The Sacred Symbols of Mu (Paperback)

by Col. James Churchward (Author)

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In this, the third book in the famous series, Churchward examines the origin and original meanings of the world's religious symbols and their common source- the ancient Continent of Mu.

About the Author
About the Author:

"For centuries the cache of stone tablets outlining man's earliest civilization had lain practically forgotten in an East Indian temple vault. Befriended and found worthy by the Temple Priest, Col. James Churchward, serving in the British Army in 1868, was taught to decipher the story carved in the stones. The tablets told of a great civilization, far earlier than our own, that emerged, flourished and vanished beneath the sea 25,000 years ago. Churchward spent the next fifty years of his life piecing together the remnants of this lost continent and its legacy. These titles show convincing evidence of a single source that unites mankind with a common heritage. All volumes measure 5.5 X 8.5 and are thoroughly illustrated including maps, diagrams and line-drawings." (Quote from brotherhoodoflife.com) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Brotherhood of Life (June 15, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914732242
• ISBN-13: 978-0914732242
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #775,472 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get out of the armchair! , January 28, 2005

By	Hakuyu "Ikeda" (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews

It is sad to see derogatory reviews of James Churchward's well researched books. If you can't name the fifth President of the United States or say where Point Roberts is - forget about judging Churchward, a veteran traveller, philologist and student of human culture - virtually without equal today. These days - people study narrow fields. Churchward mapped the connections between these isolated fields or cultures - and traced them back to the lost continent or Motherland of Mu. He presented and deciphered Cara-Maya, the mother tongue of Mu, showing how its roots can be traced in a number of different languages and cultures located within or around 'The Ring of Fire.' He provided details of cultural artifacts - to illustrate his theory. Churchward claimed to have received much help in this regard, from an aged Indian Rishi.

Having lived in various bits of the Pacific rim, including odd visits to pacific islands, I can guarantee that anyone who does more than speculate from an armchair -would find Churchward's ideas backed up by substantial evidence scattered through dozens of pacific rim cultures - be it the Pacific N.W. of America, Japan - or wherever. Age-old symbols, in seemingly disparate and disconnected cultures share similar myth-motifs, tell related tales of a tragic, swallowing of a mother-culture beneath the ocean. Besides the Bible, such a deluge is also mentioned in the Chinese Shih-ching (Book of History).

Thor Heyerdal noted the phenomenon - again, not a man prone to expound on distant cultures - from an armchair. Many of Churchward's ideas challenge current scientific and academic 'orthodoxy' (alleging, for instance, that the earth's large mountain ranges were formed - long after mother earth, herself). Churchward also notes anomolous facts - like archeological artifacts that show the existence of technically advanced cultures - beneath the remains of other, less advanced cultures. In most cases, such anomalies cannot be accounted for by orthodox archeology and strictly linear theories of human cultural development.

It may be disturbing to consider that a sudden geological cataclysm might throw human civilisation and culture backwards - almost wiping the slate, but after the recent tsunami - it doesn't take much imagination to think what would happen - if whole techtonic plates broke up - effectively reducing a whole continent to nothing - save scattered islands and peripheral strips of land mass. Plato,for his own part, related similar events (Atlantis) in the Timaeus. Usually mocked as 'fiction' - the fact remains that Plato was absolutely serious about it.

Churchward was thoroughly serious. Given the fact that he reconstructed the hieratic sacred alphabet of Mu, and spent years deciphering the information yielded by hundreds of artifacts from cultures around the Pacific rim - and related areas, it is absurd to suggest that his theories were without proof and ill-founded.He has given us the evidence. The greater part of it is too compelling to ignore.

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A different Perspective.., March 24, 2000

By A Customer

Most of the historical symbols, Nazis, NSDAP and uncountable others has its roots on MU civilizaton. At least that's what Author concludes from his and Niven's research on Mexico and India. I recommend it's a must for any serious occult or paranormal researcher...

3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars More Stangeness from the Colonel and Rishi, June 18, 2007

By	Johns (London, England) - See all my reviews

James Churchward returns to his "Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu". What this seems to mean is that he has a chat with his buddy, "the old Rishi". This old Rishi seems to have a somewhat unusual take on history: "On one occasion the old Rishi informed me that temple legends stated: 'Jesus, during his sojourn in the Himalayan monastery, studied the contents of the Sacred Inspired Writings, the language, the writing and the Cosmic Forces of the Motherland.'" Churchward then announces that the last words of Jesus were "Hele, hele, lamat zabac ta ni" (spoken in "the pure tongue of the Motherland"). Going a bit further back, the reader is informed about a Maori tradition that Cain and Abel were New Zealanders and that the murder of Abel occurred in New Zealand. Churchward also tells how he encountered "a quetzacoatl", a feathered flying serpent, "the most venemous serpent ever known on earth".

Apparently the copyright was not renewed on this book, so it can be read legally on the internet. Some of the pictures are quite interesting and include pictures of the discoveries of William Niven in Mexico.

The text I consider to be mostly unsubstantiated nonsense.