Mu continent
Recent studies, ancient legends and mythologies as well as explorers in search of mysteries report the testimony of an ancient and fabulous continent: Mu.
Although there is still no geological and scientific evidence, everything leads us to believe that around 12,000 years ago, just as the antediluvian tradition wants there was a continent in the Pacific Ocean called "Mu", even if the demarcation limit between the continent Mu and that of Lemuria seems to be so thin as to suggest a different name and mythology for the same ancient continent.
The first hypotheses for the study of this continent began way back in 1868 by Colonel James Churchward. The colonel at that time was in India as assistant to a high priest, and it was in fact precisely in India, during a period of severe famine, that the colonel began his studies on an ancient bas-relief.
The priest's passion for archaeology, combined with Churchward's own passion, made the friendship between the two possible, so that when the priest saw the colonel immersed in the study of ancient inscriptions on the wall of a temple, he helped him in the task of translating what was written there.
The priest thus revealed to Churchward that the inscriptions on the wall had been written in ancient times with a writing system referring to an ancient language. Furthermore, he revealed to the colonel that there were tablets, which later became famous, which had been written with the same writing: the tablets dealt with the origin of man and his appearance on the continent of Mu.
Belonging to a much larger collection than those found, the tablets had been found in Rishi, one of the seven sacred cities of India. The priest revealed that the tablets in question were sacred since they had been written with a language difficult to understand and rich in esoteric meanings. Furthermore he said that the tablets had been written by the "Holy Brothers" in India called "Naacal" who, having arrived from their mother homeland, they had settled in south-eastern Asia to bring the doctrines of science, religion and sacred scriptures. According to the priest the tablets would have been written in Burma or, even, coming from the same continent Mu, furthermore he specified that they would be ancient of thousands of years.
Very important news came out of the translations. It was told about the birth of the human species, about cosmogony and how all this began on the disappeared continent Mu.
Curiosity for knowledge meant that the colonel began to wander, first in India and Burma, and later around the rest of the world in search of other similar tablets and clues to the ancient human civilization which is told about in the same tablets.
The archaeological support of William Niven was very important, as he discovered the existence of ancient cities submerged by volcanic devastation in Mexico, but one could still refer to many other civilizations swept away by the "universal flood"; furthermore, Niven himself extraordinarily found 2600 other tablets dealing with the topic that interested Churchward so much: The continent Mu.
Below we present a summary but effective outline of the history of the lost continent.
The continent of Mu was a vast non-flat territory which, located in the Pacific Ocean, extended approximately from the Hawaiian Islands to Easter Island and the Fiji Islands. Its horizontal measurements were approximately 8000 km and 5000 km vertically. Ultimately comparable to a Garden of Eden, it had a rich fauna including very large animals and lush fauna interspersed with lakes and rivers, all framed by a typically tropical climate. As regards anthropo-sociological data, it was inhabited by approximately 64 million inhabitants and the social structure was divided into 10 tribes governed by a single king with spiritual and temporal powers whose name was "Ra-Mu".
Even more interesting is to see how the cult was intended for a divinity called "Ra the Sun" and it is useless to go and verify how the Egyptians, Maya and many other peoples venerated the sun. The inhabitants of Mu never pronounced the name of their God and believed, like many other peoples, in the immortality of the soul and in the future return to God.
Wealth, well-being and peace thrived on the continent, four races lived on it and among them the predominant one was the white one, while the others did not have predominant roles: let us remember that civilizations such as that of Rapa-nui, Maya, Kajappos and many others believe in white deities, as colonizers and bearers of ancient knowledge. Moreover, it is said in the tablets that the civilization of Mu knew navigation, architectural and sculpture arts very well.
Mu was divided into 3 large areas and had seven main cities from which science, art and culture branched off towards the colonies that Mu founded throughout the world: the Mayax in America, the Uighur Empire in Central Asia and the Naga kingdom in South Asia.
Finally, the tablets say that the glorious continent pre-existed 50,000 years ago and that man made his appearance on it. Finally, the story tells how the continent, shortly before Atlantis was also submerged, suffered two violent destructions. After the first, temples and cities were rebuilt, but the second (13,000 years ago) was fatal and the continent was completely submerged. Ancient sailors thus escaped, giving rise to legends and myths throughout the world.
Churchward posed interesting parallels between the ancient civilizations of the past, translating texts such as the "Codex Cortesianus", the Troano manuscript, the Ramayana, the inscriptions of the temple of Uxmal, etc... but a very important element was a discovery by a certain Russian professor Koslov: the professor, in the ancient Asian capital-colony of Mu "Uighur", discovered a very ancient tomb, currently located in the Gobi desert at a depth of 50 meters under the ruins of the city of "Khara Khota". The tomb in question was at least 18,000 years old and in it there were the painted remains of a king and queen decorated with the symbols of Mu: an M, a Tau, and an o crossed vertically by a line.
Churchward's credibility is almost untouchable given that the colonel squandered a fortune on his desire to know and although his conclusions may be in part very exhaustive, I personally believe that the problem is much broader. Even if proof of the tablets has never been provided, we must believe that due to their sacredness and importance their existence is also denied to the public. One could perhaps object that Mu could be another myth of a lost continent similar to Atlantis, but let's also remember that ancient Indian texts such as the Ramayana tell of battles in the skies on flying chariots (the Vimanas) between the continents Mu and that of Atlantis...
Perhaps there will come a day when archeology will stop cataloging "Piltdown" trilobites and hominids and look for evidence of what and where man really came from.
