A Pacific counterpart to Atlantis, Mu is supposed to have been a large continent in the middle of the ocean and the home of an advanced civilisation, having sunk beneath the waves many thousands of years ago. The civilisation of Mu is said to have influenced both the Chinese and the native American civilisations, and created the mysterious statues on Easter Island. There’s little to no scientific evidence for this theory, which can be classified as a myth of the ‘wishful thinking’ school.
The idea of Mu first surfaced in the 19th century, in the writings of French antiquarian, traveler and author Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908). He claimed to have translated Mayan texts referring to an ancient continent named Mu. When this continent sank into the ocean, its survivors founded the Mayan civilisation.
The Mu idea was popularised in the first half of the 20th century by James Churchward in such speculative books as ‘The Children of Mu’ (1931), ‘The Lost Continent of Mu’ (1933) and ‘The Sacred Symbols of Mu’ (1935). Nowadays, the idea of Mu retains no serious scientific value whatsoever, having been relegated to the sphere of New Age spirituality. In the 1930’s however, Atatürk promoted research on Mu in the hope of establishing connections between Turkey and (other) ancient cultures, even including native American cultures such as Maya and Aztec.
Mu is a popular topic in literature, comics, tv, movies and other fiction. It was used by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in his Cthulhu books, for example. Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin claimed the symbol on the band’s fourth album (a feather in a circle) was a reference to the Mu civilisation. 
This map was taken from here.
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Comment by HACKER — December 9, 2006 @ 4:45 pm
I just saw your blog when I signed up for a wordpress account. Mu seems to be an interesting continent. By looking at the breadth of some of your post, I was thought you might be able to answer this question. Is there some group or named theory for Antarctica being this and many other mythical continents. If you turn the globe upside down and take all the ice off, I could see it fitting the bill. I’ve seen a few maps of Antarctica sans ice, it is in the middle of the water, maybe the middle of the ocean is the same middle for everyone with a mythical continent. I do subscribe to the theory that it has been without ice in the past.
Anyway, I’ll poke around your strange maps when I get a chance
bye
Comment by wallywonderswhycom — December 10, 2006 @ 3:19 pm
I don’t think any living paleontologist would dispute that Antarctica has had warm periods.
Comment by Anton Sherwood — December 15, 2006 @ 8:03 pm
I think that a reference to Mu is in the ‘Kull the Conquerer’ cycle of stories by the great pulp-ist, Robert E. Howard, but the continent is LEMURIA, rather than Mu. It’s still a reference to a long-lost civilization in that region of the pacific.
Much as it would make archaeo-geography interesting, it’s probably wish-fulfillment… Though, a trans-pacific culture of islanders, considering the lower coastine during the last Ice-Age, may be possible…
Comment by Vlad — January 4, 2007 @ 11:27 am
@vlad — sorry, but the coasts of pretty much every land mass surrounding the Pacific Ocean, as well as of the islands in it, are very steep. That is, they drop to considerable depths quite close to shore, because of the way the tectonic plates of the landmasses are slowly squeezing over the ocean plates. Maps of the ocean floor show how deep it is. Still, many of the island groups once had larger above-water areas, particularly when they were volcanically fresh … but humans haven’t been on the islands that long, on a geological time line. (sample map here)
Lost populated land is a bit more likely in the shallower seas off SE Asia, however.
Comment by Gochi Sanfrid — February 19, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
Dear Anton, I must ad for those who dosen’t know ,we have very strong evidence of extreem global climate changes since the creation of Earth. Antarctica has often been uncovered by ice but I don’t think it happened since the begining of humankind.There’s still no evidence that Antarctica was ounce populated.
Comment by Lydie — February 27, 2007 @ 1:01 am
Your information is impressive!
Do you have even more information?
Thanks a Lot!
Comment by Bruce Sherwin — March 16, 2007 @ 9:55 pm
@ Bruce Sherwin:
thanks – as for my sources: i’m just trawlin’ the net…
Comment by strangemaps — March 16, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
For anyone that is looking at this, there is a game called “Mu Gods.” It is a computer game and the more I think about it the more I think that the game might be based on this myth of the Lost Continent of Mu. Now that I look at the map that shows what the continent looked like, it also looks like the map that the Mu Gods game uses. It’s just a conincedence, or maybe the publishers used Mu as a guide line for the game. Anyways, I’ve put up the link for the game, so go check it out. It’s actually a fun game too. My character on the game is named Stitchiz, so if you decide to download it, look me up one day.
