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The Lost Continent of Mu: For The Times When Atlantis Isn’t Quite Dumb Enough - Ep 138
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For today, we are diving into a deep, dark abyss of the truly stupid. All I can say is that I am truly sorry, because your good sense, happiness, and faith in the human race are guaranteed to be destroyed by the Lost Continent of Mu. You have been warned.
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Introduction and Host Welcome
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You're listening to the Archaeology Podcast Network. You are now entering the pseudo-archaeology podcast, a show that uncovers what's fact, what's fake, and what's fun in the crazy world of pseudo-archaeology.
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Hello and welcome to the pseudo archaeology podcast. Episode one hundred and thirty eight. I am your host, Dr. Andrew Kinkella.
Humorous Take on Mo
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And tonight, if you thought Atlantis was stupid, welcome to the land of Mo, which rhymes with Bo. All right. I'm just going to start out.
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with an apology as per usual. I'm sorry, you guys. I'm sorry you have to go through this with me. But as always, my pain gets a little better when I turn it in to our pain. And this one, you know what? Before I even get into this, I'm just going to talk about myself. I'm going to talk about myself for a while.
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So we're recording this in March. I just had a birthday recently. I'm still alive, so that's cool. And it's doubly cool because I am healing from my motorcycle accident. Those of you who, you know.
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only listen to this to hear how I am. And I do really appreciate my health because, you know, when you have when you have like a motorcycle and I'm not here to say my motorcycle accident was like insane. You know, I didn't have to I didn't have to go to the hospital or anything. I did go to urgent care and I didn't break anything, although I got really close. But it's just it's nice.
00:01:58
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when that stuff kind of heals. And, you know, if any of this kind of thing has happened to you guys, at least for me, I'm like, man, the human body is an amazing thing. You know, so that's kind of where I'm at. I also say that since we're recording here in early March, it's finally, at least in Southern California, getting a little bit sunnier, a little bit nicer out. Finally, we had a very wet winter. And I have to say.
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that I think I get a little depressed, you know, with that, like, what is it called? The daylight thing where, you know, you don't have enough daylight in your life. I think it brings me down a little. And, you know, friends, because of that, I think you should blame the sun. You should blame the sun for what I'm about to talk about today. Yeah, it's the sun's fault for not coming up enough.
Exploring the Concept of Mo
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Because man, we're going to do Mo. And what I find in all the pseudo archaeology stuff is you basically have two roads to Stupidville, right? And road number one to Stupidville is the stupid fun route.
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And that road is a nice road. Some of us have been on that road with me when we did things like the mystery spot. Remember that one way back? We did like the thing. I would even argue even Atlantis has some fun to it from time to time, you know? But others are the other road. Road number two is not stupid fun. It's stupid, stupid.
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You know, and on Stupid, Stupid Road is like my my perennial least favorite, which is ancient my astronauts. Oh, just so freaking dumb. But.
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Along that note also comes Mo, the last I can't even the last continent of Mo. All right. So, you know, this one's actually it's funny dealing with the last continent of Mo is it's one of them that's that's really easy. Like there's really not much to say. And it's also kind of.
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hard and a little difficult at the same time, because a lot of things, as we're going to see a lot of things kind of come together at the same time to make this foolishness possible. Oh, this couldn't happen just any time, friends. It had to be a special time in place for the alignment of stupidity to form a huge stupid laser that hit all of us.
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And it's going to bring in people who we've talked about in the past. It's going to bring in like brassiere de Bourbeaux and Augustus Leplonjean, Ignatius Donnelly, like all these people kind of. They have to come together to make the stupid stew. You know, it's just not one person. It's all together. It's a community of stupid to make this. Yeah, it's like they come together. And.
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Also, it's so funny as I made my notes for this. I was like, man, I've said this before on this podcast. I was like, man, I got to do a like an overarching podcast on myism, because this one touches on that, too. Again, myism is like this new agey belief where it takes it kind of has its roots.
Mayanism and Cultural Impact
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in Maya culture, but then it like twists it and bastardizes it and makes us this sort of thin new age bullshit thing, you know? But I've been surprised at even me as a Maya archaeologist, right? I've been surprised how much Mayanism has kind of influenced a lot of these stories that I tell you guys. So that's a note to me, the other note.
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is that, man, I think I got to do a real podcast on cracking the Maya code because I keep coming back to kind of the translation of the Maya hieroglyphics and that kind of stuff. And I realize I'm like, man, I got to tell everyone kind of the story of the cracking of the Maya code because you guys, the story of the cracking of the Maya code is fascinating. I love that story. I love telling it to my students. The cracking of the Maya code
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It's great in a lot of different ways, but what's cool is it's kind of opposite or very different from the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, right? Instead of sort of one singular person or a main person, you have a series of people, often those who aren't academics at all, you know? And so that story is just it's just great.
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So, yeah, in time, I got to do a podcast on myism podcast on cracking the my code to kind of make everything make sense. So where does that leave us? It leaves us at.
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talking about the lost continent of Mo.
Atlantis vs Mo: Historical Absurdities
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Obviously, this is a counterpoint to Atlantis, right? But the difference is, even though Atlantis is fake, Atlantis has a very deep history of being fake, right? And we just covered that in the previous podcast. In 137, we went over Atlantis and we talked about how it sprang out of Plato's brain.
