“Humanity does not make legends about small things, about insignificant and pitiful things,” wrote N.K. Roerich.
Every legend contains something unusual. Legends are necessary for us to free ourselves from the everyday routine that fetters us; they force us to rise with our spirit above the “twilight of the mechanical standard,” to renew our thinking, and to plunge into new depths of knowledge. Our eyes are always turned to the sky, and we are interested in everything connected with the boundless Cosmos. Then we turn to cosmogonic myths, compare veiled information with the more understandable Knowledge given to Moses by God on the sacred Mount Sinai.

But at that time, the Earth and humanity on it had already existed for hundreds of millions of years. Historical science and its assistant archeology were able to restore the picture of the world and man in it only over the last 200 thousand years. What happened before? After all, before the Ancient Greek civilization and Egypt, there were the Sumerians (information about them remained on clay tablets, found in huge numbers during archaeological excavations, which are still being unraveled by American scientists). And before the Sumerians, there was a mysterious Atlantis, the memory of which was preserved in the name of the Atlantic Ocean and in the records of myths about the missing continent collected by Plato and the historian Herodotus. And even earlier there was the mysterious Lemuria, about which nothing is known at all in European historical science.

To solve the mystery of Lemuria, you need to turn to the ancient legends of the East. The continent of Lemuria arose during the appearance of the Third Root Race of people, very imperfect until approximately the middle of the time allotted by the Cosmos for its development. The Third Race of our earthly humanity was, as esoteric doctrines testify, under the influence and “maternal tutelage” of the planet Venus, the herald of the dawn and the onset of evening twilight. She is the “little sun” in which the solar body deposits a reserve of its light, giving it a third. In its evolution, the “humanity” of Venus stood above the earthly one by a whole step. The “people” of Venus were as much higher than earthlings as we are higher than animals. Therefore, the planet Venus is the spiritual prototype of our planet, and the Lords of Venus are its Guardian Spirit. Some of the “Sons of Reason” from the planet Venus became guides for the Third Race, introducing a spark of reason into animal man, fertilizing him with the Ray of Divine Reason. The result of this combination was the fiery body of man. The individualization of spirit and soul took place. The human soul, created “in the image of God,” began its evolution then.

At the time when the Third Race lived, that is, 18 million years ago, the distribution of land and water was completely different. Most of the current land mass was under water. There was no America, no Africa, no Europe then. There was only water. It is difficult to imagine, looking at today's geographical atlas, that most of Asia did not exist either. The pre-Himalayan regions were also covered with seas, and beyond them stretched the countries now called Eastern and Western Siberia, Greenland, etc. Along the equator stretched a giant continent, on the territory of which the development of the Third Root Race took place. The continent occupied most the present-day Pacific and Indian oceans. This also includes the areas at the foot of the Himalayas, including South India, Ceylon and Sumatra. Then, as they moved south, the islands of Madagascar on the right and Tasmania on the left were captured. The lower boundary dropped, not reaching several degrees from the Antarctic circle. Australia at that time was the main area of the mainland, which extended far into the Pacific Ocean beyond the current position of Easter Island. In addition, part of the continent extended around South Africa across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching Norway. An inland sea stretched across what is now Tibet, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert.

The first Lemurians were distinguished by their enormous height - 18 meters; over time it decreased, stopping at 6-8 meters. One of characteristic features The people of the Lemurian race had extraordinary physical strength, which made it possible to defend themselves from the huge monsters of the Mesozoic and Xenozoic periods. This also explains the fact that the Lemurians built huge, cyclopean rock-shaped cities from solidified lava, from black underground stone, from metal. On Easter Island there are still relics in the form of sculptures, 6-10 meters high or with their own mega-structures.

The civilized peoples of the Third Root Race, under the leadership of their Divine rulers, instilled arts and sciences, and knew astronomy, architecture and mathematics perfectly. The first large cities were built in that part of Lemuria, where the island of Madagascar is now located.

