(The Homo mermanus kingdom of Lemuria, that persisted into the Modern Age along with Deviant Lemuria, is covered on its own page.
Lemuria is one of the oldest surviving civilizations.[1]
Lemuria was apparently the only continent where modern man dwelt half a million years ago.[19]
During the Pre-Cataclysmic Age (from about 100,000 until the Great Cataclysm),[20] Lemuria remained one of the great continents of its era, and was ruled mostly by the Deviants and their human slaves.[18]
After the Great Cataclysm, Lemuria was partly retrofitted by the Deviants, while other parts later became the home of the underwater race known as the Lemurians. Lemuria was founded by a splinter group of Homo mermanus[18] who made their way to the Pacific Ocean, whereas Atlantis had been in the Atlantic.[21]
History
Deviants' Lemuria (1,000,000 BC)[]
Circa 1,000,000 BC, after the First Host, the Deviants established an underground empire in the kingdom of Lemuria.[22][23]
In the ancient past, Lemuria was stated to be part of Mu,[24] or to have been connected to it.[25]
Circa 500,000 BC[]
Age of Dragons[]
About almost half a millions years ago,[26][19] the world of elder Hyperborea and Lemuria was ruled by the Dragon Kings[27] (the other offspring of Sligguth, spawn of Set, along with the Serpent-Men),[28][29] led by kings and necromancers who raised monolithic cities of black stone. As the the Dragon Kings practiced sorcery and were evil and cruel beings, the Nineteen Gods created the first men: Phondath the Firstborn and his mate Evalla.
Men built the Nemedis, Althaar, Yb, and Yaodar, while fighting the Dragon Kings for dominance of Lemuria during the Thousand Year War, before being forced to retreat behind their cities' walls.[27]
Lord Thungarth was eventually approached by the deity Father Gorm, who offered him the Star Sword, imbued with the power of the Nineteen Gods, giving Men the strength to destroy the Dragon Kings at Grimstrand Firth,[27] Nemedis, leading to the end of the Age of Dragons and the beginning of the Age of Men.[30]
Age of Men[]
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Lemuria during Thongor's era
The island continent of Lemuria[31] became apparently the only continent inhabited by modern man[19] and where Men first rose to supremacy.[32] At that time, the rest of the world lived in the Pleistocene, and was inhabited by "Neanderthal" or "Cro-Magnon" man (apparently, although it's possible other civilizations existed).[19]
Nemedis in the Far Western Plains became a dead city,[26] but many other cities were built: Cadorna in Kovia (at north-west), Kathool of the Purple Towers, Patanga, the City of Fire, the Dreaming City of Zangabal, Perlorm, Tarakus and Tsargol in Ptartha,[31] Valkarth[33] in the Northern Lands,[34] Shembis among the Cities of the South,[33] Thurdis the Dragon City, and Zaar, the Black City (where the Black Druids served the dark forces).[31]
In the northern lands, the Black Hawk and Snow Bear tribes clashed, causing their mutual destruction save for Black Hawk tribe member Thongor, son of kingly Thumithar.[33] In the Far Western Plains lived the Blue Nomads.[26]
The last of the Dragon Kings were eventually destroyed thanks to the efforts of Thongor of Valkarth, Sharajsha of Zaar, Sumia Chond, and Karm Karvus, helped by Father Gorm.[30]
It is currently unknown what occurs during the gap of time from the fall of the Dragon Kings to the Pre-Cataclysmic Age. The exact relationship between the Lemurias of those eras, if any, are unknown as well, as few clues links them.
Pre-Cataclysmic Age (100,000 to 18,000 BC)[]
The Lemurian Isles (north-east corner of the map) circa 18,000 BC
During the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, the Lemurians were considered among the barbarian nations of their age (along with the Picts and the Atlanteans), and known as savage pirates who inhabited a chain of large islands in the ocean east of Thuria, in the eastern hemisphere,[6][35] (next place where mankind rose to supremacy),[32] as part of the continent of Mu.[36]
The Lemurians came in contact from time to time with the mysterious and non-Thurian race living on the eastern shores of Thuria (those apparently came from a shadowy and nameless continent lying somewhere east of the Lemurian islands).
