Mu

This book never uses the name Mu.

I read James Churchward's The Children of Mu for the colonial claims a later writer can set beside his Mu page and beside Plato.

The title page names him author of The Lost Continent of Mu and The Sacred Symbols of Mu, calls the book illustrated, and gives Ives Washburn, Publisher, New York, with the Roman year MCMXXXIII.

Chapter I opens with his own synopsis of the earlier Mu book.

Where he points at The Lost Continent of Mu and does not restate the claim, I stop.

I do not call his Mu Lemuria.

For the site's separate page on his Pacific motherland, see James Churchward's Mu.

Title: The Children of Mu.

The title page also names him as author of The Lost Continent of Mu and The Sacred Symbols of Mu.

What he claims: Mu was a Pacific continent, the motherland, and the Biblical Garden of Eden.

Everyone who left Mu, in any direction, was a Maya.

Atlantis is a separate Atlantic land, not Mu.

Where he puts Mu.

64 he also says Mu sank about 10,000 B.C., and he uses that figure to put Niven's tablets past 12,000 years.

About 200,000 years ago, on Mu (p.

A footnote says two Naacal tablets state that about the time Mu went down, man had been on earth 200,000 years, and that many Oriental legends say the same (p.

Mu and the Biblical Garden of Eden were one land (p.

Ten tribes in Mu, easy to tell apart in body, with only minor differences in language and larger differences in glyphs.

Mu is Moo.

East, a recorded line from Mu to Yucatan and Central America, to Atlantis, through the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, through the Dardanelles, to the southeast corner of the Black Sea, with branches to Chile, Argentina, Scandinavia, southwestern Europe, northwestern Africa, and, last, the Nile Delta.

A second eastern line, map and remains only: from the southwest of Mu to South America, through canals and the Amazon Sea to East Africa, carrying the black races, with the white Caras or Carians, who he says are the Greeks.

Atlantis is not Mu.

He reads the bulk of them as extracts from the Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu (pp.

Peoples he lines up as Mu's children.

About twelve thousand years ago cataclysmic earthquakes rent Mu asunder.

He says the confirmations he lists are all given in The Lost Continent of Mu.

From those, as he states them here: Mu was a large Pacific continent; man appeared on it about 200,000 years ago; Mu and the Garden of Eden were the same land; the Naacal tablets and the Mexican tablets show man as a special creation, with an account of creation very like the Biblical one; at the destruction, Mu's science was far ahead of the present, at the end of 200,000 years, while "we today cannot claim five hundred"; India, Egypt, Babylonia, and the other old Oriental empires were the dying embers, her children.

The relics are two symbolic bronzes, made either in Mu or in an ancient Uighur city before the eastern half of that empire was destroyed by the north-running wave.

The plate caption, which has no printed page number, calls it one of the two oldest known bronzes, a symbolical figure of Mu as mistress and ruler of the whole earth, made in Mu or in the Uighur capital over 20,000 years ago, courtesy of George N.

If it is from Mu, the age cannot be estimated.

It is a symbol of Mu as the great ruler.

The British Museum, he says, has three scepters manufactured in Mu before she went down.

In Mu there were ten tribes, physically easy to tell apart, with few and minor differences of language and a greater change in the glyphs.

Colonization began when Mu was overcrowded, or when navigators found land.

It must have started at least 70,000 years before Mu sank.

When it could govern itself under Mu, it became a colonial empire, a ruler was appointed, and the symbol gained rays.

The ruler's title was "Son of the Sun," meaning a son of Mu, "The Empire of the Sun."

The mapped eastern line runs Mu to Yucatan and Central America, to Atlantis, through the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, through the Dardanelles, to the southeast corner of the Black Sea.

It starts from the southwest of Mu, reaches South America, passes through canals to the Amazon Sea, now the Amazon Swamp, and crosses to East Africa, with probable calls on the southern shores of Atlantis.

These emigrant children of Mu were called Mayas.

North America and eastern Asia, he says, received Mu's first colonies.

He assumes, from modern history, that Mu expanded while her civilization was still early.

He says peoples in Mu were named for that symbol.

The other is Mu.

The valley went down long before Mu, because after the valley rose again it was repeopled more than once.

Mu was "The Empire of the Sun," suzerain of the world.

Soon after the last repeopling from Mu, gas belts forming along western North America raised the ranges.