The birth and death of the Root Races are always accompanied by geological changes on the globe. The continent began to slowly sink into the waters of the seas and oceans. The huge continent, which reigned and towered over the Indian and Atlantic oceans, began to fragment in many places into separate islands, which gradually began to disappear one after another. Australia is now a small remnant of a once huge continent. The island of Ceylon, which was the northern plateau of the huge island of Lanka in Lemuria, became the place where the Third Race ceased to exist.

The main reasons for the destruction of civilization were the actions of volcanoes, earthquakes, and underground fires. The cataclysm occurred due to underground convulsions and the opening of two oceans. This happened 700 thousand years before the start of the Tertiary period, which marked a new round of evolution of planet Earth.

The remnants of the ancient Lemurians are now the peoples of the so-called Ethiopian type - blacks, Bushmen, Australians.

That's it. Look at the photo, maybe this is the Lemurian..

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Lemuria- a mythical sunken continent in the Indian Ocean. The name refers to the Madagascar primate lemurs, which are found nowhere else. From here, supporters of the Lemurian hypothesis conclude that the island of Madagascar is part of the now sunken continent. At the same time, the indigenous population of the island is anthropologically closer to the inhabitants of Indonesia than to African Negroids.

The hypothesis about the existence of Lemuria was first put forward in 1864 by zoologist F. Sclater in order to directly transfer lemurs from Africa to India. One of the founders of dialectical materialism, Friedrich Engels, in his essay “Dialectics of Nature” suggested that the intermediate link of evolution between the ape-like ancestor and man lived on a sunken continent:

Many hundreds of thousands of years ago, in a still indefinable era of that period in the development of the Earth, which geologists call Tertiary, presumably towards the end of this period, she lived somewhere in a hot zone - in all likelihood on a vast continent, now located at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, is an unusually highly developed breed of anthropoid apes.

Mythological data

The pseudoscientific theory about the existence of Lemuria is based on Indian mythology, where there is information about sunken cities in the Indian Ocean, which were patronized either by demons (Tripura), or Krishna (Dvaraka) and Shiva. Already in the 20th century, when it became known that there was no sunken continent between Madagascar and Hindustan, some supporters of the existence of Lemuria hastened to “transfer” the disappeared land to the Pacific Ocean, but this version did not gain wide popularity among the public, since the Pacific was already “there” (sometimes also called Mu).

