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Definition: LEMURIA |
LEMURIANoun1. A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant. |
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Lemuria is the name given by 19th century geologist Philip Sclater to a hypothetical land mass in the Indian Ocean, used in the theories of Victorian Darwinists to explain the isolation of lemurs in Madagascar and the distribution of their fossil relatives across Africa and Southeast Asia. Ernst Haeckel, a German Darwinist, used a 'Lemuria' to explain the absence of 'missing link' fossil records, claiming they were all undersea.
All such strained invocations of imaginary 'land bridges' were rendered obsolete with the modern (post 1960) understanding of plate tectonics and their effects on biogeography.
In the meantime, however, Madame Blavatsky had begun writing about Lemuria, claiming to have been shown an ancient, pre-Atlantean Book of Dzyan by the Mahatmas. Through her, 'Lemuria' took on its current air as a mystical lost continent similar to Atlantis, and began to grow from a land bridge to a huge continent spanning both the Indian and Pacific oceans. She wrote of massive, hermaphroditic, egg-laying beings with four arms and three eyes that inhabited a utopian world. Their downfall came, she wrote, when they discovered sex.
Frederick Spencer Oliver published A Dweller on Two Planets in 1894, which originated the belief that survivors from Lemuria are living in or on Mount Shasta in northern California. This belief has been repeated by such individuals as the cultist Guy Warren Ballard in the 1930s who formed the I AM Foundation.
In a section of the late Mayan period Madrid Codex that is sometimes called the Troano Codex, fanciful archaeologists in the days before Mayan glyphs had been translated thought they were able to interpret illustrations as 'records' of a continent in the Pacific, destroyed by volcanic activity. Supposedly, a similar legend has been translated from unspecified 'Sanskrit tablets' that describe a continent called Rutas.
The continent of Mu imagined by Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908) is possibly a permutation of ideas about what Lemuria might have been.
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Lemuria was also a festival in the Roman religion, in which the lemures, the ghosts of the dead, were appeased with offerings of beans.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lemuria."
| "LEMURIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEMURIA" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lemuria | 145 |
lemuria mu | 13 |
lemuria resort | 6 |
book lemuria store | 5 |
atlantis lemuria | 5 |
book lemuria | 3 |
lemuria hotel | 2 |
continente el lemuria perdido | 2 |
civilizacion lemuria | 2 |
lemuria map | 2 |
continente el lemuria | 2 |
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| Words rhyming with "LEMURIA" (pronounced 'Le*mu"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Aporia, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Curia, Dataria, Desmobacteria, Desmomyaria, Dinosauria, Diphtheria, Dysphoria, Enaliosauria, Feria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, Grossularia, Halisauria, Hatteria, hematuria, Heteromyaria, Heterotricha, Holotricha. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-r-u" | |
-1 letter: mailer, mauler, remail, uremia. | |
-2 letters: aimer, ariel, aurei, email, ileum, lamer, larum, lemur, maile, miaul, miler, mural, ramie, realm, ulema, uraei, ureal, urial. | |
-3 letters: alme, alum, amie, amir, aril, arum, earl, emir, ilea, lair, lame, lari, lear, liar, lier, lieu, lima, lime, lira, lire, lure, mail, mair, male, mare, marl, maul, meal, merl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-r-u" | |
+1 letter: haulmier, plumeria, qualmier, velarium. | |
+2 letters: equimolar, luminaire, mercurial, multiyear, numerical, plumerias, semilunar, semirural, simulacre, tularemia, tularemic, unmanlier. | |
+3 letters: glamourize, immaturely, intermural, lambrequin, lawrencium, luminaires, luminaries, mercurials, multiarmed, multigrade, multilayer, multirange, neurilemma, neutralism, parimutuel, psalterium, rudimental, secularism, simulacres, surrealism, tourmaline, tularemias, unicameral, vermicular. | |
+4 letters: aspergillum, bimolecular, curtailment, demiurgical, formularies, formularize, glamourized, glamourizes, innumerable, innumerably, lambrequins, lawrenciums, leprosarium, macronuclei, mariculture, matriculate, mercurially, modularized, multibarrel, multiplayer, neurilemmal, neurilemmas, neutralisms, numerically, pelargonium, planetarium, rambouillet, restimulate, retinaculum, secularisms, semidiurnal, seminatural, semipopular, subterminal, superfamily, surrealisms, tetrazolium, tourmalines, ultramarine, ultrasimple, umbrellaing, unempirical, unreclaimed, vermiculate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 4D 55 52 49 41 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . -- ..- .-. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01001101 01010101 01010010 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E M U R I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 004D 0055 0052 0049 0041 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46394755524335 |
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