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nobodys-saviour · 2 months

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Lemuria: in game, and how it compares in real life

In-game:

The Lemuria of the game is a lost civilisation that's incredibly high tech. If one remembers their lost continent theories, it sounds a lot like Atlantis. It is also the underwater country housing mermaids and the sea god, in particular. In 2034, evidence of its ruins emerged, but that's about all we know of it.

Now, what is Lemuria in real life?

Origin of Lemuria

Lemuria was a name coined by Philip L. Sclater, a British ornithologist. On his essay "The Mammals of Madagascar," which appeared in "The Quarterly Journal of Science", he wondered how a lot of lemur [1] fossils in Madagascar and India, but not in Africa or the Middle East. That is when he proposed the Lemuria: a lost continent that connected Madagascar to elsewhere in the world. [2] ([1]Nowadays we know Africa and India doesn't even have true lemurs, but that was not the case before. [2] However, Sclater was correct in saying that India and Madagascar were once part of a larger continent.)

Origin of Mankind

Ernst Haeckel, a Darwinian taxonomist, wrote the book Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (History of Creation). In there, he postulates Lemuria as the cradle of humanity. "The probable primeval home or "Paradise" is here assumed to be Lemuria, a tropical continent at present lying below the level of the Indian Ocean, the former existence of which in the tertiary period seems very probable from numerous facts in animal and vegetable geography. But it is also very possible that the hypothetical "cradle of the human race" lay further to the east (in Hindostan or Further India), or further to the west (in eastern Africa)."

Philosophy and Spiritualism

Madame Blavatsky, occultist and co-founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote and published "The Secret Doctrine." In it, she claimed that the continent was the homeland of the human ancestors, whom she called Lemurians.

Land of Mu

From there, the concept of Lemuria was developed in detail by James Churchward, a British writer, inventor, engineer, and fisherman. He referred to Lemuria as Mu (stealing it from Augustus Le Plongeon, who uses it to refer to Atlantis) and identified it as a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, instead of the initial place in the Indian Ocean.

#i should be doing my dissertation instead of this but fuck it we ball yk #love and deepspace #this is all just surface level stuff i don't wanna delve into it

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retrosofa · 2 months

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I have some little tidbits to share about Cutie Honey episode 20: “The Lost City of Legend." Check it out below!

Screenwriter: Susumu Takaku

Art Director: Eiji Ito

Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara

Director: Hiroshi Shidara

Augustus Le Plongeon introduced his idea of a lost continent called "Mu" after investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. You can read more about it here.

According to the 1974 January issue of TV Magazine, Honey really loves anmitsu and chocolate.

Anmitsu is a traditional Japanese cold jelly dessert, topped with fruits, dango, bean paste, ice cream and a dark colored syrup. Considering how much Honey enjoys chocolate, it’s not surprising she would be carrying around a bar of it during her travels. That being said, she shouldn’t have given chocolate to those baby monkeys. It’s not good for them!

The design for Crocodile Claw appears to be inspired by Ogon Bat. Ogon Bat was a superhero created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu back in the 1930’s. This Japanese superhero made his debut in kamishibai, a type of street storytelling, in which a narrator tells a story with occupying images. Despite being a superhero, Ogon Bat evokes a very ghoulish appearance with his skull-like face and a Dracula-like cloak.

Honey transforms herself into a female version of Tarzan, known as Onna Tarzan or “Lady Tarzan.” Eiko Masuyama even does her own imitation of Johnny Weissmuller’s famous “Tarzan yell.”

Go Nagai has included female versions of Tarzan in a few of his works, including his extremely raunchy manga, Kekko Kamen.

There are at least two different versions of this episode: one where the Cutie Honey logo appears during a scene transition (after the Hayami guys ogle Honey in her Tarzan outfit) and one where it doesn't. The logo-less version has appeared on early home video releases and even the French dub. The version with the logo appears on the 2004 DVD remaster.

