Mu is a mythical lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the “Land of Mu” with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. The place of Mu in both pseudoscience and fantasy fiction is discussed in detail in Lost Continents (1954, 1970) by L. Sprague de Camp. Geologists dismiss the existence of Mu and the lost continent of Atlantis as physically impossible, as a continent can neither sink nor be destroyed in the short period of time asserted in legends and folklore and literature about these places. The mythical idea of the “Land of Mu” first appeared in the works of the British-American antiquarian Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán…
First Appearance Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx by Augustus Le Plongeon (1896)
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Appearance List Literature: Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx by Augustus Le Plongeon (1896) [Internet Archive], The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel (1909), James Churchward’s Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man (1926) [Internet Archive], The Children of Mu (1931), and The Sacred Symbols of Mu (1933), “Out of the Aeons” by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Head in Weird Tales (Apr 1935), Lost Atlantis by James Bramwell (1939), Fredric Brown’s short story “Letter to a Phoenix” (1949), Lost Continents – Atlantis Theme in History, Science and Literature by L. Sprague De Camp (1954), Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents – Myth and Method In The Study Of American Indians by Robert Wauchope (1962). Pulp: “The Demons of Rhadi-Mu” in Amazing Stories Quarterly vol. 4 #4, Amazing Stories vol. 6 #8, “Mu and Atlantis” poem by Allen Glasser in Amazing Stories Quarterly vol. 6 #4. Comics: Captain Science #1, Adventures into Darkness #6, “The Time Travelers” in Operation: Peril #8, Forbidden Worlds #31, Crack Comics #16, Smash Comics #6-7 (prose), Amazing Adventures #1, Jungle Comics #117, Great Comics #3, Choice Comics #3. Film: The Phantom Empire (1935), The Lost City (1935), Atragon (1963).
Sample Read Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man [Internet Archive]
Description Mu is a mythical lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the “Land of Mu” with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. The place of Mu in both pseudoscience and fantasy fiction is discussed in detail in Lost Continents (1954, 1970) by L. Sprague de Camp. Geologists dismiss the existence of Mu and the lost continent of Atlantis as physically impossible, as a continent can neither sink nor be destroyed in the short period of time asserted in legends and folklore and literature about these places. The mythical idea of the “Land of Mu” first appeared in the works of the British-American antiquarian Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán…
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