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Mu #1
Kayıp Kıta Mu
İnsanlığın ana yurdu olan Mu, günümüzde 25,000 yıl kadar önce uygarlığın beşiği olan bir ülkeydi. Yaklaşık 12.000 yıl önce Pasifiğin sularına gömülmüş olan bu büyük kıta, Albay James Churchward'ın hayat boyu süren araştırmalarıyla gündeme gelmiştir. Hint tapınaklarının mahzenlerinden Avustralya'ya, Sibirya'dan Güneş Denizleri'ne kadar pek çok ülkeyi gezen Churchward, 1868'de İngiliz Ordusu subayı olarak Hindistan'da görev yaparken bir tapınak rahibiyle yakın dost olmuş ve ondan yüzyıllardır tapınak mahzenlerinde yatan çok eski tabletlerin nasıl tercüme edileceğini öğrenmiştir. Bu tabletler bizim uygarlığımızdan önce, çok muazzam bir uygarlığın doğduğunu, geliştiğini ve yok olduğunu söylemektedir: Bu Mu kıtasıdır.
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First published September 1, 1931
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James Churchward
110 books50 followersJames Churchward is best known as a British born occult writer. However, he was also a patented inventor, engineer, and expert fisherman.
He was the elder brother of the Masonic author Albert Churchward (1852–1925.) He was a tea planter in Sri Lanka before coming to the US in the 1890s. In James' biography entitled My Friend Churchey and His Sunken Continent, he discussed Mu with Augustus LePlongeon and his wife in the 1890s. He patented NCV Steel, armor plating to protect ships during World War I, and other steel alloys. After a patent-infringement settlement in 1914, James retired to his 7+ acre estate on Lake Wononskopomuc in Lakeville, Connecticut, to answer the questions from his Pacific travels. In 1926, at the age of 75, he published The Lost Continent of Mu: Motherland of Man, which he claimed proved the existence of a lost continent, called Mu, in the Pacific Ocean.
He was the elder brother of the Masonic author Albert Churchward (1852–1925.) He was a tea planter in Sri Lanka before coming to the US in the 1890s. In James' biography entitled My Friend Churchey and His Sunken Continent, he discussed Mu with Augustus LePlongeon and his wife in the 1890s. He patented NCV Steel, armor plating to protect ships during World War I, and other steel alloys. After a patent-infringement settlement in 1914, James retired to his 7+ acre estate on Lake Wononskopomuc in Lakeville, Connecticut, to answer the questions from his Pacific travels. In 1926, at the age of 75, he published The Lost Continent of Mu: Motherland of Man, which he claimed proved the existence of a lost continent, called Mu, in the Pacific Ocean.
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November 22, 2025
1965 is a rough guess as to when I read this book, which belonged to a boarder we had for a while (until his failing health forced him into a nursing home) when I was a kid, who let me read his books if I wanted to. At that age, I'd pretty much read almost anything that came to hand (I'd had a library card since I was six, but I was allowed to visit the library only in summer, when school was out, so as not to neglect my studies), so I took advantage of the permission. He was into the weird, and had (among other things) this book and the several sequels, at least some of which I skimmed, though I didn't read those. Even as a kid, I could tell that this whole corpus was off the wall; but I had more morbid curiosity as a reader then I do now.
The idea of submerged continents that supposedly took down advanced ancient civilizations was a persistent claim in 19th and early 20th-century occultist myth, inspired by the ancient idea of Atlantis, which according to Plato (who apparently created the legend out of whole cloth purely as a literary conceit, because no extant prior source ever mentions it), was destroyed "9,000 years before Solon," or ca. 9600 B.C. Supposedly, Atlantis was now under the Atlantic Ocean. Equal opportunity was given to the other side of the world in 1864, when zoologist Philip Sclater, trying to explain the presence of lemur fossils in both India and Madagascar, posited the idea of an ancient continent (which he called, appropriately, "Lemuria") in the area of what is now the Indian Ocean. Darwinists like Ernst Haeckel and occultists like Helena Blavatsky quickly latched on to this theory, with the further claim that it must have been the original home of the human race (and, according to Blavatsky, the origin point of a detailed system of occult knowledge, now made known to the world through her). 19th-century scholars also were familiar with the name "Mu," since some early scholars of ancient Mayan writings, attempting to translate the then unreadable script, read that as the name of a now sunken continent --which. however, they identified with Atlantis. (This is now generally agreed to have been a mistranslation.)
All of this set the stage for the claims of Col. James Churchward (1851-1936) in this book, published in 1926. He asserted that as a British officer in India some 50 years earlier, he was shown secret tablets in an (unidentified) temple, written in the "Naga-Mayan" language --which, as far as actual philologists know, doesn't exist; he claimed that only three people in India could read it, but one of them taught him-- that purported to show that 50,000 years B.P. [Before Present], there was indeed a huge continent called Mu, but which he identified with Lemuria, and located in the Pacific rather than either the Atlantic or Indian Oceans. According to him, it had a civilization more highly advanced than that of his own day, and that all the world's later civilizations developed from its scattered colonies after the motherland continent sank beneath the Pacific in a great cataclysm, ca 12,000 years B.P. Like later writer Erich von Daniken, he purported to find "evidence" for his claims in an array of asserted or supposed cultural parallels from widely separated parts of the world, all of them dogmatically interpreted in a manner consistent with his mythos.
