The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of the World's Oldest Culture by Frank Joseph

Author:Frank Joseph [Joseph, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781591439493
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Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Wooden tiki statues stand guard on Hawaiian shores against a repetition of the Great Flood that overwhelmed the Polynesian Motherland.

That these accounts did not evolve as the result of contact with nineteenth-century missionaries was made known by the experience of William Ellis, who was personally involved in the Christian conversion of native Hawaiians. “After a succinct account of the deluge,” he recalled,

I endeavored to exhibit the advantages of faith, and the consequences of wickedness and unbelief, as illustrated in the salvation of Noah, and the destruction of the rest of mankind. After the conclusion of the service, several persons present requested me to remain till they had made some inquiries respecting the deluge, Noah, etc. They said they were informed by their fathers that all the land had once been overflowed by the sea, except a small peak on the top of Mouna-Kea, where two human beings were preserved from the destruction that overtook the rest, but they said they never before heard of a ship, or of Noah, having always been accustomed to call it the kai a Kahinarii (sea of Kahinarii).

This and related native versions of the deluge story feature a superabundance of materials unquestionably describing the existence and subsequent annihilation of the Motherland. As Lewis Spence observed, “It is self-evident that these myths of destruction had their origin in Lemurian tradition, as by the period of Polynesian settlement in Oceania its greatest time of seismic violence had long passed.” Remarkably, the Kumulipo tells of a deadly “current sweeping in from the navel of the world,” the same title by which Easter Island was originally known. In the previous chapter, we learned that Te-pito-te-henua referred to the midpoint or epicenter of two fault lines crossing at a geologically unstable rift in the Southeast Pacific Plateau. The Lemurians were aware of its potential danger and tried to limit the worst of its consequences by erecting the basalt moai as component parts of a telluric transducer that would dissipate the extreme energies of seismic violence. But the Kumulipo tells of a tsunami, a “warrior-wave,” that came from the direction of Easter Island and overwhelmed Kahiki.

Another connection with Rapa Nui is an early name the Mu gave to Hawaii: Ka-houpo-o-Kane, or the navel of Kane. Kane was the god of light, reminiscent of Te-pito-te- Kura, the navel of light, Easter Island’s most holy artifact, brought personally by Hotu Matua from his sunken homeland, Marae Renga. The Maori of the western Pacific told of their primeval ancestor, Tane, who carried Foam-in-the-Ocean and White Sea-Mist to New Zealand from the land of Hiva before its disappearance.

Replicas of these sacred stones were placed in every whare, or chanting school, and students stood on them to absorb their mana when reciting on graduation day. It appears that the Motherland bequeathed several such relics to its escaping culture bearers, who used them as symbols around which the old mystery-cult might be revived on foreign shores. The Pohaku-a-Kane, located in Puna, coastal Hawaii, on Cape Ku-Mukahi, are a pair of stone pillars allegedly retrieved from Kahiki before it sank beneath the sea.

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