The lost civilization of mu series#

The lost civilization of mu series#

Other popular books in the series are The Children of Mu (1931), and The Sacred Symbols of Mu (1933).Ĭhurchward claimed that 'more than fifty years ago,' while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient 'sunburnt' clay tablets, supposedly in a long lost 'Naga-Maya language' which only two other people in India could read. Mu, as a lost Pacific Ocean continent, was later popularised by James Churchward (1851–1936) in a series of books, beginning with Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man (1926), re-edited later as The Lost Continent Mu (1931). Other refugees supposedly fled to Central America and became the Mayans. Le Plongeon claimed that the civilization of ancient Egypt was founded by Queen Moo, a refugee from the land's demise. The description of that land given to Solon by Sonchis, priest at Sais its destruction by earthquakes, and submergence, recorded by Plato in his Timaeus, have been told and retold so many times that it is useless to encumber these pages with a repetition of it'. Le Plongeon then identified this lost land with Atlantis, and turned it into a continent which had supposedly sunk into the Atlantic Ocean: 'In our journey westward across the Atlantic we shall pass in sight of that spot where once existed the pride and life of the ocean, the Land of Mu, which, at the epoch that we have been considering, had not yet been visited by the wrath of Humen, that lord of volcanic fires to whose fury it afterward fell a victim. Brasseur believed that a word that he read as Mu referred to a land submerged by a catastrophe. Le Plongeon actually got the name 'Mu' from Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg who in 1864 mistranslated what was then called the Troano Codex using the de Landa alphabet. He claimed that he had translated the ancient Mayan writings, which supposedly showed that the Maya of Yucatán were older than the later civilizations of Greece and Egypt, and additionally told the story of an even older continent. The idea of Mu first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. History of the concept Augustus Le Plongeon 2.2 Archaeological and genetic evidence.Mu is today considered to be a fictional place. Today, scientists universally dismiss the concept of Mu (and of other lost continents like Lemuria) as physically impossible, since a continent can neither sink nor be destroyed in the short period of time required by this premise.

The existence of Mu was disputed already in Le Plongeon's time. This concept was popularized and expanded by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was once located in the Pacific.

The concept and the name were proposed by 19th century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu-which he located in the Atlantic Ocean. Mu is the name of a hypothetical continent that allegedly existed in one of Earth's oceans, but disappeared at the dawn of human history. Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men location