Lemuria is a civilization that was located on an entire continent and disappeared from the face of the Earth, presumably as a result of natural disasters. Another name for this civilization is My (although for some researchers My is a continent on the site of the modern Pacific Ocean, while only the present Indian is assigned to Lemuria). Hypotheses about its existence are not accepted by all scientists, but at the same time there are many different detailed assumptions about how the Lemurians lived, why they became extinct and whether they died out at all.
The peak of interest in the legendary civilization came in the 19th century, when scientists noticed the similarity of the flora and fauna of the southeastern regions of Asia and the southeastern part of Africa (including Madagascar). In particular, the name of the hypothetical civilization was given by lemurs - representatives of the order of primates. Around the same time, in the state of California (USA), eyewitnesses living in settlements near Mount Shasta began to talk about unusual creatures living on the mountain and appearing in cities only to stock up on food. These creatures looked like people and called themselves the last surviving representatives of a civilization that died under water. According to eyewitnesses, these strange guests appeared out of nowhere and just disappeared, as if disappearing into thin air. An opinion settled among the people,that these beings have the ability to penetrate other dimensions and control the laws of nature. One of the eyewitnesses claimed that he was able to see through binoculars a gray marble temple standing on a mountain in the middle of the forest. But as soon as the mountain began to be carefully explored, the appearance of hypothetical Lemurians among the people stopped.
The most convincing are the "Lemurian" hypotheses of Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), an American predictor. In his records, the civilization of Lemuria is presented at the time of its disappearance as spiritually elevated (in comparison with the Atlanteans, who, according to Cayce, were kept on Earth by bad karma). Because of this, the American predictor very rarely identified the descendants of the Lemurians among modern people: according to him, there was no need for them to stay on Earth, since they no longer had to correct their karma.
The territorial descriptions of the country My, made by Edgar Cayce, have been largely confirmed by geological and archaeological research. He believed that the Pacific coast of South America was, at the time of the appearance of homo sapiens (our species), the western part of Lemuria. Already in the 1990s, 60 years after Cayce's assumptions, the Nazca underwater ridge was discovered, which was once land and connected the coast of modern Peru with the archipelago, which is also now submerged, which corresponded to Cayce's descriptions. According to the predictor, Lemuria began to partially submerge under water 10,700 years ago, that is, at the end of the Ice Age closest to our time, when the water level of the world's oceans rose sharply due to the melting of ice. But My civilization then continued to flourish on the "wreckage" of the former giant continent. Casey considered the period of its decline before the disappearance of Atlantis.
The Russian scientist-contactee Vasily Rasputin was guided in describing Lemuria by information he allegedly received from the Cosmos and closely intertwined with esotericism. Rasputin in his revelations operates with fairly accurate numbers, which, however, have not yet been confirmed. Some territorial and chronological details can be gleaned from his descriptions: Lemuria existed in the 320-170 centuries BC. e. on the territory from the modern Aegean Sea to the shores of Antarctica. The population was 107 million. According to Rasputin, the Lemurians lacked physical and etheric bodies (which are among the bodies that humans have), which is why people could not see them, with the exception of those people who had a special energy. If desired, the Lemurians could materialize or disappear, moving into other dimensions. In the course of evolution, this race acquired the missing physical and etheric bodies. This hypothesis explains the mysterious disappearances and appearances of the Lemurians at Mount Shasta. But geographically, according to Rasputin, the inhabitants of Lemuria lived mainly south of modern Madagascar. In the 170th century BC. e. due to natural disasters, the most populated part of Lemuria was buried under the waters of the ocean, at the same time almost all of its population perished. The surviving Lemurians, who already possessed physical bodies, began to be called Atlanteans and settled a new continent (Atlantis), which existed for the next 150 centuries and sank for the same reason as Lemuria. Rasputin's hypothesis coincides with Cayce's assumptions in the sense that the Lemurians were considered a spiritually elevated race: according to Rasputin's information, they were long-livers, had no material wealth,fed on cosmic energy and multiplied by self-copying (having no gender division). Having acquired a physical body, the Lemurians degraded and became ordinary people.
Another hypothesis regarding Lemuria was formed in the Theosophical Society of Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), which was engaged in religious philosophy and the occult. In this case, too, occult experiments and predictions became the basis for conclusions about an extinct civilization. According to the conclusions of the Theosophical Society, on our planet for the entire period of its inhabited existence, in total, simultaneously or in different epochs, there will be seven main races (each race has seven subraces): supreme invisible beings; hyperboreans; lemurs; Atlanteans; people; a race originating from humans who in the future will dwell in Lemuria; the last earthly race to fly from Earth to Mercury. Lemurs, or the disappeared inhabitants of Lemuria, in this hypothesis are huge (4–5 m tall) ape-like creatures without a brain,but with a mental will and the ability for telepathic communication, which had three eyes (two in front and one behind) and feet, which made it possible to walk equally forward and backward. Geographically, Lemuria, according to the Theosophical Society, was located in the southern hemisphere and occupied the southern part of Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, part of South America and other lands. Towards the end of their existence, lemurs evolved, creating a civilization, and became more like people. But by this time their continent was flooded, and the lemurs themselves in the surviving territories gave rise to the Atlanteans, as well as the Papuans, Hottentots and other ethnic communities of the southern hemisphere.was located in the southern hemisphere and occupied the southern part of Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, part of South America and other lands. Towards the end of their existence, lemurs evolved, creating a civilization, and became more like people. But by this time their continent was flooded, and the lemurs themselves in the surviving territories gave rise to the Atlanteans, as well as the Papuans, Hottentots and other ethnic communities of the southern hemisphere.was located in the southern hemisphere and occupied the southern part of Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, part of South America and other lands. Towards the end of their existence, lemurs evolved, creating a civilization, and became more like people. But by this time their continent was flooded, and the lemurs themselves in the surviving territories gave rise to the Atlanteans, as well as the Papuans, Hottentots and other ethnic communities of the southern hemisphere.
