‘Colonel’ James Churchward (1851-1936) was a British engineer and patentholder. However, his most famous invention was ‘the land of Mu‘, an imaginary counterpart of Atlantis, supposedly situated in the Pacific. He wrote six books^[233][234] between 1926 and 1935 to promote this brainchild. The last volume, Books of the Golden Age, was published as recently as 1997, based on material dating back to 1927. The kindest thing that I can say is that Churchward’s most valuable contribution to literature was A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine, published in 1898. Two of the many gems offered by Churchward are (a) “Christ’s last words on the cross were in the language of Mu” and (b) “the sun is not a superheated body; it is a cool body but highly magnetic”^(b) !!!

Fortunately, geological knowledge today clearly demonstrates that Churchward’s vast island of Mu is as impossible as Donnelly’s Atlantic Atlantis. However, although Churchward also accepted that Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent, I am tempted to think that he invented Mu in the Pacific in the hope of emulating Donnelly’s publishing success with Atlantis.

An extensive paper written by his god-daughter, Joan Griffith, about his life and work is available online^(a).

Churchward’s great-grandson, Jack, also has a website^(d) dedicated to telling his story. This includes an admission^(c) that the rank of ‘colonel’ used by his great-grandfather was on balance another invention.

Some of Churchward’s books can read or downloaded online^(e)(f)(g).

^(a) http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/esp_churchward02.htm

^(b) http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/esp_churchward04.htm

^(c) http://www.my-mu.com/podcasts/pc21.html

^(d) http://www.my-mu.com/index.html

^(e) http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ssm/index.htm

^(f) http://campbellmgold.com/archive_esoteric/children_of_mu_churchward_1931.pdf

^(g)http://www.filestube.com/t/the+lost+continent+of+mu