#cutie honey #cutey honey #go nagai #trivia

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laurazukerman-blog · 5 months

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The Motherland Of MU

Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the “Land of Mu” with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lumeria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. Historical legends from around the planet speak of Mu and Atlantis. Completely destroyed by…

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gidmeksika · 1 year

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Les muestro un poco de nuestro trabajo, Chac Mool de Chichen Itza, está pieza estuvo cerca de ser vendida fuera del país por su descubridor Augustus Le Plongeon quién la descubrió en 1875 y fue él quien le dió nombre a éstas esculturas. Reproducción en fibra de vidrio con acabado de pigmentos naturales. #gidmeksika #gidcancun #cancun #mexico #chichenitza #xcaret #xcaretmexico #exploer #xelha #tulum #coba #akumal #crococunparque #parquecrococun #selestun #yucatan #uxmal #museochocolate #yaxcopoil #ekbalam #riolagartos #valladolid +529982028300 (at Chichén-Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVe2CXv-BQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ancientorigins · 7 years

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A Rogue Archaeologist, Atlantis, and the Chac-Mool

Pouring through symbols and heiroglyphs of the Mayan culture, the late-19th century photographer and Freemason, Le Plongeon was on the verge of an amazing discovery. He unearthed a god at Chichen Itza, sparking many questions. Guest author Cliff Dunning examines the statue of Chac-Mool, and it’s startling connections.

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myteknodinamik · 3 years

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Kayıp Kıta Hakkında Bilinmeyenler Kayıp Kıta(MU) varlığı, ilk kez 19. Yy’ da gezgin ve yazar olan Augustus Le Plongeon tarafından savunulmuştur. Kayıp kıta Augustus Le Plongeon’a göre, Büyük Okyanus’ta bulunuyor. Ayrıca bu esrarengiz kıtanın 14 bin yıl öncede batarak kayıplara karıştığı da söylentiler arasında yer alıyor. Günümüzdeyse bilim adamları tarafından son derece önemli ve efsanevi görülüyor. Devamı İçin Kaynagı Tıklayın

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cansomebodytellmewhatsgoingon · 4 years

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me: hey uh what’s that lost continent’s name again? the one used as an alternate naming for Atlantis? some dude named Augustus Le Plongeon first used it?

cow: moo

me: oh right thanks my guy

#mu #funny #tumblr memes #memes #funny memes

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ebonetnoir · 4 years

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BUY ON ETSY

Here and There in Yucatan. Miscellanies. by Alice D. Le Plongeon ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION SCARCE VICTORIAN PAPERBACK Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851–1910) was an English photographer, amateur archeologist, traveler, and author. She was one of the first people to excavate and study the ancient Maya sites of Chicén Itzá and Uxmal. Alice and her husband Augustus Le Pongeon studied the murals and statues at Chicen Itza and developed theories about the past Maya rulers and the influence of the Maya. They pieced together a narrative of an ancient Maya ruler named Queen Moo (from the Maya word for macaw) and her brother and consort Prince Coh, sometimes called Prince Chaacmol (named for the Maya words chaac and mol, meaning powerful warrior). Throughout their careers, the Le Plongeons would expand on their theories. Eventually, they came to believe the ancient Maya had helped found ancient Egyptian civilization as well as the lost civilization of Atlantis. In November 1875 the Le Plongeons unearthed a large statue from near the Platform of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chicen Itza. The statue was of a reclining man and the Le Plongeons believed it was a representation of Prince Chaacmol. So, the statue was named Chacmool and was lauded by the American Geographical Society as a great archeological find. Other artifacts were found near the statue including flint, ceramic pieces, and a piece of jadeite that Augustus had set in a gold brooch. Alice would keep and wear this talisman for the rest of her life. Publisher: John W. Lovell Company, New York Copyright: 1889 CONDITION: This book is in fair condition. Softcover. Victorian-era paperbacks are hard to find and are rarely seen in excellent condition. This first edition of Mrs. Le Pongeon's travels, anecdotes, and photos of the Yucatan toward the end of the 19th Century is invaluable for any enthusiast or researcher of Mayan culture and the Yucatan peninsula as a whole. Many of the pages of this book are still uncut. The cover is worn along edges and corners with some foxing and water staining. The pages also bear evidence of moisture, but the text and photographs are crisp and clean. Topics include Mayan idolatry, Mayan fables, Mayan romance, Mayan superstitions, and much more. This book is illustrated with the author's photographs.

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Is Jamir based off of a historic continent or city?

Hi! It’s a mix of things.

Shion, Mu and Kiki are called “Lemurians”, a group of people with highly developed psychic abilities. “Lemuria” was a hypothetical lost/sunken continent that connected Madagascar and India, suggested by Philip Sclater in 1864 to explain why there were lemurs (the animals) in both places, but not in other close areas like continental Africa.

Mu was another hypothetical lost continent, suggested by Augustus Le Plongeon in the 19th Century. It sunk or was destroyed, and the people who fled from this disaster would be the ancestors of Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Mayas.