The crumbling Thurian civilizations employed barbarian mercenaries (Picts, Atlanteans, and Lemurians) as their armies, and consequently, their generals, their statesmen, and often their kings were barbarians.[6]
Set's Serpent Men once lived in Lemuria.[36]
Age of Kull (18,500 BC)[]
Both Atlantis and Lemuria eventually became mighty empires.[37]
During the Age of Kull, Lemurian pirate captains included Roc of Lemuria and Kha Taranka, the pirate king of Lemuria.
To defend Valusia were many forts from those, whom King Kull inspected at least once.[38]
Asfodel IV's reign[]
At the time of Kull, the Lemurian Isles (who faced the Thurian coast of Grondar),[7] including the (possible)[39] colony of Lemuria-of-the-West,[40] were controlled by humans, while the Deviants ruled the Lemurian continent.[4][2]
Asfodel IV, king of Lemuria, hired Kull to kill Rotath of Lemuria, a wizard and priest of the nameless gods.[41]
Khornah, lieutenant of the Atlantean Army, conspired with Lemurian pirates to depose and replace King Om-Ra (before allying to assault the Thurian mainland), but his plans were foiled by Kull and mostly by a Kraken summoned by Kareesha.[42]
Kha Taranka the Pirate King's reign[]
Kha Taranka, the pirate king of Lemuria, was presumably the successor or deposer of King Asfodel IV or of his heirs.[43]
18,000 BC: Phraug's rule / Human-Deviant Wars[]
By 18,000 BC, Lemuria[24][36] (including the Lemurian Isles)[4][2] was the seat of an advanced empire, and like much of the Earth,[28] was ruled by the Deviants[24][36] and their human slaves.[24] The Deviants conquered all known human civilizations,[44][36] save for the state of Atlantis,[24][36] and their outposts extended even as that of Lemura, in what became known as the Savage Land.[36]
The human alchemist Atra intended to overthrow the Deviants. He allied with the Serpent Men to create the Serpent Crown, which was empowered by Set and linked to his mind as a replacement for the Cobra Crown.[28]
Soon, worship of Set flourished across Lemuria.[36]
Under King Phraug,[36] the Lemurians tried to invade Atlantis, then ruled by King Kamuu and his wife Zartra,[45] a refugee from the Deviant-controlled Lemurian Isles.[2] The Atlanteans released their magma vents to drive off invading Lemurians,[45] triggering seismological upheavals,[2] while a survivor from a commando unit of Lemurians stabbed Zartra, killing her.[46][47]
Great Cataclysm (18,000 BC)[]
Meanwhile, the Second Host of the Celestials came to Earth over Lemuria,[2] and the Deviants attacked them. The Celestials retaliated by submerging all of Mu (including Lemuria).[36]
This resulted in both continents of Atlantis and Lemuria sinking[24] within a week,[47] the destruction of both cities, and the landscape of the world being dramatically altered.[46]
The Deviants gradually retrofitted part of Lemuria's remains into a new kingdom for themselves,[24] redeveloping Lemuria into an underwater city, while most of the Deviant kingdom retreated beneath Earth, in Subterranea.[36] Many cities were left vacant.[24]
The Deviants tried many times to create worker classes (such as the Gortokians) to assist them, only to fail as they rebelled, creating setback and new enemies to them.
