Mu (Legendary place)
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Name (Latin)
Mu (Legendary place)
See Also From tracing topical name
Geographical myths
Lost continents
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Wikidata:
Q272562
Library of congress:
sh2007002407
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Santesson, Hans Stefan. Understanding Mu, 1974:p. 4 of cover (Mu, the fabled lost continent of the Pacific)
- Oxford English Dictionary online, Apr. 9, 2007(The name given to one of three supposed island continents, now sunken, from which (according to some esp. 19th-century commentators) civilization was believed to have sprung. As the quots. demonstrate, there is debate about Mu's supposed location. Some writers on the subject place Mu in the Pacific Ocean, with the two other supposed lost continents, Atlantis and Lemuria, being placed in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans respectively. Other writers identify Mu as a part of Lemuria, conceived as a transcontinental land mass.)
- Winick, Charles. Dictionary of anthropology, 1970:p. 372 (Mu, a hypothetical sunken Pacific island where civilization allegedly began.)
- LC database, Apr. 9, 2007(hdg.: Mu)
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Wikipedia description:
Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, 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 state that the existence of Mu and the lost continent of Atlantis has no factual basis, and is physically impossible, as a continent can neither sink nor be destroyed in the short period of time asserted in the legends, folklore and literature about these places.
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