Churchward, J.

Japanese: Churchward,J.(英語表記)ChurchwardJ
Churchward, J.

...Furthermore, Steiner, who was the president of the German branch of the Theosophical Society, proposed the theory that it was a large civilization that existed before Atlantis. Then, James Churchward (1852-1936), a British soldier stationed in India, discovered an ancient tablet there and deciphered that a continent called Mu, which boasted an advanced civilization 50,000 years ago, existed in the Pacific Ocean. He renamed the hypothetical Lemuria to Mu in accordance with the ancient legend. His book Mu, the Lost Continent (1926) showed that there are references to the continent of Mu in ancient records and myths in China, Japan, and the Pacific Islands, and said that the current civilization is merely a tradition of the ancient Mu, and that when Mu sank 12,000 years ago, a very small number of Mu people migrated to what is now Mexico. ...

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…さらに神智学協会ドイツ支部の会長であったシュタイナーは,アトランティス以前に存在した一大文明地域だったとする説を唱えた。次いでインドに駐留したイギリスの軍人チャーチワードJames Churchward(1852‐1936)が同地で古代の碑板を発見し,5万年前に高度な文明を誇ったムーと呼ばれる大陸が太平洋上にあったことを解読して,仮説であったレムリアを古代伝承に従ってムーと呼び直した。彼の著書《失われた大陸ムー》(1926)は,中国や日本や太平洋諸島の古記録や神話にムー大陸への言及があることを示し,現在の文明は古代ムーのそれを伝承したものにすぎず,1万2000年前にムーが水没した際ごく少数のムー民族が今のメキシコに移住したと述べている。…

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