Talk:Mu (lost continent)
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The Madrid Codex In a section of the late Mayan period Madrid Codex that is sometimes called the Troano Codex, fanciful archaeologists in the days before Mayan glyphs had been translated thought they were able to interpret illustrations as "records" of a continent in the Pacific, destroyed by volcanic activity. (That was the origin of the Mu-Story.) Supposedly, a similar legend has been translated from unspecified "Sanskrit tablets" that describe a continent called Rutas, by the french writer Louis Jacolliot.
- This was part of the article on Lemuria. After changing the Rutas redirect to Louis Jacolliot, I decided to delete it there, since it would belong here. --Zara1709 10:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Mu... est-ce que tu peux me donner une image pour mon projet pour "ATlantis"? Merci!
I think the page should have a better division to subtitles. Now the text for example suddendly jumps to describe Mu in fiction and art. I, however, am too incompetent to do this.
- Done. It even jumped from semi-fiction, to pure fiction, to geologist criticism, and back to fiction. --GunnarRene 17:56, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Geologists maintain that we may be quite certain that no such Pacific continent existed. What? What kind of sentence is that?
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[edit] CT
Small item: I noticed that Chrono Trigger was added as an appearance in other works. I'm pretty sure I know that game backwards and forwards (or used to anyway) and I don't recall any Mu references. There's a creature called a "Nu." Perhaps there's a land mass on the global map located where Mu suppossingly was? I'd just like some clarification, and I don't want to edit the page without it.
I read a spanish book a while ago which claimed to have proof.Rocks with information on dinosaurs.
by the way these rocks where found somewhere in peru.
[edit] Augustus Le Plongeon, Mu, Atlantis, and the Mayas
It says Augustus Le Plongeon held that the Mayas were older than Atlantis, and that the survivors of Mu's destruction founded Maya civilization... but then it says Le Plongeon thought Mu was Atlantis. This doesn't hang together. (Also, the bracketed footnote with the name of the section's author doesn't seem to conform to Wikipedia policy.) 71.82.214.160 03:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. He couldn't have read his reference! And at the moment, links to mailing lists inside an article are a nono.--Dougweller (talk) 19:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] SiAl... plate tectonics = no sunken continents?
Some points on the introduction: - Oceanic crust is also made up of aluminosilicate minerals - indeed the mantle itself is made of silicate minerals. Just keep the point about continental crust being lighter. - Plate tectonics doesn't say there can't be submerged continental crust. There is plenty of submerged continental crust - it's the areas of the continental shelf, i.e. shallow seas. The Sea of Japan, the Sunda Sea, a large part of the South China Sea. That's all continental crust. Bathymetry makes it clear whether there are sunken continents in the middle of the Pacific. And indeed, there aren't. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.173.33.50 (talk) 09:26, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
Actually that last statement is incorrect. There is a sunken continent in the pacific, it's called Zealandia (continent). It submerged about 23 million years ago, probably a wee bit too long ago to be the source of the Mu legend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.72.253.21 (talk) 10:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Earthquakes and volcanic activity regularly break off chunks of continent and send them into the sea. It happened in Sumatra (albeit the piece that broke off was already underwater) and resulted in a large tsunami that killed over 100,000 people. Land does not sink, sea levels rise! The Bahamas were once 10 times larger than they are today, but a comet exploding over North America nearly 13,000 years ago melted enough ice to raise sea levels nearly 400 feet. That would have seemed like the land was sinking to the people who lived there and anywhere else in the world near the coast. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.56.76.128 (talk) 16:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Music
What about the song "justified ancients of Mu mu" by the KLF? Surely an example of a reference to Mu in the field of music...82.211.95.178 16:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Video Game Refrences
Why are Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma listed twice? I'm not so sure they belong in the first list of games that just simply mention Mu. 24.78.225.171 (talk) 12:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mu in the arts and entertainment section
WP:POPCULTURE says such sections "should contain verifiable facts of genuine interest to a broad audience of readers. Although some information can be verified from primary sources, this does not demonstrate whether such information has been discussed in independent secondary sources. If a cultural reference is genuinely significant it will be easy to find a secondary reliable source to attribute that judgment. Quoting a respected expert as attesting to the importance of a subject as a cultural influence is encouraged." Which is why I have removed some and the rest need justification.--Doug Weller (talk) 10:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