Churchward says no prominent archaeologist in Europe or America has read one of them, because anything over six or seven thousand years old requires the language, the symbols, the alphabet, and the cosmogony of Mu.

M was the alphabetical symbol for Mu, H for the Sacred Four, A for the Creator.

The bulk are extracts from the Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu.

At the submergence, man on Mu had become ten tribes.

The Codex Cortesianus, a Maya book written about 5,000 years ago from temple records now in a cave in Yucatan, calls Mu, in the passage on her destruction, "the land of earth hills," which he reads as rolling plains.

The temple is under Ra Mu, emperor and hieratic head of Mu, the Empire of the Sun, and mouthpiece of the Creator.

He distinguishes Ra Mu from Ra Ma, first emperor of the Naga empire of India.

Because the temple was under Mu, Mu was still above water.

Mu sank about 10,000 B.C., so the tablets are over 12,000 years old, and this American civilization is older than that.

1006 uses a serpent, with the Sun pattern he assigns to the northern people of Mu and to the Uighurs.

A stone shows the emigrating children of Mu as geese on the water.

He thinks one part of Mu chose a bird instead of the adorned serpent.

This one tablet, he says, is enough to show that the old Mexicans took their cosmogony from Mu.

Oriental records and South Sea legends said Mu's ships sailed the world, so the next-door continent had to hold remains of the First Civilization.

He says that at that time two streams of colonists were crossing the center of South America in boats, sail and sweep, not flying boats, bound from Mu to Atlantis and on through the Mediterranean as far as Asia Minor.

A great civilization was there before Mu sank, and tens of thousands of years before what he calls the monkey men of Europe.

Ceremonies that have been called Oriental reached Peru by two roads: from Mu, and from the Spanish conquerors, who came from the south of Spain, Moorish in atmosphere and, he says, half Moors in their conceptions.

Mu means Ma, and Ma or Mama means earth, depending on the use.

There was then an all-water way from Mu to Atlantis, West Africa, and Asia Minor.

The Carians came direct from Mu, settled the Amazonian shores, and on the southern shore became a kingdom.

In Mu's alphabet a glyph like our X, made by crossing the hieratic N, was a diphthong pronounced Sh.

It was a part of Mu.

The southeastern part of Mu was the Carian country and would have included what is now the island.

He thinks that during the destruction of Mu, cataclysmic waves drowned the carvers.

All the earth was peopled from Mu.

The Negro home in Mu was the southwest corner, now the island clusters called Melanesia, where descendants of those saved in the engulfing still live.

He is a Tamil, who settled the lower part of India and called it Dravida, came from Mu to India by the Malay Islands, and from India to East Africa, which he called Ethiopia.

The kinky-haired, flat-nosed Negro was given his color and his features in the southwest of Mu.

Children of Mu on long journeys took all-water routes.

The scepter is a trident, which he reads as Mu's suzerainty.

Le Plongeon found Yucatan inscriptions: the first settlers in Atlantis were Mayas from Mayax, and Atlantis was torn by earthquakes and then submerged, the same end as Mu.

Some writers took "lands beyond the sea" as the Lands of the West and made Atlantis into Mu.

The Great Central Gas Belt, on his map at page 109, runs from Mu to Asia Minor.

Two divisions pass under Mu, east under the Pacific, and split before America.

Mu and Atlantis were both held up by isolated gas chambers over the path of a forming belt.

In a specimen he finds many words of the language of Mu, other words with roots in it, and, what strikes him most, words identical in form and meaning with words in one of the southern Indian tongues.

From Osborn, Men of the Old Stone Age, page 477, he takes a nest of skulls in the grotto of Ofnet, all facing west, the direction of Mu for people who came by the western route.

On the Asian side of the Pacific, objects face east, the direction of Mu from Asia.

The Greek cross is taken from the central figure of the royal escutcheon of Mu.

Each letter is a Maya vocable or a combination of them, and together they make an epic of the destruction of Mu.

Submerged is the Land of Mu.

Two claims only: who the original Egyptians were, and that they were children of Mu who came from the Motherland.

His list of what that evidence shows: the first Egyptians were Mayas; Lower Egypt came from Atlantis; Upper Egypt came from India; both colonies were later augmented from the Motherland by way of India and Mayax; the people of Mu were the first men; Atlantis was destroyed by earthquakes and submerged; America was destroyed and left impassable and uninhabitable for a long time; in Egypt, Mu was also called the Lands of the West and Kui Land; Mu existed and was the original habitat of man; Egypt was a colony of Mu and, after Mu sank, an empire.

