Mu is a supposed lost continent that was said to have sunk beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean. This pseudo-scientific geologic history has been incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos. Mu is the name of a suggested lost continent whose concept and name were proposed by 19th-century traveler and...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) featured the lost continent in his revision of Hazel Heald's short story "Out of the Aeons" . [24] Mu appears in numerous Cthulhu mythos stories, including many written by Lin Carter in his Xothic legend cycle. [25]

The Muvians are a fictional prehistoric human civilisation that inhabited the lost continent of Mu. They were based on the pseudoscientific writings of Augustus Le Plongeon and James Churchward, who equated Mu with Atlantis and Lemuria, respectively.

The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Naacal is a language supposedly spoken on the lost continent of Mu, according to the pseudo-science of British author James Churchward. H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price later incorporated Churchward's invented language into the Cthulhu Mythos in the short story "Through the Gates of the...

Mu is the name of a suggested lost continent whose concept and name were proposed by 19th-century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu—which he located in the Atlantic Ocean.

James Churchward (27 February 1851 – 4 January 1936) was a British writer, inventor, engineer, and fisherman. Churchward is most notable for proposing the existence of a lost continent, called " Mu," in the Pacific Ocean. His writings on Mu are considered to be pseudoscience. [1][2][3][4]

Though it flourished chiefly in those Pacific regions around which Mu itself had once stretched, there were rumours of the hidden and detested cult of Ghatanothoa in ill-fated Atlantis, and on the abhorred plateau of Leng.

Dec 17, 2018 · Mu went the usual way of lost continents and sank beneath the ocean -- that's what James Churchward wrote in The Lost Continent of Mu, the source Lovecraft used as a basis for his references in "Out of the Aeons" et al.

The continent of Mu has also been referenced in the Cthulhu Mythos, notably within the short story "Out of the Aeons" (1935) was written by Hazel Heald and revised by Howard Philip Lovecraft, and the series of short stories of the Xothic legend cycle written by Lin Carter: "The Dweller in the Tomb" (1971), "Out of the Ages" (1975), "The Horror ...