Talk:Kumari Kandam

message: I've just redirected Kumari kandam (lowercase) here. It contained the same barely legible and at times incoherent text inserted here by , which I've also reverted. If someone more patient and knowledgeable is able to extract additional information from that, feel free to check the history. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 15:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirection

message: I made some minor modifications in this page today. Very, very little is really known about the legend and lots of additions have been made over the millennia, but I think I have managed to modify or add a bit to what was here before.
--Anup Ramakrishnan 16:56, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor edits

message: I have removed the reference to tamilguardian.co.uk. This was a literal hoax by the 'great' Graham Hancock and the single irregular, shapeless structure off the coast of Poompuhar has been proven to be a natural rock formation by conventional oceanographers more than three years back. Numerous such structures have been found all over Asia, Africa, Europe and North America at similar and even greater depths.
Anup Ramakrishnan 01:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hoax removal

message: This is obviously racism. It is a known fact that there have been great tsunamis in the past that have sunk parts of the region. It is thought that a part of Sri Lanka has been submerged by two tsunamis. Similarly parts of India might have submerged as well. But understand that India and Sri Lanka separated many millenniums ago. By hiding it under your mythical land means that Thamilnadu has found a new way of creating a new reason for separating from India and also invading Sri Lanka. It is thought that Maha Meru is situated in Afganistan. All languages on earth were merely corrupted Tamil dialects? JUST BE REALISTIC. (Written with the signatures of "Hiranya kasup 20:11, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, take a long and deep break. Don't forget, we're all conspiring against you here ... ;-) --Kavaiyan   <°)))o>< 23:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

text: PS. You really shouldn't rework your texts in user discussions as if it were Tamil history ... Pun intended. And please don't delete your signatures, that's also not nice. Once more ;-) --Kavaiyan   <°)))o>< 21:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conspiracy 

message: South of the World was very important because there did live people who did build great civilization and contributed to bring their knowledge in the upper parts of the world. The most mysterious name that comes in mind is Atlantis (Atlan Island).
ATLANTIS which the whole world was looking for so long is the Land of Atlan or Atlas, the Sun Land that was located in the South Asia. Which big island is still in that part of the world now?
AUSTRALIA. There is even the name Atlas (inside it) still.There were many islands around the big Island. Some of them are still around now. From that beautiful part of the World the Paradise Civilization has moved and rebuild in many other parts of the world like Asia, Africa, Europe, and Americas. For that we have so many similarities in all the old civilizations that were build to copy the Highest Civilization of the Golden Age which was in Atlantis. For that many people have planted in their mind the Lost Paradise idea. But we are not that lost. Atlantis lives and we find it still in the remains of the Southernlands; Australia, New Zeland and many islands around it as far as the Pacific Ocean. After the Natural Destraction maany of the Atlantians were relocated. That is the reason that the Atlantian "models" did show later everywhere in Europe, Americas, Asia and Africa. India and Somalia, Iran and Egypt, Greece and Italy is the main direction of these  great people (superhumans)who did move from the Lost South Civilization to other lands where they created new civilizations. There were other direction of their move up to Asia and Americas. This red, olive skin people did contact with other white, yellow and black race people and they did changed them and their life.
But after many years pass and many of the people of the Sunland did forget their past. But never they lost their contact with the Southern World.
Did Phonicians and Egyptians later go to Atlantis; Autralia and other islands? Yes they did and not just them but everyone who still knew where has come from or knew that there was a big island somewhere in the south. And they did go there and visit from different directions, from the Mediterain sea, passing around Africa or direct from the Dead sea and Asia.
Australia was the land of the Giants too and this round continet was called Sunland.
Its red skin people did mixed with Asians and Africans and Europeans to come back again one day as a mixed race to the Land where the Golden Age's knowledge has come from.
:Sure. I never believed in stuff like that, but your arguments have changed my heart. Count me a believer now. -- 134.95.5.107 19:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on Atlantis moved here from article page 