The discovery in the 1960s of the geological mechanism of plate tectonics discredited the whole hypothesis of sunken continents; and Churchward's claimed evidences (again, like von Daniken's) have been repeatedly examined by serious scholars, and systematically discredited in their entirety. In the words of Gordon Stein in Encyclopedia of Hoaxes, "it is difficult to assess whether Churchward really believed what he said about Mu, or whether he was knowingly writing fiction." (Personally, I find it hard to give him that much benefit of the doubt.) In either case, literally nobody (past or present) with any actual training in the fields of geology, archaeology, ancient languages, ancient history, or cultural anthropology takes any of his assertions seriously. That hasn't kept this book from being reprinted at least 82 times, and from being accepted as factual by a small army of credulous readers, to this day. (Sigh!)
The idea of submerged continents that supposedly took down advanced ancient civilizations was a persistent claim in 19th and early 20th-century occultist myth, inspired by the ancient idea of Atlantis, which according to Plato (who apparently created the legend out of whole cloth purely as a literary conceit, because no extant prior source ever mentions it), was destroyed "9,000 years before Solon," or ca. 9600 B.C. Supposedly, Atlantis was now under the Atlantic Ocean. Equal opportunity was given to the other side of the world in 1864, when zoologist Philip Sclater, trying to explain the presence of lemur fossils in both India and Madagascar, posited the idea of an ancient continent (which he called, appropriately, "Lemuria") in the area of what is now the Indian Ocean. Darwinists like Ernst Haeckel and occultists like Helena Blavatsky quickly latched on to this theory, with the further claim that it must have been the original home of the human race (and, according to Blavatsky, the origin point of a detailed system of occult knowledge, now made known to the world through her). 19th-century scholars also were familiar with the name "Mu," since some early scholars of ancient Mayan writings, attempting to translate the then unreadable script, read that as the name of a now sunken continent --which. however, they identified with Atlantis. (This is now generally agreed to have been a mistranslation.)
All of this set the stage for the claims of Col. James Churchward (1851-1936) in this book, published in 1926. He asserted that as a British officer in India some 50 years earlier, he was shown secret tablets in an (unidentified) temple, written in the "Naga-Mayan" language --which, as far as actual philologists know, doesn't exist; he claimed that only three people in India could read it, but one of them taught him-- that purported to show that 50,000 years B.P. [Before Present], there was indeed a huge continent called Mu, but which he identified with Lemuria, and located in the Pacific rather than either the Atlantic or Indian Oceans. According to him, it had a civilization more highly advanced than that of his own day, and that all the world's later civilizations developed from its scattered colonies after the motherland continent sank beneath the Pacific in a great cataclysm, ca 12,000 years B.P. Like later writer Erich von Daniken, he purported to find "evidence" for his claims in an array of asserted or supposed cultural parallels from widely separated parts of the world, all of them dogmatically interpreted in a manner consistent with his mythos.
The discovery in the 1960s of the geological mechanism of plate tectonics discredited the whole hypothesis of sunken continents; and Churchward's claimed evidences (again, like von Daniken's) have been repeatedly examined by serious scholars, and systematically discredited in their entirety. In the words of Gordon Stein in Encyclopedia of Hoaxes, "it is difficult to assess whether Churchward really believed what he said about Mu, or whether he was knowingly writing fiction." (Personally, I find it hard to give him that much benefit of the doubt.) In either case, literally nobody (past or present) with any actual training in the fields of geology, archaeology, ancient languages, ancient history, or cultural anthropology takes any of his assertions seriously. That hasn't kept this book from being reprinted at least 82 times, and from being accepted as factual by a small army of credulous readers, to this day. (Sigh!)
September 24, 2015
Wow, how to rate this one? On the one hand, it's a terrible book with terrible motives and terrible conclusions. On the other hand, as conspiracy/alt-history books go, it's pretty top-notch.
I think what really sells it is Churchward's utter confidence that what he's saying is correct and he's got hidden truths that only he has managed to piece together. The hilarity of reading his conclusions while knowing discoveries since or things he was ignoring at the time makes it a bit of a trip.
He does hit on some genuine mysteries along the way as well as coming up with dozens of mysteries that are almost certainly fabrications of his own imagination or his piecing together flawed or inaccurate information. I highly doubt, for example, that anyone has ever observed a Mexican person speaking indigenous languages in conversation with a Japanese person without need for a translator.
Bad things: Very transparent agenda to prove that humans were created white and "civilized" and everything else is "degradation" to "savagery." I suppose that's the one-sentence essence of what's most wrong.
I think what really sells it is Churchward's utter confidence that what he's saying is correct and he's got hidden truths that only he has managed to piece together. The hilarity of reading his conclusions while knowing discoveries since or things he was ignoring at the time makes it a bit of a trip.
He does hit on some genuine mysteries along the way as well as coming up with dozens of mysteries that are almost certainly fabrications of his own imagination or his piecing together flawed or inaccurate information. I highly doubt, for example, that anyone has ever observed a Mexican person speaking indigenous languages in conversation with a Japanese person without need for a translator.
Bad things: Very transparent agenda to prove that humans were created white and "civilized" and everything else is "degradation" to "savagery." I suppose that's the one-sentence essence of what's most wrong.
August 11, 2019
I love him and it is a great book, he has honestly retrieved ancient writings going very far back, but he picks at chicken scratch when there is a plethora of data on Maí Land and, so; no need to be cautious, groveling or apologetic about it.
