Lemuria, Lemuria. Wherefore Art Thou?---
John F. Winston
Someone asked me to explain something about Lemuria. Here is
what I found, on the Internet about it. This information can be
found on Goggle.com by putting in the name Lemuria.
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Subject: Lemuria
Symbolic drawing made in 1931 by Mayan glyph researcher, James
Churchward, depicting a cataclysm of earthquakes and volcanoes that
allegedly sank the continent of Mu in the Pacific Ocean.
Churchward's map showing how he thought Mu refugees spread out
after the cataclysm through South America, along the shores of
Atlantis and into Africa.
Drawings ) 1931 by James Churchward.
James Churchward, in books such as The Lost Continent of Mu
(1931), wrote that the Motherland stretched from the Hawaiian
Islands to Fiji and from Easter Island to the Marianas. Churchward
considered the Nan Modal site on Pohnpei Island one of the seven
sacred cities of Mu. Today its ruins sit on a swampy lagoon filled
with mangrove trees. Rising about 30 feet in height, black volcanic
stones weighing many tons are stacked crisscross like a child's
frontier fort. It's one of the more enigmatic sites in the entire
Pacific, yet archaeologists cannot explain how it got there.
Indeed, stone monuments of mysterious origin dot the entire
Pacific, from Japan's spectacular underwater site at Yonaguni to
cryptic Petroglyphs on Hawaii's Big Island. Menehune Ditch on Kauai
is built from dressed and fitted stone slabs like something ancient
Romans would have erected, very different from typical Polynesian
style. And of course there is Easter Island, centerpiece of many
Lemuria theories. Its hundreds of colossal stone statues and
written language point to an advanced culture, yet it appeared on
the world's most remote spot. Why?
The legends of Easter Island speak of Hiva, which sank beneath
the waves as people fled, while Samoans called a similar place
Bolutu. It was stocked with trees and plants bearing fruits and
flowers, which were immediately replaced when picked. On Bolutu
men could walk through trees, houses, and other physical objects
without any resistance. The Maoris of New Zealand still talk about
arriving long ago from a sinking island called Hawaiki, a vast
and mountainous place on the other side of the water.
There's yet another puzzling piece of evidence. A map of the lost
continent published by the Lemurian Fellowship corresponds almost
exactly to boundaries of the Pacific Plate. But the map first
appeared long before geologists even knew of the plate's existence.
Their detailed map places the capital just north of present day
Maui, near the center of a vast continent stretching from Australia
to the Rocky Mountains!
The finding of one of James Churchward's Mu books gave the band
its name and their obsession with this fabled lost continent.
Anglo-American explorer, James ad Alice Le Plongeon. This French
doctor and his wife had propounded the theory of the sunken lost
civilization of Atlantis in the later part of the 19th when all
manner of occult and theosophical speculation was rife.
Although they had done legitimately useful work in discovering
and photographing ancient Mayan cities that had been lost in the
jungles of Central America, the Le Plongeons' theories were based
on fanciful and widely inaccurate translations of Mayan texts
alongside all manner of pseudo-historical and scientific hokum.
They had a Queen Moo who ruled over the ancient Mayan civilization
and the couple went on to construct an ever more elaborate
'history' for Atlantis and created a sub-culture of 'occult'
writing that continues to this day.
It seems that Churchward wanted an ancient civilization of his
own, and using Le Plongeon's doubtful methodology set about
'discovering' one. His findings were set down in the five main
volumes of the Mu series published during the 1920s and 30s.
According to author Churchward - Lemuria or Mu - was about
5,000 miles long and 3,000 miles wide, a beautiful tropical
paradise like the Garden of Eden.
The basic premise is that by studying various ancient texts
Churchward had discovered the existence of a long lost continent
with an advanced civilization that 60,000 years ago had sunk below
the Pacific Ocean after a cataclysmic earthquake. There were 64
million people who died in the sinking, and that it dated back over
50,000 years. The Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Islands are
the remaining mountain peaks of the lost continent.
Precise detailed maps of the lost continent of Mu and Atlantis
were found on stone tablets from Pre-Inca Ica, Peru, by Dr. Javier
Cabrera, engraved in stone and photographed by Robert Charroux.
United Nations diplomat Farida Iskoviet, assistant to United
Nations President Adam Malik, came to Maui in 1972 and researched
Lemurian ruins and history and concluded that they were real. One
of from Army Intelligence in Oahu. He reported that ruins of a
submerged Lemurian city was between Maui and Oahu. It was a Top
Secret project in Naval Intelligence in 1972.
Volume #1 - The Lost Continent of Mu set out Churchward's theory
utilizing a "vast knowledge of science, ancient art and history,
mythology and the occult" to recreate the splendor and doom of this
hidden antediluvian world. The Garden of Eden was not in Asia but
on a now sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean. The Bi-lical story
of Creation came first not from the peoples of the Nile or the
Euphrates Valley but from this now-submerged continent, Mu - the
Motherland of Man.
