Master Seals,

The world-renowned archeologist, Professor Rosen, needs your help. He has long

been searching for proof of the lost continent of Mu. Recently he made a discovery

underwater. He has removed the overburden on the site but cannot properly survey

the site by himself. He has invited you to join him at the dive site to help. You will

be required to use a proper grid system to draw the site and photograph the major

finds. If possible, he will ask you to raise artifacts to the surface so attempts can be

made to identify them as belonging to Mu. This is an exciting opportunity to be

present when proof of the existence of an ancient civilization may be found. Please

let us know if you will be joining the expedition. We will meet on Friday, March 9th

at the Clayton Center, 50 Gay, Clayton, MO at 6:30 pm.

Professor Rosen

Y-Kiki Divers

Information provided by Professor Rosen:

Mu is the name of a continent that existed in one of Earth's oceans, but disappeared at the dawn of human history.

Mu first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), a19th century traveler and writer, after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. He claimed that he had translated the ancient Mayan writings, which showed that the Maya of Yucatán were older than the later civilizations of Greece and Egypt, and additionally told the story of an even older continent. He claimed that refugees from Mu created several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica.

The existence of Mu was disputed already in Le Plongeon's time. Until my recent underwater discovery reopened the question, scientists had dismissed the concept of Mu as physically impossible.

Le Plongeon actually got the name "Mu" from Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg who in 1864 translated what was then called the Troano Codex using the de Landa alphabet. Brasseur believed that a word that he read as Mu referred to a land submerged by a catastrophe.

"In our journey westward across the Atlantic we shall pass in sight of that spot where once existed the pride and life of the ocean, the Land of Mu, which, at the epoch that we have been considering, had not yet been

visited by the wrath of Humen, that lord of volcanic fires to whose fury it afterward fell a victim. The description of that land given to Solon by Sonchis, priest at Sais; its destruction by earthquakes, and submergence, recorded by Plato in his Timaeus, have been told and retold so many times that it is useless to encumber these pages with a repetition of it".

Le Plongeon claimed that Queen Moo, a refugee from the land’s demise, founded the civilization of ancient Egypt. Other refugees supposedly fled to Central America and became the Mayans. Le Plongeon claimed that "more than fifty years ago," while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient "sunburnt" clay tablets, supposedly in a long lost "Naga-Maya language" used in the Troano Codex and which only two other people in India could read. Having mastered the language himself, Le Plongeon found out that they originated from "the place where [man] first appeared—Mu." Le Plongeon claimed that Mu was the common origin of the great civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Central America, India, Burma and others, including Easter Island, and was in particular the source of ancient megalithic architecture. As evidence for his claims, he pointed to symbols from throughout the world, in which he saw common themes of fish and horses, the relation of the Earth and the sky, and especially the Sun. Le Plongeon claims the king of Mu was Ra and he relates this to the Egyptian god of the sun, Ra. He claimed to have found symbols of the Sun in “Egypt, Babylonia, Peru and all ancient lands and countries – it was a universal symbol.” Le Plongeon claimed to have found two artifacts that he traced back to Mu. The first, seen below, was found in a private collection.

Note the fish emblem found on the pot, which Le Plongeon claimed to be a characteristic symbol of Mu.

The horse symbol also found on the pot is again characteristic of Mu. The second, found in a museum in Paris, is an unusual vessel of a shape found in the Troano Codex.

Le Plongeon stated his belief that the architecture of Mu included decorated columns, possibly painted in bright colors, as done by the later Greeks. Recent translations of the Troano Codex have shown it to be treaties on the laws of a civilization called Mu. Le Plongeon and others have agreed to the meaning of the following Mu symbols: δ – A λ - N β – B σ - O ζ – C ϑ - P Ø –D Σ - R æ – E ς - S Γ – F ¥ - T ρ – G § - U ≈ - H α - V ι – I ψ - W φ – J µ - Y ϕ – K Į - L ϖ – M