Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

[Flex Mentallo]

In 1987 Kihachiro Aratake, a director of the Yonaguni-Cho Tourism Association, noticed some singular seabed formations resembling architectonic structures.Shortly thereafter, a group of scientists directed by Masaaki Kimura of the University of the Ryukyu visited the formations.

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Kimura first estimated that the monument must be at least 10,000 years old (8,000 BCE), dating it to a time when it would have been above water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

In a report given to the 21st Pacific Science Congress in 2007, he revised this estimate and dated it to 2,000 to 3,000 years ago because the sea level then was close to current levels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

He suggests that after construction tectonic activity caused it to be submerged below sea level.

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Kimura believes he can identify a pyramid, castles, roads, monuments and a stadium, and has surmised that the site may be a remnant of the mythical lost continent of Mu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Oceanic Geoscience at the University of the South Pacific, has studied these structures extensively and notes that the structures below the water -

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

- continue in the Sanninudai slate cliffs above, which have "been fashioned solely by natural processes," and concludes in regard to the underwater structures that "there seems no reason to suppose that they are artificial."

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Those who claim evidence of human artifacts are careful to use photographs that show this evidence from certain angles. Such as the so-called column.

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

But when viewed from another angle, it is evidently a natural formation.

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Other examples of natural formations with flat faces and sharp, straight edges are the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland -

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

- and the natural staircase formation on Old Rag Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Shenandoah National Park.

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Mu

Mu first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

He claimed that he had translated the ancient Mayan writings, which supposedly showed that the Maya of Yucatán were older than the later civilizations of Greece and Egypt, and additionally told the story of an even older continent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Le Plongeon claimed that the civilization of ancient Egypt was founded by Queen Moo, a refugee from the land's demise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Silver Surfer]

Fascinating stuff.

[Flex Mentallo]

Other refugees supposedly fled to Central America and became the Mayans.

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

"Perhaps also will be felt the necessity of recovering the libraries of the Maya sages (hidden about the beginning of the Christian era to save them from destruction at the hands of the devastating hordes that invaded their country in those times), and to learn from their contents the wisdom of those ancient philosophers, of which that preserved in the books of the Brahmins is but the reflection. That wisdom was no doubt brought to India, and from there carried to Babylon and Egypt in very remote ages by those Maya adepts (Naacal - "the exalted"), who, starting from the land of their birth as missionaries of religion and civilization, went to Burmah, where they became known as Nagas, established themselves in the Dekkan, whence they carried their civilizing work all over the earth."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Mu was popularised by James Churchward (1851–1936) in a series of books, beginning with Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man (1926), re-edited later as The Lost Continent Mu (1931). Other popular books in the series are The Children of Mu (1931), and The Sacred Symbols of Mu (1933).

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

He theorized that it had been located in the midst of the Pacific.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Churchward claimed that "more than fifty years ago," while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient "sunburnt" clay tablets, supposedly in a long lost "Naga-Maya language" which only two other people in India could read. Having mastered the language himself, Churchward found out that they originated from "the place where [man] first appeared—Mu." The 1931 edition states that “all matter of science in this work are based on translations of two sets of ancient tablets:” the clay tables he read in India, and a collection of 2,500 stone tablets that had been uncovered by William Niven in Mexico.