While his claims were tame compared to later claims about Mu, he did say that Mu sank overnight and that humans who fled the sinking continent established both the Mayan and the Egyptian ancient civilizations. Mu was initially postulated by Augustus Le Plongeon. On first glance and even upon closer observation, it looks like Mu was completely fabricated based on a description of Lemuria and later some alleged artifacts and translations that sound dubious at best. Mu differs from Lemuria in that it was based on assumptions that had naught to do with science. Even if there were a land bridge of some sort that sank beneath the ocean, we would likely be able to see it with advanced mapping techniques used today to map the ocean floor. The Earth’s plates move continents toward and away from each other, thus explaining why there are similar land animal remains in two areas of land separated by a body of water.
A sunken continent would not have needed to act as a land bridge. Today, we know that the problem presented to him is solved by plate tectonics. Sclater was looking for a mechanism to explain something he could not understand. The theory is still popular among occultists today. His theory spread and others found more supposed reasons why this must be true. Sclater concluded that the two were once connected by a large continent. The idea of Lemuria came about when Philip Sclater could not reconcile that there were lemur fossils (in this case involving other primate fossils mistakenly categorized as lemur fossils as well as actual lemur fossils) existed on Madagascar and India but not along the logical route a land primate would take between the two, assuming Madagascar was a part of Africa. Therefore, all claims that it existed in the Pacific Ocean ignore the original premise and can likely be dismissed. The very reason for this lost continent being theorized dictates that it existed in the Indian Ocean and possibly in both the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
Lemuria is sometimes said to have existed in the Pacific, sometimes the Atlantic and sometimes the Indian Ocean. Map by James Churchward depicting Lemuria and Atlantis.
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