Ceylon, today Sri Lanka, turns up in my sources as the island of the first man in several traditions, and as one end of the sunken southern land of the Theosophists.
They dwelt upon an island, said to be Ceylon; they left the island and reached the main-land, when, by a great convulsion of nature, their communication with the parent land was forever cut off.
Ad-ima and Heva follows the same couple, who in some interpretations lived on an island often identified with Ceylon.
On The peacock the legend I quote has Adam fall onto the island of Serendib (Ceylon), Eve at Jedda and the serpent into the Sahara.
the Huschenk-Nameh tradition, as cited in 19th-century legend collections, says the flat-headed men submitted after Adam settled in Ceylon.
On The death of Adam Ceylon is one of the places traditions name for his burial.
On The Oldest Son of Noah Donnelly points to the continuous belt of Indo-European languages from Iceland to Ceylon.
On The Lemurian Era Rudolf Steiner places Lemuria in a land that, in Theosophical literature, stretched from Ceylon to Madagascar, and on What Are Blavatsky’s Root Races?
the Secret Doctrine geography runs through India and Ceylon.
For every page I tagged with Ceylon, see the Ceylon tag archive.
The Province of Ceylon held the major civilization of India.
Linguistic science achieved a great discovery when it established the fact that there was a continuous belt of languages from Iceland to Ceylon which were the variant forms of one mother-tongue, the Indo-European; but it must prepare itself for a still wider generalization.
The Manu appeared to him astrally and told him to send their son MARS to Egypt by way of Ceylon.
They dwelt upon an island, said to be Ceylon; they left the island and reached the main-land, when, by a great convulsion of nature, their communication with the parent land was forever cut off.
Their territories extend from the Atlantic to the Ganges, and from Iceland to Ceylon, and are bordered on the north and east by the Asiatic Mongols, and on the south by the negro tribes of Central Africa.
According to Steiner, the Lemurians inhabited the continent of Lemuria, which, in Theosophical literature, is said to have been located in the south of Asia, extending from Ceylon to Madagascar, including parts of modern southern Asia and Africa.
According to some interpretations, Ad-ima and Heva are seen as the first human couple who lived on an island, often identified with Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka).
They lived on an island said to be Ceylon.
Traditions differ on Adam’s burial site, citing locations like India, Mount Kubeis, Jerusalem, Mecca, Ceylon, or the cave of Machpelah.
After Adam settles in Ceylon they submit.
Adam fell into the island Serendib (Ceylon), Eve at Jedda, the Serpent into the desert of Sahara, the Peacock into Persia, and Eblis into the river Eila.
In Secret Doctrine geography the land runs from Himalayan foothills through India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Madagascar, Australia and Tasmania into the Pacific beyond Easter Island.