Englishman James Churchward was a man of short stature and frail build. However, this did not prevent him from writing a book in his youth called "Guide to Big Game Hunting and Fishing in Northeastern Maine." Colonel Churchward took up his pen again when he was seventy years old. He published a whole series of books about the continent My that sank in the Pacific Ocean in time immemorial, which came out one after another. It was they, and mainly the work “The Lost Continent of My”, published in 1926, that made him famous.
Rishi means sage
Churchward began his military service in India. In the late 60s of the XIX century, he met the abbot of one of the ancient temples there, who later became a Teacher for the colonel. In his works, Churchward called him Rishi, that is, a sage. Under the guidance of an Indian monk, the Briton mastered the art of meditation and astral projection, and also studied the sacred symbolism of Hinduism. One day Churchward asked the abbot for permission to copy several temple bas-reliefs in order to decipher their meaning.
The teacher not only gave him such permission, but also helped him with his instructions. James Churchward recalled: "He showed me how to solve the riddle of these bizarre inscriptions and taught me lessons that prepared me for even more difficult problems."
Once the rishis told Churchward that many ancient stone tablets are kept in the hiding places of the temple - so sacred that no one even touched them for many centuries. They were allegedly created by mysterious naga, or otherwise by incandescence - either in Burma, or in the Ancestral Homeland itself - the now extinct continent of My. The Englishman hardly managed to persuade the Teacher to remove the nakal tablets from their clay cases. Churchward compiled a catalog of them and began trying to decipher the symbolic images placed on them.
Plates and "plaques"
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Long months of intense and concentrated translation of the tablets followed, but the efforts were rewarded. The texts from the tablets described in detail the creation of the world and man, as well as the place where this happened - the continent of My. Churchward began to travel to Indian temples with letters of recommendation to their abbots, although he was often received with coldness and suspicion. This only increased the curiosity of the Englishman, and he dreamed of studying the chronicles of all ancient civilizations and comparing them with the Nakal texts. With this goal in mind, he traveled all over the world, studied many ancient documents, architectural monuments and archaeological relics, studied geology and physics. If you believe his statements, the theory, which began with the mysterious stone tablets in an Indian temple, received more and more confirmation.
Churchward also managed to procure two sets of wooden planks. At least one of them actually existed and was a collection of items found in Mexico by an American engineer named Naiven. To an uninitiated eye, these objects look like flattened figurines that the Aztecs, Zapotecs and other Mexican tribes sculpted in large numbers for religious purposes. For Churchward, however, these were "plaques", and their curves and fanciful patterns - Muvian symbols containing a secret meaning.
Flourishing
In his writings, the colonel wrote that the continent of My stretched from Hawaii to Fiji and from Easter Island to the Mariana Islands. It was low and flat, as the mountains had not yet formed, and was covered with lush tropical vegetation. During its heyday, 46 million people lived on the continent, divided into ten tribes, and the priest-emperor Ra ruled them. The inhabitants of My differed in skin color. Whites prevailed over the rest. The Muvians created not only a highly developed civilization, but also professed a pure Aryan monotheistic religion, which Jesus Christ later tried to revive. These people were never savages, since Churchward, who saw no point in the "monkey theories" of science, was of the opinion that man was deliberately created already civilized during the Pliocene.
Map of the continent of Mu, 1927
My sent her people to establish colonies under the leadership of the naga priests. Some of these settlers made their way to Atlantis through the inland seas, which at the time covered the Amazon basin. Others settled in Asia, where they created the great Uyghur empire 20 thousand years ago. In Churchward's imagination, this empire was truly a gigantic state formation.
“The southern border of the Uyghur empire coincided with the northern borders of Cochin, Burma, India and Persia - and that was before the Himalayas and other Asian mountains rose,” the colonel painted. - The empire included Siberia, but there is no evidence to suggest how far north its borders went … Over time, the Uyghurs reached Europe and, as stated in extremely ancient Indian texts, mastered the northern and western coasts of the Caspian Sea; from there they continued on their way to Central Europe up to its western border - Ireland. They founded settlements in northern Spain, northern France and almost the entire Balkan Peninsula … The capital of the Uyghurs was located in the place of the Gobi Desert, where Khara-Khoto is now located. During the Uyghur Empire, the Gobi Desert was an extremely fertile land. It should be noted that the Uyghur empire existed in reality, but during the X-XII centuries. AD fell under the blows of the Mongols. Therefore, it had nothing in common with Churchward's.
Catastrophe
13 thousand years ago, the giant gas cavities, according to the colonel, that existed under the planet's surface, collapsed. This led to the death of My and Atlantis. Churchward in his writings quoted an excerpt from the so-called "Chronicle of Lhasa": "When the star Bal fell where there is now only sky and sea, seven cities with golden gates and transparent temples trembled and swayed like foliage in a storm; and now streams of fire and smoke rose from the palaces. The screams of crowds of people filled the air. They sought refuge in their temples and citadels, and the sacred and wise My rose up and said to them: Didn't I foretell all this? Both men and women, adorned with precious stones and glittering robes, prayed, “My, save us!” And My replied: “You all perish, with your servants and your riches, and new nations will rise from your ashes. If they forgetthat the best is not the one who takes, but the one who gives, the same fate awaits them. " Flame and smoke completed the words of My: the country, together with its inhabitants, was torn to pieces and swallowed up by the abyss.
Already from the point of view of geology, the colonel explained that gases from the underground cavities escaped outward, the earth collapsed to the bottom of the chambers, the waters of the Pacific Ocean poured into the vacated space, and the continent My ceased to exist. At the same time, mountains appeared on other continents. Churchward attributed the rise to sky-high heights in the Andes to the famous city of Tiaguanaco and the sea bay that had turned into Lake Titicaca, to the moment of the same global catastrophe. The surviving Muvians concentrated on small islands of Polynesia and, rapidly degrading, began to eat each other, so as not to starve to death. They sank to the level of savages, as did the former Muvian overseas colonies.
It is curious that James Churchward believed that in the deepest antiquity, entire islands and continents repeatedly plunged into the ocean in a similar way. Similar precedents allegedly took place in the Precambrian era, in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic, in the Pleistocene epoch and up to the beginning of the historical period.
Alas, his works, written with seeming scientific thoroughness, are most often referred to by experts as "books where there is not a word of truth." This, however, does not prevent publishers in various parts of the world from reproducing the Colonel's Muvian stories from time to time, delighting new generations of readers with a forgotten sensation.
Andrey Chinaev. Secrets of the XX century magazine