#300 - Creating Lemuria

Lemuria is the most recently anti-diluvian land, pre-Atlantic, which we have. It is as far back in time as we are allowed to go for where we are now. So, there was the creation of the Earth and then billions of year - 4 I believe - and then, possibly 2 million - that was when Lemuria was. The next landfall in time we have is Atlantis, which I place probably between 100,000 and 10,000 years ago. Atlantis was wiped out by our last great Flood. There were of course many great Floods between Lemuria and Atlantis. But Lemuria - I think I am going to bring it closer to 120,000 years.

So Lemuria was 2 million - 120,000 years - the Paradise, untouched by man, as it were.
Atlantis 100,000 - 10,000 years - wiped out by Flood - this is where all the great Flood stories begin and end
Then Us.

So between Creation and Atlantis - that was Lemuria.

Nothing, undiscovered, pristine. What is Lemuria? Why am I drawn to it all the time? Why? What am I hoping to find every time I read an article about Lemuria? What? What is it that I want the article to tell me? Which it never will?

And so I thought, I am going to create the Lemuria I want - I am going to make it the place that I want it to be. This will be my project for the rest of the year for my writing.

Lemuria was God's - the Gods'? - palace on Earth. Lemuria was where they stayed before they left. Lemuria was named Lemuria because people didn't understand how the lemurs got to Madagascar. There was have been a landbridge they reckoned and this lost continent used to be there - but it has been superseded by plate tectonics. But Lemuria - the place where the magical creatures we all dream of lived.

The mermaids, and the unicorns and the dolphins and the elves and the sprites and salamanders - here was Lemuria. Lemuria was ripped from Timelessness to stand in Time. Extracted from the ether to become and it would never last forever. There are vestiges, vestiges of Lemuria - our memories, our imaginations hold it. That is why I think, it is the last stopping point for our civilisation. And then, there were the creatures of the dark - but maybe it didn't have to be like that.

Then after them, came the Gods - the Gods are Atlantean in our consciousness... or are they? I think they are. But that will be my next step. Listing all the species I identify with Lemuria.