Case file · Folklore / legend
'A Dweller on Two Planets' puts Lemurians in Shasta
Frederick Spencer Oliver's book 'A Dweller on Two Planets', written in Yreka in the 1880s and published in 1905, was said to be dictated by a spirit named Phylos and described hidden temples inside Mount Shasta.
1905 CE · 41.41, -122.20 · status: legend
The account
It is the main literary source of the belief that survivors of the lost continent Lemuria live in or beneath the mountain.
The sceptical view
Lemuria was a 19th-century hypothesis to explain lemur fossils, abandoned once plate tectonics was understood.
Connections in the atlas
- The Lemurian Fellowship
- Lanser's 'mystic village' on Shasta
- Nan Madol and the 'continent of Mu'
- The Rosicrucian Lemuria book
- Mount Shasta — Lemuria & 'beings'