Lémurie

The Lémurie is a hypothetical Continent located in the Indian Ocean, sometimes confused with the continent Mu located in the Pacific.

The assumption of Lémurie

At the 19th century, at one time when the continental drift was not yet allowed by the Géologue S, the zoologist Philip Sclater seeks to explain the distribution of certain mammals, from of which the Lémurien S , in geographical areas distant. He forges the word “Lémurie then” to indicate a hypothetical continent located in the Indian Ocean, which would have formerly been a “bridge” across the Indian Ocean. The German naturalist, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) popularizes this assumption in 1870: he induces presence of lemurs with Madagascar and in Malaysia the existence of Lémurie in the Indian Ocean. The French scientist Jules Hermann also takes up this idea in the Revelations of the Large Ocean published on a purely posthumous basis in 1927. Knowledge in geology cancels this assumption today.

Recovery and propagation of the myth

Allured by the memory of the Atlantis which this assumption evokes, Helena Blavatsky takes it again since 1888 in volume 3 of the Secret Doctrines , followed by Rudolf Steiner in 1904, and by W. Scott-Elliot with Lémurie lost (1930). The works of James Churchward, published as from 1926, take again Lémurie by amalgamating it with Mu like only one large absorbed continent. Certain authors associate also Lémurie with the legendary continent of Kumari Kandam. The author of Fantasy Lin Casing took again the name of Lémurie for his Cycle of Thongor, which is located on an imaginary continent.

Archeology

The assumption of the disappearance of a whole continent in the Indian Ocean does not rest on any serious geological base, and Lémurie de Sclater constitutes a cancelled scientific assumption well. There remains completely possible that the rise of the oceans since the end of paleolithic covered with small portions of territories in India, as shows it the discovery of the ruins of a city almost as old as Harappa or Mohenjo-daro in the old estuary of the river Sarasvatî. These archaeological elements, sometimes presented like “evidence” of the existence of Lémurie, are of course to give in their context, and bring a priori anything else only one better knowledge of the primitive settlement of India.

External bond

Treating site of Lémurie.

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