The interference of the Eternals also held back the Deviant progress.[36]
Hyborian Age: Lemurians, Hyrkanians and Turanians[]
The Lemurians, on the island east of Khitai
18,000 - 15,000 BC[]
During the Cataclysm, a man called Tarim rose and led his tribe to flee aboard ships westward,[48] on the eastern coast of the Thuria[49] (later known as the eastern shore of the Vilayet),[48] but were enslaved for thousands of years by the ancient race that dwelt there,[49] --> sometimes referred to as the "East-folk".[8]
Lemurians also remained on a massive islands and a few more modest, east of Khitai,[50][51] collectively known as Lemuria.[52]
The enslaved Lemurians eventually rose and destroyed their masters and became savages stalking the ruins of their masters' strange civilization (the survivors of that civilization went to the west to overthrow the pre-humans of the south and founded Stygia).[49]
Thoth-Amon claimed to have, using the Serpent Ring, raised Serpent Men from Lemurian tombs.[53]
14,000 - 10,000 BC[]
The formerly enslaved Lemurians evolved a strange semi-civilization built on the wreckage of their masters, and eventually rose as the Hyrkanians.[54]
One tribe later crossed the Vilayet again to found Turan[48] on the southwestern shore, while other Hyrkanian clans pushed westward around the sea's northern extremity[54] (Hyrkanians and Turanians would become the ancestors of the Huns, Mongols, Tartars, and Turks).[55][56]
The insular Lemurian sorcerer Thulandra Thuu came to Aquilonia during the Age of Conan, manipulating Numedides and pretending to protect his kingdom, while supposedly aiding the king in his search for the secret of immortality, intending to acquire both for himself.[57] After Numedides' defeat, Thulandra Thuu fled[50] and later return under the guise of King Conan, but was finally slain.[58]
Lemurians (Homo mermanus)[]
In time, the ruins of the original Atlantis were found by a member of the Homo mermanus race also named Kamuu. Kamuu and his wife, Zartra, founded the underwater city of Atlantis from the ruins of old Atlantis.[59][verification needed] Those Atlanteans took the Olympian god Neptune as their patron.[24]
Within less than five centuries (between 5,800 to 5,300 BC) after the victory of the Atlanteans over the rule of the Unforgiven Dead,[47] a faction emerged among the water-breathing Atlanteans, worshiping the Elder God Set.[24] They abandoned Atlantis to colonize the remnants of Lemuria,[47] unclaimed,[24] in the Pacific Ocean and founded their city of Lemuria.[60] In the 15th century, Naga began his rule over the Homo mermanus kingdom of Lemuria and claimed the Serpent Crown, causing the beginning of the Lemurians' transformation, granting some of them scales and/or green skin.[24]
Modern Age[]
Ghaur (Earth-616), the chief priest of the priesthood, consequently manipulated the rulers of Lemuria.[36]
Brother Tode's rule[]
Brother Tode ruled with his wife Queen Vira. He had a son, Ranar.
When the Fourth Host of the Celestials came, the Deviants tried to manipulate the humans into attacking the Celestials, which was prevented by the Eternals. Eson the Searcher ravaged and flooded the city of Lemuria while examining it, forcing the Deviants to retreat once again to Subterranea. Despite the setback, the city was eventually rebuilt.
Brother Tode then led an attack on Olympia, while he and his cabinet were reassembled at a molecular level into a block of slid matter, which brought the end of a long line of successive rulers and deprived the Deviants of leadership.[36]
After Tode's death, the situation remained stable until Kro's return, with the generals of the armed forces ready to move on Kro's command.[61] Despite the setback, the city was eventually rebuilt,[36] under the leadership of Ranar who led the repairs and restored the economy. Brother Ranar claimed the throne but was put to death by the priesthood.[61]
Brother Kro's rule[]
The thousand years-old Deviant Kro confronted Ghaur as well soon afterwards, aware of Ghaur's murder of Ranar. Ghaur made him sovereign, but mocked his rule.[61] He ascended under the close supervision of Ghaur and the priesthood.
Despite the priesthood's scrutiny, Kro attempted to integrate some Deviants into human culture, establishing the Delta Network program through the USA.
Ghaur's daughter, a Reject, was granted asylum in Wakanda by the Black Panther (T'Challa). Lemuria and Wakanda consequently nearly went to war, but to avoid the scandal, Ghaur settled for placing the child in Atlantean custody.