Comment by Stitch — July 6, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
Does anyone remember The KLF’s ‘Justified and Ancient’? ‘All Bound for Mu-mu land’?
Comment by kenoma — July 20, 2007 @ 3:52 am
I once read in a documentary novel by Charles Burlitz writing on the Bermuda Triangle that an early 19th century oceanic expidition came upon a volcanic island in the pacific that was not on any map and that they had passed that region b4 and had never seen any landmass. they went onto the “island” and brought back several ancient artifacts” they documented the area in thier maps and sailed away. they later returned to mount a full expedition and the land mass was gone.
Comment by Devyn Marshall — July 25, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
I believe there may be some articles in this book that you people may find interesting.
http://www.thiaoouba.com/michel.htm
Comment by miribilist — October 1, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
Tectonic plates are pseudoscience! All these lost continents are real!
;)
Comment by Watson Waterstone — November 10, 2007 @ 11:16 pm
In Fiji, the land of “ancient” is referred to as “bulu”. When one makes a direct translation to english, it means “buried”. Now the question is buried in what – earth or sea? I then link this to the writings here by scholars of another era and find a link to what I was traditonally told as our legend and what scholars read from the ancient texts in other cultures. In Samoa, I found in another website that they also call the place of their ancinets ones a word that is also translated to “buried”. Coincidence? We have traditional dances called “meke” that tell tales of a warrior seeking out his beloved in the nine planets (although the word used was more akin to “nine worlds” we still get the meaning). Now how did a meke dating back several centuries (if one was to taken the human generation line that practiced the meke)talk about a science phenomena only discovered by scientists in the 1700’s. What I’m trying to say is there are unexplained depth of knowledge existing through oral translations via dances, songs and chants abundant through the Pacific. I wonder if one were to collate them and get a translation of what they meant. We might discover the origins of Mu!!
Comment by Nade — December 5, 2007 @ 3:57 am
After recieving the book “Lost Continent of Mu” by James Churchward from a Proffessor in California I proceeded to do some research on the subject. I believe that the Septor that the King of MU used is in the Museum of Chinese Antiquities. It has a Gold Claw ( 4 claw) and ball on each end with a place for your hand in the center. I believe that when Mu sank into the ocean, that it caused a huge Tital Wave that hit the Mexican and Brazilian coast. When the water subsided, the elders of the remailing islands stated that ” GOD was now pacified” and that is the how the Pacific ocean was named.
Comment by Dangella — December 15, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
I’ve read 4 of Churchward’s books on Mu. In his investigations he found that many cultures had legends about Mu from the American Indians to the ancient Egyptians. Plato ever wrote about being told by the Egytians that they came from a land called Atlantis, which they had come from the Mother land, Mu. They also told him that used to get dispatches from Atlantis every couple years. Then one year the Nile flooded after the earth had rumbled for hours, the water turned to mud and the river had changed forever. After not getting any word from Alantis they sent out a party and the island was gone. They believed that it to like Mu had sunk into the ocean. One has to think that the earth is millions of years old, God knows how many different people have walked this pplant before we ever cam along, just because modern science can’t prove one way or the other doesn’t mean it wasn’t so. After all, we’re told that there are microscopic particals that can’t be seen and we take they’re word for it, even though we can’t see them. Why couldn’t there have been a land in the Pacific called MU and one in the Atlantic called Atlantis?
Comment by Lou B. — January 22, 2008 @ 5:00 am
I’m looking for the meaning of the lotus–I think eight sections. I know what the plant means but not just those specific parts.
I’m the owner of the only known existing royal family jewel
high priest ring with such plant with
the mother Mu’s breast on it.