Ovid calls it lady Maistres land where the terrestrializing gods were first formed.
All chinese lorists knows of Lady Maí’s land, as they call it, in the *far* west and speak of what began there in the Ocean (Osho in many languages means the Pacific Ocean, hence the Greeks just called it plain “Ocean” or Magna Oceania).
Other greeks (Pindar, Hesiod) called it Ammon land turning into Merope after Boreal Olympus was formed in the utter North. Compare this to what formed per the Vishnu Purana after “Mount Meru land in the North Pole”: their Ambika (though this is a last stage of Mu closer to their more lemuralian Atala they mention in book 4 of the Vishnu Purana).
This land of Maí is the land the Maya claim name from and mention it in their late jaguar periods.
Then Buddhist scriptures call it the land of Uma.
I could go on 300 more pages. Churchward is great though, just not enough.
They (all cultures) place it’s existence in the same sequence of being lineage types in their lore: after the more aethereal being lines but before the fully bipedal and earthy; a time when beingship was becoming terrestrial and was somewhere in between.
For science buffs I would say look at the Zealand Expansion and the breaking up of Pangea in relation to the Pacific Ring of Fire and more northern pacific elevations before that, especially that following the Arctida expansions of 40, 34 and 25 DM years ago. We will find it’s traces in time. In a sense though it’s more early northern aspect was just stripped from off the earth, removed as the lorists mysteriously speak, by the 11 to 9.5 DM extinction events of the lesser aptian when the ring of fire was at it’s maximum in activity bringing under even the last vestige limbs of Mu which were called Lemuria.
Ovid calls it lady Maistres land where the terrestrializing gods were first formed.
All chinese lorists knows of Lady Maí’s land, as they call it, in the *far* west and speak of what began there in the Ocean (Osho in many languages means the Pacific Ocean, hence the Greeks just called it plain “Ocean” or Magna Oceania).
Other greeks (Pindar, Hesiod) called it Ammon land turning into Merope after Boreal Olympus was formed in the utter North. Compare this to what formed per the Vishnu Purana after “Mount Meru land in the North Pole”: their Ambika (though this is a last stage of Mu closer to their more lemuralian Atala they mention in book 4 of the Vishnu Purana).
This land of Maí is the land the Maya claim name from and mention it in their late jaguar periods.
Then Buddhist scriptures call it the land of Uma.
I could go on 300 more pages. Churchward is great though, just not enough.
They (all cultures) place it’s existence in the same sequence of being lineage types in their lore: after the more aethereal being lines but before the fully bipedal and earthy; a time when beingship was becoming terrestrial and was somewhere in between.
For science buffs I would say look at the Zealand Expansion and the breaking up of Pangea in relation to the Pacific Ring of Fire and more northern pacific elevations before that, especially that following the Arctida expansions of 40, 34 and 25 DM years ago. We will find it’s traces in time. In a sense though it’s more early northern aspect was just stripped from off the earth, removed as the lorists mysteriously speak, by the 11 to 9.5 DM extinction events of the lesser aptian when the ring of fire was at it’s maximum in activity bringing under even the last vestige limbs of Mu which were called Lemuria.
June 20, 2016
I think Churchward's conclusions, based on evidence of various nuttiness, reveal more about Churchward himself and his context than about any past civilization.
The later books in the series might be of entertainment as he speculates on culture, technology, history, or spirituality, but this is entirely dreary. An idea as inherently amusing as "lost continent, ancient civilization" should not be so saddled with analysis and pedantry. I simply could not stomach the endless series of tablet interpretation, as he weighed in on the secret meanings behind the symbols / icons and tied them into his grand history of Mu.
"One of the most startling discoveries is that the natives of the Polynesian groups of South Sea Islands are a white race. Further, they are an exceedingly handsome people, a link that joins perfectly the white races of the earth."(p. 49)(And, apparently the blonde-white inhabitants of Mu (p. 37) sailed east to settle Scandinavia, somehow passing through the North American continent without stopping.)
The later books in the series might be of entertainment as he speculates on culture, technology, history, or spirituality, but this is entirely dreary. An idea as inherently amusing as "lost continent, ancient civilization" should not be so saddled with analysis and pedantry. I simply could not stomach the endless series of tablet interpretation, as he weighed in on the secret meanings behind the symbols / icons and tied them into his grand history of Mu.
December 29, 2017
Atlantis ve Mu literatürünün en öncelikli kaynakları hiç kuşkusuz James Churchward'dur; öyle ki Atatürk bile onun çalışmalarını getirtmiş, çevirtmiş ve notlar alarak okumuştur. Bugün halen Anıtkabir'deki kitaplıktadır bu kitaplar.
Fakat, aslında en basit bir kitabı okurken bile yapmamız gerektiği gibi, söylenen her şeyi sorgulamadan doğru kabul etmemek gerekir. Özellikle de konspirasyon alanında -ki Atatürk'ün de kitap üzerindeki notlarda sürekli sorular, sorgulamalar olduğu görülür.
Churchward'un Tibet'te kendisine sunulan tabletlerdeki sembolleri incelemesi, arkeoloji ve tarih adına özel bir iş. Ayrıca bugün gittikçe daha da moda haline gelen batık kıtalara gereğinden fazla ruhani anlam yükleme olayına girmemesi de eseri okumaya değer hale getiriyor.
