The lost civilization of Lemuria : the rise and fall of the world's oldest culture / Frank Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lemuria.

Physical Description:

343 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Rochester, Vt. : Bear & Co., [2006]

Summary:

Long before Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, there was the destruction of Lemuria. Oral tradition in Polynesia recounts the story of a splendid kingdom carried to the bottom of the sea by a mighty "warrior wave" far greater than the tsunami that struck Indonesia in December 2004. This lost realm has been cited in numerous other indigenous traditions, spanning the globe from Australia and Asia to the coasts of both South and North America. It was known as Lemuria or Mu, a vast realm of islands and archipelagoes that once sprawled across the Pacific Ocean. Relying on ten years of research and extensive travel, Frank Joseph offers a compelling picture of this motherland of humanity, which he suggests was the original Garden of Eden.

Using recent deep-sea archaeological finds, enigmatic glyphs and symbols, and ancient records that document the story of this sunken world, Joseph painstakingly re-creates a picture of this civilization in which people lived in rare harmony and possessed a sophisticated technology that allowed them to harness the weather, defy gravity, and conduct genetic investigations far beyond what is possible today. When disaster struck Lemuria, the survivors made their way to other parts of the world, incorporating their scientific and mystical skills into the existing cultures of Asia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Totem poles of the Pacific Northwest, architecture in Thailand, the colossal stone statues on Easter Island, and even the perennial philosophies all reveal their kinship to this now-vanished civilization.

Contents:

A lost super science

Navel of the world

The giants speak

Ancient oceanic technology

The colonel of Mu

The Garden of Eden?

Hawaiian motherland

Lemurians in America

Asia's debt to Lemuria

What's in a name?

The sleeping prophet of Lemuria

The destruction of Lemuria

The discovery of Lemuria.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-343).

ISBN:

1591430607

9781591430605

OCLC:

64592095

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