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“Go,” he said, nodding his head to Alpatych, and began asking the officer something. Greedy, frightened, helpless glances turned to Alpatych as he left the governor’s office. Unwittingly now listening to the nearby and increasingly intensifying shots, Alpatych hurried to the inn. The paper that the governor gave to Alpatych was as follows:
“I assure you that the city of Smolensk does not yet face the slightest danger, and it is incredible that it will be threatened by it. I am on one side, and Prince Bagration on the other side, we are going to unite in front of Smolensk, which will take place on the 22nd, and both armies with their combined forces will defend their compatriots in the province entrusted to you, until their efforts remove the enemies of the fatherland from them or until they are exterminated in their brave ranks to the last warrior. You see from this that you have every right to reassure the inhabitants of Smolensk, for whoever is protected by two such brave troops can be confident of their victory.” (Instruction from Barclay de Tolly to the Smolensk civil governor, Baron Asch, 1812.)
People were moving restlessly through the streets.
Carts loaded with household utensils, chairs, and cabinets continually drove out of the gates of houses and drove through the streets. In the neighboring house of Ferapontov there were carts and, saying goodbye, the women howled and said sentences. The mongrel dog was barking and spinning around in front of the stalled horses.
Alpatych, with a more hasty step than he usually walked, entered the yard and went straight under the barn to his horses and cart. The coachman was sleeping; he woke him up, ordered him to lay him to bed and entered the hallway. In the master's room one could hear the crying of a child, the wracking sobs of a woman, and the angry, hoarse cry of Ferapontov. The cook, like a frightened chicken, fluttered in the hallway as soon as Alpatych entered.
- He killed her to death - he beat the owner!.. He beat her like that, she dragged her like that!..
- For what? – asked Alpatych.
- I asked to go. It's a woman's business! Take me away, he says, don’t destroy me and my little children; the people, he says, have all left, what, he says, are we? How he started beating. He hit me like that, he dragged me like that!
Alpatych seemed to nod his head approvingly at these words and, not wanting to know anything more, went to the opposite door - the master's door of the room in which his purchases remained.
“You are a villain, a destroyer,” shouted at that time a thin, pale woman with a child in her arms and a scarf torn from her head, bursting out of the door and running down the stairs to the courtyard. Ferapontov followed her and, seeing Alpatych, straightened his vest and hair, yawned and entered the room behind Alpatych.
- Do you really want to go? - he asked.
Without answering the question and without looking back at the owner, looking through his purchases, Alpatych asked how long the owner was supposed to stay.
- We'll count! Well, did the governor have one? – Ferapontov asked. – What was the solution?
Alpatych replied that the governor did not tell him anything decisive.
- Are we going to leave on our business? - said Ferapontov. - Give me seven rubles per cart to Dorogobuzh. And I say: there is no cross on them! - he said.
“Selivanov, he got in on Thursday and sold flour to the army for nine rubles a sack.” Well, will you drink tea? - he added. While the horses were being pawned, Alpatych and Ferapontov drank tea and talked about the price of grain, the harvest and favorable weather for harvesting.
“However, it began to calm down,” said Ferapontov, drinking three cups of tea and getting up, “ours must have taken over.” They said they won't let me in. This means strength... And after all, they said, Matvey Ivanovich Platov drove them into the Marina River, drowned eighteen thousand, or something, in one day.
Alpatych collected his purchases, handed them over to the coachman who came in, and settled accounts with the owner. At the gate there was the sound of wheels, hooves and bells of a car leaving.
It was already well after noon; half the street was in the shade, the other was brightly lit by the sun. Alpatych looked out the window and went to the door. Suddenly a strange sound of a distant whistle and blow was heard, and after that there was a merging roar of cannon fire, which made the windows tremble.
Alpatych went out into the street; two people ran down the street towards the bridge. From different sides we heard whistles, impacts of cannonballs and the bursting of grenades falling in the city. But these sounds were almost inaudible and did not attract the attention of residents in comparison with the sounds of gunfire heard outside the city. It was a bombardment, which at five o'clock Napoleon ordered to open on the city, from one hundred and thirty guns. At first the people did not understand the significance of this bombing.
The sounds of falling grenades and cannonballs aroused at first only curiosity. Ferapontov’s wife, who had never stopped howling under the barn, fell silent and, with the child in her arms, went out to the gate, silently looking at the people and listening to the sounds.
The cook and the shopkeeper came out to the gate. Everyone with cheerful curiosity tried to see the shells flying over their heads. Several people came out from around the corner, talking animatedly.
- That’s power! - said one. “Both the lid and the ceiling were smashed into splinters.”
“It tore up the earth like a pig,” said another. - That’s so important, that’s how I encouraged you! – he said laughing. “Thank you, I jumped back, otherwise she would have smeared you.”
The people turned to these people. They paused and told how they got into the house near their core. Meanwhile, other shells, now with a quick, gloomy whistle - cannonballs, now with a pleasant whistling - grenades, did not stop flying over the heads of the people; but not a single shell fell close, everything was carried over. Alpatych sat down in the tent. The owner stood at the gate.
- What haven’t you seen! - he shouted at the cook, who, with her sleeves rolled up, in a red skirt, swaying with her bare elbows, came to the corner to listen to what was being said.
“What a miracle,” she said, but, hearing the owner’s voice, she returned, tugging at her tucked skirt.
Again, but very close this time, something whistled, like a bird flying from top to bottom, a fire flashed in the middle of the street, something fired and covered the street with smoke.
- Villain, why are you doing this? – the owner shouted, running up to the cook.
At the same moment, women howled pitifully from different sides, a child began to cry in fear, and people with pale faces silently crowded around the cook. From this crowd, the cook’s moans and sentences were heard most loudly:
- Oh oh oh, my darlings! My little darlings are white! Don't let me die! My white darlings!..
Five minutes later there was no one left on the street. The cook, with her thigh broken by a grenade fragment, was carried into the kitchen. Alpatych, his coachman, Ferapontov’s wife and children, and the janitor sat in the basement, listening. The roar of guns, the whistle of shells and the pitiful moan of the cook, which dominated all sounds, did not cease for a moment. The hostess either rocked and coaxed the child, or in a pitiful whisper asked everyone who entered the basement where her owner, who remained on the street, was. The shopkeeper who entered the basement told her that the owner had gone with the people to the cathedral, where they were raising the Smolensk miraculous icon.
By dusk the cannonade began to subside. Alpatych came out of the basement and stopped at the door. The previously clear evening sky was completely covered with smoke. And through this smoke the young, high-standing crescent of the month strangely shone. After the previous terrible roar of guns had ceased, there seemed silence over the city, interrupted only by the rustling of footsteps, groans, distant screams and the crackle of fires that seemed to be widespread throughout the city. The cook's moans had now died down. Black clouds of smoke from the fires rose and dispersed from both sides. On the street, not in rows, but like ants from a ruined hummock, in different uniforms and different directions, soldiers passed and ran. In Alpatych’s eyes, several of them ran into Ferapontov’s yard. Alpatych went to the gate. Some regiment, crowded and in a hurry, blocked the street, walking back.
“They are surrendering the city, leave, leave,” the officer who noticed his figure told him and immediately shouted to the soldiers:
- I'll let you run around the yards! - he shouted.
Alpatych returned to the hut and, calling the coachman, ordered him to leave. Following Alpatych and the coachman, all of Ferapontov’s household came out. Seeing the smoke and even the fires of the fires, now visible in the beginning twilight, the women, who had been silent until then, suddenly began to cry out, looking at the fires. As if echoing them, the same cries were heard at other ends of the street. Alpatych and his coachman, with shaking hands, straightened the tangled reins and lines of the horses under the canopy.

