#thecupsmith

So there's this idea in modern occultism called Lemuria which is often treated as this lost advanced civilization that (depending on the telling) was equal to/at war with/proceeded/descended from Atlantis and some people to claim they are part Lemurian, a reincarnated Lemurian, or have Lemurian knowledge.

But the thing is, the concept of Lemuria started out as a legitimate 19th century scientific theory trying to explain why there are lemurs in both India and Madagascar. The idea was there was once a land mass connecting the two, the lemurs crossed it, then the land mass drifted away or sunk and became lost (they didn't fully understand tectonic plates at the time). The occultists just took the name and the idea of a "lost land" and made up the rest.