Lemuria, the Pacific Atlantis
Part One
By JJ
Lemuria [Mu or Mu’A for short] was a huge continent or several large islands said to have existed in the South Pacific, and which, according to Edgar Cayce [the American psychic, famous for his “readings”; see The Device], began to vanish “even before Atlantis”, in 10700 BC. In What is the Winged Disc? and Cosmic Conundrums I said that, about this time, the last Ice Age ended rather abruptly. The cause, I argued, was an asteroidal impact wreaking climatic and geological havoc, including violent vulcanity, and sea level rises due to ice sheet [most of them were a few km thick] melting.
In Polynesian legend their “paradise”, the continent of Hawiki or Havaiiki [located in Indonesia] was destroyed, seemingly Krakatoa and Thira style, by a cataclysmic volcaniceruption. Similarly devasted was the Hindu “paradise” [their Eden] of Atala, Patala [“Pure Land”] or Sutala [“the Sunken Land”], which lay far to the east. The culprit was Atala’s lofty Holy Mountain, Meru or Atalas [the original Greek Atlas]. [India and Eden have the same Sanksrit root, “ind”, meaning “fire”.]
The capital, Tripura, enclosed by metal-coated triple stone walls, is reminiscent of Plato’s Royal City and the Greek Hadean realm of Tartarus. The palaces and temples, like those of the Incas and Minoans, were covered in precious metals [gold symbolised the Sun, silver the Moon]. In the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, Lanka [“Queen of the Waves”] was, like Tripura, sited on Meru, the cause of its ultimate fate. Regarding the glacial meltwater, Bruce Heezen, an oceanographer of the Lamont Geological Observatory, demonstrated that, globally, sea levels rose about 100-150 metres. Consequently, Poseidia and Antilla [see Carribean Submarine Pyramids and Giza and Avebury Circle: An Atlantean Map?] were “drowned”, as was most of Mu. Plato, in his Critias, likened the remaining islands to
“the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having wasted away, and only the bare framework...left.”
If you examine a seabed map of the Pacific you can see where “fat” now lies. There are sunken plateaus bounded by a) the Caroline, Gilbert, Marshall and Solomon Islands, and b) Fiji, the New Hebrides and Samoa. More “submarine” land lies around Christmas and Easter Islands, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, New Caledonia, and Pitcairn Islands. Thus, it will comes as no surprise that the “ruins scattered...on islands across the Pacific”, I mentioned in The Device, are situated in these locations. Several have truncated step pyramids [curiously Mayan in appearance]: Bora Bora, Malden Island, Kiribati, the Marquesas, the Society Islands, Tahiti and Yap Island. Then there are the enigmatic stone heads or moai on Easter Island, about 600 or so.
One of the most interesting sites is Nan Modal, near the island of Pohnpei [sounds a bit like Pompeii, doesn’t it?]. This metropolis is built on about 100 artificial islands and covers an area of 11 square miles! Buildings line dikes and canals, and are constructed from volcanic basalt, varying in length from 3 to 25 feet. In weight they range from 5 to 25 tons! The city was divided into 3 areas. The religious centre was in the Upper City, the royal residence [containing a palace and feasting hall] in the Lower City, and, within the immense perimeter walls, tombs. Charles Berlitz suggested that, because of its scale in relation to its location, “part of an even greater metropolis” [The Dragon’s Triangle, London,1990, pg 171] had been submerged. This calls to mind the extensive sunken ruins in the Caribbean [see Carribean Submarine Pyramids and Giza].
According to Berlitz, remains of other cities have been sighted near Nan Modal.
In 1939, Herbert Rittiger, a German writer, claimed that
“divers had observed well preserved streets, pillars, monoliths, and vaults, and that Japanese divers...brought up...precious stones and jewels from the site.”
[Ibid, pg. 171]
In 1980 Dr Arthur Saxe wrote that a line of boulders had been discovered, while other dives had found columns and inscriptions. I recently bought David Childress’s Ancient Micronesia & the Lost City of Nan Modal [Illinois, 1998], which has wonderful colour photos of all these features, taken by the author. Two of the glyphs shown are a square and cross. The writing transcribed on Oleai Island by John Macmillan Brown [pg. 93] is an odd mixture including Celtic runes, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek letters and several ancient Middle Eastern and N. African scripts [including Phoenician]!
This gives weight to the theory of Prof. Barry Fell, a Harvard lecturer, who not only argued, in America BC, that the earliest Pacific settlers were the Egyptians, but also that Native American peoples were descended from the cultures those scripts originated from. Another point in Fell’s favour is the Pacific-wide worship of the Egyptian Sun God Ra. In The Device I’d mentioned textual similarities worldwide being either an indication of close trading links or a global “Super Culture”, such as Atlantis. The third idea is global migration.
Part Two
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