Lemuria

Lemuria

Lemuria may refer to:
*Lemuria (festival), in Roman religion, Lemuria is a feast during which the unwholesome and malevolent spectres of the restless dead (lemures) were propitiated.
*Lemuria (continent), name given by 19th century geologist Philip Sclater to a land mass in the Indian Ocean that was required, before the understanding of plate tectonics, to account for similarities between fauna in India and Madagascar.

Fiction

*Lemuria (continent), continent mentioned in the fiction of Robert E. Howard and Perry Rhodan
*Lemuria (comics), two locations in the Marvel Universe
*"Lemuria", a mysterious hidden island in the video game series Golden Sun
*Lemuria (role-playing), a 2004 RPG world designed for the d20 Modern game by Swedes Anders Blixt and Krister Sundelin
*"Lemuria", one of four missing spaceships in the animated television series "Transformers Cybertron"

Music

*"A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria", an album by Bal-Sagoth, a British symphonic black metal band.
*"Lemuria", an album released by the Swedish symphonic metal band Therion in 2004.
*Lemuria, an indie/punk band from Buffalo, NY.

Popular Culture

*Lemuria, a character in the reality TV series "Who Wants to be a Superhero?"


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  • Lemuria — Студийный альбом Therion …   Википедия

  • Lemuria — Le*mu ri*a (l[ e]*m[=u] r[i^]*[.a]), n. [So named from the supposition that it was the original home of the lemurs.] A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Lemurĭa — Lemurĭa, ein durch Sclater angenommener, jetzt unter den Spiegel des Indischen Ozeans versunkener Kontinent, der sich im S. des jetzigen Asien (und wahrscheinlich mit ihm im direkten Zusammenhang) östlich bis nach Hinterindien und den Sundainseln …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Lemuria — Lemurĭa (Lemurĭen), eine von dem engl. Naturforscher Sclater zur Erklärung des Verbreitungsgebietes der Halbaffen angenommene Landmasse, die einst Madagaskar und Sumatra, nordwärts bis Indien, zu einem großen Kontinent verbunden haben soll …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Lemuria — (etimología: de Lémur). Continente imaginario, creado en el siglo XIX, por científicos franceses, por la idea de haber lémures en la India y sur de África al mismo tiempo (o al menos sus parientes mas cercanos), formularon que por los albores de… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Lemuria — /li mūˈri ə/ noun 1. (pl) an ancient Roman festival (9, 11 and 13 May) when ghosts were exorcized 2. (sing) a hypothetical vanished continent where the Indian Ocean now lies, posited to explain the distribution of lemurs • • • Main Entry: ↑lemur …   Useful english dictionary

  • Lemuria — Angenommene Lage Lemurias, in der Vorstellung tamilischer Nationalisten Lemuria bezeichnet einen hypothetischen bzw. fiktiven versunkenen Kontinent oder eine Landbrücke, die entweder zwischen Madagaskar und Indien oder zwischen Australien und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Lemuria — Este artículo o sección necesita referencias que aparezcan en una publicación acreditada, como revistas especializadas, monografías, prensa diaria o páginas de Internet fidedignas. Puedes añadirlas así o avisar …   Wikipedia Español

  • Lemuria — Le|mu|ria 〈f.; ; unz.; Geol.〉 (hypothetischer) Urkontinent im Gebiet des Indischen Ozeans, mit dem das Verbreitungsgebiet der auf Madagaskar lebenden Lemuren Halbaffen (Lemuridae) erklärt werden soll * * * Lemuria,   Landmasse, die P. L. Slater… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Lemuria (continent) — Lemuria (IPAEng|lɨˈmjʊəriə [OED] ) is the name of a hypothetical lost land variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept s 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography. The concept of… …   Wikipedia

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