message: Please correct this statement. Also footnotes/refs are only pointing to Cilappatikaram and Manimekalai which are post-Sangam.
Cilappatikram mentions "kumarik kOTu" where kOTu is taken to be "mountain" by one medieval commentator and "banks"  by another.
The editors should trace the origin of the phrase "kumarik kaNDam" to other sources. perichandra1 19:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sangam literature does not mention Kumari kandam 

message: The Maldive Islands were a lot more substantial during the last Ice Age when see levels were 300ft lower than they are today, and maybe the Chagos too. It is a myth of course, but could these islands have formed the basis for that myth? best, 194.80.106.135 (talk) 12:57, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Maldives?

message: sorry to be out of turn... but should there be a reference to it showing up on popular culture or whatever?
its on an episode of Secret Saturdays, which does all sort of legends and stuff.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.24.218.143 (talk) 01:37, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular reference 

message: Some user has changed all references to Tamil to Telegu. This is despicable. Please do not vandalize wikipedia. The IP was 76.99.239.156 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.22.193 (talk) 17:47, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I don't find Kavatam as a unit of distance anywhere.  Is there another spelling?  How long is a Kavatam? Thanks.
99.9.112.31 (talk) 20:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See   No one knows how long it was meant to be. Dougweller (talk) 20:21, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

text: And thank you for bringing it to our attention. Yep, looks like a good book, we probably should use it more. Dougweller (talk) 06:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kavatams 

message: A short account on Tamil and (Tamil literary) history by C. V. Narasimhan
That's a broken link.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.9.112.31 (talk) 01:06, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken links 

message: It seems to me that there is a connection between Kumari kandam and the home of the pitrs, which is mentioned in the Mahabharata located at the south. In the story of Savitri and Satyavan Yama went with Satyavan to the south and later it is stated he went to the region of the Fathers (which means the Pitrs). Therefore the home of the Pitrs must have been located in the south from India. Also the story of the Boar Avatar of Vishnu shows, that the balls of mud, Vishnu as the boar was shaking from his tusk, meant the Pitrs, which were according to that story falling to the south. That last story explained the Pitrs to have been arisen at the big flood, which was also mentioned in the Puranas. This flood must (because of the yuga counting and other reasons) be the flood which is also mentioned in the Gilgamesh-Epic, which is dated in the Old Babylonian Kinglist at about 33.000 BCE (according to another source at about 36.000 BCE). This land in the south of India must therefore be the home of Manu and his brother Yama (the iranian Yima) and therefore the home of the vedic people (so called Aryans), because from there Manu must have come by ship as surviver of the flood. So in my opinion it is highly probable, that this land in the south means Kumari Kandam.
All This is of course OR, but I think, it would be important especially for indian people because it's about their history.--87.152.225.78 (talk) 08:53, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kummari Kandam Home of the ancients that became the pitrs 

message: I'm thinking that WP:DUCK should probably apply to these claims. It's self-evident that the languages cited are not identical to Tamil considering that this involves at minimum four distinct language families (Dravidian, Australian, Niger Congo and Austronesian). I didn't delete it without discussion on the first round because of the three references jammed onto it but, come on, seriously, it's nonsense. Simonm223 (talk) 15:15, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages Claim 

message: The image (a scanned map) has been deleted at Commons as copyvio. Thanks to User:172.9.22.150 for spotting this. Dougweller (talk) 16:52, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Ancientlemuria.jpg]] (the map) 

message: This book by geologist Ted Nield has some interesting material. pages 45-46. Doug Weller talk 13:00, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet 

message: It seems that this proposed source is only about potential authorization to allow a proponent to eventually explore the waters and is from last year...  It doesn't highlight any current research details or critically evaluate the context.  It might perhaps be an argument for Balu's notability at the BLP article.  —PaleoNeonate – 16:59, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orissa Balu