His interpretations of the Indian tablets suggested that Mu was formed when underground volcanic gasses expanded and pushed the landmass above sea-level. At the height of their civilization they were said to have 64 million inhabitants living in large cities. With the knowledge bestowed on him by the religious elder, Churchward went on to describe the people of Mu as an advanced civilization called the Naacal who existed between 50 000 and 12 000 years ago. The writing on the tablets were considered to be in the “Naga-Maya” language, the language of an ancient people from Tibet.
The priest showed him clay tablets which allegedly came from Mu. Churchward’s fascination with the subject was engendered by a chance meeting with a high-ranking temple priest in India where he was stationed as a soldier. He continued the notion of the lost continent in his writings on the subject from 1926 to 1933 including his work The Lost Continent of Mu, postulating its location in the Pacific Ocean. He too had an interest in spiritualism and the occult, even believing he had a preternatural ability to read symbols from ancient cultures. James Churchward, an author, engineer and inventor (1851-1936) was the next devotee beguiled by the enigma of Mu. He further inferred that when the continent sank, a survivor of the disaster, Queen Moo, founded the Egyptian civilization whilst others fled to Central America and became the Mayan people. Le Plongeon went on to interpret the writings as an indication that the Mayan civilization was older than the Egyptian or Greek civilizations. His wife, a spiritualist and regular séance attendee, may also have augmented his curiosity in the subject. Perhaps de Bourbourg’s interest in spiritualism or his speculations about the Maya and their connection to Atlantis were sufficient to hook Le Plongeon into the mystery of Mu. De Bourbourg had allegedly translated a word in the codex as Mu, a reference to a land which was submerged by a natural disaster. The original translator, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, attempted to decode the glyphs contained in the book, but achieved only limited success with the endeavor. He claimed to have translated ancient Mayan writings at the site, but unfortunately his translations were based on a misinterpreted version of the Troano Codex, an ancient pre-Columbian Mayan Book. Le Plongeon first introduced the idea of Mu in his works after his extensive exploration of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan region. His successor, however believed the continent was positioned in the Pacific Ocean, between Easter Island and Marianas from west to east and Mangaia and Hawaii on a south-north plane.
Where was Mu situated?Īccording to Le Plongeon, Mu was located in the Atlantic Ocean. The mythical concept was resurrected again in the 1930’s through the writing of James Churchward.
In certain sources the island is also referred to as Lemuria, but cited as two separate lost worlds in other sources. Mu was an ancient lost continent which existed 12 000 years ago, according to 19th century writer and explorer Augustus Le Plongeon (1825 – 1908).
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