200,000 - 20,000 BCE Mu/Lemuria
Lemuria or Mu: Similar to Atlantis, Lemuria (or Mu) was described by Cayce as another ancient, lost civilization.
Mu is a modern esoteric lost continent.
What was the Lost Continent of Mu?
Augustus Le Plongeon placed Mu in the Atlantic and linked it to Plato’s Atlantis.
James Churchward relocated Mu to the Pacific as a vast Naacal motherland.
I start with Le Plongeon because he named Mu and tied it to the Atlantic story.
Then I set Mu beside Atlantis and Lemuria so the three names do not collapse into one.
He kept the name Mu for a land destroyed by catastrophe and identified that land with Atlantis in the Atlantic.
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, in 1864, misread the Troano Codex (Madrid Codex) with the de Landa alphabet and took a glyph sequence as “Mu,” a land destroyed by catastrophe.
In Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx (1896), Le Plongeon writes the Atlantic Mu into the same catastrophe story Plato records:
In our journey westward across the Atlantic we shall pass in sight of that spot where once existed the pride and life of the ocean, the Land of Mu, which, at the epoch that we have been considering, had not yet been visited by the wrath of Human, that lord of volcanic fires to whose fury it afterward fell a victim.
Meaning: for Le Plongeon, Mu is the Atlantic land Plato describes.
Le Plongeon also proposed Lemuria or Mu vanishing at the dawn of human history.
He placed Mu in the Atlantic.
He held that Queen Moo fled after conflict, sought the Land of Mu, found it gone, and reached Egypt.
In that reading Egypt’s founding is tied to Queen Moo as a Mu refugee, with other refugees reaching Maya Central America.
That is Le Plongeon’s Mu: Atlantic, Atlantis-linked, Queen Moo as refugee founder.
James Churchward (1851-1936) popularized Mu as a Pacific motherland.
His series begins with Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man (1926), reissued as The Lost Continent of Mu (1931).
On his tablet discovery claim, Churchward recounted discovering ancient clay tablets in India, written in a mysterious “Naga-Maya language.” Those tablets, he claimed, originated from Mu.
In The Lost Continent of Mu (1931) he also frames science in the book on a second set: about 2,500 stone tablets associated with William Niven in Mexico.
He claimed man first appeared in Mu.
On civilization scale and destruction, Churchward described Mu as an advanced civilization, led by a superior “white race.” A home to 64 million people before its destruction around 12,000 years ago.
He linked Mu’s influence to Egypt, Greece, and Central America: megalithic architecture, sun symbols, and sun worship.
He held that Polynesian megalithic art came from Mu.
Sacred Symbols of Mu (1933) traces world religions to Mu and holds that Mu’s teachings influenced Moses and Jesus.
Churchward’s five Mu titles, as this trail uses them:
The Lost Continent of Mu - motherland, Garden of Eden, birth of civilization
The Children of Mu - inhabitants as influential, utopian, advanced
The Sacred Symbols of Mu - religions and symbols from Mu; Moses and Jesus claim
The Cosmic Forces of Mu - challenges evolution and atomic orthodoxy in his framing
Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu - further revisionist Earth history
Le Plongeon’s Mu is the Atlantic twin of Plato’s Atlantis.
Churchward’s Mu is a Pacific motherland, a parallel lost-continent sister to Atlantis.
Lemuria is mainly the Theosophical and root-race Pacific-Indian trail, including William Scott-Elliot’s Lost Lemuria, and it sometimes overlaps Mu in popular speech.
I use Mu as lost-continent geography beside Plato’s Atlantis and Theosophical Lemuria.
Churchward’s sacred symbols and sun worship as Mu-to-world diffusion claims sit beside my pages on Atlantis symbols and solar cult.
Mu is the Pacific sister map I set beside that house.
I give Le Plongeon’s Atlantic Mu and Churchward’s Pacific numbers real weight.
