The lost continent of Mu
"The Garden of Eden was not in Asia, but in a continent now submerged in the Pacific Ocean. The biblical story of creation the epic narrative of the seven days and seven nights was not born among the people of the Nile and the valley of the Euphrates, but to Mu, the Motherland of Man. These statements of mine are reflected in the complex testimonies that I discovered both on the forgotten sacred tables in India and on documents from other countries"
Speaking is James Churchward, author, in 1920 of the bestseller Mu, the lost continent.
Churchward claimed to have discovered the SECRET LIBRARY of the Naacals, "a religious community sent by Mu to the colonies to teach the scriptures, religions, sciences". Where exactly this library is, Churchward fails to mention; the fact is that, by deciphering "thousands of clay tablets", he was able to learn the unknown history of the first inhabitants of the world.
The mysterious Khara Kota
Mu's story began with the discovery of Khara Kota, a city buried by the sands of the Gobi Desert found at the beginning of the century by the Russian adventurer Kolkov. Under the walls of this city, the explorer claimed to have found another older city, Uighur, capital of the kingdom of the Mongolian steppes bearing this name; his coat of arms was the Greek letter M ("Mu") inscribed in a circle divided into four sectors.
There are justified doubts about the real extent of Kolkov's findings, as the few remains found on the site by subsequent explorers do not correspond at all to the magnificence he described; the fact is, however, that, according to Churchward, Uighur was a simple colony of a vast continent that he baptized, in fact, Mu.
It occupied a territory delimited by the current Fiji Islands, the Marianas, the Haways and the EASTER ISLAND; it was inhabited by sixty-four million people and extended its dominion over the whole world, including ATLANTIS. It was populated by many races, over which the white one predominated, and, twelve thousand years ago, it had been submerged by a gigantic tsunami, and ended up being swallowed by the waters of the Pacific. A story that, as we can see, does not differ much from that of ATLANTIS, even if its origin is much more recent.
The continent-bridge
The hypothesis of the existence of another lost continent was a nineteenth-century English zoologist, Philip L. Slater, who had pointed out some similarities in the biological and environmental evolution of the coasts of Africa, India and Malaysia.
It should have been in the Indian Ocean; Slater had baptized it "Lemuria" because, among the animal species common to these three territories, there were, in fact, the prosimians called lemurs.
It was not a completely far-fetched theory: even today geologists call with this name a continent or a subcontinent that could have united Africa to Asia in the Jurassic period (from 180 to 130 million years ago). It is not surprising that, in the romantic nineteenth-century climate, the hypothesis of the existence of another vanished land immediately met with great success.
In 1888 Madame Blavatsky wrote that Lemuria was in the Pacific, and the third of the six races that (at least according to her) had inhabited the earth had dwelt there; she too had learned this information from a secret library. The Scot Lewis Spence resumed the speech stating that the dominant race of Lemuria was the white one, according to the racial theories in vogue at the time;
Churchward further popularized the story and gave Lemuria the final name of Mu.
