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Umiia is the name created to describe the hypothetical "Mother culture" that gave rise to ancient human society, first preposed by Gabriel G Patin.

The concept of Umiia was created to describe the many similarities found in ancient human civilizations that had little or no contact with each other. According to Patin, the Umiian facilitated, controlled and encouraged ancient human trading networks of beads and other ancient goods throughout the world. This proposed global interference with ancient humanity would lead to many of the cultural similarities of ancient human civilizations.

Evidence

Like other mythological "lost" civilization such as Atlantis and Lemuria, Umiia has little physical evidence to support it's existence. However, many theorists have tried to explain this "mother culture" by finding similiarities in archtecture, spirituality and symbolism between seemingly unconnected ancient societies.

Popular Culture

The show Ancient Aliens proposes these similarities to be the result of extra terrestrial life interfering with ancient humans.