Helena Blavatsky assured that “the history of the primary Races is buried in the grave of time not for the Initiates, but only for ignorant science.” In her "Secret Doctrine" she wrote that there were 5 races of people on the planet. The first - the “self-born” - were angel-like creatures 50–60 m tall, they had one eye (the one we now call the “third”) and reproduced by division. The second race - the “afterborn”, or “immortals” - were ghost-like creatures about 40 m high, also one-eyed, but reproducing by budding and spores. The third race, called the "double", "androgynes" or "Lemurians", had a longer period of existence and the greatest variability within itself. Within this race, a separation of the sexes occurred, bones appeared, the body became denser, and from four-armed and two-faced people about 20 m tall, they turned into two-armed and one-faced people of smaller sizes. Representatives of the fourth race, called the Atlanteans, were two-armed and one-faced, about 6–8 m tall and had a dense body. The fifth race, the Aryan, is already us.

In contrast, practically no expeditions were sent to study Lemuria. The few studies have not found any convincing evidence for the existence of a large island or continent with an advanced civilization. And the famous theory of continental drift, proposed by the German geographer Alfred Wegener in 1912, excluded the idea of sunken continents from scientific use. The hypothesis of the so-called uniformatization prevailed, asserting the evolutionary, calm and to a certain extent monotonous nature of the development of our planet. The data on the geology and geomorphology of the Indian Ocean floor, accepted by most scientists, did not allow for the existence of significant areas of land there.

