A brief history of Mu / Lemuria / Lamar

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A brief history of Mu / Lemuria / Lamar

Post: # 5993Post Zark »

The premise here is that the word "Mu" / "Lamar" actually originated from the word "Lemuria". Given the dates involved and that they both refer to a sunken continent then it seems at least plausible that one name was derived from the other.

I have noticed that the actual location of "Mu" and "Lemuria" changes a great deal depending on the author :-).

Lamar is mentioned in Chapter 7 of Thiaoouba Prophecy and is said to be the name of the continent we call "Mu".


* 1864: The fictional continent "Lemuria" is proposed as an attempt to explain irregularities in the migration of Lemurs

quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29
Though living modern Lemurs are only found in Madagascar and several surrounding islands, the biogeography of extinct lemurs extending from Pakistan to Malaya inspired the name Lemuria, which was coined in 1864 by the geologist Philip Sclater in an article "The Mammals of Madagascar" in The Quarterly Journal of Science. Puzzled by the presence of fossil lemurs in both Madagascar and India, but not in Africa nor the Middle East, Sclater proposed that Madagascar and India had once been part of a larger continent, which he named Lemuria for its lemurs.

* shortly after 1873

quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Le_Plongeon
In 1873, the le Plongeons traveled to Yucatán, and remained there almost continuously until 1885 in search of cultural connections between the Maya and Ancient Egypt.
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Le Plongeon is also known for his attempted translation of the Troano Codex, a translation which is considered by nearly all authorities to be completely mistaken. He claimed that one section detailed the destruction of the lost continent of Mu, which he intepreted as Atlantis.

* 1888: Madame Blavatsky talks of hermaphrodites living on Lemuria

quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29
Lemuria entered the lexicon of the Occult through the works of Madame Blavatsky, 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."

After the subsequent creation of mammals, Mme Blavatsky revealed to her readers, some Lemurians turned to bestiality. The gods, aghast at the behavior of these "mindless" men, sank Lemuria into the ocean and created a "Fourth Root Race"-endowed with intellect-on Atlantis.

quote from: http://homepages.hawaiian.net/larryw/html/lemuria.html
Madame Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (born Helena Hahn 1831-1891), the founder of Theosophy, in her book The Secret Doctrine (1888), claimed to have learned of Lemuria in The Book of Dzyan, which she said was composed in Atlantis and shown to her by the Mahatmas. However, in her writings she did give Philip Schlater the honor of inventing the name, Lemuria.
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She described the Lemurians as the third root race to inhabit the earth. They were egg-laying beings with a third eye that gave them psychic powers and allowed them to function without a brain.

* 1894: Frederick Oliver writes about Lemurians living under a mountain in California. This belief is picked up by other spiritual movements.

quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29
In 1894, Frederick Spencer Oliver published A Dweller on Two Planets, which claimed that survivors from a sunken continent called Lemuria were living in or on Mount Shasta in northern California. The Lemurians lived in a complex of tunnels beneath the mountain and occasionally were seen walking the surface dressed in white robes.

This belief has been repeated by such individuals as the cultist Guy Warren Ballard in the 1930s who formed the I AM Foundation. It is also repeated by followers of the Ascended Masters and the Great White Brotherhood. This list includes such organizations as Bridge to Freedom, Summit Lighthouse, Church Universal and Triumphant, Temple of the Presence, and Hearts Center.

* 1931: James Churchward writes a series of books about the continent of Mu.

He wrote "a series of books, beginning with The Children of Mu (1931), The Lost Continent Mu (1933), and The Sacred Symbols of Mu (1935). The books still have devotees, but they are not considered serious archaeology, and nowadays are found in bookshops classed under 'New Age' or 'Religion and Spirituality'."
(quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28lost_continent%29 )

* 1935: H.P. Lovecraft writes fictional stories about the continent of Mu.

Lovecraft was a writer who created wonderful imaginative stories about fictional worlds. Despite Lovecraft's insistence that the stories are fictional, some readers have apparently believed the stories to be real.

His story about the continent of Mu appears in the book "Out of the Aeons" (1935) which is given the reference code "OE" in the Cthulhu Mythos.

quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28Cthulhu_mythos%29
Mu is a fictional continent in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. The lost continent of Mu appears in numerous mythos stories, including many written by Lin Carter.
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Mount Yaddith-Gho is a towering basalt mountain on the continent of Mu. Its peak is topped with a colossal, ancient, stone fortress which legends claim was built eons ago by a race of beings that came from the planet Yuggoth. Inside the fortress is a huge trapdoor that seals an entryway to the interior of the mountain.
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Lovecraft, Howard P. and Hazel Heald. "Out of the Aeons" (1935) in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, S.T. Joshi (ed.), 1989. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-87054-040-8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_o ... lhu_Mythos
Mu A sunken continent. [reference: OE]
Mount Yaddith-Gho Dwelling place of Ghatanothoa in Mu. [reference: OE]

* Late 1930's: Turkish leader Ataturk promotes research on Mu.
quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28lost_continent%29
"In the late 1930s, Turkey's Independence War leader Ataturk promoted research on Mu and other lost continents, in the hope of establishing connections betwen the Turkish civilization and other ancient cultures, such as the Uyghur, India, Maya, and Aztec [2]."