If anyone can give ANY INFORMATION
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Comment by Chief King Van H horton — February 26, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
I am 64yrs old and having come from a family of Phychics and Clairvoyants studied the subject of the Power of the Mind since 17 years of age – We all agree that homosapiens were given hugely superior mental facilities (Brain Power) and yet without any doubt we are a backward, even barbaric undeveloped form of civilization which on a scale of 1-10 – 10 being the highest would put us somewhere between 0 and 1 relative to our mental development – for those of us who do not agree please explain why we are unable to command any more than a minute portion of our enormouse brain potential and why we are unable to use our long forgotton inborn intincts such as those used by almost all other forma of life on earth, birds, mammals, fish (even shellfish) and some human races we believe (in our ignorance) to be inferior to us such as the SAN (Bushmen of the Kalahari)and the red indian. Take away electrical power – which is a real threat and lets see who survives us or the SAN, birds, fish and animals. We with our so called superior civilization have put ourselves into a severely vulnerable corner -one of absolute dependance on Computers, Satellites and hence Electrical Power Our basic mental development is channeled into that of short term gain no matter who we have to screw in the process – we call that success and the cost attributed to the ongoing progress of civilization – More recently we have been forced to acknowledge and accept extreme damage resulting from our short term self centred demands which we excuse as being unavoidable. Although we give lip service concern for the environments deterioration we will not give up any of our so called modern comforts and conveniences – We totally ignore the life cost to so many millions of other species, including vegetable matter with as much right to live on this earth (as it stands probably More Right). Considering the above I have no doubt of the existance of Lost Continents such as MU or as a matter of fact Life (not necessarily as we with our limited imagination can picture) existing on other planets in many other galaxies.
Comment by Des Cloete — March 16, 2008 @ 7:10 am
Why live life when we can love life… Mu is in us all just as Atlantis- They were here before us and they will speak of us after we are gone under the seas, for it is beginning.
Ancients forgive the ignorance. Moderns, lets start living
and learning from them and maybe we can pass long some to the ones to come after…
Comment by CHristopher Hedges — May 4, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Webzen made an MMORPG called MU Online.Its the story of adventurers who land on the continent of MU(truly beautiful) and do indeed find some ancient and advanced technology in this place called Kantru.
I am looking forward to more researches on MU.
Comment by Milamber — June 5, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Don’t forget that landmasses travel.
It may be possible that these islands were a part of a continent that was much smaller than the image depicts.
The image takes for granted that all the islands known modernly, are still in the same position since the sinking.
Also, just because the islands edges are steep doesn’t mean the sinking couldn’t have occurred. Actually it might make it more likely. Because, the ones that are steep are on the outside edge, would have been a part of a different continental shelf.
Also, take Australia. Shove it into that gap between Africa and India in a vertical position. Then you have an awfully big Africa shaped gap along Asia’s Pacific border.
Shrink that image of Mu down to the border represented by the islands. Now you have a remarkably Africa-like shape (with the south ‘tail’ bent up to the right). It fits along Asia’s border.
So it seems the Mu continent (if shrunk down to what’s necessary), does fit into the continental shelves and tectonic plates we know about.
Also, there’s a lot more room for Mu than Atlantis. If you put Africa by South Am. and Europe by North Am. you don’t have room for Atlantis. You still have room for Mu though.
Maybe Mu was Atlantis. I find it too coincidental that two landmasses sunk at the same time with the same advanced tech.
Comment by Lee — July 3, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Dear Van Horton:
You have severly underestimated the ability of ‘convenienced’ human’s ability to adapt. There are many stories of island surviveresque.
Not only that, I disagree about our conveniences totally trashing our environment. It’s always stated that the climate hasn’t been this worse since X years before modern tech. What made it worse back then?
Yes, some things we do, like deforestation, are negatively impacting the environment. But there’s another opinion out there besides global warming.
I’ve listened to both scientific sides (not the political ones), and I believe that if this planet went to shit, it’s mostly due to overall climate change that’s been in effect long before modern tech.
We can do little to the natural climate cycle of Earth. Most of the effects of pollution effects the local area, which happens to be where we live. So if anything, pro-environment movements are started out of our own selfishness, not out of self-righteousness.
It’s actually arguable that the effects of pollution are global at all. Most of the effects that do spread are side-effects like acid-rain, oil spills, etc. These are mostly short distance side-effects too.
So, there is another opinion out there. There is another opinion to evolution out there (which has more scientific evidence in my opinion). However, when the upper powers of the scientific community agree on something, the little man can hardly interject even with well-documented proof to the contrary.
There’s still very little of these evolutionary links. Matter of fact, they are missing the most important ones (apes to humans, dinosaur to bird, development of eyes, etc) that make the more tremendous leaps. To counter this they stated that the evolutionary cycle exists where there are long periods of little development and short bursts of much development. Bullshit.