But many enthusiasts did not allow Lemuria to “drown” completely. The hypothesis about large-scale cataclysms in the history of our planet has also been revived. Many geologists wrote in the 1950s and 1960s that there might once have been land in place of the Indian Ocean. At least, the history of the development of its northwestern part differs from the development of all other parts, because the granite massifs of East Africa, The Arabian Peninsula and Hindustan find their continuation within the bottom of the Indian Ocean. And therefore, as the famous Soviet geomorphologist O.K. Leontyev wrote, “obviously, it should be considered as a complex transitional region, formed as a result of intensive fragmentation and differentiated subsidence of the continental margins.” True, Leontyev later changed his point of view and abandoned such a hypothesis.

Professor D.G. Panov in the book “The Origin of Continents and Oceans” writes: “Even at the beginning of the Quaternary period in the Atlantic Ocean, and possibly in other oceans, modern oceanic ridges were raised high above sea level, and among the deep sea depressions in place Many islands stood out from the guyots. Due to this, the oceans had a complex appearance and broke up into a number of separate seas, separated either by land bridges or by archipelagos of small islands.

New movements of the ocean floor, most likely associated with the general uplift of the continents, led to the revitalization of the ocean floor. Individual islands and ocean ridges began to descend. The old land was destroyed and went under the ocean level. In connection with this, the distribution pattern of plants and animals changed, and perhaps the settlement of peoples also changed.” Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences V. Belousov, in a number of his works devoted to the origin of continents and oceans, defended a similar point of view, according to which vast areas of land in the Pacific and Indian oceans went under water.

The first material evidence of the existence of land in ancient times in place of the Indian Ocean was obtained by the Swedish research ship Albatross in 1947. Several hundred miles off the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka, it found a vast underwater plateau consisting of hardened volcanic lava. During the eruption of a volcano (or volcanoes), lava filled the valleys that had not yet sunk. Perhaps this catastrophic cataclysm coincided with the sinking of the kingdom of Kumari Nadu under water.

1999 - a ship engaged in research in the Indian Ocean returned with interesting news. Researchers have discovered indirect evidence that a continent three times the size of modern Australia once sank there. Among the specimens found in the sediment were pollen and pieces of wood.

2013, end of February - a group of volcanologists, geologists and oceanographers made an incredible discovery: at the bottom of the Indian Ocean they discovered an entire continent that could not be found before. It turns out that he was simply not noticed under the islands of Mauritius, Reunion and Rodrigues. All of them belong to the Mascarene Islands and appeared as a result of volcanic activity. Mauritius is the oldest of these islands. It is approximately 10 million years old. Reunion and Rodriguez are younger - they are 2 million years old.

And the most interesting thing is that Reunion is still being formed. It is home to the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, one of the most active in the world. It was precisely because of the relative youth of these islands that scientists did not expect to find anything new near them. However, absolutely suddenly, satellites discovered a strange anomaly in this area of the World Ocean. The fact is that the thickness of the earth’s crust here is more than 25 km, while in the oceans this value usually does not exceed 12 km. So geophysicists accidentally stumbled upon a huge lithospheric plate.

If the scientists' version is correct, then Atlantis, Hyperborea, Pacifida and Lemuria could actually have perished during tectonic disasters and were swallowed up by the ocean. According to a number of researchers, the most ancient intelligent inhabitants of the Earth could have lived there - a proto-civilization that died in a catastrophe. This is where the myths about Atlantis, the continent of Mu and other lost lands take their roots.

And here it is necessary, perhaps, to make one clarification. Over the course of many centuries of human history, both Atlantis and Hyperborea were perceived as completely independent, albeit semi-mythical, objects. With Lemuria and Pacifida, also known as the continent of Mu, the situation is different. They are often identified, which causes a fair amount of confusion.