In the Motherland the hieratic head took the title Ra Mu.

Churchward adds that after Mu sank, civilizations throughout the world either degenerated or stood still, Egypt and India included.

The southern main line, the one most is known about, runs from Mu to Burma, Burma to India, and from India to Babylonia and to Upper Egypt, Nubia, and the White and Blue Niles.

A secondary line runs from Mu to the Malay Islands, to southern India, which they called Dravida, and to Africa south of Nubia.

The most important western line is the northern one, the Uighurs, forefathers of the Aryan races, and possibly the first colonial empire, unquestionably the largest and most powerful of Mu's colonial empires.

The royal lotus, Mu's flower, is everywhere.

Headdresses carry Mu's numeral.

Conventional figures the French call lions rise and face east, and their mouths are the letter M of Mu's hieratic alphabet, the alphabetical symbol of Mu.

India, under the ancient name Bharata for the Deccan, carried Mu's civilization for nearly eight thousand years after the volcanic forces tore the Motherland apart.

See his footnote on page 63, where Ra Ma is the first emperor of the Naga empire, as against Ra Mu of the Motherland.

Hiranypura is Naga-Maya, "the home of those who dwell on the ocean." One of Mu's western seaports had the name.

The title was bestowed by Mu on the emperors of colonial empires.

That symbol belongs to the southern half of the western shores of Mu, inland for an unknown distance.

Patala is the Land of the Sun, one of the names of Mu.

The Uighur empire was the largest and most important of Mu's colonial empires, and next to Mu the largest empire the world has known.

Some years ago Schliemann found, in the old Buddhist temple at Lhasa, a writing on the destruction of Mu, a translation of an old tablet in Pali and Tibetan mixed.

An old Oriental document describes the empire as something like petty kingdoms or states, each with its ruler, one empire under one emperor, and that emperor under Mu.

Mu herself was the United States of the world.

In after times they met the end of the eastern line from Mu.

They left Mu, settled in Yucatan, and called their city Zahia.

The Persian flag still carries the emblem of a colonial empire, an emerging sun on the horizon with rays, and so connects Persia with the Uighurs and with Mu.

He is trying to show that everyone who controlled Babylonia came from Mu.

The symbols on both masks refer to the submergence of Mu.

On the smaller one he reads three bars, Mu's numeral; an eye closed by a force; the eye in sleep, which is death; the nose closed, strangled; the letter M; the primary forces working downward; and a rolling-in, a submerging.

The head is Mu.

A great pyramid nearby, which he has previously shown to be a monument to Mu, and ancient temples nearby, suggest that priests wore the masks at commemorative ceremonies.

The masks are not very old, probably of the earlier life of the pyramid, some time after Mu sank, and they are not modern.

Traditions say some Malay islands were peopled from Mu by a branch of the Quiche Mayas.

A hundred years ago, Japan would have been a reflection of Mu 15,000 years ago.

His conclusion is that New Zealand was one of Mu's small distant colonies, a separate line, about a thousand miles south of the southwest corner of the Motherland.

When Mu sank, they were not artisans.

The Maori have traditions of the dim past that are not found on any Pacific island, and sacred symbols that originated in Mu and are not found among the Polynesian islands.

It may be the name of the part of Mu they left.

The marks that connect the Maori with Mu are language, traditions, sacred symbols, religion, and totem pillars.

James Churchward's The Lost Continent of Mu, subtitled The Motherland of Man, in the University of California, Santa Cruz library copy, the Google Books scan of that volume.

I am reading the 1926 book itself, not a later reissue and not his other Mu titles.

The existing overview of the name is What Was the Lost Continent of Mu?.

Title: The Lost Continent of Mu.

What he claims: a real Pacific continent, Mu, the motherland of man and the biblical Garden of Eden.

Three lands, ten peoples, 64,000,000 people, an emperor Ra Mu, and the Empire of the Sun.

Hieratic name Mu.

Emperor Ra Mu.

A king given the prefix Ra becomes the hieratic head and emperor Ra Mu.

Colonial empires under Mu's suzerainty traced back more than 35,000 years.

He puts Mu at the height of her magnificence 50,000 or more years ago by adding Mayax and Atlantis reigns (pp.

