Madagascar is Lemuria
Destroyed Lemuria
The legendary Hindu kingdoms of Lanka, Mu,
Lemuria, and Atlantis are supposed to have sunk
under the sea due to some great cataclysm. Yet,
Lemuria is still very much alive and well: "Land of
Lemurs" is none other than Madagascar. Up until the
Portuguese "discovered" Madagascar in the 16th
century, ancient mariners were still calling it
Lemuria.
According to Hindu mythology, the country we
now call Sri Lanka or Ceylon was much larger than it is
now. It stretched all the way from the Southern tip of
India across the Indian Ocean, as far as what is now
Madagascar. It was also supposed to include the
Malayan archipelago. Ancient Sri Lanka or Ceylon
had several names: Simhala Dvipa (Island of Lions);
Lanka Dvipa (Island of Jewels?); Kashi-Dvipa (Island
of Bharata or India); Mala-Dvipa (Island of the
barbarous Mala people). The ancient Greeks and
Phoenicians called Ceylon, Taprabane. The Sanskrit
word "Dvipa" means "Island; Peninsula; Sandbank."
Indian legends and mythological sources state
that about 2400 BC, a series of powerful earthquakes
and other natural disasters caused most of the strings
of large and small islands east and west of India to
sink under water, leaving Madagascar Island, the
Malayan Archipelago, and the Americas separated
from the parent country by large stretches of open sea.
Scientists are puzzled that the gene pool of humans,
flora, and fauna in Madagscar and Malaya have
more in common with India than they do with
Africa and other parts of the Far East. Even now,
the ocean is washing away the thousands of low-lying
Maldive islands comprising the Maldive Republic, near
Sri Lanka. Notice the similarity of the word Maldive to
"Mala-Dvipa". Scientists say that by 2050 AD, the
Maldive Republic will sink under the water, never to
rise again.
According to Hindu mythology, Kubera (the
Phoenicians and their merchant marine guards, the
Yuddhis or Juddhis), exiled many of the most warlike
and barbarous North Indian tribes to Lanka and Atala
or Patala (The Americas). The name of Madagascar
and its people, the Malagasy, indicate that this is true.
Madagascar derives from the Sanskrit Mahada-
Kashi-Kara, meaning "Great Indian Prison." The
Malagasy also call their large island Nation, Gasi-
Kara. It surely derives from Kashi-Kara (Indian
Prison). The word Malagasy appears to derive from
Mala-Kashi or "The Indian Tribe of Mala."
This word Kara (Prison) also explains the
presence of the Carib Indians in the Americas, for the
word Karavasa means "prisoner." The legends of the
Caribs state that their ancestors were brought under
guard to what are now the Caribbean islands and
Eastern South America. The Creator God of the
Tainos or Arawaks was Kuru-Rumani (North Indian
Rama Tribes). See the 17th Century Spanish Priest
Gregorio García's book, El Orígen de Los Indios.
I've seen this word "Kara" in Mexican place names,
also. Everything checks out as far as I'm concerned.
Gene D. Matlock
February 05, 2004 06:18PM
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The Moslems, Not the Indian Ocean,
[On the] so-called mystery of Lemuria or
Madagascar: it is a historical lie that it went under
water with the rest of Lanka and Atlantis. According to
the ancient legends of the people of Madagascar
(whom I will call by their old epithet of Lemurians), this
island was first settled by a race of White pygmies
called Vasimba. This word derives from the Sanskrit
compound word, Vah-Simha, meaning "Lion
Navigators." In Sanskrit, Vah and Vodham/Votan mean
"Navigator" or "driver of boats or wagons." The word
"Simha" is used to refer to brave conquerors. In this
case, it probably means conquerors from Ceylon. They
were probably the ancient Veddhas, for they were
known to be a short people.
Later on, other tribes from India came in,
principally the Mer-ina. This Sanskrit term means
"Lords, Masters, Kings" Of Meru. At first, the Merina
settled in the coastal areas, making of Lemuria one of
the greatest maritime civilizations in the ancient world.
When Lanka and Atlantis went under water, Lemuria
survived. It continued to be a great maritime nation,
trading with all the other nations in the Pacific and
Asia, until the Moslems arrived in the 9th Century
AD. Not only did they come in with their Islamic
religion, but they brought in thousands of Islamized
African slaves who rapidly took control of the
northern and central highlands. The Moslems also
succeeded in destroying the high maritime culture
of the Merina of Lemuria, probably even destroying
all their written literature, for the ancient Merina
were a highly civilized people, deriving their
culture directly from India.
Refusing to mingle with the Arab and African
invaders and not wanting to become Moslems, the
Merinas abandoned their cities and seaports, re-
establishing themselves in the highland regions. In
1500, the Portuguese "discovered" Lemuria or
Madagascar.
There is much more I can say about this.
Lemuria's civilization didn't drown under the waves of
the Indian Ocean. It was destroyed by the invading
Moslems in the 9th Century A.D.
Gene D. Matlock
February 06, 2004 03:46AM
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The ancient Hindu mariner-traders, the Yadavas
or Panis (Hindu Phoenicians), tried to recover their
hegemony over Asia's oceans in the 10th or 11th
century A.D. The word Yadava, derived from Yadu-
Vah, means "Water Transporter." Many people don't
realize that Indonesia, being Hindu in those days,
was part of India itself. Even today, India is just a
collection of Hindu nations, not a single nation as
we of the West mistakenly believe. India can be
compared with Europe. Not all the Europeans are
English, Germans, and the like.
Supposedly, when the Arabs took Madagascar
and Eastern Africa for themselves, the old Arab texts
say that the Yadavas brought in no less than 1000
ships to defend their maritime trading hegemony over
East Africa and Madagascar, just as they had also
done in India. But the Moslems defeated them once
and for all, both in East Africa and the western side of
the Indian subcontinent, thus making Madagascar or
Lemuria the stuff of which myths are made. All India's
trade with Egypt and the rest of the world came to an
abrupt end.
Madagascar is another "lost civilization"
which must be brought to light.
Gene D. Matlock
February 08, 2004 07:51PM
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(Comments)
There has been some recent archeaological finds
of note on Madagascar, including some very old
fossils. I also recall from another book or article about
the possible existence years ago of a Pacific version of
Atlantis and that it possibly was the southern land
bridge that helped populate central and south America.
Maybe that is the Lemuria that is referred to in the
ancient texts, because it does appear that India,
Madagascar and possibly Australia and Antartica
where at one time together as one big continent
before the split up.
I'm thinking there was a huge comet impact
somewhere in the Pacific or Indian Ocean that caused
tremendous damage to the point of seeing
Madagascar which used to be connected to India,as
far west as you see it and India being forced up into
asia due to plate tectonics. That is why you see the
highest mountians in the world in Nepal, India is quite
literally being sunken under the Asia plates, creating a
lift on those mountains.Something would have to
account for the force needed to generate continental
movement to that magnitude in order for the collision of
India and Asia to take place and to why Madagascar
was thrown off to the west, Antartic to the south, and
Australia to the east.
Joseph
February 05, 2004 06:18PM
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The Chinese have written about Madagascar
since 763 AD. It was described at great length by
Chou Chu-Fei in 1168 AD. It has always been known
to them as Khun Lun Tsheng.
Paoputzu
February 05, 2004 09:27PM
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