily resolved. It was through Lemuria that they could penetrate Hindustan and Africa. On the seas and oceans on primitive rafts, such distances cannot be covered!
Two branches
For the most part, scientists believe that a warm climate and the development of various work skills are necessary for the favorable development of the human population. Charles Darwin wrote that the improvement of the functions of the hand made a man out of a monkey. However, there are also supporters of non-technological development of civilization - in close connection with nature, in harmony with it. Accordingly, the development of hominids could go in two ways. Those that left the trees, began to use fire and eat the meat of large mammals, became humans. Others, having developed a hand no worse than their relatives and possessing no less intelligence, chose to continue to live in trees. After all, the way of life, in fact, does not play a big role in the development of intelligence, and a society that does not know fire can build a civilization. Especially in the warm climate of Lemuria.
Thus, intelligent beings could split into two branches. Our ancestors left the forests and began to develop open areas, and the other branch continued to live in trees in the thick of tropical forests. Food was available there in abundance, it did not have to be obtained by hard work.
Lemurs could be very different from humans. Their limbs were better suited for climbing in the jungle. The pupils of the eyes have become more dilated, because the light under the dense canopy of the tropical forest is much less than in open spaces. In the semi-darkness reigning there, the color of the skin remained pale, and in certain lighting it even seemed greenish. Lemurs were shorter, which allowed them to move freely through the vines from tree to tree.
If people followed the path of conquering nature, then lemurs lived without standing out from their natural habitat, without adjusting it to their needs. The path of development of their civilization was different than that of people, they could develop some kind of natural magic.
Meanwhile, as a result of melting glaciers and rising ocean levels, the continent of Lemuria began to gradually sink under water, and people and lemurs began to migrate to other lands. At the same time, people adapted much better to new living conditions, because they knew how to make clothes and make a fire. The life of lemurs was closely connected with the rainforest, they required a certain moisture and specific food. Therefore, not many of them managed to get used to the new natural conditions. But nevertheless, even after the death of the ancestral home, the Lemurian civilization continued to exist. In favor of this, according to the famous writer Nikolai Nepomniachtchi, the ancient Indian epics "Rigveda" and "Ramayana" testify. How is it?
War with the monkey people
If on the continent of Lemuria there was enough space and food for both people and lemurs, then on Hindustan both races had to fight each other for lands. This is precisely what the Ramayana tells about. So, King Rama waged a long war with a short and dark-skinned people, which he initially mistook for intelligent monkeys. According to the description, they are very similar to hypothetical lemurs. It is also curious that the very word "lemur" originally meant ape-men. In favor of the fact that Rama fought precisely with lemurs, it is also said that they came to Hindustan from Sri Lanka, one of the islands left after the flooding of Lemuria. According to the Ramayana, it was in Ceylon that the capital of their kingdom was located, and the citadel of the ruler was also there. There is no doubt that people possessed more powerful weapons and were physically stronger, because the Ramayana speaks of the victory that Rama won. Therefore, it is likely that lemurs were ultimately exterminated by humans.
However, perhaps not everything. It is widely believed among ufologists that the remains of the Lemurian race found their refuge in the huge caves of Mount Shasta, California, having founded the underground city of Telos and a system of tunnels that stretches both under North and South America.
In touch
In the village at the foot of Mount Shasta in California, there are adherents of many esoteric schools and especially obsessed ufologists. Here they conduct the practice of communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence, known as channeling. Eyewitnesses talk about tall humanoids in white robes emerging from here right out of the ground, and numerous UFOs, and lovers of esotericism and ufologists talk about the unique abilities of the Lemurians living in the depths of the mountain: possession of telepathy and telekinesis, interaction of machines with energies, complete conquest of power atom, etc.
Magazine: All the riddles of the world №20. Author: Victor Bumagin