There is no geological evidence of either of them existing, but its a convenient and mysterious way to explain why these 3 characters have superhuman abilities, and a distinctive way of shaping their eyebrows (yes, they are eyebrows, not painted dots).

#anon #ask

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callistolivia · 6 years

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Asteroids; Part 2 - Isis, Cont’d Osiris, and the Asteroid Ceres

“The primogenial Phrygians call me Pessinuntica, the mother of the Gods; the Attic Aborigines, Cecropian Minerva, the floating Cyprians, Paphian Venus; arrow-bearing Cretans, Diana Dictynna, the three-tongued Sicilians, Styans, the ancient Goddess Ceres. Some also call me Juno, others Bellona, others Hecate, and others Rhamnusia. And those who are illuminated by the incipient rays of that divinity the Sun, when he rises, viz. The Ethiopians, the Arii, and the Egyptians skilled in ancient learning, worshipping me by ceremonies perfectly appropriate, call me by my true name, Queen Isis.”

The above quote is by Apuleius the author of The Golden Ass which describes the many different parallels of the Goddess Isis. This concludes that all of these Goddesses are virtually the same, came from the same primal energy, and are just different divisions of it. Archeologists believe there are even earlier forms of this energy depicted in Mayan civilizations as Queen Moo said to have fled for Atlantis after the murder of her husband only to discover Atlantis had fallen so in turn she goes to Egypt. Archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon claims she created the sphinx statue to honor her husband which is quite interesting because in recently released studies, other archaeologists have uncovered that the sphinx is a lot older than we thought it was and that the human face was possibly added later on. When it was speculated to be built also meant it was facing, at the time, the constellation Leo. I mention this in this seemingly off-topic tangent because I want to stress the importance of how aware these ancient civilizations were aware of the cosmos; and then we also see earlier depictions of Isis in Sumerian civilizations as Ninhursag. Both Mayan and Sumerian depictions also have an Osiris equivalent (Prince Coh and Enki) and in Sumerian mythology there is a very clear Typhon equivalent (Enlil, god of wind, air, earth, and storms) who’s motives were similar in such ways where he tried to prevent truth and knowledge to humans (similarly Manly P. Hall in his book, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, describes Typhon’s motives as "the deadly enemies of understanding and truth” [124]). Also... Is it just me or is it ironic that Typhon is one letter off of Typhoon and Enlil is the god of winds and storms...? Anyway, If you haven’t read part 1, it mostly covered the mythology of Osiris as I tried to decipher Osiris’ vibration through the descriptions of himself and his death having correlation to the missing planet that is now our asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. I have concluded distinct themes of maternal energy from Osiris; said to have been born under the sign Cancer and symbolized solar energy that was passive and receptive; mythologically, the Sumerian equivalent, Enki is the God of water (symbolism for both fertility and the same water of knowledge that we see depicted in Aquarius), knowledge (Aquarius, the water bearer), and creation (solar, Leo). And then we have Osiris’ death taking place under the sign Scorpio and his genitalia being reconstructed in gold (Leo) honored by Isis. Understanding the rulership of the events described helps decode the themes of the planets. So with that said, I will transition into Isis briefly, the reflection of all the feminine asteroids named after goddesses. I also chose to focus on Isis because as Apuleius writes, “the Egyptians skilled in ancient learning,” he is very right about that. So Isis may just be another face to a primal force, but we knew the Egyptians were exceptional in understanding these forces. Isis in essence represents the mother, a bearer of light (knowledge), devotion, authority, and the virgin. To truly begin my asteroid study, we will move into Ceres and begin piecing things together.

