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Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. [1]
The classification of lost lands as continents, islands, or other regions is in some cases subjective; for example, Atlantis is variously described as either a "lost island" or a "lost continent". Lost land theories may originate in mythology or philosophy, or in scholarly or scientific theories, such as catastrophic theories of geology.
In 1931, Harvey Spencer Lewis, who went by the pseudonym Wishar Spenle Cerve [14] [15] wrote Lemuria: the Lost Continent of the Pacific, which popularized the idea that Shasta was a repository for Lemurians. [16] In the 1930s, Guy Warren Ballard claimed to have been approached by Saint Germain who told him he could endow him with knowledge and ...
The lost continent may have broken off from Australia 155 million years ago, but it wasn’t a clean break. A deep ocean basin off western Australia was a key clue to discovering the “lost ...
Argoland, once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, was long thought to be lost. But scientists discovered it splintered apart in Southeast Asia. Scientists Have Miraculously Located A ...
The world was shook earlier this year when researchers revealed Zealandia - a sunken continent long lost beneath the ocean. Scientists reveal secrets from the ‘lost continent’ of Zealandia ...
A lost continent is land supposedly existing during prehistory that has since disappeared. Lost Continent or The Lost Continent may also refer to: Lost Continent; Lost Continent; The Lost Continent; Atlantis, the Lost Continent; The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, an 1899 fantasy novel by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Nan Madol was one of the sites James Churchward identified as being part of the lost continent of Mu, starting in his 1926 book The Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Man. [ 25 ] The ruins of Nan Madol were used as the setting for a lost race story by A. Merritt , The Moon Pool (1918), in which the islands are called Nan-Tauach and the ruins ...