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Origin: The pseudo-scientific antediluvian book series of [[Occult_Books#The_Lost_Continent_of_Mu_.28et.al..29|James Churchward]], including ''The Lost Continent of Mu'', ''The Children of Mu'', ''The Sacred Symbols of Mu'', ''The Cosmic Forces of Mu'' and ''The Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu''.

==Description==
A set of clay tablets said to be kept in secret libraries by the high priests of mysterious secret religions, describing the antediluvian history of Earth, focusing on the lost continent of [[Mu]], placed in the Pacific ocean, describing the continent's rise to great technological and spiritual enlightenment far in advance of the 20th century, some 50,000 years ago, in an age when Darwin believed the ancestors of Man to be pre-human ape-like beasts; this golden age was to be eventually followed by catastrophe, sending the continent to the bottom of the ocean following centuries of extended volcanic disaster. The tablets are said to be written in [[Naacal]], a language known only to a few initiates in the world, linking Mayan, Egyptian, and Polynesian languages together as a common ancestor, with the Mayan civilization being older than the rest as the origin of "old world" civilizations influenced after the fall of Mu through migrations to the east, through [[Atlantis]].

===Version 1===
Language: [[Naacal]]

Physical Description: a set of fragmentary red clay tablets engraved in Naacal hieroglyphs

General Content: A broad history of the rise and fall of the pre-human/proto-human Naacal civilisation on Mu, along with its commerce and influence over the rest of the world at the height of the civilization's power.

Number of known copies (if rare): only one known copy has been admitted to exist

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): in the hands of the high priest of the remnant of a pre-human Naacal cult in India

====Mythos Content====
Spells:

* Sanity Loss:
* Mythos Knowledge:
* Occult Knowledge:

==Quotes==


==Appearances==
* fiction: referenced at least indirectly by...
** [[August Derleth]] and [[Mark Schorer]], "The Lair of the Star Spawn" (1932)
** [[Colin Wilson]], "The Return of the Lloigor" (1974)
** [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[E. Hoffman Price]] "[[Through the Gates of the Silver Key (fiction)]]" (makes reference to the tome's "discoverer"/inventor, Churchward)
** [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Hazel Heald]] "Out of the Aeons" (makes reference to the tome's "discoverer"/inventor, Churchward)

==Heresies and Controversies==

* Alternative_theory. ([[source]])-->

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* language: [[Naacal]]

* settings:
** [[Thurian Age]]
** [[Hyborian Age]]

* locations:
** [[R'lyeh]]
** [[Mu]]
** [[Lemuria]]
** [[Atlantis]]
** [[Hyperborea]]

* tomes: may have served the basis for, been inspired by, or otherwise be a relative of...
** a number of [[Occult Books]] of Theosophical and pseudo-scientific nature
** ''[[Pnaokotic Fragments]]''
** ''[[G’harne Fragments]]''
** ''[[The Eltdown Shards]]''
** ''[[Zanthu Tablets]]''

* races:
** [[Lemurian]]s
** [[Deep One]]s
** [[Star-Spawn of Cthulhu]]
** [[Lloigor]]
** [[Human Cultist]]s
** [[Frazetta Man]]
** [[Tcho-Tcho]]s
** [[Ghoul]]s
** [[Leviathan]]s

* deities:
** [[Ghatanatoa]]
** [[Cthulhu]]
** [[Dagon]] and [[Hydra]]

==Keeper Notes==


[[Category:Mythos:Tomes]]

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 ** [[Ghatanothoa]]
 ** [[Cthulhu]]
-** [[Dagon]] and [[Hydra]]
+** [[Dagon and Hydra]]

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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): in the hands of the high priest of the remnant of a pre-human Naacal cult in India
-====Mythos Content====
+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): one copy is believed to exist in the [[Seven Planes|Akashic Record]], another may exist in the [[Library at Oneiros]]; not much is known about the copy that James Churchward apparently consulted, but it seems possible that he might have consulted a third, as yet unknown copy..
-====Mythos Content====
+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:

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 ** a number of [[Occult Books]] of Theosophical and pseudo-scientific nature
 ** ''[[Pnakotic Fragments]]''
-** ''[[G’harne Fragments]]''
+** ''[[G'harne Fragments]]''
 ** ''[[The Eltdown Shards]]''
 ** ''[[Zanthu Tablets]]''

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 * deities:
-** [[Ghathanatoa]]
+** [[Ghatanathoa]]
 ** [[Cthulhu]]
 ** [[Dagon]] and [[Hydra]]

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 ==Heresies and Controversies==
-<!-- Optional.  This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. -->
+<!-- Optional.  This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos.  Suggested Alternative Theories include:  Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos.
 * Alternative_theory.  ([[source]])-->

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-Origin:  The pseudo-scientific antediluvian book series of [[Occult_Books#The_Lost_Continent_of_Mu_.28et.al..29|James Churchward]], including ''The Lost Continent of Mu'', ''The Children of Mu'', ''The Sacred Symbols of Mu'', ''The Cosmic Forces of Mu'' and ''The Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu''.
+Origin:  The pseudo-scientific antediluvian book series by [[Occult_Books#The_Lost_Continent_of_Mu_.28et.al..29|James Churchward]], including ''The Lost Continent of Mu'', ''The Children of Mu'', ''The Sacred Symbols of Mu'', ''The Cosmic Forces of Mu'' and ''The Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu''.
 ==Description==
 A set of clay tablets said to be kept in secret libraries by the high priests of mysterious secret religions, describing the antediluvian history of Earth, focusing on the lost continent of [[Mu]], placed in the Pacific ocean, describing the continent's rise to great technological and spiritual enlightenment far in advance of the 20th century, some 50,000 years ago, in an age when Darwin believed the ancestors of Man to be pre-human ape-like beasts; this golden age was to be eventually followed by catastrophe, sending the continent to the bottom of the ocean following centuries of extended volcanic disaster.  The tablets are said to be written in [[Naacal]], a language known only to a few initiates in the world, linking Mayan, Egyptian, and Polynesian languages together as a common ancestor, with the Mayan civilization being older than the rest as the origin of "old world" civilizations influenced after the fall of Mu through migrations to the east, through [[Atlantis]].
-===Version 1===
+Churchward, one of the few westerners granted permission to tee the Naacal tablets and learn their language, was allowed to see the tome only once, with great reluctance from the priests who kept it, and was allowed to scan it only after earning the priests' trust; because of the shortness of the glance Churchward was given and because of the fragmentary nature of the tablets, Churchward was forced to complete his translation work from within the [[Dreamlands]].
 Language: [[Naacal]]
-Physical Description: a set of fragmentary red clay tablets engraved in Naacal hieroglyphs
+Physical Description: a set of fragmentary red clay tablets engraved in Naacal hieroglyphs;
 General Content: A broad history of the rise and fall of the pre-human/proto-human Naacal civilisation on Mu, along with its commerce and influence over the rest of the world at the height of the civilization's power.
-Number of known copies (if rare): only one known copy has been admitted to exist
+Number of known copies (if rare): only one known copy has been admitted to exist, though there may be others in hiding
 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): in the hands of the high priest of the remnant of a pre-human Naacal cult in India
 ====Mythos Content====