Ceres

When we think of the Mother archetype, we tend to think of Cancer first and forget that the Moon exalts in Taurus; the most maternal position for the Moon. The Cow and the Bull have been very important symbols of fertility, maternal protection, nutrients, and agriculture in many cultures and ancient civilizations. Along with being depicted as pregnant, Isis is sometimes portrayed also with a cow’s head along with many of her other parallels. She is also sometimes depicted accompanied by a bull which symbolized Osiris as Taurus. In The Secret Teachings of All Ages, P. Hall says that to the Egyptians, the Bull was a beast of burden and that “the presence of the animal was a reminder of the labors patiently performed by Nature that all creatures may have life and health.” [131] So with that said, it is also important to mention the sacred designation of Taurus to Osiris. Osiris as Taurus symbolizes the sacred vehicle (the material body) in which is liberated by death and reincarnates again (Scorpio). In Asteroid Goddesses, George and Bloch designates Ceres to the polarity of Taurus and Scorpio. I believe this is quite fitting, except George and Bloch’s reasoning correlates to the mythological story of Persephone’s abduction. I’m skeptical of that reasoning because the authors make a connection to joint custody issues when this asteroid is present with Pluto along with other very specific connections (things that give me that knot in my stomach that I mentioned in part 1...). This could be true, but the mythological story behind Persephone’s abduction isn’t a primal enough explanation for the asteroid in my opinion which is why I’ve focused elsewhere on Egyptian mythology and other ancient civilizations. Based on what I’ve discussed so far of Osiris and Isis, the Sun and the Moon, the Ancient Bulls, I’ve concluded Ceres symbolizes the labors of life specifically correlating to the process of pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, and health. I think its important to note that this isn’t exclusively motherhood either because Osiris’ important connection to Taurus. It will denote the loyal, dependent, patient father when it makes a harmonious appearance in a male’s natal chart. In synastry, it will denote the journey a couple makes through honoring each other’s ability of creation, family planning, and childbirth.

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#astrology #ceres #isis #osiris #mythology #asteroids #taurus #scorpio #sumerian #mayan #egyptian

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graywyvern · 3 years

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"Does a dog have a Buddha-nature or not?"

setting aside for the moment questions of what's repairable autumn in rubicund raiment clasps wakened & deplorable

there ouight to be a refrain but there isn't

my career downfall-adjacent describes line: palace to dustbin army of many small worms takes battlefield-glut for Eden

there seems to be a burden but only seems

questions of what's now fixable distract from the grief of loss orange & russet bricks assemble the merely possible

there mught just be some elixir says six-time flagrant Styx-crosser...

"Life stories have three things going for them when it comes to making experience intelligible. They’re selective, highlighting particular agents, settings and episodes out of the mass of material that life provides. They’re also unifying, drawing connections between their disparate parts and situating them in context. And they’re isomorphic: they share deep structural and thematic features with other stories, which we use as a shortcut when interpreting them."

i cannot effect learning this distinction if its only effect is a contemptuous snort which affects no one else like it does me.

"The term was introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who used the 'Land of Mu' as an alternative name for Atlantis. It was subsequently popularized as an alternative term for the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction."

Doctor's appointment today. From "Palindrome Road" (Renner) first there's Wyndham & then Wyngate. ᚹ -- 'wynn'-- being a rune for 'joy' or 'bliss'. The hospital & the doctor's office are both on Wyngate.

"In general, na'i indicates that there is something wrong with a piece of discourse: either an error, or a false underlying assumption, or something else of the sort."

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funmedia101 · 3 years

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Mu is a legendary lost continent. The term was introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who used the "Land of Mu" as an alternative name for Atlantis. It was subsequently popularized as an alternative term for the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction.[1] Archaeologists assign assertions about Mu to the category of pseudoarchaeology. The place of Mu in literature has been discussed in detail in Lost Continents (1954) by L. Sprague de Camp.

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miluskablog · 3 years

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PIRÁMIDE DE CHINCHA ITZA

DESCUBRIDOR:

📍En el año 1875, Chichén Itzá fue descubierto tras siglos de estar oculto en la selva, entre la densa vegetación. Aunque existen crónicas que ya hablan de la ciudad maya en 1528, fue la que expedición de Augustus Le Plongeon la primera en realizar una excavación arqueológica.

UBICACIÓN:

📍Chichén Itzá está localizada al oriente de Yucatán, por la carretera a Cancún, a 120 km de Mérida(México🇲🇽)

¡VIVA MÉXICO 🇲🇽❤️!

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neverwasmag · 6 years

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Cities lost to time and half-remembered civilizations, discovered deep in the mountains of the Himalayas, the Amazonian rainforest or at the bottom of the sea, are a familiar trope in steam- and dieselpunk fiction.

Drawing on the expeditions of Percy H. Fawcett and Heinrich Schliemann, the writings of James Churchward and Theodore Illion and the esotericism of Helena Blavatsky, W. Scott-Elliot and Rudolph Steiner, both genres exploit the half-real and fully imagined tales of ancient races that supposedly roamed the Earth millennia ago.

James Churchward’s map of the lost continent of Mu

James Churchward, a British-born Sri Lankan tea planter, claimed in his 1926 book The Lost Continent of Mu, Motherland of Man to have learned of an ancient Pacific civilization from an Indian priest, who taught him the language of the Naacal: a people who, according to French explorer Augustus Le Plongeon, lived in the Pacific tens of thousands of years ago.

