Lost worlds (Part 2) - Moving on to Mu
First of all, our newsletter giveaway is still running! If you want to read the first 50 pages of our debut novel, Shackles of the Storm, now is the chance to read it for free! Our newsletter will also contain bookish updates, and of course a collection of our latest blogpost to never miss any of them. Go, subscribe here or on our website! Today we continue the “Lost worlds” topic. In the previous blog post, we covered theories about Atlantis and Lemuria, their roots in reality, and how these tales show us the traumas of our ancestors after natural disasters and climate change. However, there are some outliners, like the next on our lost world list: the continent of Mu. Because if there is a lost continent in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, how is that, that we don’t have one in the Pacific Ocean, right? RIGHT? The concept came from a man named Augustus Le Plongeon who examined ancient Mayan texts and investigated the ruins in Yucatán. He claimed that the civilization on ...