Konuyla ilgili Edger Cayce'ın psişik okumaları, Francis Bacon'ın alegorik metni "Yeni Atlantis"i, Rene de Guenion'ın eserleri de önerilir.
Fakat, aslında en basit bir kitabı okurken bile yapmamız gerektiği gibi, söylenen her şeyi sorgulamadan doğru kabul etmemek gerekir. Özellikle de konspirasyon alanında -ki Atatürk'ün de kitap üzerindeki notlarda sürekli sorular, sorgulamalar olduğu görülür.
Churchward'un Tibet'te kendisine sunulan tabletlerdeki sembolleri incelemesi, arkeoloji ve tarih adına özel bir iş. Ayrıca bugün gittikçe daha da moda haline gelen batık kıtalara gereğinden fazla ruhani anlam yükleme olayına girmemesi de eseri okumaya değer hale getiriyor.
Konuyla ilgili Edger Cayce'ın psişik okumaları, Francis Bacon'ın alegorik metni "Yeni Atlantis"i, Rene de Guenion'ın eserleri de önerilir.
April 13, 2015
The late 19th and early 20th century spawned a whole raftload of pseudoscientists, pseudohistorians and other flaky mystics/con artists that claimed to have exclusive access to the REAL! TRUE! SECRET! history of the earth and/or humanity's existence thereon.
Whether you're talking about Donnelly, Blavatsky, Cayce or Churchward, they all follow fairly strict genre guidelines. The author has exclusive, secret and completely unverifiable access to transmissions/secret documents/ancient relics that reveal the truth that is hidden to all of us boring mundanes with our empiricism and facts.
Churchward is notable primarily for his hatred of Darwinian evolutionary theory (humans could not have evolved naturally, they were obviously CREATED on Mu to conquer the world!!!1!!) and the inclusion of his idle doodles which he claims are transcriptions from ancient stone tablets (which he failed to photograph) written in a dead language that only he and four nameless priests in India can read.
People like Churchward with his imaginary lost continent of Mu or that dipstick on the history channel with his ancient aliens irritate me to no end. As if the vast, amazing epic of human history and development (or of life in general!) is just not epic enough for them, they insist that there must be something even bigger! better! more exciting! But the truth is more amazing than the fictions invented by pseuodoscientists and mystical crazies and their insistence to the contrary merely shows their base ignorance of the subject.
Whether you're talking about Donnelly, Blavatsky, Cayce or Churchward, they all follow fairly strict genre guidelines. The author has exclusive, secret and completely unverifiable access to transmissions/secret documents/ancient relics that reveal the truth that is hidden to all of us boring mundanes with our empiricism and facts.
Churchward is notable primarily for his hatred of Darwinian evolutionary theory (humans could not have evolved naturally, they were obviously CREATED on Mu to conquer the world!!!1!!) and the inclusion of his idle doodles which he claims are transcriptions from ancient stone tablets (which he failed to photograph) written in a dead language that only he and four nameless priests in India can read.
People like Churchward with his imaginary lost continent of Mu or that dipstick on the history channel with his ancient aliens irritate me to no end. As if the vast, amazing epic of human history and development (or of life in general!) is just not epic enough for them, they insist that there must be something even bigger! better! more exciting! But the truth is more amazing than the fictions invented by pseuodoscientists and mystical crazies and their insistence to the contrary merely shows their base ignorance of the subject.
October 28, 2019
As said by someone else elsewhere, the arguments put forward by the author of this book amount to 'It's true because I said so".
Terrible. This book has aged like bad wine with an old fly & an even older ciggie butt floating in it.
Sad that people would still read this and take it seriously.
Interesting to read exactly what the Dunning-Kruger effect looks like in book form.
Also interesting to read it & compare the sad and inaccurate fumblings of an arrogant old Englishman to the gains we've made in understanding history and geology etc
Terrible. This book has aged like bad wine with an old fly & an even older ciggie butt floating in it.
Sad that people would still read this and take it seriously.
Interesting to read exactly what the Dunning-Kruger effect looks like in book form.
Also interesting to read it & compare the sad and inaccurate fumblings of an arrogant old Englishman to the gains we've made in understanding history and geology etc
February 8, 2018
James Churchward'ın bu kitabı 1926 tarihinde yayınlandığında yazarın daha çok mistik bir gelecek hayal ettiğini söyleyebiliriz. Bana göre bunun en büyük iki nedeni, yaşadığı dönemdeki çevrenin bakış açısı ve sahip olduğu dini görüşün etkisi.
Yazarın araştırmalarına ve emeğine saygı duyuyorum. Özellikle yaşadığımız dönemde çoğu bilgi elimizin altındayken ve kolayca ulaşılabilirken, o dönemde öyle bir imkan da yok. Yine de bu tarz bir kitabı yazarken daha objektif olunması gerektiğini düşünüyorum. Yazar kendi düşüncesine uyan farklı düşünceleri pozitif bir şekilde yorumlarken, kendi düşüncesine uymayanları müthiş bir inkar içindeydi.
Kitabın içerisindeki bilgilerin bir kısmında bazı mantık hataları olduğunu düşünüyorum. Ya da bazı bilgi eksikliklerinden kaynaklanan tahmin yetersizliği de olabilir. Çünkü yazarın kitabın içerisinde yaptığı genellikle tahminlere dayalı açıklamalardı.