64 million people, about 12,000 years ago, Naacal tablets, Queen Moo as refugee: those are the Mu tradition this site works with.
What was the Lost Continent of Mu?Mu is a modern esoteric lost land.
Is Mu the same as Atlantis?Plato’s Atlantis is Atlantic.
Le Plongeon equated Mu with that Atlantic land.
Churchward moved Mu to the Pacific as a separate motherland.
Is Mu the same as Lemuria?Popular speech overlaps the names.
Churchward’s Mu is his Pacific tablet tradition.
Where did Le Plongeon and Churchward place Mu?Le Plongeon: Atlantic, linked to Plato’s Atlantis and Queen Moo’s refugee trail.
How does Mu help Atlantis research?It supplies a parallel catastrophe and diffusion trail beside Plato’s Atlantic story: deluge memory, sacred symbols, sun worship, and refugee founders.
The third root race Lemurians: Lemuria / Mu neighbor in the root-race Pacific-Indian trail.
William Scott-Elliot: Theosophical Atlantis and Lost Lemuria author beside this Mu map.
The sacred symbol of Atlantis, the four-armed cross: Sacred-symbol neighbor to Churchward’s Sacred Symbols of Mu.
12 kings of Atlantis: Plato Atlantic dynasty beside Pacific Mu as sister lost-continent trail.
The creation of "Pamu" or "Po Na Mu," linked with greenstone, is discussed here, emphasizing its significance as a foundational element or belief in Lemurian culture and geography.
It is the seed of the Atlantean fourth race, and it sits on the site’s main lost-continent spine beside the Third Root Race Lemurians page, William Scott-Elliot’s Lost Lemuria maps, and James Churchward’s Mu as a Pacific neighbor trail.
Churchward’s Mu is not identical to Blavatsky’s Lemuria; I keep that clarity label.
James Churchward’s Mu sits as a Pacific neighbor, labeled separately from Blavatsky’s Lemuria.
James Churchward’s Mu: Pacific Mu / Lemuria-adjacent lost-continent trail (Churchward ≠ Blavatsky).
Lemuria or Mu: Similar to Atlantis, Lemuria (or Mu) was described by Cayce as another ancient, lost civilization.
Mu is hidden
One of the “moons” plunged into the Pacific Ocean, destroying a great civilization that some esoteric texts called Mu and Kasskara Hopi call.
Mū/Mu
Question: Can you tell us more about the Lemurian (Mu) civilization?
Bashar: The destruction of Mu was more due to the natural cycles of the Earth — volcanic and earthquake activity, submergence from gas pockets under the ocean.
On behalf of the Lemurian Council of Twelve of Telos, the king and queen of Telos, “Ra and Rana Mu” and all of your former brothers and sisters of the present-day Lemurian civilization, we welcome you all to the Heart of Lemuria, the Heart of Compassion.
Traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon first proposed the existence of a continent named Lemuria or Mu
mu 8(szar2) i3-ak en: 28,800 years he ruled;5.
a2-lal3-gar mu 1(szar'u) i3-ak en: Alalgar, 36,000 years he ruled;6.
mu-bi 1(szar'u) 8(szar2) ib2-ak en: the years: 64,800 they ruled;8.
mu 1(szar'u) 2(szar2) i3-ak en: 43,200 years he ruled;13.
mu 8(szar2) i3-ak en: 28,800 he ruled;15.
