The history of the Earth keeps many unsolved mysteries. One of the most famous is Atlantis, about the reality of existence and the reasons for the death of which scientists are still discussing.
But ancient legends tell about other continents where advanced civilizations allegedly flourished and which sank as a result of grandiose global cataclysms. Two such continents are most often mentioned: Lemuria in the Indian Ocean and Pacifis, or My - in the Pacific.
The past existence of Lemuria is confirmed by … lemurs
To begin with, it should be noted that some researchers interpret the toponym My as an abbreviation of the name "Lemuria", that is, as two names for the same continent. And Pacifida is another continent, and the name My has nothing to do with it.
However, those who disagree with this "distribution" of names point out that most researchers place Lemuria in the Indian Ocean, and Pacifida (My) in the Pacific.
True, how the water space around the Earth looked in those infinitely distant times and what was in place of these current oceans - after all, it is also not known for sure …
According to one of the interpretations, the name "Lemuria" has an interesting explanation. In 1830, the English zoologist Philip Latley Sclater noticed that lemurs - animals of the family of semi-monkeys - live both in Madagascar (but not on the African continent!) And on the islands of the Malay archipelago. Of course, these animals are not able to swim across the Indian Ocean.
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Based on this, Sclater suggested that in ancient times, maybe 100 million years ago, there was a continent in the Indian Ocean, which subsequently sank. But if this continent existed for so long, then people could not live on it, since the age of mankind is estimated at only 2-3 million years. However, in the 19th century, some scientists, including Ernst Haeckel, one of the prominent biologists of the time, considered Lemuria the cradle of humanity.
Colonel Churchward's research
In 1868, Colonel of the British Colonial Army James Churchward, who served in India, became friends with a certain Buddhist monk, who revealed to him the location of several thousand clay tablets covered with mysterious symbols. Churchward studied the tablets for over 10 years and eventually announced that he was able to read the texts written on them. According to him, these texts tell the history of the continent My. On this continent, which sank 100 thousand years ago, 64 million people lived, and the level of their civilization was in many ways higher than the current one.
As a wealthy man, Churchward began to travel around the world in search of other sources that could confirm the existence of the continent and the civilization of My. He visited Tibet, Central Asia, Burma, Egypt, Siberia, Australia, the Pacific Islands and Central America. It was in Central America that the colonel learned that the American archaeologist William Niven, during excavations in Mexico, discovered the ruins of buildings and tablets covered with strange signs.
Seeing the tablets found by Niven, Churchward stated that they were the same signs as on the tablets from the Indian monastery. Together they deciphered the inscriptions, which told about the huge continent with a large population that existed in the Pacific Ocean, and about its tragic death.
Based on the results of his travels and research, James Churchward published a number of articles, as well as two books: The Lost Continent of Mu and The Cosmic Forces of Mu, published in New York. respectively, in 1931 and 1934.
Pros and cons
As for the tablets kept in the Indian monastery, then, except for Churchward, no one saw them, since the colonel, according to him, undertook to keep their whereabouts secret. At the same time, all the people who knew the colonel assured that he was an extremely truthful and honest man, and the mere fact that he spent all his fortune in search of evidence confirming the information contained in the tablets speaks in his favor. In addition, it was known where the other tablets are - those that Niven found in Mexico.
And yet, some scholars were skeptical about the interpretation of the texts contained in them, although no one doubted the authenticity of the tablets themselves. In 1924, Dr. Morley of the American Carnegie Institute gave the following conclusion about them: "The discovered objects are authentic, but the symbols applied to them, as well as the symbols carved on the ruins of the altar, are unlike anything known to archeology of the pre-Columbian period."
The French scientist Robert Carreau in his "Book of Lost Worlds" agrees with Churchward's conclusions about the existence of the Mu civilization. In this connection, Carro mentions the famous ruins of the city of Tiahuanaco, which lies on the shores of Lake Titicaca. They testify that several thousand years ago (some believe that from 20 to 30 thousand years ago) a highly developed civilization existed here.