Lisede Turgut Gürsan'ın Dünya'nın Gizli Tarihi kitabını okumuştum ve onun içerisinde de James Churchward'ın işlediği Mısırlıların uyguladığı kabul töreni gibi bir durumdan bahsediliyordu. Dünya'nın Gizli Tarihi kitabında anlatılan kabul törenini açıklamasını (o kitapta yanlış hatırlamıyorsam Mason'lar uyguluyordu bu töreni) oldukça yüzeysel bulmuştum ancak bu kitabın içerisinde detaylıydı ve yazar törenin sembolik anlamını ifade etmede başarılıydı.
Yazarın araştırmalarına ve emeğine saygı duyuyorum. Özellikle yaşadığımız dönemde çoğu bilgi elimizin altındayken ve kolayca ulaşılabilirken, o dönemde öyle bir imkan da yok. Yine de bu tarz bir kitabı yazarken daha objektif olunması gerektiğini düşünüyorum. Yazar kendi düşüncesine uyan farklı düşünceleri pozitif bir şekilde yorumlarken, kendi düşüncesine uymayanları müthiş bir inkar içindeydi.
Kitabın içerisindeki bilgilerin bir kısmında bazı mantık hataları olduğunu düşünüyorum. Ya da bazı bilgi eksikliklerinden kaynaklanan tahmin yetersizliği de olabilir. Çünkü yazarın kitabın içerisinde yaptığı genellikle tahminlere dayalı açıklamalardı.
Lisede Turgut Gürsan'ın Dünya'nın Gizli Tarihi kitabını okumuştum ve onun içerisinde de James Churchward'ın işlediği Mısırlıların uyguladığı kabul töreni gibi bir durumdan bahsediliyordu. Dünya'nın Gizli Tarihi kitabında anlatılan kabul törenini açıklamasını (o kitapta yanlış hatırlamıyorsam Mason'lar uyguluyordu bu töreni) oldukça yüzeysel bulmuştum ancak bu kitabın içerisinde detaylıydı ve yazar törenin sembolik anlamını ifade etmede başarılıydı.
September 18, 2020
This book is filled with intricate details and facts that support claims a vast continent existed 200,000 years ago; a continent covered by what is now the pacific ocean. This author shows the symbolic drawings of the ancient people, drawings that explain with great scientific detail how our planet and humanity came into existence. He explains how all languages stem from their language and how every religion has drawn from the story their sacred symbols tell and use their own variations. These ancient people were the first civilization on this planet. There is scientific proof of their existence and geographical proof of the calamities that destroyed them throughout the book. It’s a fascinating read.
January 27, 2021
Bad...
May 13, 2022
A very interesting read. The author puts forth the idea that all of mankind came from a continent in the Pacific Ocean. That all of mankinds greatest civilizations came from here and that all religions are perversions of the faith that came from this continent. He does bring up a lot of interesting similarities between cultures from far away. And makes lots of grand sweeping liberties on ideas. But overall I was interested and impressed with the ideas. I'm not a believer by any means. But I liked pulp fiction and a lot of the lost continent ideas appeal to me.
December 27, 2023
Bizarre theories. Unsubstantiated claims. It's as if the cast from Ancient Aliens wrote a book in 1931. Maybe I should start reading H.P. Lovecraft. Haha!
February 24, 2024
Un libro que nos habla no solo de MU, el gran continente que lo inició todo… también nos habla de la trascendencia humana, del alma misma, y el autoconocimiento humano.
Un libro muy recomendable.
Un libro muy recomendable.
June 7, 2020
This book straddles the line between non fiction & fiction, whilst it's based on actual facts, the conclusions and assertions made by the author verge into the territory of fiction. It's pseudoscience at its 1930s best, really.
It also includes offensive gems such as "The bushman of Northern Australia are probably the lowest type of humanity on earth, lower than the ordinary forest beasts.". All the while concocting an absurd theory that white civilisation came from an immense continent in the middle of the pacific ocean, that just vanished in a disaster leaving only the pacific islands behind. As for why there's no tangible evidence of such? People devolved he claimed, and only the dregs really survived to begin with.
As far as absurd early 20th century books go, you're on a winner with this if that's what you're after, but for actual factual information you'll be looking in the wrong place if you pick this up, it belongs in the fiction category more than it does non fiction.
It also includes offensive gems such as "The bushman of Northern Australia are probably the lowest type of humanity on earth, lower than the ordinary forest beasts.". All the while concocting an absurd theory that white civilisation came from an immense continent in the middle of the pacific ocean, that just vanished in a disaster leaving only the pacific islands behind. As for why there's no tangible evidence of such? People devolved he claimed, and only the dregs really survived to begin with.
As far as absurd early 20th century books go, you're on a winner with this if that's what you're after, but for actual factual information you'll be looking in the wrong place if you pick this up, it belongs in the fiction category more than it does non fiction.
February 19, 2013
Es interesante ver como va desgranando resultados de investigaciones y como, con ello, va relacionando diversas civilizaciones que vivieron en épocas muy dispares, o en lugares muy distantes. Pena que frases tipo "Es lamentable, a pesar de ser un hecho notable, que muchos de nuestros científicos más importantes sean ateos, y por lo general hayan apoyado la teoría de la evolución...", le quiten parte de la poca credibilidad que posee.
Aún con esto, obviando toda la religión que lo envuelve, es una lectura que hace recordar la típica pregunta sin respuesta de "¿Por que los Filipinos y los nativos Americanos se parecen tanto?".