Not Mu.

Atlantis had seven sacred cities, as Mu and India did (pp.

Garden of Eden was Mu, not Asia.

The story went from Mu to India, from India to Egypt, from Egypt to the temple he writes as Sanai, where Moses copied it, and from Moses to the translations of Ezra 800 years later.

Burnt sacrifice was coined for the way Mu died (pp.

Mexico and Central America were settled from Mu.

A Mu colony that became an empire.

They were written either in Burma or in Mu.

These tablets were written either in Burma or in Mu, the lost continent, and their extreme age is attested by the fact that legendary history says that the Naacals left Burma more than 15,000 years ago.

The biblical story of creation, the epic of the seven days and seven nights, came first not from the Nile or the Euphrates but from Mu, the Motherland of Man.

Those writings described the creation of man in Mu.

Churchward reads them as the genuine records of Mu.

The writings described the creation of the earth and of man, and the place where man first appeared, Mu (pp.

From the tablets and the comparison he concluded that the early Greeks, the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Hindus were preceded by the civilization of Mu.

The creation story, he says, went from Mu to India, where colonizers from the vanished continent had settled; from India into Egypt; from Egypt to the temple of Sanai, where Moses copied it; and from Moses to the faulty translations of Ezra 800 years later (p.

The geometrical symbol of Mu is also the hieratic letter M, and it reads Moo, Ma, mother, land, field, country, and mouth.

Three is Mu's numeral because the continent was three lands divided by narrow channels or seas.

The tablet names Mu three times, and man is leaping.

He thinks these were only the start of a long series, probably the early history of Mu.

Every creation legend he has found shares enough that he will only allow one origin, in Mu.

The priest told him the tablets could not be read without the Naga-Maya language, because all ancient writings that have to do with Mu are in that language, and all Naacal writing has an esoteric meaning known only to the Naacals and to those they taught.

The story taught in Sunday schools originated, on this page, in Mu (p.

The Troano Manuscript, a Maya book written in Yucatan, now in the British Museum, speaks of the Land of Mu with the same symbols used in India, Burma, and Egypt.

He says they are so identical that they came from one source only, Mu.

He then became the hieratical head and emperor under the name "Ra Mu."

As high priest, Ra Mu was the representative of the Deity in religious teachings.

It was taught that Ra Mu was not to be worshipped, because he was only a representative (p.

There was no savagery on the face of the earth, and there never had been, because all peoples were children of Mu and under the suzerainty of the motherland.

The dominant race in the land of Mu was a white race, exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skins, large, soft, dark eyes and straight black hair.

The people of Mu were great navigators.

In Mu there were seven great or principal cities, the seats of religion, science, and learning, and many other cities, towns, and villages through the three lands.

Mu was the mother and the center of the earth's civilization, learning, trade, and commerce.

Because man's advent was in Mu, the name Land of Kui was added to the name Mu.

Rumblings, earthquakes, and volcanic outbursts shook the southern parts of Mu.

Many generations later, when that phenomenon had become past history, Mu was struck again.

A plate opposite this passage is captioned The Destruction of Mu, with the line that temples and palaces came crashing to the ground (pp.

The people sought refuge in their temples and citadels and were driven out by fire and smoke, and the women and the men, in shining garments and precious stones, cried Mu, save us.

"Mu and her 64,000,000 people were sacrificed."

As Mu sank, another force claimed her, fifty millions of square miles of water.

The islands that remain include the South Sea Islands, and some of their people can claim the people of ancient Mu as remote ancestors (pp.

He repeats that Mu is where man appeared, and that the records prove it was the biblical Garden of Eden.

The records based on the supposed age of the Troano Manuscript show that Mu was in existence up to the edge of historical times, within 12,000 to 12,500 years ago.

The map on the previous plate is captioned The Geographical Position of Mu.

It names Asia, North America, South America, the Pacific, Atlantis, Hawaii, the Ladrones, Panape, Mu, Aurorai, Ninafou, the Marquesas, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga-tabu, Tahiti, Mangala, Australia, Easter, the ocean, and New Zealand (p.

The next figure is captioned Map of Mu, and under that, The Lands of the West from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (p.

Both the Troano and the Codex Cortesianus call Mu the land of hills of earth, or ridges of earth.

The volcanic workings that sent Mu down were preparatory to mountain raising (p.

