Lemurian
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- noun
- /lɪˈmjʊəriən/
- Literature
- The Lemurian community often gathers to share their insights about harmony and balance with nature.
Examples
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Only this predates everything Mesopotamians, the Lemurians...
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His mind grasped the evolutionary flow from Lemurian, through Atlantean, into post-Atlantean epochs and even into future epochs.
Academic text (1991) -
The mountain is riddled with a network of caves that are home to Lemurians; lenticular clouds serve as cover for spaceships and more or less tangible transfers of personnel or thought from outer space; viewing the cone of the mountain gives one strength and spiritual power.
Academic text (2000) -
Many people believe that Lemurians possess unique spiritual abilities that connect them to ancient wisdom.
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According to folklore, a Lemurian is someone who embodies the teachings and philosophies of the lost continent of Lemuria.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Lemurian = Lemuria (transparent) = Lemuria + ian
The noun is transparently formed from the place-name plus a standard agent/relational suffix meaning 'a person from or associated with'.
Etymology
Lemurian as a noun names a person linked to Lemuria, the supposed lost continent, and that place name comes from the animal lemur, whose name comes from Latin for 'ghost' because of its quiet night habits. So a Lemurian usually means a imagined inhabitant of that vanished land or someone who follows its spiritual beliefs.