Translating ancient tablet inscriptions, Churchward uncovered the history of Mu, the homeland of the Naacal people: a vast continent in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the Marianas in the east to Easter Island in the west and Hawaii in the north to the Cook Islands in the south.

When volcanic eruptions sunk the once-flourishing civilization, the people of Mu spread out across the world. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Central America and India all trace their origins to Mu, according to Churchward.

Like so many lost worlds, Mu was, in Churchward’s telling, a land of plenty. Tropical weather, beautiful plains and valleys, slow-running streams and rivers, “shallow lakes bejewelled with sacred lotus flowers in emerald green settings” and “tiny hummingbirds, glistening like living jewels in the rays of the sun.”

Another trope we’ll find in later ancient-civilization myths: the white man descending from Mu’s priestly, patrician class. According to Churchward, Mu’s darker-skinned inhabitants knew their place in the racial hierarchy. I’m afraid this won’t be the last time white men glean the origins of their “master race” from ancient Asiatic wisdom.

Mu appears in several Japanese cartoons and video games, Marvel Comics and H.P. Lovecraft’s story short, “Out of the Aeons” (1935).

Lemuria

Amazing Stories (June 1945)

Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria

Another sunken continent, this one in the Indian Ocean. Nineteenth-century zoologists postulated Lemuria’s existence to account for fossils found in India and Madagascar but not in Africa and the Middle East. Their theory has been superseded by plate tectonics. India and Madagascar were once part of the same landmass (Gondwana), but it broke apart; it did not sink into the sea.

Before it was discredited, the Lemuria theory gave credence to the Tamil myth of Kumari Kandam, a continent that allegedly connected India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Australia in ancient times. Helena Blavatsky and other theosophists believed it. Charles Webster claimed to have received the ancient wisdom of Lemuria from Theosophical Masters by “astral clairvoyance”. James Bramwell called the Lemurians one of the “root races” of humanity, the other two being the Atlanteans and the Aryans.

Richard Sharpe Shaver popularized the theory of Lemuria in his short stories for Amazing Stories. Lin Carter, another American fantasy author, based several of his stories in Lemuria as well, including The Wizard of Lemuria (1965). The Agent 13 novels of Flint Dille and David Marconi, which were written as a homage to 1930s pulp fiction, feature a mysterious Brotherhood founded by survivors of Lemuria plotting world events from the shadows. Lemuria is mentioned in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. The 2014 video game Child of Light is set in a mystical land called Lemuria, but it appears to have no relation to the real-world myth.

Hyperborea and Thule

Art by Vsevolod Ivanov

Hyperborea and Thule were both mythical lands in the Far North. The former was known to the Greeks as a land were the sun never set. Thule is commonly associated with Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Occultists in interwar Germany identified it as the homeland of the Aryan master race.

They weren’t the first ones. Jean Sylvain Bailly, a French astronomer and revolutionary, pointed out that, in most ancient mythologies, races originate in the north and then migrate south. William Fairfield Warren argued in Paradise Found (1885) that humanity once inhabited the North Pole and that various mythical lands — Atlantis, Hyperborea, the Garden of Eden — are all folk memories of the same thing. Warren rejected Darwinism and believed the Great Flood had submerged mankind’s Arctic home. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, an Indian nationalist, believed the Vedic people migrated to India from the Arctic region during the last Ice Age.

In the 2009 video game Wolfenstein, the Paranormal Division of the SS (based on the real-life Ahnenerbe) is investigating ruins of the vanished Thule civilization.

Searching for images of “Hyperborea” turns up the artwork of Vsevolod Ivanov, who believed the “Vedic Rus” descended from an alien race. Weird Russia has more.

Atlantis

The ultimate lost civilization. Invented as an allegory by Plato, Atlantis has inspired too many books, movies and video games to count. Wikipedia has a complete list. I’ll focus focus on the most steam- and dieselpunky ones.

We have already met the theosophists, who believed the Atlanteans were one of several great pre-Flood civilizations. “Atlantean” became a shorthand for supreme ancient race. Ignatius L. Donnelly imagined an Atlantean Empire lording over large parts of America and Europe in his Atlantis: the Antediluvian World (1882). The Nazis traced the origins of the Aryan Nordic race in Atlantis.

Professor Aronnax and Captain Nemo visit Atlantis in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

Art by David Saavedra

Professor Aronnax and Captain Nemo visit the remains of Atlantis in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870).

