Mu the Motherland Podcast
Mu the Motherland is a conceptual or mythical land often associated with lost civilizations, ancient wisdom, and deep cultural roots. Drawing inspiration from the legend of the lost continent of Mu, it symbolizes a primordial homeland—rich in history, spirituality, and ancestral knowledge. Whether explored in literature, philosophy, or artistic expression, Mu the Motherland evokes themes of origin, unity, and the deep connection between humanity and the earth.
Mu the Motherland Podcast
Why Myths Of Atlantis, Lemuria, And Mu Keep Evolving And What They Reveal About Us
Lost continents make for great adventure, but the deeper journey is about meaning. We explore how Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu evolved from allegory, science, and speculative translation into enduring maps for moral risk, spiritual hope, and cultural identity. Starting with Plato’s cautionary tale, we follow the handoffs to Ignatius Donnelly’s grand synthesis and Edgar Cayce’s crystal-powered prophecies, then trace Lemuria’s leap from Victorian zoology into Blavatsky’s root races and Mount Shasta lore. Mu rises through Churchward’s sweeping narratives, stitching the Pacific, the Americas, and Egypt into a single motherland—an audacious answer to a timeless question: where did our wisdom begin?
Along the way, we examine recurring motifs—golden ages, hubris, cataclysm, and survivors who seed future civilizations—and ask why these patterns persist when geology says no. The pull isn’t a vanished landmass; it’s the promise of coherence. Crystals, energy, and “earth grids” resonate as metaphors for balance in a fragmented world, while pop culture keeps the myths alive, from animated palaces to superhero kingdoms. Through a Jungian lens, these sunken cities look like the psyche’s submerged archives, storing what we forget and need to remember.
We don’t argue for lost continents; we listen for what the stories try to restore. If Atlantis warns about power without wisdom, Lemuria and Mu invite a return to connection—between peoples, eras, and the natural world. Join us as we separate allegory from archaeology and find the living questions underneath: What do we owe the past? Which parts of the myth are worth carrying forward? Subscribe, share with a friend who loves mysteries, and tell us which legend still calls your name.
Alright, welcome back everyone to Moo the Motherland. I'm Robert here with Marlene, and today we're seriously digging into the origins of the three big legends Mu, Lemuria, and Atlantis. I kind of love that these stories overlap so much that people just mash them into one soup, but if you look deeper, they all have really different roots.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, absolutely. So let's start with Atlantis, since that's sort of the all-star. Most people know Atlantis through Plato, right? He gave us the story in what was it? Timaeus and Critius, around 360 BCE. He describes Atlantis as this hyper advanced civilization, a circular island with like temples, canals, and just major Poseidon energy. But and this is important, the whole thing is basically an allegory. For Plato, it was a warning. A civilization gets too proud, picks a fight with Athens, and ends up swallowed by the sea as punishment. Pretty dramatic stuff.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Hubris, downfall, all that classic ancient Greek stuff. But then you jump ahead to later centuries and people just take Plato's story literally. Like, let's go find Atlantis. Suddenly it's not a metaphor for moral decay, it's basically a blueprint for a lost, super advanced society. And that's going to open the door for everyone else to start imagining their own lost continents.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Then there's Lemuria, and this one's hilarious to me because it starts off with Victorian science, not myth. Philip Sclater couldn't figure out why there were lemurs in Madagascar and India, but not in Africa. So he proposed, well, maybe there was a big land bridge, and he called it Lemuria. Genius! Except, you know, then geology moved on and Lemuria the landmass made zero sense. But instead of fading out, it got scooped up by theosophy and occult writers who turned it into a spiritual homeland of advanced root races. And now you have Lemurians living under Mount Shasta, which is a great twist.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, it's almost like science unwittingly invented a whole new myth just by trying to explain lemur fossils. And then people were like, no, let's run with this. Let's make it mystical. So fun. And that brings us to Mu, which honestly feels the most wild to me. Mu doesn't even pretend to be scientific. You've got Augustus Le Planjon going to the Yucatan, translating Mayan stuff, and then suddenly claiming that Mu was this mother civilization in the Pacific, destroyed in this enormous disaster. Then, James Churchward, you'll hear his name a lot, just doubles down, writing books about ancient tablets in India, and a whole society that's the root of basically everyone everywhere. Yeah, the first time I found Churchward's book, The Lost Continent of Moo? I mean, it was just sitting in this dusty old shop like it was waiting for me. That's when I started getting obsessed with all these lost worlds.
SPEAKER_01:And I think that's the appeal. Each myth gives us a starting point, a sort of blank origin for humanity's mysteries. They're products of their eras, too. Atlantis with Plato's moral warnings, Lemuria born of Victorian puzzles, and then mystified by Blavatsky, and Mu inspired by these really inventive, let's say, translations of ancient stuff. So, right from the start, this isn't just one legend, it's three stories moving in weird, overlapping orbits.
SPEAKER_00:And what's wild is how each story gets handed off to new narrators who totally transform what it means. Take Atlantis. After Plato, people mostly wrote it off as a good story until you get Ignatius Donnelly in the 1880s. The guys like, Atlantis existed, it was wiped out by a flood, and all the world's civilizations, Egypt, the Maya, they're basically Atlantis 2.0. That kicked the door open for anyone wanting to argue for a single proto-civilization. Then you get Edgar Casey in the 20th century, psychically reading Atlantis as having massive crystal tech and spiritual battles between the Law of One and Sons of Belial. Now it's not just a lost island, it's a prophecy about our spiritual evolution, or doom, depending on how you vibe with it.
