Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu: Did Mythical Realms Exist?

What empires and continents were located on our planet in the past? Will we ever be able to identify them when they were quite possibly the foundation of our civilization? Photo: Blue Explorer Magazine

Mythical realms are an inexhaustible topic that has puzzled thousands of occultists and scientists from around the world for a long time. Despite this, many questions remain unanswered even today.

What do we know about the possible existence of mythical continents, of which today there is no trace at first glance?

Atlantis is far from being a single mythical realm or a separate continent. According to myths, tens of thousands of years ago there were others that quite possibly preceded later civilizations and that possessed incredible technologies.

First of all, we are talking about Lemuria.

It was said to have been located in the Indian Ocean (it connected the island of Madagascar with India and Western Australia), and many researchers, including the German naturalist Ernest Hackel (1834–1919), who devoted himself diligently to its search, believe that it was the cradle of civilization.

The continent from which all later national formations originated.

While the Russian-British esotericist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) believed that the inhabitants of this continent were descendants of one of the seven original races that lived in the Tertiary period, modern scientists view Lemuria much more soberly. According to them, could she exist?

Are the remains of famous empires hiding at the bottom of the world’s oceans? Photo: Shutterstock

Do we know the capital?

At present, the attention of archaeologists is increasingly actively turning to what is probably the most famous place that is associated with Lemuria. It’s about a mysterious sunken city called Nan Madol, located off the Micronesian island of Pohnpei in the Pacific Ocean.

American occultist David H. Childress claims that the complex of partially sunken stone buildings bears significant similarities to numerous megalithic finds on Easter Island and some other Pacific locations.

According to Childress, all these ruins quite possibly belonged to the same realm, which could have been the mythical Lemuria — a sunken continent on which — as Blavatská suggested long ago — people with advanced abilities and technologies lived.

Childress even believes that the original city of Nan Madol was directly the capital of this legendary country. So is the general skeptical view of the existence of Lemuria beginning to reverse?

Did Lemuria or Mu exist, or is it just a figment of human imagination? Photo: FanArt

Another continent in the Atlantic?

Over 64 million inhabitants, advanced technology, and a very valuable and advanced culture. This is how some researchers describe the third of the legendary continents. They call it Mu and place its location in today’s Atlantic Ocean.

The possible existence of this continent was first pointed out by the Anglo-American historian and adventurer Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908). He states that there are many references to this place in old Native American writings.

However, physical evidence has not survived because the continent was completely swallowed up by water many thousands of years ago. Descendants of the survivors later founded an empire on the territory of present-day Mexico that preceded the famous Mayan civilization.

Plongeon’s conclusions were later supported by other researchers, and several researches are currently underway that are devoted to the search for evidence of the Mu continent. Do they have any results yet?

What do we have thanks to ancient civilizations? Could it be that there is far more to it than we suspect? Photo: DeviantArt

The key is the Japanese site

Perhaps the most famous recent research concerns the Japanese underwater ruins of Jonaguni. Japanese scientist Masaaki Kimura (*1940) from the University of Ryukyu has devoted his entire life to this location.

According to him, this could be a crucial key to uncovering the secrets of the lost continents. This is also confirmed by a relatively recent analysis by the Faram Research Foundation.

Tana indicates that Jonaguni is one of the tips of a special area, on which there was probably land in the past.

“The area stretches from Jonaguni and the South China Sea to the tip of the Alaskan archipelago, to Hawaii, and back through Indonesia and Burma,” explain the authors of mystery site gaia.com, adding that this area is considered the most likely location of the Mu continent.

Could Masaaki Kimura, who studied Jonaguni 30 years ago, be right after all?