On the one hand, Lemuria and Pacifis could previously have formed a single continent, which later split and sank. On the other hand, we already have so little information about these hypothetical lands that it’s probably not worth creating additional confusion from coordinates, quotes and concepts. Therefore, following most researchers, we will locate Lemuria exclusively in the Indian Ocean. And now let’s move on to the chronicles of the Pacifida, which once stretched across the expanses that various peoples called either the South Sea or the Eastern Ocean. 1520 - the navigator from Portugal Ferdinand Magellan gave this sea expanse a paradoxical name - the Pacific Ocean.

Hypotheses about its existence are not accepted by all scientists, but there are many different detailed assumptions about how the Lemurians lived, why they became extinct and whether they died out at all.

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 disappeared in the same way, as if dissolving into thin air.

Among people, there is an opinion that these creatures have the ability to penetrate other dimensions and control the laws of nature. One of the eyewitnesses claimed that he was able to see gray marble temple standing on a mountain in the middle of a forest. But as soon as the mountain began to be thoroughly explored, the appearance of hypothetical Lemurians among people stopped.

The “Lemurian” hypotheses of Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), an American predictor, are considered the most convincing. In his notes, the civilization of Lemuria is presented as spiritually elevated at the time of its disappearance (compared to the Atlanteans, who, according to Cayce, were kept on Earth by bad karma). Because of this, the descendants of the Lemurians are among modern people The American predictor determined very rarely: according to him, there was no need for them to stay on Earth, since they no longer needed to correct their karma.

The territorial descriptions of the country of Mu made by Edgar Cayce were largely confirmed by geological and archaeological research. He believed that the Pacific coast of South America was the western part of Lemuria at the time of the emergence of homo sapiens (our species).

Map of Lemuria against the background of modern continents: Lemuria is shown in red, the remains of Hyperborea are shown in blue (from the book “Lemuria - the Vanished Continent” by William Scott-Elliot).

Already in the 1990s, 60 years after Cayce’s assumptions, the underwater Nazca mountain range was discovered, which was once dry land and connected the coast of modern Peru with an archipelago that had also now gone under water, 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 melting ice caused the water level of the world's oceans to rise sharply. But the Mu civilization continued to flourish after that on the “ruins” of the former giant continent. Cayce considered the period of its decline to be the time before the disappearance of Atlantis.

The population was 107 million. According to Rasputin, the Lemurians did not have a physical and etheric body (which are among the bodies a person has), which is why people could not see them, with the exception of those people who had special energy.

If desired, the Lemurians could materialize or disappear, moving into other dimensions. In the process of evolution, this race acquired the missing physical and etheric bodies. This hypothesis explains the mysterious disappearances and appearances of Lemurians near Mount Shasta. But geographically, according to Rasputin, the inhabitants of Lemuria lived mainly south of modern Madagascar. In 170 BC e. Due to natural disasters, the most populated part of Lemuria was buried under the waters of the ocean, and at the same time almost its entire population died.

The surviving Lemurians, who already had 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 that the Lemurians were considered a spiritually exalted race: according to Rasputin, they were long-lived, had no material wealth, fed on cosmic energy and reproduced by self-copying (without gender division). Finding physical body, the Lemurians degraded and became ordinary people.

Another hypothesis regarding Lemuria was formed in the Theosophical Society of Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), who was engaged in religious philosophy and occultism. Occult experiments and predictions in this case also became the basis for conclusions about the disappeared civilization.

According to the conclusions of the Theosophical Society, on our planet during the entire period of its inhabited existence, in total, simultaneously or in different eras, there will be seven main races (each race has seven subraces): supreme invisible beings; Hyperboreans; lemurs; Atlanta; People; a race descended from humans that will in the future inhabit 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 to communicate telepathically, had three eyes (two in front and one behind) and feet that allowed them to walk equally back and forth. 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 into a civilization and became more like humans. 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 Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947). According to the “myth” he compiled, which largely coincides 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, people and animals were asexual and did not have a physical body (they were ethereal 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 became physical, all creatures evolved, and a separation of the sexes occurred.