Schliemann, on the Troano and the Lhasa record only, asserted that Atlantis was the land of Mu.

Other records would have told him that Mu lay to the west of America, not to the east, which is where Churchward puts Atlantis.

Le Plongeon advanced the theory that Central America was the Lands of the West and therefore Mu, from the contour of the land around the Caribbean, forgetting that the Lands of the West were destroyed and submerged, while Central America is not (p.

The Troano places the sinking of Mu at approximately 12,500 years ago.

That, for him, eliminates the possibility that Atlantis was Mu or the Lands of the West.

Writers on Mu have ignored the remains on the South Sea Islands, the inscriptions at the Temple of Sacred Mysteries at Uxmal, and the island traditions (p.

Mexico and Central America were colonized from Mu.

The fan in her hand is ornamented with the royal escutcheon of Mu, the Empire of the Sun.

No ancient record he has found mentions savagery on any spot of the earth before the destruction of Mu (p.

The chapter ends with a tracing from the Troano Manuscript, captioned as recounting the destruction of Mu, the arrow pointing to the Maya hieroglyph for the Land of Mu (p.

American written records say Mu lay to the west of America.

The country of the hills of earth, the land of Mu, was sacrificed.

The second extract reads: the birthplace of the sacred mysteries, Mu, the Lands of the West, that land of Kui, the motherland of the gods.

The characters being in a block designate the past tense, so Mu was the Lands of the West.

Extracts: by his strong arm Homen caused the earth to tremble after sunset, and during the night Mu, the country of the hills of earth, was submerged.

Mu, the life of the basin, the seas, was submerged by Homen during the night.

Twice Mu jumped from her foundations.

The wise Mu, the hieratic Ra Mu, arose and said, did I not predict all this.

The women and the men in their precious stones and shining garments lamented, Mu, save us.

Mu replied that they should all die together with their servants and their riches, and from their ashes new nations should arise.

Flames and smoke choked the words of Mu.

Le Plongeon found records in Yucatan stating that the hieratic head of the Land of Mu prophesied the destruction, and that some, heeding the prophecy, left for the colonies and were saved.

As Churchward prints it, this edifice is a commemorative monument dedicated to the memory of Mu, the Lands of the West, that Land of Kui, the birthplace of our sacred mysteries.

Whatever is found there, he says, originated in Mu, and from it the Egyptian religion and learning can be traced (p.

He says the Greek alphabet today is composed of Maya vocables forming an epic of the destruction of Mu.

The alphabet of the Greeks is an epic composed of Kara Maya vocables, a commemorative memorial to their forefathers who lost their lives at the destruction of Mu (p.

In Plato's Timeus Critias, as he prints the title, we find that the Land of Mu had ten peoples.

The only conclusion he allows is a continent that embraced every group where the remains are found, and that continent was Mu.

A cave painting, which he says antedates their low savagery, shows three remarkable objects: Ra the sun, the numeral 3 twice, which is the symbol of Mu, and an axe.

The column runs on through Mu, which is simply Mu, and through peaks, rising, whirlwinds, cold, abyss, mud, mouth, vapor, and volcanic sediments.

The waters spread on all that lives and moves, the foundations give way, and submerged is the land of Mu.

He also prints the Greek alphabet in the hieratic characters of Mu, written to be read from left to right, and notes that the ancients generally wrote horizontal lines to be read from right to left (p.

The Greek cross, found especially in Yucatan and Central America, and noted by Winter in Guatemala, page 156, on the stones of Quirigua and Copan, was the central figure of the royal escutcheon of Mu.

The cross confirms his reading of the alphabet, the alphabet confirms the cross, and the two confirm Mu, the Empire of the Sun, as the motherland of the Greeks (p.

Churchward's reading is that the book is a sacred commemorative memorial to the multitudes who lost their lives at the destruction of Mu, the forefathers of the Egyptians and of all mankind.

It is the symbolic letter and the name of Mu.

"Mu has gone forth from the day."

Every chapter refers directly or indirectly to Mu, and the book is permeated with symbols assigned to Mu before man trod the soil of Egypt (pp.

It reads: Mu has gone down into an abyss of fire, and as she sank, flames shot up around her and enveloped her.

The lotus is Mu.

The rayless sun below the lotus means the sun has dropped below the horizon of Mu.

The sun has forever set on dead Mu.

The dead lotus is dead Mu.