{d}dumu-zi sipa mu 1(szar'u) i3-ak en: Dumuzi, the shepherd, 36,000 years he ruled;16.
mu-bi 3(szar'u) ib2-ak en: the years: 10,8000 they ruled;18.
mu 8(szar2) i3-ak en: 28,800 years he ruled.22.
mu-bi 8(szar2) ib2-ak en: the years: 28,800 he ruled.24.
lugal-am3 mu 5(szar2) 5(gesz'u) i3-ak en: was king, 21,000 years he ruled;28.
mu-bi 5(szar2) 5(gesz'u) ib2-ak en: the years: 21,000 he ruled;30.
lugal-am3 mu 5(szar2) 1(gesz'u) i3-ak en: was king, 18,600 years he ruled,34.
mu-bi 5(szar2) 1(gesz'u) ib2-ak en: the years: 18,600 he ruled.36.
mu-bi 1(szargal){gal} 7(szar2) ib2-ak en: the years: 241,200 they ruled.39.
mu 2(gesz'u) i3-ak en: 1200 years he ruled;46.
mu 1(gesz'u) 6(gesz2) i3-ak en: 960 years he ruled;48.
mu i3-ak en: 670(?) years he ruled;50.
mu a-ra2 x x-am3 iti 3(disz) u4 3(disz) 1/2(disz) i3-ak en: 420 years ...
mu i3-ak en: 360(?) years he ruled;54.
pu-an-nu-um mu 1(gesz'u)?
mu 1(gesz'u) 6(gesz2) i3-ak en: 960 years he ruled;57.
ka-lu-mu-um mu 1(gesz'u) 4(gesz2) i3-ak en: Kalumum, 840 years he ruled;58.
mu 1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) i3-ak en: 900 years he ruled;60.
a2-tab mu 1(gesz'u) i3-ak en: Atab, 600 years he ruled;61.
masz-da3 dumu a2-tab-ba mu 1(gesz'u) 4(gesz2) i3-ak en: Mašda, son of Atab, 840 years he ruled;62.
mu 1(gesz'u) 2(gesz2) i3-ak en: 720 years he ruled;64.
lu2 kur-kur mu-un-ge-na en: who the foreign lands firmed,67.
lugal-am3 mu 2(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) i3-ak en: was king, 1500 years he ruled;68.
mu 6(gesz2) 4(u) i3-ak en: 400 years he ruled;71.
en-me-nun-na mu 1(gesz'u) 1(gesz2) i3-ak en: Enmenuna, 660 years he ruled;72.
mu 1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) i3-ak en: 900 years he ruled;74.
mu 2(gesz'u) i3-ak en: 1200 years he ruled;76.
mu 2(gesz2) 2(u) i3-ak en: 140 years he ruled;78.
mu 5(disz) szu-szi 6(disz) i3-ak en: 5 sixties and 6 years he ruled;80.
il-ku-u2 mu 1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) i3-ak en: Ilkû, 900 years he ruled;81.
mu 2(gesz'u) i3-ak en: 1200 years he ruled;83.
lugal-am3 mu 1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) i3-ak en: was king, 900 years he ruled;87.
mu 1(gesz'u) 2(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: 625 years he ruled;90.
mu-bi 6(szar2) 4(gesz'u) 8(gesz2) 3(u) iti 3(disz) en: the years: 24510, 3 months,92.b.
lugal-am3 mu 5(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz)?
mu-un-du3-a en: built,105.
mu 7(gesz2) i3-ak en: 420 years he ruled;107.
mu 2(gesz'u) i3-ak en: 1200 years he ruled;109.
mu 1(gesz2) 4(u) i3-ak en: 100 years he ruled;112.
mu 2(gesz2) 6(disz) i3-ak en: 126 years he ruled;116.
mu 3(u) i3-ak en: 30 years he ruled;119.
mu 1(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: 15 years he ruled;122.
mu 9(disz) i3-ak en: 9 year he ruled;124.
mu 8(disz) i3-ak en: 8 years he ruled;126.
mes?-he2 simug mu 3(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: Mesḫe, the smith, 36 years he ruled;127.
mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: 6 years he ruled;129.
mu 3(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: Lugal-kidu(?), 36 years he ruled;130.
mu-bi 3(gesz'u) 8(gesz2) 3(u) ib2-ak en: the years: 2310 years they ruled;132.