Aún con esto, obviando toda la religión que lo envuelve, es una lectura que hace recordar la típica pregunta sin respuesta de "¿Por que los Filipinos y los nativos Americanos se parecen tanto?".
June 27, 2016
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Written at the turn of the century, "The Lost Continent of Mu" serves as an eerie fore-warning of "Ancient Aliens" celebrity Giorgio Tsoukalos. Churchward relentlessly pursues a recurring pattern of presenting a vague description of an interesting unsolved archeological mystery, then insisting that this therefore proves that there was an ancient continent located in the Pacific Ocean which was the motherland of all humanity and which sunk 15,000 years ago. By about 2/3 into the book, the spot in my brain on which the author kept pounding his his ball peen hammer was bruised and tender, allowing me no choice but to give up.
Written at the turn of the century, "The Lost Continent of Mu" serves as an eerie fore-warning of "Ancient Aliens" celebrity Giorgio Tsoukalos. Churchward relentlessly pursues a recurring pattern of presenting a vague description of an interesting unsolved archeological mystery, then insisting that this therefore proves that there was an ancient continent located in the Pacific Ocean which was the motherland of all humanity and which sunk 15,000 years ago. By about 2/3 into the book, the spot in my brain on which the author kept pounding his his ball peen hammer was bruised and tender, allowing me no choice but to give up.
October 5, 2023
Okuması çok zevkli ve akıcı bir kitap. Sadece kitabın arkasında "ek" kısmı verilmiş, bölüm bittikten sonra arka kısmına gidip ek açıklamaları okuyorsunuz. Bu bölümün sonunda olsa daha iyi olurdu diye düşündüm, çünkü hem bölümde hem de ekte bazı yerler tekrar tekrar yazılmış. Bazı bilgileri dört seferden fazla gördüğüm oldu. Yazar vurgulamak için mi yapmış emin değilim. Bunun dışında birçok kültürel mirasın da temelini öğrenmiş olacağınız harika bir kitap. Bol bol görsel vardı, okurken hem yazarın bahsettiği yerleri araştırıp hem de kitaptaki görsellere bakınca kafamda canlandırmak daha kolay oldu. Arkeolojiye ilgisi olan herkese tavsiye edebileceğim bir kitap.
November 17, 2017
If James Churchward was alive today he'd be working for the History channel. This is his theory for a lost continent in the pacific and how all the ancient peoples of the world are linked to this lost country.
One of his great excuses is that the symbolic name for Mu is represented by 3 of something... not 3 of something in particular just 3 of anything. So he goes around the world looking at ancient drawings and writing and whenever he sees 3 of something says 'see they were talking about Mu arn't i a genius!'.
Its like Ancient Aliens but too boring to laugh at.
One of his great excuses is that the symbolic name for Mu is represented by 3 of something... not 3 of something in particular just 3 of anything. So he goes around the world looking at ancient drawings and writing and whenever he sees 3 of something says 'see they were talking about Mu arn't i a genius!'.
Its like Ancient Aliens but too boring to laugh at.
April 28, 2014
Overall I think he was accurate in that there was an ancient civilization. However, I think more research needs to be done in order to assert some of his claims. Like for example, his explanation of why the earth changed so rapidly into a mountainous region in South America doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But I think in a lot of everything else, he is pretty much right and is a very compelling argument.
October 29, 2017
I am normally fascinated by anything involving Atlantis / Mu / pre-history (whether it's well-researched and scholarly, or way out there, and not-the-least-bit-believable), but I found this book incredibly boring. Sorry. I was more than 100 pages into it, and realized I'm not remembering anything I read, and I was not engaged at all. I hate to give up on books, but just couldn't do it with this one.
April 25, 2020
Bir yığın kanitligi tartisilir bilgi ve bu bilgiden bazen fantastik tume varimlar..bu ozellik gene de kitabin okunabilirligine zarar vermemis, yuzeysel de olsa bilgi sahibi olmakta faydasi var.
July 27, 2022
This was a pretty crazy book. I read it for a Facebook group I'm in in which the reading challenges this month revolved around Atlantis/lost civilizations. I think I ever would have picked up a book like this otherwise but it opened up a new world of ideas for me and I also watched a documentary about Atlantis/lost civilizations from the National Geographic that really made me think. Altogether I'm glad I explored these ideas although I had some issues with this book.
The ideas are interesting to think about and imagine even though I don't think he did a great job of backing it up with anything scientific. His writing and presentation style wasn't the greatest, as he tended to skip around different topics while also somehow repeating himself a lot.
The most interesting part to me was how so many different cultures and areas of the world at different times have had the same kind of stories to explain the creation of the world as well as the world having been ruined before and needing to start over, such as with the Great Flood or other similar legends. I also liked the idea of the universe basically having a conscience that humans connect to, and having a life force that pulls us all towards it, and the ancient belief that humans/the soul never really die.
Something that really turned me off about this book was that the way the author kept talking about a superior white race and savage islanders sounded racist and he kept repeating those phrases. So I was going to give it 4 stars just for being interesting/entertaining but I can't really "love" a book that does that. It's really disappointing that he chose to go that route with it because it could have been so much better without it. Even if his theory is that the white race existed in some of these places that most people don't think they existed during that time, he didn't have to describe them as "superior." He also said "dominant" so perhaps it meant they ruled by force and had slaves but if that was the case then he should have been calling THEM the savages and pointing out their evil sins like he did for the "savage" Native races that he often described as barbaric and even at a level barely above sub-human.