His translation: the Egyptians came from Mu, a land which is dead and exists no more.

I am a pure lotus means I am a pure descendant from the people of Mu.

In the tongue of the motherland, Mu meant mother, land, field, country, empire, and mouth.

A free reading: I am an Egyptian of pure descent; my forefathers came from the motherland Mu, the Empire of the Sun, which is now dead and gone (pp.

The soul was incarnated in Mu, the Lands of the West.

When the body dies, the soul returns to the place of incarnation, Mu, to await reincarnation (pp.

The two cults are, for him, another proof that man appeared on Mu and that Mu lay east of Burma and west of Mayax, therefore in the Pacific (p.

The border of another such dress was a continuation of a symbol of Mu submerged, which he points to his page 139.

At Copan in Honduras, Quirigua in Guatemala, and Opico and Cirraca-Mecallo in Salvador, there are vast prehistoric ruins, and among each are symbols referring to Mu.

The Uighur was the principal colonial empire belonging to Mu at the time of the biblical flood, which destroyed its eastern half.

About one half of the empire was destroyed before Mu went down, and the other half after Mu's submersion (p.

Behind her body is a large disc, the sun, symbolizing Mu.

Her seat is a full-blown sacred lotus, so she sits in the lap of Mu.

The shield is a conventional letter M, pronounced Mu and Moo, and it was her name.

Prefix the shield and it is Mu, the Empire of the Sun.

The Codex Cortesianus calls Mu the Ruler.

Traditions say that when Mu was turned into an empire, the hieratic head was selected to be king.

The new king assumed the title Ra, and to it was added the name of the land, so the full title was Ra Mu, or Sun Mu.

The free reading of the first compound glyph: Mu, the Empire of the Sun, has fallen into an abyss; she is in the region of darkness, where the sun never shines upon her.

He has asserted that the civilization of Mu dates back to more than 50,000 years ago, and this chapter is the arithmetic.

Mayax had advanced from a settlement to a colonial empire, which takes time, so Mu is much older than 35,000 years (pp.

Granting the same interval between the first emperor of Mu and the first king of Mayax, Mu was at the height of her magnificence 50,000 or more years ago (p.

On geology's own clock those civilizations, which came out of Mu, would date her hundreds of thousands of years back.

The cities were built before the mountains were raised, and tablets from them, which he has deciphered, show they were Mu's colonies.

Geologically, the lowest city dates far back into the Tertiary Era and was in existence more than 50,000 years ago as a colony of Mu.

These facts, he says, prove that the civilization of Mu dates back more than 50,000 years (p.

Records in Yucatan say they came from Mu.

Therefore Mu, the Lands of the West, that land of Kui, and the biblical Garden of Eden are one and the same (pp.

It symbolizes resurrection, a springing into life, and in the writings of Mu it is used for the emersion of land.

When the Cross appeared at a certain angle over Mu, it brought the rains.

The three inner triangles have three points, the motherland's numeral, so the origin of the symbol and of the people who use it was in Mu.

The cosmic diagram of the land of Mu was the first book ever written by man.

In Mu the novice learned this book and repeated it as his belief in God and the hereafter, as children are taught their Bibles.

The conventional beasts called lions have elongated square mouths, a symbol of Mu, and they rise with their faces to the east, the direction of the burial ground.

From end to end the stones cry Mu (p.

The symbol came from Mu.

On the front of the handle, the numeral three is repeated, and an elongated square forms mouth and nose, reading Mu.

Fully open royal lotuses at each side emphasize Mu.

His reading takes the beholder back 16,000 years, when Mu still held sway, before she sank, and to the time when the first settlements were being made in Egypt on the Nile Delta under Thoth, the dawn of Egyptian history.

Rays divided into groups of four make a complete circle, part of the symbol Mu, the Empire of the Sun.

Queen Moo and her husband Coh of the Can family are reigning in Mayax, and Mayax is one of Mu's colonial empires (pp.

He cannot say whether this means Mu has seventeen colonies.

Freely read: these people who came to Ceylon came from a colony of Mu, in their boats, the road being across the ocean, and their forefathers came to that colony from the motherland.

There is a possibility that complete copies of the Seven Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu may be found in the ruins of ancient Hindu Rishi temples.

The hieratic name for all of these was the Land of Mu (p.

The Sacred and Inspired Writings of Mu tell what life is, how it originated, and the forces that govern it.