lugal-am3 mu 1(gesz2) 2(u) i3-ak en: was king, 80 years he ruled;137.
mu 3(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: 36 years he ruled;141.
e-lu-lu mu 2(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: Elulu, 25 years he ruled;142.
ba-lu-lu 3(u) 6(disz) mu i3-ak en: Balulu, 36 years he ruled;143.
mu-bi 2(gesz2) 5(u) 1(disz)?
mu n i3-ak en: ...
mu [...] i3-ak en: ...
mu 3(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: 36 years he ruled;155.
mu-bi 5(gesz2) 5(u) 6(disz)?
mu 3(gesz2) 2(u) 1(disz) n?
da-da-sig mu 1(gesz2) 2(u) 1(disz)?
mu 6(disz) szu-szi i3-ak en: 6 sixties years he ruled;166.
mu 3(gesz2) 1(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: 195 years he ruled;169.
TUG2-e mu 6(gesz2) i3-ak en: TUGe, 360 years he ruled;170.
men-nun-na mu 3(gesz2) i3-ak en: Mennuna, 180 years he ruled;171.
mu 4(gesz2) 5(u)?
lugal-mu mu 6(gesz2) i3-ak en: Lugulmu, 360 years he ruled;174.
mu-bi 5(gesz'u) 3(gesz2) 1(u) 5(disz) ib2-ak en: the years: 3195 they ruled;176.
mu 6(disz) szu-szi i3-ak en: 6 sixties years he ruled;182.
mu-bi 6(disz) szu-szi ib2-ak en: the years: 6 sixties he ruled;184.
lugal-am3 mu 1(disz) szu-szi i3-ak en: was king, 1 sixty years he ruled;188.
nam-lugal-bi mu 2(disz) szu-szi i3-ak en: Namlugalbi, 2 sixties years he ruled;189.
($blank space$) mu 8(disz) i3-ak? en: 8 years he ruled (?);190.
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;196.
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;198.
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;201.
mu-bi n ib2-ak en: the years: n they ruled;203.
lugal-an-ne2-mu-un-du3 en: In Adab Lugal-ane-mundu206.
lugal-am3 mu n ib2-ak en: was king, n years he ruled;207.
mu-bi 1(gesz2)?
lugal-am3 mu 3(u) i3-ak en: was king, 30 years he ruled;213.
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;215.
ba-zi lu2 aszgab mu 3(u) i3-ak en: Bazi, the weaver, 30 years he ruled;216.
zi-zi lu2 azlag2 mu 2(u) i3-ak en: Zizi, the weaver, 20 years he ruled;217.
li?-im-er gudu4 mu 3(u) i3-ak en: Lim’er, the gudu(-officiant), 30 years he ruled;218.
lugal-i-ter mu 9(disz@v) i3-ak en: Šarrum-iter, 9 years he ruled;219.
mu-bi 2(gesz2) 1(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: the years: 136t they ruled;221.
suhusz kisz{ki} mu-un-ge-na en: who the foundation of Kish firmed up,227.
lugal-am3 mu 1(gesz2) 4(u) i3-ak en: was king, 100 years she ruled;228.
mu-bi 1(gesz2) 4(u) i3-ak en: her years: 100 she ruled;230.
lugal-am3 mu 3(u) i3-ak en: was king, 30 years he ruled;234.
un-da-lu-lu mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Undalulu, 6 years he ruled;235.
ur-ur mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Urur, 6 years he ruled;236.
puzur4-{d}nerah mu n i3-ak en: Puzur-Neraḫ, n years he ruled;237.
i-szu-il mu n i3-ak en: Išu’il, n years he ruled;238.
szu-{d}suen dumu i-szu-il-la-ke4 mu n i3-ak en: Šū-Suen, son of Išu’il, n years he ruled;239.
mu-bi n ib2-ak en: the years: n they ruled;241.
lugal-am3 mu 2(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: was king, 25 years he ruled;247.