Same thing in global warming. Long periods of little climate change, short bursts.
All because we don’t see a gradual change today.
Neither of these conclusions had any evidence whatsoever.
So yeah, don’t be surprised when I call bullshit on the scientific elite.
Comment by Lee — July 3, 2008 @ 9:02 am
Mu did not exist. This is fact, as the ocean floors have been mapped and no continental remains are to be seen there. If it “sank” just 10,000-20,000 years ago (don’t know the exact date that’s been given but something like that), we should still be able to see it there. We don’t. No trace at all — in fact the ocean floor is quite smooth except for the volcanoes — no discontinuities or anything to mark a continental margin. It is the simplest, most direct test possible — just see what the bottom of the ocean looks like — and if the MU theory doesn’t hold up to that it’s obviously a load of crap. There’s nothing to suggest significant catastrophic (=instantaneous on a geologic timescale) alteration of the Coruscic Ocean Basin at any point, much less at the scales required for “MU” to have existed.
It’s simple observation and simple facts. It does not require obscure, complicated procedures to see these simple facts.
Comment by mike3 — July 15, 2008 @ 12:27 am
Mu did not exist, people are wrecking the environment, there is only one human Family, and so on, and so on, this is all truth and the sooner you see its logic the better…
Comment by mike3 — July 15, 2008 @ 12:29 am
see:
http://www.badarchaeology.net/forgotten/mu.php
Comment by david — July 17, 2008 @ 7:30 am
“see:
http://www.badarchaeology.net/forgotten/mu.php”
Yep. I already knew it was a fraud anyways…
Comment by mike3 — July 24, 2008 @ 7:23 am
you know it was 20,000bc – 10,000bc not years ago!
Comment by sienc — August 13, 2008 @ 11:43 pm
so it was 800,000 years ago (sory forgot to put this)
Comment by sienc — August 13, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
Mu did in fact exist, it lasted for over 40,000 years and was inhabited by minds in human form from another realm who were here to fine tune the clarity, frequency and level of their minds. They were very advanced but not quite as Advanced as those on Atlantis.
Comment by Horace — August 25, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
Mu is also known as Lemuria
Comment by Hailie — September 15, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
Armpit hair is the only remaining evidence of Mu. Other evidences of Mu, like purple square bananas and butt bones, were destroyed when the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit the earth.
Popular Mu fashion was polo shirts and ballroom gowns (for the men). Women enjoyed wearing cabbage.
Comment by Hailie — September 15, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
Now I’m off to find the lost continents of Quack and Meow.
Comment by sam huddy — September 28, 2008 @ 7:15 am
thanks.
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@24 mike3
You forgot to pointout that everyting on the Tv and in the papers is the truth
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What?!? No reference to the Palmyra Atoll?
Comment by Kevin Riley O'Keeffe — April 23, 2009 @ 7:14 am
“believe that when Mu sank into the ocean, that it caused a huge Tital Wave that hit the Mexican and Brazilian coast. When the water subsided, the elders of the remailing islands stated that ” GOD was now pacified” and that is the how the Pacific ocean was named.”
Never-the-less, Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean, in the early 1500s, due to his impression that the seas were much calmer than those of the Atlantic. This really isn’t in dispute.
Comment by Kevin Riley O'Keeffe — April 23, 2009 @ 7:18 am
thanks alot
Comment by Tony — May 4, 2009 @ 2:30 am
thanks for this map
good
luck
Comment by Solomon — May 11, 2009 @ 7:16 am
merci
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Vielen Dank
Comment by moon — July 3, 2009 @ 3:51 am
Muchas gracias
Comment by sun — July 4, 2009 @ 6:41 am
Technology has not advanced so far as two look at the bottom of the Pacific and Atlantic. Besides, There is evidenced of lost lands and submerged cities(where does all the melted arctic/antarctic ice go?) all over the world! Though by no means advanced nor dumber.
The continental drift theory is quack and the Earth is only 6-8 thousand years old(not to mention a catastrophic global flood 4,000 years ago).
Comment by R.J. — September 6, 2009 @ 4:09 am
Very interesting, lots to play with when learning about ancient worlds, i bet a lot still has to be discovered. The game has started, let’s just hope we’ll learn about these things in less than 100 years!
Comment by strategygames — November 1, 2009 @ 4:28 am