When Kang the Conqueror started an invasion of Earth, the Deviant general Dulpus went rogue and led an unauthorized invasion of China, which was thwarted by the Avengers. As a gratitude gesture, Kro helped the Avengers by bringing the US President to safety in Lemuria when Kang attacked Washington.[36]
Kro eventually abdicated, causing a civil war in Lemuria.[62]
Brother Brutus' rule[]
Brother Brutus emerged from the ensuing slaughter, commanind the new breed of mutates. Envisioning himself dictator of Subterranea, he began to have his forces recover the past Deviant technology and weaponry scattered and used by other peoples of Subterranea, pushing them away.[62]
His rule over Lemuria was brief, and shattered when his mutate status was revealed by Sersi of the Eternasl.[63]
Brother Visara's rule[]
Brother Visara ruled Lemuria, and attempted to subvert the populace against leaders, eventually causing his death.[36]
Facts[]
Flora[]
The Crystal Rose was a crystaline plant from Lemuria (who would later hold a king's ransom value in the Hyborian Age of Conan).[64]
Alternate Realities[]
Earth-1610[]
Lemuria was an ancient city-state that stood besides Atlantis.[65] Lemuria was the sole rival of Atlantis, and warred against it.[66] The Lemurians were surface-dwellers, that ruled the surface, while Atlantis ruled the seas, as dictated by their treaty, which was law, for nine millenia. They used the Atlantean city of Sestanivor as an embassy. As such, it had rooms for oxygen breathers. To protect its citizens, the city had a cordon of telepathic beacons to ward off deep sea predators. The city was the site of nesting for the Tan-Ed-Drul - the species that lead to the fall of the Atlantean empire,[67] though it was presumed to be a Lemurian strike.[66]Points of Interest
Age of Dragons[]
At the time of the Dragon Kings' rule, of the coming of the first men, and of the Thousand Years War:[68]
- Hyperborea and the monolithic cities of black stone of the Dragon Kings[68]
- Men's cities:
Age of Men and Thongor's era[]
About almost half a million years ago:[69]
Lemuria during Thongor's era
- Far Western Plains, land of the Blue Nomads[69]
- Northern Lands[70]
- Eastern Lemurian Desert[68]
- Kovia[71]
- Ptartha[71]
- Cities of the South[12]
- Thurdis the Dragon City[69]
- Zaar, the Black City[12][71]
- Mountains of Mommur[12][71]
- Sharimba, the Mountain of Thunder[72]
- Sea of Neol-Shendis - Inland sea
- Dragon Isles
- Castle of the Dragon Kings
- Dragon Isles
- Chush - Jungles[69][71]
The Lemurian Isles (north-east corner of the map) circa 18,000 BC
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Lemuria, the island east of Khitai, circa 10,000 BC
Pre-Cataclysmic Age[]
- Lemurian Isles
- Lemuria of the West - colony / pirate outpost
- Island Domain of Rotath[73]
Hyborian Age[]
- Lemuria: An isle east off the coast of Khitai was depicted on maps, labeled either "Lemurians"[51] or Lemuria.[52]
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Both Kingdoms of Lemuria in the modern age
Modern Age[]
- Kingdom of Lemuria[18] (Homo mermanus)
- Kingdom of Lemuria (Deviant)[1]
- City of Toads[1]
- Formerly Providence Island[1] - Independent country
Alternate realities[]
- Lemuria - City-state[65]
- Embassy at Sestanivor (Atlantean city)[67]
Residents
Notes
- Lemuria was a hypothetical "lost land", coined by the scientist Philip Sclater. It was used in Cthulhu Mythos tales by authors such as Lin Carter, Frank Belnap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard.
- Lemuria has been both described as its own continent[19][18][4][2][74] (a group of islands),[4][2] as part of the continent Mu in ancient times,[1][2] or connected to it.[25]
See Also
- 87 appearance(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 4 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 8 minor appearance(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 68 mention(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 14 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 1 invocation(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 9 image(s) of Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
- 2 article(s) related to Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Marvel Atlas #1 ; Lemuria (Deviant)'s profile
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #7 ; Lemuria's profile
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #7 ; Appendix: Karthon the Quester's entry
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #7 ; Appendix: Lemuria's entry
- ↑ Mystic Arcana: The Book of Marvel Magic #1 ; Talismans of Mystic Power, Star of Capistan's profile
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Savage Sword of Conan #7 ; The Hyborian Age Chapter 1: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kull the Conqueror (Vol. 2) #2 ; The Thurian Continent in the time of King Kull
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Savage Sword of Conan #23 ; Stygia: Serpent of the South - I. Before the Fall
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #21
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #24
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #19
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Creatures on the Loose #22
- ↑ Invaders Now! #4
- ↑ Kull the Conqueror #4
- ↑ Creatures on the Loose #27–28
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Eternals: The Herod Factor #1
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #229 ; Enslaved!