mu 6(gesz2) 4(u) i3-ak en: 400 years he ruled;250.
zi-mu-dar-ra mu 3(u) i3-ak en: Zimudara, 30 years he ruled;251.
u2-s,i-wa-tar mu 7(disz) i3-ak en: Uṣi-watar, 7 years he ruled;252.
esz18-dar-mu-ti mu 1(u) 1(disz) i3-ak en: Ištar-mūtī, 11 years he ruled;253.
isz-me-{d}utu mu 1(u) 1(disz) i3-ak en: Išme-Šamaš, 11 years he ruled;254.
na-an-ni-ia zadim mu 7(disz) i3-ak en: Nanniya, the stone cutter, 7 years he ruled;255.
mu-bi 8(gesz2) 1(u) 1(disz) ib2-ak en: the years: 491 they ruled;257.
lugal-am3 mu 2(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: was king, 25 years he ruled;261.
mu-bi 2(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: the years: 25 he ruled;263.
mu-un-du3-a en: built,271.
lugal-am3 mu 5(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: was king, 56 years he ruled;272.
ri2-mu-usz dumu szar-ru-ki-in en: Rimush, son of Sargon,273.
mu 9(disz@v) i3-ak en: 9 years he ruled;274.
szesz-gal ri2-mu-usz en: big brother of Rimush,276.
mu 1(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: 15 years he ruled;278.
mu 5(u) 6(disz)?
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;284.
n mu ib2-ak en: n years they ruled;290.
du-du mu 2(u) 1(disz) i3-ak en: Dudu, 21 years he ruled;291.
mu 1(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: 15 years he ruled;293.
mu-bi 3(gesz2) 1(disz) ib2-ak en: the years: 181 they ruled;295.
mu 7(disz) i3-ak en: 7 years he ruled;299.
mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: 6 years he ruled;301.
ku5-da mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Kuda, 6 years he ruled;302.
puzur4-i3-li2 mu 5(disz) i3-ak en: Puzur-ilī, 5 years he ruled;303.
ur-{d}utu mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Ur-Utu, 6 years he ruled;304.
mu-bi 3(u) ib2-ak en: the years: 30 they ruled;305.
lugal mu nu-tuku en: king and years had not.310.
ni2-ta-a lugal-am3 mu 3(disz) i3-ak en: Nitaya was king, 3 years he ruled;311.
in-ki-szusz2 mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Inkišuš, 6 years he ruled;312.
zar2-lagab-la-gab mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Zar-lagag-lagab, 6 years he ruled;313.
szul-me-e mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Šulmeye, 6 years he ruled;314.
se3?-lu-lu-me-esz mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Selulumeš(?), 6 years he ruled;315.
i-ni-ma-ba-ke-esz mu 5(disz) i3-ak en: Inimabakeš, 5 years he ruled;316.
i-ge4-esz-a-usz mu 6(disz) i3-ak en: Igeš’a’uš, 6 years he ruled;317.
ia-ar-la-gab mu 1(u) 5(disz) i3-ak en: Yar-lagab, 15 years he ruled;318.
i-ba-te mu 3(disz) i3-ak en: Ibate, 3 years he ruled;319.
ia-ar-la mu 3(disz) i3-ak en: Yar-la, 3 years he ruled;320.
ku-ru-um mu 1(disz) i3-ak en: Kurum, 1 year he ruled;321.
a-pil-ki?-in mu 3(disz) i3-ak en: Apil-kin, 3 years he ruled;322.
la-e2-ra-bu-um mu 2(disz) i3-ak en: La-e-rabum, 2 years he ruled;323.
i-ra-ru-um mu 2(disz) i3-ak en: Irarum, 2 years he ruled;324.
ib-ra-nu-um mu 1(disz) i3-ak en: Ibranum, 1 year he ruled;325.
ha-ab-lum mu 2(disz) i3-ak en: Ḫablum, 2 years he ruled;326.
