Talk:Lost lands

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Contents 1 Still needs cleanup 2 Merge with Lost Continents 3 This article is in danger of becoming a list 4 Airyana Vaejo and Skherya 5 Merge Mythological places

[edit] Still needs cleanup

Now, I sorted the various lost lands mentioned here in differend categories and described each category briefly. However, one or two remarks are rather un-encyclopaedic, since I was too tired to put them in a neutral form. Most of the previous parts would better fit in the other articles, Blavatsky, Churchward etc. belong either to the lost continents subsection or directly to Lemuria, Mu, etc. The philosophical influences only seem to aply to Atlantis and should be dealt with there. Concerning Hollow Erath I would leave it to Mrwuggs, since I don't know anything about it. --Zara1709 15:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Lost Continents

Rather than cleaning this up slightly I would suggest to merge it with the Lost Continents, since the best-known lost lands: Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria are the topic of that book anyway. There needs to be an article that gives an overview about the various Lost Continents, even only in form of a list. However, one could not say much more in that article, since almost every other stuff would better belong in the other different articles. For the lost planets one could make a seperate article, also for hollow earth. I would guess, there are books on these topics too. ;) If you agree, Mrwuggs, I could probably do it tomorrow.

Zara1709 18:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that would be a bad idea. There are far more "lost lands" than there are "lost continents", and conceptually the ideas are not identical.--Gene_poole 01:26, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Now really, there are already articels on phantom islands, on hypothetical planets(that needs cleanup too) and on Hollow Earth. I can see that the concepts are different, but since there is a good summarising study on Lost Continents I would rather link Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, etc. there. --Zara1709 07:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I can't follow your reasoning. What have phantom islands or hollow earth etc got to do with this? If you can see the concepts are different why are we even discussing a merge? Keeping the articles separate is no big deal. --Gene_poole 22:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Although the book Lost Continents seems to be an excellent source of information (which I would definatly like to see incorperated into the article to keep it from becoming a list)on the most talked about lost lands, I think the heart of the lost lands article is that it is a broad overview of a large body of semi-mythic places which have captured the imaginations of writers. In cleaning up this article, I suggest:

• We make a handful of sections giving a broad overview of the differnt ideas about lost lands, namely
  • Cities
  • Islands
  • Continents
  • Planets
  • Hollow Earth

then we offer links to the main articles.

• We incorperate information from DeCamp's book into the continents section, with a link to the book's article
• We make an authors section, with an overview of each authors contributions to the modern mythology of lost lands.
• We create a new page, List of books featuring lost lands, or something like that.
• We possibly use the hollow earth stuff here, which is essentially a rough timeline of how the myth grew from book to book, and make it into some kind of timeline section for the hollow earth page.

Thanks for taking an interest everyone. I'm sure we can make this article so much more informative if we work together. Mrwuggs 00:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

You're probably right. I just thought that there doesn't need to be an article on everything. --Zara1709 12:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This article is in danger of becoming a list

We need to either make it not a series of lists or seperate the list from the non-list content without destroying the article. Mrwuggs 19:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Airyana Vaejo and Skherya

Airyana Vaejo and Skherya have previously been added without any info. If you know anything about these, please contribute. Nurg 08:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Mythological places

There simply shouldn't be two articles on the same topic; we only need to agree on the correct title. I've could get an article by a religious scientists on "Lost Worlds" and use that as a reference, so if there are no other objects I am going to merge the two articles and move it to "Lost Worlds" then, as soon as I find the time. Zara1709 (talk) 14:51, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

• Lost lands and lost islands do exist. In the present article there is no clear distinction between fictional, mythical, prehistorical and historical lost lands. I agree that all the info on fictional and mythical lost land can be transferred to mythological places. But what remains deserves an article on its own. Especially historically registered lost lands (like Strand in Germany, or the not yet mentioned Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal in Holland) are worth mentioning. Rising sea levels during the last thousands of years made many inhabited place dissappear... Prehistoric lands and islands are a bit more difficult to seperate from the mythical ones, but it's doable. Pepijnk (talk) 11:18, 5 May 2008 (UTC)