Leumira: The Lost Continent of the Pacific

The book was first published in 1939. It has two copyright dates later than that but there is no indication there was any revision in the book itself. There have been many changes in scientific knowledge since then, of course, but the book does not reflect any of these changes. Thus it has rather a few errors in it.

One thing it does get right is the idea that some people in Oceanic Pacific areas did find a way to migrate to the North and South America. Also they got right the idea that part of North America was also at once time covered by a sea.

He says that Lemuria was located in the Southern Pacific ocean with the western edge touching Asia and the Eastern edge touching North America.

So, on to some of the errors:

Intelligent races developed in mild and cold climates and less intelligent races in hot climates. (Racism, anyone?)

North Americans are the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel (although later in the book it says that they are descendants of Lemurians.)

Many Pacific islands are remnants of Lemuria.

The Mayans are descendants of the Lemurians.

Lemuria was the cradle of the human race. (Not Africa.)

Lemurians started establishing colonies 80,000 years ago. (There is no evidence in either America that humans existed there that long ago. Maybe around a fourth of that time ago but not later.)

Humans are not descended from lower life forms.

Dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time.

Earthquakes are caused by disruptive discharges of electicity through the strata. (No continental drift, no tectonic plates, etc.)

Other interesting things from the book:

For an 'advanced' civilization I find it odd that many of their homes had thatched roofs.

Also odd is that Lemurians had bigger heads and longer arms than present-day humans.

He also claims they could sense things in the 4th dimension.

They had a communistic society and there was no divorce. They also used colar energy. They did not care for plays or movies.

Egypt is the origin of secret fraternities.

There are some odd things near Mt. Shasta including strange lights, domes and a whole group of white-robed people.

Summary thoughts: There is little reason in publishing a book like this that has so many errors an false assumptions unless you make it clear it is being published as a historical oddity. There should have been a section correcting the mistakes and talk about scientific advances sine 1939.


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