I did like his explanation of different symbols and languages and I tried to follow along with the geography and to try to figure out the placement of what islands, both current/actual as well as supposedly lost/destroyed, he was talking about. So I give it 3 stars for being something different to think about but with the caveat/warning that it sounds pretty racist so it might be best avoided altogether.
The ideas are interesting to think about and imagine even though I don't think he did a great job of backing it up with anything scientific. His writing and presentation style wasn't the greatest, as he tended to skip around different topics while also somehow repeating himself a lot.
The most interesting part to me was how so many different cultures and areas of the world at different times have had the same kind of stories to explain the creation of the world as well as the world having been ruined before and needing to start over, such as with the Great Flood or other similar legends. I also liked the idea of the universe basically having a conscience that humans connect to, and having a life force that pulls us all towards it, and the ancient belief that humans/the soul never really die.
Something that really turned me off about this book was that the way the author kept talking about a superior white race and savage islanders sounded racist and he kept repeating those phrases. So I was going to give it 4 stars just for being interesting/entertaining but I can't really "love" a book that does that. It's really disappointing that he chose to go that route with it because it could have been so much better without it. Even if his theory is that the white race existed in some of these places that most people don't think they existed during that time, he didn't have to describe them as "superior." He also said "dominant" so perhaps it meant they ruled by force and had slaves but if that was the case then he should have been calling THEM the savages and pointing out their evil sins like he did for the "savage" Native races that he often described as barbaric and even at a level barely above sub-human.
I did like his explanation of different symbols and languages and I tried to follow along with the geography and to try to figure out the placement of what islands, both current/actual as well as supposedly lost/destroyed, he was talking about. So I give it 3 stars for being something different to think about but with the caveat/warning that it sounds pretty racist so it might be best avoided altogether.
April 14, 2020
James Churchward, esrarengiz bir adam. Film gibi (!) Hindistan'a gidiyor, orada çok önemli bilgilere sahip rahiplerle tanışıyor, onlardan aldığı bilgilerle iddia ettiği Naacal Tabletlerini çözüyor. Sonrasında yeni bir uygarlık keşfediyor. Ancak yıllar geçmesine rağmen, günümüz teknolojisiyle de bahsettiği yerlerde herhangi bir ize hala rastlanmıyor.
Günümüzde insanlar ise bu iddia edilen uygarlığı idealleştirip adeta hedef ediniyorlar. Tek tip modelli insanın ideal new age uygarlığı gibi. Bu ve buna benzer kanıtsız çalışmalar insanlığı amaçlandığı gibi geri bir uygarlığa götürüyor. Eski dinler,kehanetler ve mistik hikayeler ne kadar çok ilgimizi çekiyor. Oysaki insan bilgi çağının içinde, fark etse keşke.
NOT: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk konunun araştırılmasını istemiş ve bizzat da üzerinde kendi çalışmış, ancak kitaptaki iddiaların kanıtlanabilir olmadığından dolayı kitabın basılmasını istememiş.
Günümüzde insanlar ise bu iddia edilen uygarlığı idealleştirip adeta hedef ediniyorlar. Tek tip modelli insanın ideal new age uygarlığı gibi. Bu ve buna benzer kanıtsız çalışmalar insanlığı amaçlandığı gibi geri bir uygarlığa götürüyor. Eski dinler,kehanetler ve mistik hikayeler ne kadar çok ilgimizi çekiyor. Oysaki insan bilgi çağının içinde, fark etse keşke.
NOT: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk konunun araştırılmasını istemiş ve bizzat da üzerinde kendi çalışmış, ancak kitaptaki iddiaların kanıtlanabilir olmadığından dolayı kitabın basılmasını istememiş.
January 24, 2022
No lo sé, Rick, parece falso.
Mi reciente interés por Atlantis y Lemuria me llevó a Mu, y creo que sin querer me metí en un rabbit hole de antropología-esotérica (¿existe eso?).
Resulta que Mu es un continente que estaba entre Asia y América, que se hundió hace 12 mil años y con su hundimiento se llevó la civilización original de todas las civilizaciones, la Tierra Natal del hombre.
James Churchward (el autor) propone que la civilización de Mu es la madre de la maya, la hindú e incluso la egipcia, lo que me parece muy osado de asegurar, a pesar de que todo el libro tiene supuestos recibos de que así fue, como ejemplos de cómo Mu influyó en construcciones de pirámides en Yucatán, templos en Egipto, escritura en la India, entre muchos, muchos, muchísimos ejemplos, tantos, que la lectura ya pesa para la página 100.
Aplausos porque vienen muchas fotos, mapas y explicaciones de manuscritos y códices... aunque las explicaciones podrían ser falsas, Rick.
Mi reciente interés por Atlantis y Lemuria me llevó a Mu, y creo que sin querer me metí en un rabbit hole de antropología-esotérica (¿existe eso?).
Resulta que Mu es un continente que estaba entre Asia y América, que se hundió hace 12 mil años y con su hundimiento se llevó la civilización original de todas las civilizaciones, la Tierra Natal del hombre.
James Churchward (el autor) propone que la civilización de Mu es la madre de la maya, la hindú e incluso la egipcia, lo que me parece muy osado de asegurar, a pesar de que todo el libro tiene supuestos recibos de que así fue, como ejemplos de cómo Mu influyó en construcciones de pirámides en Yucatán, templos en Egipto, escritura en la India, entre muchos, muchos, muchísimos ejemplos, tantos, que la lectura ya pesa para la página 100.
