In 1858 a immature animal scientist , playing around with an estimation , came up with a possible bemused continent . This led to one of the prospicient and unearthly pseudoscience theory of all prison term , as Lemuria became a lost island of lemur that had everything from Sanskritic language to sasquatch .
This was thanks to Philip Lutley Sclater , who has plenty of less mad credits to his name . He amassed a assemblage of grand of hiss specimens , which he gave to the British museum . He trace the okapi to western zoologist . He establish The Ibis , a daybook of ornithology . And he fathered a son , who grew to be another respected ornithologist . But in 1858 , when Sclater was in his 20 and all the crazy young kids were come up with tales of landed estate Harry Bridges and lose continents , he take on a study of the fauna of Madagascar . Sclater with strike by the fact that Madascar ’s bionomics was alike not only to Africa but to India as well . Sclater ’s conclusion , drawn from the puzzling similarity , was that both Continent had once been connect by a lose landed estate called Lemuria .
The universe had n’t arrived at the theory of continental drift just yet , but scientists studying the geology , zoology , and botany of different continents had note some links and preternatural coincidences . They arrive up with all kind of potential connection between continent , and Lemuria , a lost continent of lemur , was Sclater ’s donation . He was n’t alone . If he had been , Lemuria would have languish into obscurity ; Ernst Haeckel , a Darwin enthusiast often credit with raise Darwin ’s ideas of natural excerpt in Germany , also came up with the mind of Lemuria . He add together his own spin on it , claiming that Lemurians were not just lemurs , but humans as well . The Lemurians migrated to India as their continent sink , Haeckel claimed , and became the Aryans .
Once Lemuria was connected to a mythical human race , everyone had a theory about it . Helena Blavatsky , noted cult leader and nutbag , claimed that the Lemurians were existent human - sized lemur . They were “ hermaphrodites , ” she say , that regurgitate without intimate sexual relation , until they let on sex , and their iniquity made their continent sink into the sea . masses believe that the Lemurians came up with Sanskrit , that they were telepathic , that they were ineffectual to reason but lived happily by instinct alone . Herbert Spencer Lewis , a member of the Rosicrucians , published a book claiming that the Lemurians were really root of the Maya . ( Though how they got from India and Africa to Central America was anyone ’s guess . ) Furthermore , he believed that the last pure Lemurians lived in mystery on top of Mount Shasta , in California . ( Again , no Bible on their mode of transportation . ) Hikers , he say , sometimes spotted them , as they had long hair and English stress . ( in earnest . These the great unwashed catch around . )
Lemurian legends take form up to this day , and have less and less to do with lemur . Sclater would not approve .
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