THE LEMURIA CONTINENT (Kumari Kandam) - ANCIENT TAMIL CIVILIZATION

The world originated around 4.54 billion years ago. But the living things formed around 4 billion years ago. We know that the world was first surrounded by water all side. In this article, we are going to see the biggest landmass, located below India and three sides surrounded by the ocean. The continent named Lemuria (Kumari Kandam).

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY OF LEMURIA
3. EVIDENCE
4. LITERATURE

INTRODUCTION:

The Lemuria continent of Kumari Kandam is an ancient big landmass surrounded by the Indian Ocean on three sides. But it is no more in this world. A big disaster hit the landmass and the whole continent was submerged by the Indian ocean at the edge of the ice age as the ocean level rises. Many archeologists are stated that the term Lemuria originated in 15th century Kanda Puranam, the Tamil version of Skanda Puranam. This continent is ruled by Pandia kings, the great ruler of Tamil civilization.

HISTORY OF LEMURIA:

All-day we come across many frictional stories, in the topic of Atlantis which is famous in the Greek language. The stories are more related to the sunken continent Lemuria. This land is a connecting line between Africa and South India via Madagascar. The big dynasty of Tamil civilization is established for more than 10,000 by the Pandian kingdom before the disaster hit.

After the loss of the whole Kumari Kandam, the Pandian king decided to conquer the other parts of middle Tamil Nadu against the Chola and Chera kingdom.

EVIDENCE :

One piece of proof handled to confirm the existence of Kumari Kandam is Adam’s Bridge (also called Rama’s Bridge), a chain of limestone shoals made up of sand, silt, and tiny pebbles placed in the Palk Strait extending 18 miles from mainland India to Sri Lanka.  This piece of land was once considered to be a natural formation, yet, others argue that images taken by a NASA satellite depict this land formation to be a long broken bridge under the ocean's surface. 

The presence of a bridge in this place is also supported by another antique legend.  The Ramayana describes the tale of Sita, Rama’s wife, holding held captive on the island of Lanka. Rama commands a massive building plan to construct a bridge to transport his troops of Vanara (ape-men) across the ocean to Lanka. 

Being with most so-called myths, it seems possible that there is at least any truth to the antique Tamil legends of Kumari Kandam, but just how much, is yet to be determined.

 

LITERATURE:

• George Firth Scott is famously known for his book The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance (1898) 

•        H. P. Lovecraft considered Lemuria as a previous resting spot for the Shining Trapezohedron in the Cthulhu Mythos story "The Haunter of the Dark".

•        In the Kull stories of Robert E. Howard, Lemuria is a land of islands inhabited by a race of barbarians. During Howard's Conan tales, Lemuria has been defeated in a great Cataclysm but the survivors have become the ancestors of the Hyrkanians. 

•    In the world map printed in The Shaping of Middle-earth, the continent labeled "Dark Land (South Land)" is implicitly a Lemurian analog. And in his watercolor illustration of the Earth, as seen from the Moon, the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria are visible. 

•       During Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice, Lemuria is mentioned quite a few times. Living an ephemeral place, it works as an apt symbol for 1960s California. 

•       In the Perry Rhodon series, Lemuria was the home continent of the Lemurians (also called the First Humanity) 50,000 years ago. 

•      During Daniel Pinkwater's 1979 book Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, the myth of Lemuria and other lost places are used by travelers from other worlds as a way to mention their lifestyles externally revealing their origin. Lemuria is also referenced heavily in the plot. 

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