Having received a physical body, people began to die rather than be reborn. At the same time (about 18 million years ago), people were endowed with reason 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 present 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 continent’s border did not reach the Antarctic Circle, in the west it went around South Africa from below and bent 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 Aemuria had a height of about 18 m, but gradually it decreased to 6 m.

This assumption of Roerich has indirect confirmation in the statues of Easter Island, which, according to this hypothesis, was part of Lemuria. Perhaps the Lemurians erected statues the size of their height (from 6 to 9 m), with their characteristic appearance features.

The high growth and physical strength of the Lemurians explain the possibility of their coexistence with large animals of those eras. With the development of their civilization, the inhabitants of Lemuria began to build rock-shaped cities: the remains of these cities are the Cyclopean ruins on the island of Madagascar and Easter Island.

The death of Lemuria, according to Roerich's hypothesis, came at the very end of the Secondary geological period: the continent went 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 Negroid race, Australians, Bushmen, aborigines of a number of Pacific islands.

Various information about Lemuria given above formed the basis research work 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 existing hypotheses about Lemuria.

Among the confirmations is the scientific fact that modern land was previously covered by ocean waters, and in place of modern oceans, on the contrary, there were continents. This fact, together with the available data on the modern geology of the Earth, indicates the existence in early times of a vast southern continent.

One of the biggest mysteries of our time is located in the eastern part of the island of Ponape, rising from the waters of the “Venice” of the Pacific Ocean - Nan Madol - ninety-two (!) man-made islands, built on a coral reef and occupying an area of about 130 hectares.

Studies of fossil and modern flora and fauna roughly identify land areas that were connected by the ancient continent and are now located on different continents and islands. At various periods, the southern continent was connected either with Australia or with the modern Malay Peninsula. Thus, in the Permian era, India, South Africa and Australia were supposedly parts of a single continent. It is the southern continent that in the above studies is considered the “cradle of the human race.”

Among the archaeological finds that confirm the existence of the mysterious ancient civilization, the following artifacts: ruins of the stone port and city of Nan Madol on the island of Ponape (Carolina Islands, Pacific Ocean); statues and buildings of Easter Island; 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 semicircle on the Gambier Islands (west of Pitcairn Island); 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.

Currently, some anthropologists admit the existence of descendants of the Lemurian civilization in little-studied wooded areas, including outside the probable territory of the lost continent: a new race could push the Lemurians into more harsh habitats.

Mysterious disappearances. Mysticism, secrets, clues Dmitrieva Natalia Yurievna

Lemuria

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 some researchers consider My to be a continent on the site of the modern Pacific Ocean, while Lemuria is assigned only to the present Indian Ocean). Hypotheses about its existence are not accepted by all scientists, but there are many different detailed assumptions about how the Lemurians lived, why they became extinct and whether they died out at all.

The height 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 disappeared in the same way, as if dissolving into thin air. Among people, there is an opinion that these creatures 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 a forest. But as soon as the mountain began to be thoroughly explored, the appearance of hypothetical Lemurians among people stopped.

The most convincing are the “Lemurian” hypotheses of Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), an American predictor. In his notes, the civilization of Lemuria is presented as spiritually elevated at the time of its disappearance (compared to 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 needed to correct their karma.

Edgar Cayce's territorial descriptions of the country My were largely confirmed by geological and archaeological research. He believed that the Pacific coast of South America was the western part of Lemuria at the time of the emergence of homo sapiens (our species). Already in the 1990s, 60 years after Cayce’s assumptions, the underwater Nazca mountain range was discovered, which was once dry land and connected the coast of modern Peru with an archipelago that had also now gone under water, 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 melting ice caused the water level of the world's oceans to rise sharply. But the My civilization continued to flourish after that on the “ruins” of the former giant continent. Cayce considered the period of its decline to be the time before the disappearance of Atlantis.

