This is why the ancient land tying India and Australia together, that sank incrementally over time, is referred to as LEMURIA.
Myriads of ancient writings from the South Seas, and the ancient Tamil writings on palm tree bark still exist protected underground in the Vatican archives, having been pillaged from various cultures and transported to Rome by order of various popes.
The Tamil bark writings in Southern India tell of the gigantic Southern part of India which used to connect to Australia cataclysmically sinking incrementally over a long period of time. This was ancient Lemuria.
This site referred ex high commisoner of Madagascar Mr.Absar Behuria , presently INTACH Bhubaneswar chapter convenor , knows lot about our tamil culture.
hi Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its 19th century theoretic origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography. Lemuria has been rendered superfluous by modern understanding of plate tectonics.
Though Lemuria has passed out of the realm of science, it has been adopted by occult writers, as well as some Tamil people of India. Accounts of Lemuria differ according to the requirements of their contexts. However, all share a common belief that the continent existed in ancient times but sank beneath the ocean as a result of geological change, often cataclysmic.
Geologists today regard sunken continents as physical impossibilities, given the isostatic equilibrium of continental plates floating on the thermoplastic mantle.
so even if the the continental drift happened it happed befor time of man and nobody could have witnessed it.
its too dramatic to imaging a land splitting and cousins being seperated on either land
I too agree with u . Even geographically the Continent so called LEMURIA consisted of present day Australia, Southern India and South africa and South America. The Geophysical theory of Plate Tectonics, Isotopic datings also confirms to the Fact that the above said area could be well classified as ORIENTAL REGION OF HUMAN Evolution.
there is no doubt that all the land mass of the globe was in one unit surrounded by a single ocean and then it broke up
The southern supercontinent Gondwana (originally Gondwanaland) included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea and New Zealand, as well as Arabia and India, which are in the Northern Hemisphere. The assembly of Gondwana was a protracted process.
The supercontinent began to break up in the mid- to late Jurassic (about 167 million years ago) when East Gondwana, comprising Antarctica-Madagascar-India-Australia, began to separate from Africa during the Middle Jurassic. South America began to drift slowly westward from Africa as the South Atlantic Ocean opened, beginning about 130 million years ago (Early Cretaceous) and resulting in open marine conditions by 110 million years ago. East Gondwana itself began to be dismembered as India began to move northward, in the Early Cretaceous (about 120 million years ago).
this is an ongoin g process.The Red Sea and East African Rift are modern expressions of the continuing dismemberment of Gondwana.
HOWEVER the presence of a cultured civilisation in sucha land that went under the sea is a myth.
Lumeria or not, land mass sank into sea or not...maybe science might not be able to prove somethings, but a civilized society ages ago cannot be ruled out. Thats my personal feeling.
Have anyone wathced the Movie 'Contact'? I seldom watch movies but a couple of months back took a DVD from my collegue, just to get a feel of watching movies again. Never heard the name of the movie 'contact' but when I saw the writers name as Carl Sagan, I thought I can give a try. Initially started to see it thinking that I can spend half an hour daily to complete the movie, but it was so fabulous that I watched it till past midnight.
Story is straight forward, a girl from very young age is interested in star gazing and grows to be a scientist with NASA. Works for SETI and keeps tracking the radio signals from the galaxies...the movie revolves with her coming across some signals towards the scrapping end of the project, deciphers it to be a space shuttles design and builds the machine. Travels through space and gets unique experience with no proof. Result, our science savvy worlds disagrees with her experience for lack of proof. The theme I feel is more of spiritual than science fiction.
The main point why I talk about this movie is, a dialogue, which strucks the nail on our head. The girls fathers tells her this when she was young and again she repeats it to her subordinates. Dont remember the exact words, but it goes like this ..'If we are the only species in such a vast universe,its a criminal waste of space'.
How true? but we learned people neglect this thought just for the lack of proof. This, I feel holds good not only for space, but also for time.
Hi the age of the mammals co incides with the movement of the continents. but the concept of lemuria to prove the ancient ness and the superiority of the tamil race is I should say ridiculous.
these geographical movements happened millions of years ago. man in his civilised mode exists for the last 12, 000 years or so only.
many people still dont beleive that no man saw a dinosaur. they were millions of years away.
Lemuria is the name given by 19th century geologist Philip Sclater to a hypothetical land mass in the Indian Ocean that was required, before the understanding of plate tectonics, to account for similarities between fauna in India and Madagascar. The name derived from the lemurs that are endemic to Madagascar, who received their name from their nocturnal habits and spectral night howling. Lemuria entered the lexicon of the Occult through the works of Madame Blavatsky, ( a founder of the theosophical society with absolutely radical theories on the races)who claimed in the 1880s to have been shown an ancient, pre-Atlantean Book of Dzyan by the Mahatmas. Within Blavatsky's complex cosmology, Lemuria was occupied by a "Third Root Race," which was sexually hermaphroditical, mentally undeveloped and spiritually more pure than the current "Fifth Root Race." d