The readings that bear on Mu are these.

Mu forever in darkness is the numeral three on top of the black disc.

A vignette says Mu lies across the ocean in the direction of the setting sun.

At Grapevine Canyon a ground plan of a temple, a submersion symbol, and a compound of sunset, the life cross, and submersion, read: this temple is erected to the memory of Mu, the Motherland of Man, which has been submerged with myriads of souls.

The central shrine has m reversed, Mu, and she is dead.

The whole tableau: Mu, with myriads of souls, has been submerged.

An adjacent stone is a sacrificial scene, an animal on an altar, fires, and the symbol of submerged Mu.

Burnt sacrifices were introduced to commemorate Mu and her people being consumed by fire as she sank into the fiery abyss (pp.

At Gold Gulch, Beatty, Nevada, a natural rock was used thousands of years ago as a guide and as a monument to Mu.

Freely read: a mouth opened, volcanic fires and vapors came forth, the land gave way, and Mu, the Great Ruler, the Empire of the Sun, sank into that abyss of fire.

The cliff dwellers were the last colonizers to arrive from Mu.

Their connection with the motherland is established, and their traditions say they came from Mu.

Their sacred symbols are virtually those of Mu.

The Pueblos came directly from Mu, submerged some 12,000 years ago, so they were in America at least 12,000 years.

Churchward answers that their hands left records on the rocks, and by those records they are colonizers from Mu (pp.

Hundreds of rock writings, and many legends, say these first civilizations came from a country called Mu, and that Mu lay to the west of America, beyond the horizon of the great water.

Every guide-post picture contains a reference to Mu, both before and after the submersion.

Tablet 1 refers to one of Mu's colonies and gives the shape, not the name.

Three circles are a common way of writing Mu.

Tablet 2 is a picture of the hieratic head of Mu.

The feather was the symbol of truth, and three again gives Mu's name, so he is the king high priest of Mu.

The top reads: benedictions and blessings on your temple and people from Ra Mu, the king high priest of the Empire of the Sun.

Tablet 4 depicts colonizers leaving Mu to join a colony already established in Mexico and to settle north of it.

The most remarkable symbol is the cosmogonic diagram of Mu.

The inscription Le Plongeon found, and which a native gentleman who understood the Maya writings verified for Churchward, says this edifice is a memorial commemorating the destruction of Mu, the Lands of the West, whence came our sacred mysteries.

Before her submersion, a series of isolated chambers lay very near the surface of Mu, holding her up, and the next line was many miles below.

During the forging, the deep chambers became overcompressed, cracks opened upward, and at last the roofs of the chambers under Mu were punctured, the land crashed to the floors, the Pacific flowed in, and Mu was no more (pp.

The chambers under Mu were eliminated during the forging of the Pacific division of the great central gas belt and the Pacific cross belts.

The chambers marked as the upper isolated series were the final assassins of Mu.

Since it helped submerge Mu it has filled with water and forms a lake.

Nothing in the nature of volcanic disturbance, before or since, compares with the cataclysm that destroyed the land of Mu some twelve or thirteen thousands of years ago (p.

Mu covered nearly one half of the Pacific.

To have kept the original level after Mu went down, twice as much water would have been required as the ocean then contained.

Mu was not the only land that went down.

The land of Mu, several thousands of miles long and thousands of miles wide.

The great central belt submerged Mu and Atlantis.

Mu alone accounted for 64,000,000.

This cycle confirms the data about Mu and proves a great prehistoric continent in the Pacific.

A plate is captioned After the Submersion of Mu (p.

From a number of ancient writings, Churchward concludes that ancestral worship originated through the destruction of Mu.

It is prominent in the Egyptian rites, where the forefathers of the land of Mu furnish the principal theme, and it is reflected in some Maya monuments and in the Greek alphabet (pp.

The research shows that Moses wrote the first books of the Bible from the temple records brought to Egypt from the motherland by the Naacals, via Burma and India, and that those Egyptian temple records were copies of the Seven Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu.

Before the submersion of Mu, the word sacrifice was unknown in any language.

It was coined to describe the way Mu was destroyed, and a fire upon an altar symbolizes the remembrance of the motherland (pp.

Therefore Mu originated ancestral worship.

After Mu was destroyed, the peoples symbolized her destruction so that her memory should not be forgotten among coming generations.

The hieratic name was Mu.