mu 7(disz) i3-ak en: 7 years he ruled;327.
ia-ar-la-ga-an-da mu 7(disz) i3-ak en: Yar-laganda, 7 years he ruled;328.
si-u4 mu 7(disz) i3-ak en: Si’u, 7 years he ruled;329.
mu-bi n u4 4(u) ib2-ak en: the years: 40 days they ruled.332.
mu 7(disz) szu-szi 7(disz) u4 [...] i3-ak en: 7 sixties 7 ...
mu-bi 7(disz) szu-szi 7(disz) u4 [...] i3-ak en: the years: 7 sixties 7 ...
mu 1(u) 8(disz) i3-ak en: 18 years he ruled;343.
mu 4(u) 6(disz) i3-ak en: 46 years he ruled;345.
mu 9(disz) i3-ak en: 9 years he ruled;347.
mu 9(disz) i3-ak en: 9 years he ruled;349.
mu 2(u) 4(disz) i3-ak en: 24 years he ruled;351.
mu-bi 1(gesz2) 4(u) 8(disz) ib2-ak en: the years: 108 they ruled;353.
mu 3(u) 3(disz) i3-ak en: 33 years he ruled;357.
mu 2(u) i3-ak en: 20 years he ruled;359.
mu 2(u) 1(disz) i3-ak en: 21 years he ruled;361.
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;363.
mu n i3-ak en: n years he ruled;365.
{d}ur-{d}nin-urta mu n i3-ak en: Ur-Ninurta, n years he ruled;366.
mu 2(u) 1(disz) i3-ak en: 21 years he ruled;368.
dumu bur-{d}suen-ke4 mu 5(disz) i3-ak en: son of Bur-Sîn, 5 years he ruled;370.
{d}er3-ra-i-mi-ti mu 8(disz) i3-ak en: Erra-imitti, 8 years he ruled;371.
{d}en-lil2-ba-ni mu 2(u) 4(disz) i3-ak en: Enlil-bani, 24 years he ruled;372.
{d}za-am-bi-ia mu 3(disz) i3-ak en: Zambiya, 3 years he ruled;373.
{d}i-te-er-pi4-sza mu 4(disz) i3-ak en: Iter-pīša, 4 years he ruled;374.
{d}ur-du6-ku3-ga mu 4(disz) i3-ak en: Ur-dukuga, 4 years he ruled;375.
{d}suen-ma-gir mu 1(u) 1(disz) i3-ak en: Sîn-magir, 11 years he ruled;376.
mu-bi 3(gesz2) 3(u) 3(disz) ib2-ak en: the years: 213 they ruled,378.
mu-bi 4(szar2) n 9(disz) mu 3(disz) iti 1(u) 2(disz) u4 ib2-ak en: the years: 14409+, 3 months, 12 days they ruled,380.
mu-bi 4(gesz'u) 3(gesz2) 3(u) n 6(disz) iti 1(u) 5(disz) u4 ib2-ak en: the years: 2616+, 6 months, 15 days they ruled,384.
mu-bi 6(gesz2) 3(u) 6(disz) mu ib2-ak en: the years: 396 they ruled,388.
mu-bi 5(gesz2) 5(u) 6(disz) mu ib2-ak en: the years: 356 they ruled,392.
mu-bi 7(gesz2) mu i3-ak en: the years: 420 he ruled,396.
mu-bi 3(gesz2) 1(u) 7(disz) mu ib2-ak en: the years: 197 they ruled,400'.
mu-bi 2(gesz2) 5(disz) mu 4(u) u4 ib2-ak en: the years: 125, 40 days, they ruled,404'.
mu-bi 2(gesz2) 3(u) 9(disz) mu ib2-ak en: the years: 159 they ruled,409'.
mu-bi 8(szar2) n 1(gesz2) 1(u) 6(disz) en: the years: 28,876+ they ruled,414'.