The Russian contact scientist Vasily Rasputin was guided in his description of Lemuria by information allegedly received by him from Space and closely intertwined with esotericism. Rasputin in his revelations operates with fairly accurate figures, which, however, have not yet been confirmed. From his descriptions one can glean some territorial and chronological details: Lemuria existed in 320–170 centuries BC. e. in the territory from the modern Aegean Sea to the shores of Antarctica. The population was 107 million. According to Rasputin, the Lemurians did not have a physical and etheric body (which are among the bodies a person has), which is why people could not see them, with the exception of those people who had special energy. If desired, the Lemurians could materialize or disappear, moving into other dimensions. In the process of evolution, this race acquired the missing physical and etheric bodies. This hypothesis explains the mysterious disappearances and appearances of Lemurians near Mount Shasta. But geographically, according to Rasputin, the inhabitants of Lemuria lived mainly south of modern Madagascar. In 170 BC e. Due to natural disasters, the most populated part of Lemuria was buried under the waters of the ocean, and at the same time almost its entire population died. The surviving Lemurians, who already had 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 that the Lemurians were considered a spiritually exalted race: according to Rasputin, they were long-lived, had no material wealth, fed on cosmic energy and reproduced by self-copying (without 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), who was engaged in religious philosophy and occultism. Occult experiments and predictions in this case also became the basis for conclusions about the disappeared civilization. According to the conclusions of the Theosophical Society, on our planet during the entire period of its inhabited existence, in total, simultaneously or in different eras, there will be seven main races (each race has seven subraces): supreme invisible beings; Hyperboreans; lemurs; Atlanta; People; a race descended from humans that will in the future inhabit Lemuria; the last earthly race to fly from Earth to Mercury. Lemurs, or the extinct 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 to communicate telepathically, had three eyes (two in front and one behind) and feet that allowed them to walk equally back and forth. 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 into a civilization and became more like humans. 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 Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947). According to the “myth” he compiled, which largely coincides 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, people and animals were asexual and did not have a physical body (they were ethereal 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 became physical, all creatures evolved, and a separation of the sexes occurred. Having received a physical body, people began to die rather than be reborn. At the same time (about 18 million years ago), people were endowed with reason 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 present 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 continent's border did not reach the Antarctic Circle, in the west it went around South Africa from below and bent 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 has indirect confirmation in the statues of Easter Island, which, according to this hypothesis, was part of Lemuria. Perhaps the Lemurians erected statues the size of their height (from 6 to 9 m), with their characteristic appearance features. The high growth and physical strength of the Lemurians explain the possibility of their coexistence with large animals of those eras. With the development of their civilization, the inhabitants of Lemuria began to build rock-shaped cities: the remains of these cities are the Cyclopean ruins on the island of Madagascar and Easter Island.

The decline of the Lemurian civilization coincided with the immersion 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.

The death of Lemuria, according to Roerich's hypothesis, came at the very end of the Secondary geological period: the continent went 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, and aborigines of a number of Pacific islands.

The 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 existing hypotheses about Lemuria. Among the confirmations is the scientific fact that modern land was previously covered by ocean waters, and in place of modern oceans, on the contrary, there were continents. This fact, together with the available data on the modern geology of the Earth, indicates the existence in early times of a vast southern continent.

Among the archaeological finds that confirm the existence of a mysterious ancient civilization are the following artifacts: the ruins of the stone port and city of Nan Madol on the island of Ponape (Carolina Islands, Pacific Ocean); statues and buildings of Easter Island; 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 semicircle on the Gambier Islands (west of Pitcairn Island); 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; skeletal remains giant people(found in the USA, Australia, South Africa, Georgia and other places).

Currently, anthropological scientists admit the existence of descendants of the Lemurian civilization in little-studied wooded areas, including outside the probable territory of the lost continent: a new race could displace the Lemurians into more harsh habitats. However, so far only the legends of various peoples of the world serve as confirmation of this assumption.

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