![]() ![]() ![]() The lost continent was apparently doomed from the start since the word, Mu, supposedly means “a land that had been submerged after a catastrophe”. The explanation for several years was Mu, a lost continent with an age between 20 and 25 thousand years that, like Atlantis, was submerged in the middle of an ocean -the Pacific-, leaving no trace other than legends of ancient cultures and some even claim that in codices and manuscripts. Unfortunately for adherents to the idea, there is no empirical evidence to support its existence or the theories of its demise as geologists dismiss the existence of Mu as physically impossible, arguing that a continent can neither sink nor be destroyed in the short period of time asserted in folklore and literature. The lost continent of Mu was first proposed in the mid-19th century to explain the phenomenon of similar symbols, architecture and myths found in otherwise disparate, ancient cultures around the world. James Churchward was a patented inventor, an engineer, and a man who claimed that he had found evidence of a lost civilization: Mu. Yucatán was older than those of Greece and Egypt, and told the story of an even older continent. The final destruction of Atlantis happened some 9,500 years before. He claimed that he had translated the first copies of the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the K’iche’ from the ancient Mayan using Spanish. For generations its people lived virtuous lives until greed and power began to corrupt them. The mythical idea of the “Land of Mu” first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon, after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. It was subsequently popularized as an alternative term for the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. ![]()
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