![]() ![]() It was almost completely sunk 60,000 years ago, with the Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island being virtually the sole traces left of it. It had been home to an advanced civilisation, located in what is now the Pacific Ocean. The first volume (published in 1926) set out his theory, employing a “ vast knowledge of science, ancient art and history, mythology and the occult” to recreate the splendour of this antediluvian world.Ĭhurchward claimed that he had discovered the existence of the long lost continent of Mu from his reading of ancient texts. After writing a Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine, published in 1898, he published five volumes during the 1920s and 30s, dealing with his ‘discovery’ of the ‘lost continent’ of Mu ( The Lost Continent of Mu, The Children of Mu, The Sacred Symbols of Mu, The Cosmic Forces of Mu and The Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu). Two years later, he was back in England, where he is listed in the census of 1881 as a tea planter, now living in Croydon (Surrey) before the end of the decade, though, he was living in Brooklyn (USA). By 1872, he was living in Sri Lanka and borrowed money to finance a tea plantation in 1879 (he appears as owner of a plantation in a directory published in Colombo in 1878). ![]() Churchward was born in Hatherley, Devon, and liked to be known as ‘Lieutenant-Colonel’ (and although no-one seems to have discovered where he served, his claims to knowledge of India and/or Tibet suggest that it was in British India: at least one author (Kolosimo 1971, 56) makes him a Colonel in India during 1868, at the impossibly tender age of seventeen!). Another lost continent was added to the Theosophists’ multiplicity of sunken lands in the 1920s by an Anglo-American occultist, James Churchward (1851-1936), who claimed to have discovered evidence for a sunken landmass in the Pacific Ocean named Mu.
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