An interesting hypothesis about Lemuria belongs to the Russian artist, philosopher, archaeologist and public figure Nikolai Roerich (1874–1947). According to the "myth" compiled by him, which coincides in many respects with the conclusions of the Theosophical Society, Lemuria is the continent of the Third Root Race, which developed from the Second Race, created, in turn, from the First Race. Until the middle of the Third Race, humans and animals were sexless and had no physical body (they were etheric beings). They did not die, but dissolved, and then were reborn in a new body, which each time was denser than the previous one. Gradually, their bodies became denser and physical, all creatures evolved, there was a separation of the sexes. Having received a physical body, people began to die, not to be reborn. At the same time (about 18 million years ago), people were endowed with mind and soul. The continent of the Third Race was located along the equator, on the site of most of the modern Pacific and Indian Oceans. It included the current Himalayas, South India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Madagascar, Tasmania, Australia, Siberia, China, Kamchatka, the Bering Strait, Easter Island, ending in the east along the slope of the central Andes. The Nazca ridge (now underwater) supposedly connected the Andes with the later flooded part of Lemuria. In the south, the boundary of the mainland did not reach the Antarctic Circle a little, in the west it skirted South Africa from below and curved to the north to modern Norway (the mainland included modern Sweden and Norway, as well as Greenland and the middle part of the Atlantic Ocean). The first representatives of the Third Race, who lived on Lemuria, had a height of about 18 m, but gradually it decreased to 6 m. This assumption of Roerich is indirectly confirmed in the statues of Easter Island, which, according to this hypothesis, was part of Lemuria. Perhaps the Lemurians erected statues in the size of their height (from 6 to 9 m), with their characteristic features of appearance. The high growth and physical strength of the Lemurians explain the possibility of their coexistence with large animals of those times. With the development of their civilization, the inhabitants of Lemuria began to build rock-like cities: the remains of these cities are the cyclopean ruins on Madagascar Island and Easter Island. With the development of their civilization, the inhabitants of Lemuria began to build rock-like cities: the remains of these cities are the cyclopean ruins on Madagascar Island and Easter Island. With the development of their civilization, the inhabitants of Lemuria began to build rock-like cities: the remains of these cities are the cyclopean ruins on Madagascar Island and Easter Island.
The decline of the Lemurian civilization coincided with the sinking of their continent under water, its fragmentation into separate continents and islands, which occurred as a result of natural disasters, accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. All hypotheses about Lemuria agree on this.
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The death of Lemuria, according to Roerich's hypothesis, occurred at the very end of the Secondary geological period: the mainland sank under water 700 thousand years before the beginning of the Tertiary (Eocene) period. Western researchers of the hypothetical continent also agree with this date. Like Blavatsky, Roerich believed that the Lemurians did not disappear without a trace: their descendants are representatives of the Negroid race, Australians, Bushmen, aborigines of a number of Pacific islands.
Various information about Lemuria, given above, formed the basis for the research works of William Scott-Elliot, who described in detail the life and evolution of the Lemurians, the development and death of their civilization, as well as geological and biological confirmation of the existing hypotheses about Lemuria. Among the confirmations is the scientific fact that the modern land was previously covered by the waters of the ocean, and in place of the modern oceans, on the contrary, there were continents. This fact, combined with the available data on the modern geology of the Earth, speaks of the existence of a vast southern continent in early times.
Studies of fossil and modern flora and fauna tentatively determine the land areas that were connected by the ancient continent, and are now located on different continents and islands. At various times, the southern mainland was connected with Australia, then with the modern Malay Peninsula. So, in the Permian era, India, South Africa and Australia were supposedly parts of a single continent. It is the southern continent in the above studies that is considered the "cradle of the human race."
Among the archaeological finds that confirm the existence of a mysterious ancient civilization, the following artifacts: the ruins of the stone port and the city of Nan Madol on the island of Ponape (Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean); statues and buildings of Easter Island; the remains of buildings and statues on Pitcairn Island (2 thousand km west of Easter Island); mummies and ruins of high walls in the form of a half ring on the Gambier Islands (west of Pitcairn); monolithic stone arch on the island of Tongatapu (Tonga archipelago); columns on the island of Tinian (Northern Mariana Islands); Cyclopean structures and the remains of paved roads on the seabed near the islands of Yonaguni, Kerama and Aguni (Japanese archipelago); megalithic temples on the island of Malta; remains of the skeletons of giant people (found in the United States, Australia, South Africa, Georgia and elsewhere).
At present, anthropological scientists admit the existence of the descendants of the Lemurian civilization in little-studied forest areas, including beyond the probable territory of the lost continent: a new race could displace the Lemurians into more severe habitats. However, only legends of various peoples of the world serve as confirmation of this assumption.