In my last article I mentioned the Polynesian paradise of Havaiiki,
located in South-East Asia. According to Stephen Oppenheimer, 20,000-18,000
years ago the continent of Sundaland, as it’s known, was
There are also sunken tracts of Pacific coastline, which once covered the
East China and Yellow Seas, and linked China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Apparently, the present location of Hong Kong and other Chinese ports were
“hundreds of miles inland during the last Ice Age” [pg 10]. These areas
were submerged by the Great Flood. Oppenheimer says there is “ample
oceanographic evidence” [pg. 7] showing there were in fact “three sudden ice
melts” [pg. 10], rather than a single massive one. He dated these to
“between 14,000 and 7,000 years ago” [pg. 10]. In the latter stages,
Oppenheimer argued, a sea-level rise of 120-130 metres led people to abandon
their doomed homeland.
At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus le Plongeon, an explorer of
Mayan sites, interpreted one of that cultures surviving texts, the Troano
Codex. He claimed that one section detailed the destruction of Mu. His
ideas were apparently supported by the discovery in the 1930s of the
so-called “Naacal” tablets by James Churchward, an American businessman and
explorer. He claimed to have copied them in a Tibetan monastery at
Brahmaputra. His sketches show that
The Sun expanded the trapped gases and caused them to escape, and, once
this happened, Mu destabilised and sank. Not exactly the volcanic cataclysm
described in Polynesian legends, is it? Le Plongeon said that Mayan texts and
buildings proved they sailed from Meso-America to establish civilization
across the Pacific and Indian Ocean, ending up in Egypt. Churchward went
further. The Muvians, he believed, travelled from Mu to Atlantis 25,000
years ago, taking pyramid building technology with them. Like Edgar Cayce,
Churchward said that Atlantean knowledge subsequently spread to Egypt and
Mexico, hence apparent cultural similarities.
Their ideas are lent credence by Oppenheimer’s linguistic studies which
show that Muvian migrants dispersed as far afield as “China, India,
Mesopotamia, Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean” [Eden in the East, back
cover], including Crete. These influxes greatly affecting the Neolithic
cultures of those places. Cotterell has found evidence suggesting that,
c.10,600 BC {Cayce’s date for the end of Lemuria], Egypt was settled by three
migrant peoples:
Oppenheimer says that the Sumerians had “an electrifying effect” [Eden
in the East, pg. 9] on the native Ubaidian’s. As an examples, he cites the
innovations in farming, pottery manufacture and metallurgy. The first and
third he considers “great revolutions” [pg. 5]. His third “great
revolution” is the “simultaneous flowering” [pg. 5] of Near Eastern
civilizations, such as Sumer, Upper Egypt and the Indus Valley, between 3200
and 2500 BC. Egyptian unification under King Narmer [Upper - the south - and
Lower - the north - has been dated to c.3000 BC].
The social arrangements of the migrants were different from their
Neolithic predecessors and those whose lands they settled in. They erected
great buildings, such as ziggurats, pyramids, palaces and temples [see
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Heaven on Earth? ], located in city states governed by a hierarchy. Their
rulers were god-kings and priests, their language written in glyphs and
pictograms [see Do Pictures Speak Louder...? ].
Based on their “discoveries” archaeologists and academics have opted
for independent developments [through evolution of ideas]. However,
Oppenheimer favours the theory of ideas developing in “one cultural region
over a long period” [pg. 5], then spreading via trade, communication and
migration by land and sea. He says that archaeologists have been playing
safe,
“rather than risk ridicule by having to prove how inventions were
transmitted over a great distance.” One catalyst, he argues, is catastrophic geographical destruction, such
as that of Sundaland. Another example he cites is the Krakatoa-like
devastation of Thira in the Mediterranean, which J.V. Luce, Peter James and
others claim was Atlantis. The final eruption has been dated by
dendrochronology [tree ring dating] to 1628 BC, and is said to have destroyed
Minoan cities on Crete. Pottery and other evidence, though, suggests c.1450
BC, and, for me, this fits with David Rohl’s date for the Exodus [for more on
this see What is the Winged Disc? ].
From my research, one thing is becoming clear. Despite what
archaeologists andacademics say, there definitely existed thousands of years
ago a Super Culture or Cultures that influenced and shaped the course of
global cultural development. In short, ATLANTIS AND MU WERE REAL PLACES!
Lemuria, the Pacific Atlantis
Part Two
By JJ
“twice the size of India, and included what we now call Indo-China,
Malaysia and
Indonesia. The South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand and the Java Sea,
formed the
connecting parts... .”
[Eden in the East, London, 1998, pg. 10] “increased levels of solar radiation cause the overheating of the
landmass, the release of subterranean gases and the sinking of the land
itself.”
[Maurice Cotterell, The Tutankhamun Prophecies, London, 1999, pg. 25] “Africans from central Africa, an unknown people from the heart of Asia,
and a group from Libya thought to have journeyed from...Atlantis.”
[Tutankhamun Prophecies, pg 37]
[Ibid., pg. 5]
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