Lemuria?

[Dustypuppy]

This name often crops up in reference to the sunken land mass that once supposedly existed between India and Australia, however, i have recently discovered another usage of the name, that being the festival instigated by Romulus to appease the ghost of Remus who came back to contend the reasons for his murder, the festival as such was originally called Remuria later assuming an L in place of the R. Lemures or 'Ghosts Of The Dead' became an integral part of Roman religion, it was the duty of the father of the household to perform the ceremony, at Midnight he would snap his fingers and fill his mouth with black beans, he would then chuck the beans over his shoulder chanting a banishing spell, after which he would strike a gong and commnad the spirits to leqave his family's home....Just a discovery and point out that the name Lemuria isn't unique as a title, perhaps even borrowed from ancient sources that lead one on to maybe believe that its existence is put further into jeopardy?x

[Sequoia]

Oh lord, not the "Lemuria, Atlantis, and Mu" thing again. Now they're adding in Romulus and Remus. Good lord.

Next there'll be Teletubbies involved.

[Toby Stimpson]

Hmm, if Im not mistaken though the Lemure were always part of roman religion... Ill try and find a link but I know they are just general ancestor and house spirits.

I dont thinbk theyre connected with Lemuria though.

[LostSheep]

The lost continent idea apparently only, um, appeared in the 19th century, according to the mighty Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria , and the name was apparently derived from small furry animals...
the biogeography of extinct lemurs extending from Pakistan to Malaysia inspired the name Lemuria, which was coined in 1864 by the geologist Philip Sclater in an article "The Mammals of Madagascar" in The Quarterly Journal of Science. Puzzled by the presence of fossil lemurs in both Madagascar and India, but not in Africa nor the Middle East, Sclater proposed that Madagascar and India had once been part of a larger continent, which he named "Lemuria" for its lemurs.