* 1985: underwater structures are found near the coast of Yonaguni-jima by dive tour operator Kihachiro Aratake.
Some believe these to be relics of the sunken continent of Mu or Lemuria.
See some awesome pictures of these structures here:
http://www.morien-institute.org/yonaguni_schoch1.html


What if it is true that the whole idea of "Lamar" and Mu started with an attempt to explain the migration of Lemurs?
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Post: # 6007Post VeskoP »

I initially learnt about the Roman connection to the lemur though Joan Griffith's article about Mu I put on this forum. Prompted by what you've written above, I have followed the track.

I find two conflicting stances about who named the lemur -- either the botanist Carl Linnaeus or the ancient Romans while they were in Madagascar. Will check sometime to know for sure. In either case, the lemur is the Latin (Roman) word for some kind of spirit of a dead human.

And Philip Sclater did not coin the name Lemuria itself, as the above text says, because it already existed, it was an ancient Roman word, denoting a 9-day festivity commemorating ghosts of dead people / ancestors.

Note the bolded sentences and words:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemures:
In Roman mythology, the larvae or lemures were the spectres or spirits of the dead; they were the malignant version of the lares. Some Roman writers describe lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead, and divide them into two classes: the lares, or the benevolent souls of the family, which haunted and guarded the domus or household, and the larvae, or the restless and fearful souls of wicked men. But the more common idea was that the Lemures and Larvae were the same. They were said to wander about at night and to torment and frighten the living.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/p/lares.htm:
The Romans believed that after death their souls became spirits, lares if good, lemures (larvae) if evil, and manes if indeterminate, according to St. Augustine [...] The lemures (larvae) may also have been souls that could find no rest because they met with a violent death. They wandered among the living haunting people and driving them to madness. The lemures were propitiated during the nine-day Lemuria festival in May.
http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/religion.html:
Most of the Roman gods and goddesses were a blend of several religious influences. Many were introduced via the Greek colonies of southern Italy.
So, lemures... all spirits of the dead... who met violent dead... the sinking of Mu was violent... most people from it died becoming dead ancestors to (according to the book) the small Mu-Atlantean colony of Greece... and by extension, to the Romans...

(I didn't know Frederick Oliver and Lovecraft wrote / referred to some Lemuria / Mu.)
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Post: # 6018Post Bastian »

Hi vesko, thanks for the info about the Roman usage of the word. I had no idea about that. Something should be added to the Wikipedia entry for Lemuria.
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Post: # 7178Post Rezo »

Has anyone seen the mondo Japanese TV interviews w/michel from this past may 2006??
search on video dot google dot com: just type in 'thiaoouba.'

In it, Michel says in English, that people who came to settle Mu, came from planet category 3. [aremo x3 picture shown].

That was new information for me. Plus, at the end he explains his views on 911, a bit.
Which I of course disagree with, in that I feel the event was much different than the official story [a false-flag operation imo]. Although he did seem to say he was 'very surprised' that muslims 'could have done that.'
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Post: # 7183Post Vesko »

Rezo, the interviews have been available via the forum library since more than a year -- note the download link on the topic "TV interviews available". In this way, one can conveniently download all the interview parts in a single ZIP package. Also, downloading as a ZIP package helps detect any corrupted files, i.e. if instead one downloads the video files (the ones with the RM file extension), and the files are corrupted during the download, this may go undetected and one may potentially view a truncated or otherwise significantly damaged file, without even noticing that one is viewing a damaged file; one may miss good information this way!

And the Google Video upload was done by a forum member.

A link to the interview download has been now provided at the top of the first post on the aforementioned topic, so that one can find and access it right away.

Aremo X3 is category 1. The book doesn't state it explicitly, as far as I know, but there is no other possibility. No one in their right mind would willingly migrate to a lower category, because very bad things would happen to them. As the book explains, going to upper and lower categories is both contrary to Nature, although to a different extent. The interview is clearly in error and I think the reason for that is the following (from an old post on the "TV interviews available" topic):
Vesko wrote:[...]It is clear to me that Michel got momentarily confused with the number 3 in Aremo X3, the same way at one other moment he said Thiaoouba is on category 1, but corrected himself.
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Post: # 7189Post Rezo »

thats what i figurd, that aremox3 is cat#1. Makes absolute sense.

Thanks for the info. And thanks to whomever uploaded that vid to google!
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