Tretya Yuga & Lemuria

   This page will serve as depository for  trivia and commentary regarding the Tretya Yuga [Silver Age] and the continent of Mu, or Lemuria. [E.M.]

*Trivia: "[....] The Tretya Yuga, or Silver Age, came after the breakup of the previous age, when Lemuria, by earthquakes and tidal waves, went down under the seas. [....]" [Based on: Paul Twitchell, The Shariyat-Ki- Sugmad, Book Two, p. 113, Second Edition - 1988]

*Trivia: "[....] These records tell us that the legendary paradise of man, thought of as the Garden of Eden, was laid on the lost continent of Lemuria which was sunk by earthquakes and tidal waves fifty thousand years ago. [....]" [Based on: Paul Twitchell, The Shariyat-Ki- Sugmad, Book Two, Second Edition - 1988, p. 107]

   Considered to be Earth's first great civilization, Mu [Lemuria] would naturally have to be placed in the Golden Age [about 3,891,102 B.C. - 2,163,102 B.C.] in order to fit a popular mythological paradigm of four [Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron] great ages. My dates for these four ages [Yugas] were figured by using 3,102 B.C. as a starting date for Kali Yuga [Iron Age] and subtracting the appropriate fractions from 4,320,000 years to determine the rest. Perhaps most remarkable is the fact that Paul Twitchell appears to suggest at least two dates [separated by nearly 2 million years] for the destruction of Lemuria: roughly 2 million B.C. & 50,000 B.C. What are the reasons for these two dates? Can a continent sink twice? Or, during his research, was Paul Twitchell faced with more than one popular paradigm concerning the beginning of civilization? [E.M.]

*Trivia: "[....] The destruction of the kingdom of Lemuria and all its colonial empire came about by gas pockets under the crust of the earth some hundreds of thousands of years ago. It was a land of the Aryans who spread the empire throughout the world. [....]" [Based on: Paul Twitchell, The Shariyat-Ki- Sugmad, Book Two, seventh printing, 1982, p. 97 & eighth printing, 1986, p. 97 ]

*Trivia: "[....] The destruction of the kingdom of Lemuria and all its colonial empire came about by gas pockets under the crust of the earth that formed some hundreds of thousands of years ago. [....]" [Based on: Paul Twitchell, The Shariyat-Ki- Sugmad, Book Two, Second Edition - 1988, p. 112]

*Note: "Paul Twitchell died in September, 1971." [E.M.]

   The foregoing two sections of text are not entirely the same. The newer edition [1988] contains the words that formed. To me [at least for now], this appears to suggest that [hundreds of thousands of years ago] gas pockets were formed under the crust of the earth. The older version of this text [1982 & 1986], however, appears to suggest that it was the destruction of Lemuria that happened hundreds of thousands of years ago. [E.M.]
   
   Col. James Churchward suggests a starting date for Mu [Lemuria] at about 200,000 B.C. He bases this date, allegedly, on ancient Nacaal tablets. According to the position of certain stars recorded on those tablets [according, that is, to the conclusion of certain astronomers], he thus determines the date. On the other hand, the final destruction of Mu, according to Churchward, appears to have taken place between 10,000 & 11,000 years B.C." [E.M.]

   So, here we have a case of popular apparent history for one of the oldest recorded civilizations on earth. One that, according to such history, sank beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean anywhere from 2 million to 10,000 years B.C.
   Even more astonishing, perhaps, is the classic church story about how the Garden of Eden and the beginning of the world began at just around 4,000 B.C. Only in the last two hundred years have other older dates for creation really begun to gain public attention. Writers contemporary with the 20th and 21st centuries are currently engaged with promoting dates of between ten and fifteen thousand years B.C. for the Biblical flood; not to mention the beginning of man on earth - which probably goes back even further.
   Obviously, a paradigm shift has been taking place for a number of years. A real "hall of mirrors" that "seems to matter". [E.M.]