Volume #2 - The Children of Mu The strange, true story of the
pioneers of Mu. According to the back cover, "Sixty-three million
people lived on the now lost continent of Mu over 200,000 years
ago. The children of Mu became the most influential people on
Earth. America was one of the first colonies of Mu...Mu had an
incredibly sophisticated gov-rnment, flowering of culture and
scientific technology." Much of the Lemurian civilization lived
in homes with transparent roofs. They were free from stress and
disease lived to be hundreds of years old, developing their E.S.P
abilities through nearly 40,000 years of societal practice and
experimentation. With that many centuries of evolution, the
Lemurians gained their reputation or telepathy, astral travel and
teleportation - making land vehicles unnecessary. They were
primarily socially a vegetarian, agri-ultural, outdoor, organic
culture that worked in harmony with nature and the land, having
little use for scientific technology.
During that time, they had to build their shelter, make their
own clothing, gather their own food, make their own tools, and
provide for each other without getting into any argument or
projecting any negativity toward each other.
Volume #3 - The Sacred Symbols of Mu, "the strange, true story of
the occult origins of ancient and modern rel-gions." The book says
that "all relig-ons have a common origin in the Sacred Inspired
Writings of Mu. Evidence of this original re-igion dates back
170,000 years ago. Osiris (who lived 20,000 BC) and Je--s taught
identically the same rel-gion. Both learned from this ancient book.
Moses condensed the forty-two questions of the Osirian rel-gion into
the Ten Commandments. The Lord's Prayer is to be found in The Sacred
Inspired Writings of Mu. J--us condensed the text to suit the
languages of his day. And te Last Words of Jes-- on the cross were
in the language of Mu - unknown in Palestine!"
Volume #4 - The Cosmic Forces of Mu - Churchward mocks the sacred
cows of modern science and reveals that biological evolution is a
myth, that there is no such thing as atomic force, that all disease
can be conquered by using appropriately colored light rays, that the
Earth's temperatures and seasons have become inalterably fixed in
their present state and that the earth cannot be hurled off into
space or drawn into the sun.
Volume is #5 - Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu -
Churchward continues to draw conclusions from the ancient documents
and lore of Mu to present some startling revisionist theories
about the age of the Earth, the nature of mountains and volcanic
processes, and the Ice Age and Flood.
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In the 1970s Tony Earll's Mu Revealed (one of countless books
written about the sunken civilizations Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria)
claimed to be "an astonishing account of the archaeological
discovery that proves the existence of Mu."From the cover: "When
the Hurdlop expedition began excavating, it was with the hope
of proving or disproving James Churchward's startling theories about
Mu, the ancient lost continent of the Pacific...What they found
was beyond their wildest expectation -- the diary of Kland, a
young priest who had emigrated from Mu before its destruction!
Painstakingly restored and translated, the diary scrolls provide
breathtaking glimpses into the everyday life of Mu at the height of
its splendid, doomed culture."
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According to David Childress various esoteric sources, the first
civilization arose 78,000 years ago on the giant continent known
as Mu or Lemuria and lasted for an astonishing 52,000 years. It is
sometimes said to have been destroyed in earthquakes generated by
a pole shift which occurred some 26,000 years ago, or at
approximately 24,000 B.C.
While Mu did not reach as high a technology, supposedly, as
other later civilizations, it is, nevertheless, said to have
attained some advanced technology, particularly in the building of
long-lasting megalithic buildings that were able to withstand
earthquakes. However, it was the science of gove-nment that is
sometimes said to have been Mu's greatest achievement.
Part 1.
John Winston. john...@mlode.com
Tim Chmielewski
news:Pine.BSF.3.96.104010...@shell.mlode.com:
> Subject: Lemuria, Lemuria. Wherefore Art Thou?--- Jan. 9, 2004.
>
> Someone asked me to explain something about Lemuria. Here is
> what I found, on the Internet about it. This information can be
> found on Goggle.com by putting in the name Lemuria.
>
Damn! I thought this would be an article about the "Lemuria Computers"
ad on TV in the country where my parents live.
The ad has the most out of tune singing ever heard with the line:
"LEMURIA! LEMURIA COMPUTERS!"
repeated over and over.
Thanks.
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http://timchuma.com || http://timchuma.com/gitgroupie/
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rone
John F. Winston <john...@mlode.com> wrote:
>Subject: Lemuria, Lemuria. Wherefore Art Thou?--- Jan. 9, 2004.
foreverspot
i know he's here
in Massachusetts
i can smell the tears
of duriansheen
my LEMURIA, my LEMURIA
even i'll adore your
my LEMURIA
rone
--
Light stupidity decays into heavy stupidity. This violates energy
conservation, but that's stupidity for you.
- Rich Holmes <rsholme...@mailbox.syr.edu>
Matt McIrvin
Tim Chmielewski <ch...@dcsi.net.au> wrote:
> Damn! I thought this would be an article about the "Lemuria Computers"
> ad on TV in the country where my parents live.
>
> The ad has the most out of tune singing ever heard with the line:
> "LEMURIA! LEMURIA COMPUTERS!"
> repeated over and over.
Lemuria Computers??? That is a wonderful thing. The only way a name
could be more nerdly would be to put something about Gandalf in it.
--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/