Aplausos porque vienen muchas fotos, mapas y explicaciones de manuscritos y códices... aunque las explicaciones podrían ser falsas, Rick.
May 24, 2025
While I absolutely enjoyed this one, I have to question his timelines and geological evidence. The archaeological evidence and rock paintings he refers to are fascinating but at the end of the day the dates do not line up. It is a fascinating question to ask what happened to Mu, as we do Atlantis and Lemuria, but associating scribbles of an ancient language no one today speaks or reads to a civilisation that left behind no physical evidence can lead to loose conclusions. Definitely more research needs to be done. Churchward is right in understanding the power in oral histories but ignores the manipulation of time and crossing cultures on how those stories are told. Have fun with this one, and stay curious.
May 24, 2023
İnsanlık tarihi ve medeniyetlere yeni ve daha geniş ve bütünsel bir bakış kazanmak istiyorsanız okuyabilirsiniz.
Fazlasıyla farklı bölge ve medeniyetlerden bilgi içeriyor, kategorileme gayet başarılı.
ancak bir eğitim niteliğinde anlatılıyor bu bilgiler ve bazı bulguların çözümlemelerini anlatırken bazı yerlerde anlamakta ve takipte gerçekten zorlandım. Bazen dönüp başka kaynak ve bilgilerle incelemek istediğimde daha da zorlayıcı geçti. Yine de ilerledikçe daha da sevdim.
Yazarın diğer kitaplarını da aldım ve okuma sırama ekledim merakla diğer kitaplara da başlamayı bekliyorum. Sezgisel olarak etkileyen ve beni çeken kısımları oldu.
Fazlasıyla farklı bölge ve medeniyetlerden bilgi içeriyor, kategorileme gayet başarılı.
ancak bir eğitim niteliğinde anlatılıyor bu bilgiler ve bazı bulguların çözümlemelerini anlatırken bazı yerlerde anlamakta ve takipte gerçekten zorlandım. Bazen dönüp başka kaynak ve bilgilerle incelemek istediğimde daha da zorlayıcı geçti. Yine de ilerledikçe daha da sevdim.
Yazarın diğer kitaplarını da aldım ve okuma sırama ekledim merakla diğer kitaplara da başlamayı bekliyorum. Sezgisel olarak etkileyen ve beni çeken kısımları oldu.
March 17, 2024
This book is a perfect example of how you can find and manipulate information to prove almost anything. I lost track of the number of times Churchward stated "this proves" in the book. Churchward not only set out to prove the existence of Mu, but also how the rest of the world was colonized, mountain formation, and the existence of God.
I think this book is worth reading if only to see how easily erroneous information can be disseminated and believed. I have not decided whether to read the rest of the series, but I will probably read Mu Revealed by Tony Earll as it apparently corroborates Churchward's findings. Earll's book was written in the 1970s, so apparently the legend lives on.
I think this book is worth reading if only to see how easily erroneous information can be disseminated and believed. I have not decided whether to read the rest of the series, but I will probably read Mu Revealed by Tony Earll as it apparently corroborates Churchward's findings. Earll's book was written in the 1970s, so apparently the legend lives on.
November 17, 2020
Atatürk'ün ilgisi ve kraldan çok kralcıların masalları dışında mevzu James Churchward'ün kil tabletlerden, mitolojilerden, tapınaklardan, din adamlarından, jeolojik yapıdan, işaret ve sembollerden adım adım takip ettiği ve varlığını ispat etmeye çalıştığı 64.000.000 insan ile birlikte trajik bir biçimde Pasifik'te sulara gömülen batık kıtadır. İnsanlık tarihini kendince yeniden yazar. Mu insanlarının ileri bir gelişmişliğe sahip olduğunu da belirtir. Belki televizyon? Bir hükümete bağlı 10 kabileden ve onlarca kolonisinden söz eder. Konu sadece Türkler değildir yani.
April 23, 2023
Pass By This Edition
This rating and review isn't necessarily for the book, but more so for this particular edition.
This version has so many typos and editing errors it causes a significant distraction while reading.
The book itself is fairly dense, but is considered a classic in terms of occult literature and especially within the context of the mother flame. It would be a challenging read without the significant editing oversights.
"The Lost Continent of Mu" is a fascinating book, although I cannot recommend this edition.
This rating and review isn't necessarily for the book, but more so for this particular edition.
This version has so many typos and editing errors it causes a significant distraction while reading.
The book itself is fairly dense, but is considered a classic in terms of occult literature and especially within the context of the mother flame. It would be a challenging read without the significant editing oversights.
"The Lost Continent of Mu" is a fascinating book, although I cannot recommend this edition.
January 9, 2024
Loved reading through the Colonel’s mystical experiences. Not gonna make a judgement on the validity of his claims, as it may be difficult and unnecessary to disprove them.
Who knows, really.
All I know is, the lecture was enjoyable. It transports you in another world - whether you take it as fiction or truth.
One has to start reading this with an open mind, as most scientists do not agree with his claims. Controversial, but he does offer some interesting proof.
Who knows, really.
All I know is, the lecture was enjoyable. It transports you in another world - whether you take it as fiction or truth.
One has to start reading this with an open mind, as most scientists do not agree with his claims. Controversial, but he does offer some interesting proof.
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