In H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Temple” (1920), a German submarine discovers Atlantis when it sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic during World War I.

In The Maracot Deep (1929), Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, describes Atlantis as a high-tech society that is inhabited by people who have adapted to life under the sea. In Carl Barks’ “The Secret of Atlantis” (1954), Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and his nephews discover a similar underwater civilization.

Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge discover Atlantis in “The Secret of Atlantis” (1954)

Fantastic (August 1961)

In Robert A. Heinlein’s Lost Legacy (1941), Atlantis is a colony of Mu. In the 1982-83 anime The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Atlantis and Mu destroyed each other with nuclear weapons.

David MacLean Parry’s The Scarlet Empire (1906) Poul Anderson’s “Goodbye, Atlantis!” (1961) both feature Atlantis as something of a communist dictatorship. In the latter, it is destroyed by vengeful gods.

The 1992 video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis shows Nazis searching for Atlantis technology.

Scene in Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

Atlantis in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Disney’s 2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire featured an early-twentieth-century expedition to find Atlantis in a Nautilus-inspired submarine called the Ulysses.

Atlantis is discovered in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), which is based on Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island.

Art by Flavio Bolla

Art by Gaius31duke

Art by Raphael Lacoste

Plenty of artists have created their own versions of Atlantis. Here are three examples by Flavio Bolla, Raphael Lacoste and “Gaius31duke“.

Agartha, Shambhala and Hollow Earth

Shambhala is a mythical kingdom in Central Asia or Tibet, supposedly the refuge of the survivors of Lemuria or Hyperborea and a center of spiritual enlightenment.

Jean-Claude Frère wrote that the survivor of Hyperborea settled in a Central Asian city called Agartha, which sunk into the Earth as a result of another catastrophe. In his telling, Shambhala was founded by dissident Hyperboreans who followed the path of the “Black Sun”.

Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre told much the same story in his Mission de l’Inde en Europe (1886), which for the first time connected the myth of Agartha with that of a Hollow Earth.

At the Earth’s Core

Hollow Earth Expedition

The idea that the Earth’s poles provide entrance to the underworld is an ancient one. Edmond Halley (who discovered Halley’s Comet) brought it into the modern world in 1692. The myth inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar novels, among others.

Iron Sky: The Coming Race concept art

More recently, it has featured in such dieselpunk fiction as the role-playing game Hollow Earth Expedition (2006) and Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2018), whose title is drawn from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1871 theosophist novel.

Something these Hollow Earths have in common, aside from being popular with Nazis: dinosaurs.

Shangri-La and Xanadu

Lost Horizon

Shangri-La in Lost Horizon (1937)

Return to Xanadu (1991)

James Hilton was probably inspired by the myth of Shambhala when he invented Shangri-La in Lost Horizon (1933). It also sounds similar to the pleasure land described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the poem “Kubla Khan”, which was based on the old Chinese capital of Xanadu.

Lost Horizon was adapted into a movie twice, in 1937 and 1973. Shangri-La’s appearance in the first inspired the Valley of Tralla La in Carl Barks’ 1954 Uncle Scrooge comic. Keno Don Rosa later revealed Tralla La to be Xanadu in his 1991 sequel to the story.

Shangri-La in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Shangri-La also appears in dieselpunk favorite Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).

El Dorado and the Seven Cities of Gold

Painting of El Dorado

There are several American city-of-gold myths, the most famous ones being El Dorado and the Seven Cities of Gold. The former was supposed to be hidden in the jungles of Colombia; the latter in New Mexico. Numerous expeditions were undertaken by adventurers and conquistadors during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in search of both.

Scrooge McDuck and his nephews discover both lost lands: in Carl Barks’ “The Seven Cities of Cibola” (1954) and Don Rosa’s The Last Lord of Eldorado (1998). The latter makes reference to the El Dorado expeditions of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Nicolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

The Last Lord of Eldorado

The Lost City of Z

British adventurer Percy Fawcett searched for a similar city in the Amazon rainforest known as “Z”. His quest was turned into a book by David Grann (2009) and a movie by James Gray (2016).

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), El Dorado and the legendary Inca city of Paititi are revealed to be the same place, called Akator.

Lost cities and civilizations in #steampunk and #dieselpunk Cities lost to time and half-remembered civilizations, discovered deep in the mountains of the Himalayas, the Amazonian rainforest or at the bottom of the sea, are a familiar trope in steam- and dieselpunk fiction.

#Genre Tropes

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