Now Tiahuanaco is located at an altitude of 3915 meters above sea level, but on the banks of the canals, the remains of which have survived within the city, archaeologists find fragments of shells of sea mollusks. According to some scientists, the waves of the ocean once splashed under the walls of Tiahuanaco. It is likely that tectonic shifts in the earth's crust, which caused the uplift of those parts of the land where the Andes are now located, simultaneously led to the flooding of the continent of Mu.
And here is the "material evidence"
But perhaps the most powerful argument in defense of Churchward's hypothesis is the ruins of various structures that cover dozens of Pacific islands in Polynesia and Micronesia. They are undoubtedly the traces of a much older civilization than the one that has existed in these places since the 19th century. These are the ruins of city buildings and temples, the remains of magnificent colonnades and magnificent tombs, fragments of statues. Their size, architecture and the art of processing indicate that they were created by a people with extensive knowledge and high culture.
Nan Madol
Among such ancient artifacts, undoubtedly, are the ruins of the mysterious city of Nan Madol on one of these islands - Ponape - in the Caroline archipelago. It is quite possible that this entire archipelago is part of a large continent that has sunk into the ocean.
Here are some more examples
On Picairn Island, 2,000 kilometers west of Easter Island, you can see the remains of residential buildings, four-meter statues and ruins of ancient temples. On the Gambier Islands, there are superbly preserved mummies and the ruins of high walls that form a semi-ring. On the already mentioned island of Ponape, there is a port with canals built of stone, which, according to native legends, was built by the "kings of the sun". But who they were, where they came from and where they went - no one can say.
In the aforementioned book by Carro on the lost continents, there is a photograph of a huge arch made of monolithic stone, located on the island of Tongatapu in the Tonga archipelago. This arch weighs about 100 tons, and on the whole island there is no place where one could get a "blank" for such a gigantic part. So the stone was brought from somewhere.
Who! When? How?
On one of the Mariana Islands - Tinian - Churchward saw a whole forest of columns, later described in detail by the archaeologist Laris Tal.
Stone "pillars" of Tinian Island
A credible legend
There is no doubt that all this testifies to the existence of a highly developed human community in these places in the very distant past. And it is most logical to assume that in this part of the planet there really was once a vast continent and that a civilization flourished on it, though perhaps not as ancient and not as developed as the archaeologist-colonel sees it.
In January 1974, the French journal Science et Vie ("Science and Life") reported a group of five islands located near the New Hebrides archipelago, on which, according to local legends, the island of Cuwaye disintegrated after a terrible earthquake that happened in time immemorial. Archaeologist Jose Garanger examined soil samples from these islands. The results confirmed the credibility of the legend.
"This again puts on the agenda the question of the existence of the continent of Mu in the past" - this is how the mentioned message ends.
Quarry "stone glasses", island Rota
Tinian Island in the past with a whole stone alley, illustration from an unknown old edition
According to Churchward, the descendants of the people who inhabited Mu were the Mayans in America and the Uighurs in Asia. Uighurs still live in China (about 7.5 million), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan (170 thousand). Ancient Chinese legends speak of the powerful Uyghur empire that existed thousands of years ago.
In 1908 (according to other sources - in 1907) an archaeological expedition headed by the explorer of Central Asia P. K. Kozlov (1863-1935), later a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, discovered in the Gobi Desert the ancient capital of the Uyghur kingdom - the city of Khara-Khoto. Subsequently, during excavations there was discovered the grave of a certain queen, buried 15,000 years ago.
In 1970, Professor Romeo de Saint-Savoyard expressed the opinion that the population of Mu was of extraterrestrial origin: they were aliens from one of the planets of the Coma Coma constellation. They became the first civilized inhabitants of the Earth, and subsequently transferred all their knowledge and culture to the inhabitants of Atlantis. The professor believes that the Mu civilization died about 700 thousand years ago. It should be noted that not all reputable scientists have attributed this opinion to the field of science fiction.
In conclusion - a quote from the book by Robert Carro: "The fact of the existence of the continent of Mu is based on so much evidence of archeology and culture that it would be simply stupidity not to reckon with them."
Vadim Ilyin
