Mu and Lemuria

Two never-existing continents

Statement

Mu and Lemuria were claimed by paranormalist James Churchward and theosophist Madame Blavatsky to have existed in the Pacific and Indian Oceans respectively about 12,000 BCE. According to their separate but similar stories the two continents were inhabited by high civilizations which dispersed around the world. Supposedly both disappeared under the oceans in events of cataclysmic destruction. As proofs of these contentions the authors have cited: native Pacific lore of a great southern land, similarities of distant cultures unconnected directly to each other, "psychic" channeling of knowledgeable spirit entities, no longer extant tablets in India and Tibet, and otherwise untranslatable Mayan and Easter Island writings.

Those who promote belief in ancient lost continents have not met the burden of proof. Geologic and oceanographic evidence shows no sunken lands. Precolonial and ancient Pacific Islander oral lore may well refer to Australia, the Antarctic, or New Zealand. Cultures distant from each other but with analogous problems in comparable environments often develop similar appearing cultures and gods independently. Psychic entities and unfound, unreadable, and untranslatable writings can not be verified

Sources

  1. George O. Abell et al. (eds.), Science and the Paranormal (NY: Scribners, 1981) pp. 278-279.
  2. Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (NY: Dover Publications, 1957) pp. 168-170.
  3. L. Sprague de Camp, Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature (NY: Dover Publications, 1954, 1970)

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