The fact that the concept of continents didn't exist until the times of the Ancient Greeks makes the story even more believable.
According to him, the tablets were 12 thousand years old, older than Ancient Greece. According to him, those tablets, which were written in the same Naga-Maya language (which still doesn't exist) were telling the stories of how the people escaped from their continent because it was sinking. In later years, Churchward has worked on tablets that have been found in another suspiciously unnamed temple in Mexico. I learned that the land has sunken by great earthquakes and was destroyed in a whirl of water and fire. I indubitably discovered that this lost continent ranged from some place north of Hawaii to Fiji and the Easter Island, and was the first place that the humanity lived in. I found out that the civilisation of Mu absolutely existed before the civilisations of Greece, Chaldea, Babel, Persia, Egypt and Hindu. Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Fiji and the Easter Island are supposedly its remnants. His " theory" relies on the tablets he has found in a temple (the name of which he suspiciously doesn't give) in India, that he has translated from the ancient Naga-Maya language ( which doesn't exist) that he supposedly learned from an Indian monk.Īccording to him, Mu was placed between the Americas and Asia, and it was bigger than Australia, and there was a highly developed civilization before it sunk by an earthquake or flood about 12 thousand years ago. In the early 20 th century, the name was recycled by the British military officer and traveler James Churchward, who used it for an alleged sunken continent in the Pacific. Le Plongeon got the name "Mu" from the earlier work of Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, whose attempts at translating a Mayan codex led him to believe that this was the name of a land lost in a catastrophe. According to him, after the continent sank, refugees founded the civilizations of Ancient Egypt and the Yucatan Peninsula. The idea originated in the 19 th century, when Augustus Le Plongeon, a British " amateur archaeologist", claimed that he had translated Mayan writings describing an unnamed lost continent in the Atlantic Ocean, namely Atlantis.
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