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 Marvel Atlas #1 ; Lemuria's profile
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Creatures on the Loose #27 ; Creature Features (letters' page)
- ↑ Handbook of the Conan Universe #1 ; Atlantis and the Pre-Cataclysmic Age
- ↑ Sub-Mariner #10
- ↑ History of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 8) #26
- ↑ 24.00 24.01 24.02 24.03 24.04 24.05 24.06 24.07 24.08 24.09 24.10 24.11 Marvel Atlas #1 ; Lemuria's profile
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Blockbusters of the Marvel Universe #1 ; Great Cataclysm's profile
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Creatures on the Loose #24 ; Red Swords, Black Wings!
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Creatures on the Loose #26 ; Tower of the Serpent-Women!
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Marvel Zombies: The Book of Angels, Demons & Various Monstrosities #1 ; Set's profile
- ↑ Marvel Tarot #1 ; Get of Set
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Creatures on the Loose #29 ; Lord of Chaos!
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Creatures on the Loose #25 ; The Wizard of Lemuria!
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Savage Sword of Conan #6 ; The Sleeper Beneath the Sands
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Creatures on the Loose #22 ; Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria!
- ↑ Creatures on the Loose #23 ; Where Broods the Demon!
- ↑ Handbook of the Conan Universe #1 ; Atlantis and the Pre-Cataclysmic Age's profile
- ↑ 36.00 36.01 36.02 36.03 36.04 36.05 36.06 36.07 36.08 36.09 36.10 36.11 36.12 36.13 36.14 36.15 36.16 Marvel Atlas #1 ; Lemuria (Deviant)'s profile
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #9 ; The Garden of Fear
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #132 ; The Sea King
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #36 ; A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part V: Lemuria's entry
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #36 ; A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part V: Lemurians' entry
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #37 ; The Curse of the Golden Skull!
- ↑ Kull the Destroyer #17 ; The Thing from Emerald Darkness
- ↑ Conan Saga #97 ; The Kull Comics Chronology: Blood on the Border
- ↑ Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23 ; Where Broods the Demon!
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 Sub-Mariner #62 ; Tales of Atlantis
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 Sub-Mariner #63 ; Tales of Atlantis: Cataclysm!
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 47.3 All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #1 ; Atlantis' profile
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 Conan the Barbarian #19 ; Hawks from the Sea
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 Savage Sword of Conan #8 ; The Hyborian Age Chapter 2: The Rise of the Hyborians
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 Savage Sword of Conan #52 ; Conan the Liberator
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 Handbook of the Conan Universe #1 ; Map
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 Conan the Barbarian (Vol. 3) #13 ; Map
- ↑ King Conan (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 Savage Sword of Conan #12 ; The Hyborian Age Chapter 3: The Hyborian Kingdoms
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #17 ; The Hyborian Age - Chapter 6
- ↑ Thor & Hercules: Encyclopaedia Mythologica #1 ; The Tenger's profile
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #49 ; When Madness Wears the Crown
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #214 ; Reign of Thulandra Thuu
- ↑ Sub-Mariner #66 ; Tales of Atlantis: The Sword in the Throne!
- ↑ Sub-Mariner #10 ; Never Bother a Barracuda!
- ↑ 61.0 61.1 61.2 Eternals (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 Avengers Annual #20 ; Of Moles and Mutates
- ↑ West Coast Avengers Annual #6 ; Storm in Subterranea
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian (Vol. 3) #8
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 Ultimate FF #2
- ↑ 66.0 66.1 Ultimate Secrets #1 ; Namor's profile
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 Ultimate Fantastic Four #56
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 68.2 68.3 68.4 Creatures on the Loose #26
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 69.2 69.3 69.4 69.5 Creatures on the Loose #24
- ↑ Creatures on the Loose #23
- ↑ 71.00 71.01 71.02 71.03 71.04 71.05 71.06 71.07 71.08 71.09 71.10 71.11 Creatures on the Loose #25
- ↑ Creatures on the Loose #28
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #231 ; Rotath of Lemuria
- ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #1 ; Ikaris' profile