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Titolo: ATLANTIDE a "La macchina del tempo"

 Ciao, Jupiter
Sono d'accordo con te. Forse anche loro tiravano leggermente verso la
teoria di Thera, ma a differenza di Quark hanno parlato molto anche di
tutte le altre ipotesi sulla sua collocazione e hanno dato più spazio alla
mitologia, citando molti passi del dialogo di Platone. Ho comunque notato
un grave errore nel finale del servizio: è stato detto che nell'oceano
Pacifico gli orientali cercano il continente Lemuria.
Lemuria invece è una terra ipotizzata dagli zoologi per giustificare la
somiglianza fra i lemuri dell'India e del Madagascar. Essa sarebbe esistita
molto prima della comparsa dell'uomo sulla terra. I fondatori della
"teosofia" la descrissero come la culla dell'umanità, ma anche per loro era
nell'oceano indiano e, a dir la verità, consisteva in un adattamento da
parte della Blavatsky di alcuni miti orientali che a sua volta la
collocavano in quell'oceano. Al contrario, le terre che si cercano nel
Pacifico sono "Hiva" (la leggendaria terra da cui proverrebbero gli
abitanti dell'isola di Pasqua), "Mu" (l'enigmatico continente reso famoso
da Churchward) e "Pan" (di cui hanno parlato molti veggenti, ma sulla quale
si hanno molti dubbi circa la sua esistenza). 
Saluti da:
Andrea L'Etrusco
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 Lemuria invece è una terra ipotizzata dagli zoologi per giustificare
Hai scritto bene: "ipotizzata". Una volta dimostrata la non necessità
dell'esistenza di "Lemuria", si è appurato quello che è: un "Frankenstein
scientifico".
Leggi infatti qui di seguito
fonte:  
http://www.m-m.org/jz/sphinxcc.html
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LEMURIA, A SCIENTIFIC FRANKENSTEIN
            The concept of Lemuria, like a scientific Frankenstein,
            frequently resurfaces to haunt the European scientists
            who first created it....
            by Paul V. Heinrich
            © Copyright Paul V. Heinrich. Used with permission.
            Lemuria was a hypothesis proposed by geologists and paleontologists
to explain the distribution of lemurs (hence its name) and Permian (250
million-year-old) animal and plant fossils before the theory of plate
tectonics. The original proposed location for Lemuria was in the Indian Ocean
not the Pacific Ocean. It was only after Lemuria was canonized as a lost
civilization, that its location was moved by various mystics to the Pacific
Ocean.
            The Origin of Lemuria
  The concept of Lemuria, like a scientific Frankenstein, frequently resurfaces
to haunt the European
 scientists who first created it. Unknown to many people, the idea of Lemuria
was not created in prehistoric times, but rather by European and American
scientists in the late 1800s as a way of explaining the distribution of rocks,
fossils, and animals in the days before continental drift when continents were
considered immovable and immutable features of the Earth (de Camp 1954).
            The Birth of Lemuria
 The concept of Lemuria was born in the 1860s and 1870s, when a group of
British geologists noted the striking similarity between fossils and
sedimentary strata found in India and South Africa. Geologists like Stow and
Blanford in India and Griesbach in Africa noted that strata of Permian age,
 about (245 to 286 million years ago) in India, South Africa, South America,
and Australia were almost identical in the type of sedimentary rocks, e.g.
numerous coal beds. In addition, these strata on these continents contained the
identical fossils of land plants, e.g. cordaites and "Glossopteris,"and land
animals, e.g. Therapsids. Because such land plants and animals could not have
crossed the open sea and continents were thought to be immobile, these
geologists explained the presence of identical fossil plants and animals on
India, Africa, South America, and Australia by postulating the existence of
land bridges and even whole continents that had long since sunk beneath the
oceans. In one case, they postulated the existence a large land bridge that
once connected India and South Africa. In the "Erdegeschichte" (1887) of
Neumayr, this hypothetical land bridge was called "Indo-Madagascan Peninsula"
(de Camp 1954).
Ernest Heinrich Haekel, a strong advocate of the evolutionary theory of Darwin
like Thomas Huxley, found this proposed land bridge of "Indo-Madagascan
Peninsula" useful in explaining the distribution of animals. Haekel used it to
explain the distribution of lemurs in Africa, India,
 Madagascar, and Malaya Peninsula. He proposed that this hypothetical
land-bridge had stayed above water long enough for it to have served as the
means by which lemurs spread into these areas. The English biologist, Philip L.
Scalter, named this land bridge "Lemuria" because of this hypothesized
 association with lemurs. Thus, Lemuria was neither named nor conceived of or
by prehistoric people, but by geologists and biologists in the 1800s (de Camp
1954). When plate tectonics or some other equally prosaic theories clearly
explained the distribution of strata, fossils, and lemurs, it became clear that
Lemuria and other such continents and land bridges never really existed, e.g.
Wicander and Monroe (1989).
            The Reincarnation of Lemuria
 Lemuria was reincarnated as a lost continent by Madame Blavatsky, the greatest
of the modern occultists. Madame Blavatsky incorporated this concept of
Lemuria, in a confused form, together with Atlantis and a bizarre mixture of
scientific, occult, and Hindu religious material, including the "Rig-Veda," in
her book, "The Secret Doctrine." In this book, Lemuria became a lost continent,
although still in the Indian Ocean, populated by ape-like hermaphroditic
egg-laying creatures. Later writers of occult, lost-continent tales, e.g. Annie
Besant and W. Scott-Elliot, added their own detail and embellishment to the
story of Lemuria, including dinosaurs and 12- to 15-foot bronze humanoids. The
final event in the reincarnation of Lemuria occurred when writers of occult
books moved the location of Lemuria from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
(de Camp 1954). Since then, mystics and psychics have written innumerable books
about Lemuria, and either tuned into the spiritual essence and vibrations, or
channeled for the spirits of long-departed Lemurians who never existed to begin
with.
            When the theory of continental drift was developed, people realized
that it and other more prosaic theories explained the distribution of animals,
fossils, and plants better then lost continents. As a result, Lemuria was
allowed to fade away into obscurity, while eclipsed by more realistic theories
long before there were GEOSAT and SEASAT satellite data to demonstrate the
fictional nature of Lemuria.
For the original story read: de Camp, S. L. "Lost Continents: The Atlantis
Theme in History, Science,
 and Literature." New York: Gnome Press, Inc.,1954.
 Other references: Wicander, R. and Monroe, J. S. "Historical Geology:
Evolution of the Earth and Life Through Time." New York: West Publishing
Company, 1989.
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In ogni caso, se si vuole perdersi in piacevoli fantasticherie, si può andare a
leggere il volumetto di W.Scott-Elliot (W.Williamson) "Storia di Atlantide e
della Lemuria Scomparsa", AdYar Edizioni. Gustose le cartine dell'inesistente
Lemuria!
Un saluto --st@nz--

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