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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]
Map of Mu by James Churchward. Lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during prehistory, but to have since disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena. Legends of lost lands often originated as scholarly or scientific theories, only to be picked up by writers and individuals outside the academy.
Churchward appropriated this name from Augustus Le Plongeon, who had used the concept of the "Land of Mu" to refer to the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Churchward's books included The Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Men (1926), The Children of Mu (1931), The Sacred Symbols of Mu (1933), Cosmic Forces of Mu (1934), and Second ...
Churchward and the lost island of Mu also appear in Philip K. Dick's Confessions of a Crap Artist. The British anarchist situationist band KLF, also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, often refer to Mu Mu land and were inspired by The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and much of their work was Discordian in nature.
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 ...
A deep ocean basin off western Australia was a key clue to discovering the “lost” land mass’s current home. In terms of breakups, the splitting of Australia and the lost continent of ...
Land of the lost: Hidden lagoon network found with living fossils similar to those from more than 3 billion years ago. Taylor Nicioli, CNN. December 16, 2023 at 5:53 AM.
Lost continents or ancient civilizations sunk by a deluge are a common theme in the scriptures of doctrines of many modern pseudoreligions or cults. Well-known instances include James Churchward's books on Mu , the Theosophical portrayals of Hyperborea , Lemuria and Atlantis , and even the Nazi mythologizing about Thule .