Naacal Tablets

Origin: The pseudo-scientific antediluvian book series of 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:

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

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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:
  • Lemurians
  • Deep Ones
  • Star-Spawn of Cthulhu
  • Lloigor
  • Human Cultists
  • Frazetta Man
  • Tcho-Tchos
  • Ghouls
  • Leviathans

• deities:
  • Ghatanatoa
  • Cthulhu
  • Dagon and Hydra