SPEAKER_01:I always find it so interesting how the myth shifts with the times. Lemuria, for example, gets totally recast by Helena Blavatsky in the late 1800s. For her, it's not even a continent anymore. It's pretty much an epic. Her root races lived in Lemuria as massive ethereal beings before evolving into Atlanteans. Then you've got Rudolf Steiner and the occultists making Lemuria this prematter, pure awareness kind of space. And it keeps going. By the twentieth century, people are channeling Lemurian masters living in Mount Shasta, spreading love, light, and, I guess, telepathically guiding humanity toward higher consciousness. Well, they say so anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then there's the Moo rabbit hole, which, honestly, the longer you stare at it, the weirder it gets. Churchward is really the heart of the Moo story. Former British engineer says he finds these ancient Nakal tablets in India, claims that Moo is this advanced, peaceful civilization with spiritual priests, cosmic tech, you name it. 60 million people living in paradise, apparently. It's almost like he wanted to out Atlantis Atlantis. But what fascinates me is how his books basically landed in the hands of folks searching for something bigger, something lost that connects all the dots between Egypt, the Americas, Polynesia. And yeah, touching on earlier episodes, this longing for unity, for a single point of origin keeps echoing in all the spiritual movements and even a lot of alternative archaeology we've talked about.
SPEAKER_01:Totally. It's like every generation finds something new in these stories. First, the literal explorers, then the philosophers, then the mystics, and now, really, anyone with an internet connection and an interest in alternative histories. I mean, Mount Shasta, crystal technology, the whole Earth grids thing, it all gets layered on top. There's a real hunger for backstory, for origins, for a sense that we're part of something both ancient and meaningful. I think that's why people get attached to these ideas. Even when science says, uh, sorry, there's just not a lost continent down there.
SPEAKER_00:And there's always this blend, like you mentioned, Marlene, of straight up myth, history, science, spirituality, and a little bit of wish fulfillment. It's like these stories get passed down from Plato to Donnelly to Casey for Atlantis, from scientific theory to Blavatsky for Lemuria, and from Le Planchon to Churchword for Mu. Each time they're reshaped, reflecting what that era most needs. A warning, an explanation, a spiritual blueprint. It's never static.
SPEAKER_01:That brings us to why these myths persist. There's this shared set of themes across all three. They always start with a golden age, right? Super advanced people, living in harmony or splendor. But something goes wrong. Hubris, spiritual decline, cosmic rules broken. Atlantis falls for pride, Lemuria for descending into matter, Mu for losing cosmic harmony. Deep down, they're cautionary tales about our use and misuse of power. Doesn't matter if it's technology or spirituality.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I think it's key that survivors always seed future civilizations. So for Atlantis, it's teaching astronomy and architecture to Egypt or the Maya. Lemurians supposedly end up in Asia, or maybe under Mount Shasta, who knows? And the children of Mu show up all across the Pacific. It's like we're hardwired to believe that wisdom survived somehow, that nothing is ever truly lost, just transformed.
SPEAKER_01:And the symbolism just keeps evolving. Both Mu and Atlantis are obsessed with crystals, energy, vibration. That vibe still shapes New Age and alternative health practices today. Like when we did that episode on pharaoh rods and frequency healing, remember? Or think about the feminine archetype. Mu and Lemuria especially are motherlands, evoking origins, return, rebirth. It's a psychological pull as much as a spiritual or mythic one.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, totally. And I mean, we have to point out, modern science doesn't back up the actual continents, right? Geology tells us nope, you can't just lose entire continents in the ocean. But that doesn't kill the myths. If anything, it kind of frees them up to work as metaphors. They become mirrors for our own fears, rising seas, climate change, loss of connection, even longing for unity. It's all there, and honestly, as we said in an earlier episode, like with the healing temples of Saqqara or quantum healing, sometimes the real power of these stories is their psychological and cultural resonance, not their literal geology.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and they keep getting reinvented. Atlantis in movies, comics, video games, from Disney to Marvel, even in sci-fi where Atlantis is maybe an alien base. Lemuria's huge in crystal healing and Mount Shastalore. Moo pops up in Japanese media, in metaphysical art, as this primordial homeland myth. And underneath it all there's this what is it? A yearning for origins, but also for unity, for a time when things weren't so fragmented. Even the Jungian perspective, right? Lost continents as symbols of the collective unconscious, our own forgotten wisdom, just waiting under the surface.
SPEAKER_00:I think ultimately these myths stick around exactly because they're not just about history or geology. They hit on something universal. They're about our desire for connection. To the earth, to each other, to our own hidden depths. That's why, no matter how many times science says not possible, people keep searching. The real search is for meaning, maybe even healing. So when we talk moo, Lemuria, Atlantis, we're really talking about different ways humanity dreams about what's lost and what might be restored.
SPEAKER_01:And as we keep diving into this stuff in future episodes, I hope we can keep looking not just at the history or the theory, but the heart of it, what all these myths inspire in us now. That longing for wholeness, for origins, for wisdom, for spiritual transformation. Thanks for joining us on another journey. Robert, as always, loved talking through these mysteries with you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, same here, Marlene. And to our listeners, keep your questions and stories coming. Let's keep piecing together the big picture, one legendary fragment at a time. See you all next time on Moo the Motherland. Goodbye.
SPEAKER_01:Bye, everyone. Take care and keep seeking.