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You know, and then it was just such a good story that it kind of kept. Within our kind of cultural memory, right? The story just keeps being told and told and told again.
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And it's so interesting that people want to know the real basis of this. And it's very unsatisfying when you know or learn that the basis is nothing. It's a made up story that's just been told and retold. There's nothing real about it. And so that's so uninspiring, but true and factual.
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that people just will never, ever let it go. And so one of the fallouts of never letting Atlantis go, since Atlantis is all about the old world, it's all about Europe, right? It's really about the Mediterranean world. But there's been enough idiotic interpretations of Atlantis where sometimes they push it out into the Atlantic, right? So over time, people have been like, wait,
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If there was an ancient civilization in the Atlantic. Well, well, well, friends, there's one other ocean that's even bigger, and if it's even bigger, it must be even better. And that I'm talking about is the Pacific Ocean. What about the ancient culture that fell under the waves in the Pacific? So that's where this comes from, right? And so the set up the geography. Of Mo, the geography.
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is if you look at these made up maps of Mu, and the idea of Mu is much more recent. In a minute, I'll give you a setup of kind of where it comes from, from the 1860s, 1870s, 1880s.
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The geography of Mu is basically this huge continent that covers most of the Pacific Ocean. The idea is that Mu was this supercontinent that had a super intelligent group of people there who, of course, were the ancient ancestors of all high civilization.
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And it's sunk under the waves and all that's left are the Polynesian Islands, right? Be it Hawaii, be it Easter Island, be it Fiji, pick your poison. Those islands are just the remnants of a supercontinent that has fallen beneath the waves. Now, already you're like, but King Keller, what about this thing I like to call geology?
Geographical Myths of Mo
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I'm like, I know.
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realize that the story of Moe comes about. It comes about in the 1890s, but it's really pushed in the early 1900s, which is actually before modern plate tectonics is is accepted by science. Right. And we'll talk about that, too. We'll touch a little on plate tectonics and continental drift and how like that didn't even really come into major scientific usage until the 1950s. So.
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Does modern science negate all aspects of Moo? Yes, of course it does. Now, at this point, I can't even believe you're still listening because you're like, kill a man. Like you haven't even really given me the like step by step set up of Moo. And I'm like, I know I haven't.
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And I will do that, but you know what I'm gonna do first? I'm gonna take a break, deal with it.
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Hello and welcome back to the pseudo-archaeology podcast episode 138. I'm your host Dr. Andrew Kinkella and we have been unfortunately for all of us discussing the lost continent of Mo. Why have I done this to you guys? All right, so let's do sort of a surgical breakdown of what Mo is where it came from.
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Now, if you look up Moo online on like Wikipedia or this kind of stuff, I believe it's going to say that it was made up by Augustus Leplongon.
Origins and Influences on Mo
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Remember Augustus Leplongon?
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Episode 136 for those who don't. And that's mostly true. But I think what we're going to see is the last kind of move was kind of made up by several people. They were kind of building on each other. And I'll go through that. Right here. So the first. The first step.
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in making up the Lost Continent of Moo actually comes from Bressier de Bourbeaux. Remember him? Episode one hundred and thirty. So Bressier de Bourbeaux, this is one of those guys, actually, he and Le Plungeon are kind of in the same category.
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But I see her to board board. If we remember this guy, he's first off, he's going to die in 1874. Right. So he's actually really doing his work in like the 1850s, 1860s. And he's the guy who did some really good stuff.
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but ultimately just translated it really terribly, right? If you remember, he like translated the pulpal vu. This is all Maya stuff, right? He found like Diego de Lando's alphabet. He found a copy of the Madrid Codex, which is a very important ancient Maya document. And so there's some
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really good stuff there, right? He spent time with this stuff, time in the Maya world, time with real Maya things. And so there are those aspects that really help us in knowing and understanding the ancient Maya. Unfortunately, if you remember that episode or if you want to go check it out, he adds the idea of Atlantis to all this stuff, right? And that you're like,
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everything is so good you're working with this real scientific stuff you're doing a real interesting research and then you're like damn it but i don't blame these earliest guys so much i blame the later guys much more so in his.
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attempts at translating the Madrid Codex incorrectly translated this glyph as Mu and, you know, said that it related to some lost continent or something. He was he was trying to shove in the Atlantis narrative, you know. And so he kind of did that. Nobody cared. This is in like the 1860s, you know. But as always, I said, nobody cared.
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Mostly nobody cared. And as we always say, just like in Doctor Who, the master's ring, the bad guy will always live on. Somebody else is going to grab the ring. Augustus Lepland John grabs the ring from pursuit of Port Port.
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And Augusta's late Plunge on two. If you remember him, he was the guy who took really great photos in the Maya world. Right. He is operating about 20 years after Boar Boar. Right. Boar Boar is kind of the first person kind of a generation before Boar Boar kind of lays the groundwork, even almost sometimes I think unwittingly.
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for these later people who become more pseudo-archaeology as you go. But Augustine Leplogne still has some good stuff, right? He's been to the my world. He's worked in the my world. He took some, again, great photos. He made some good, very good records of what he did at the time. Unfortunately,
00:15:31
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He also came to terrible conclusions, trying to shove Atlantis in. If you guys remember, he thought that the Maya were actually the sort of garden of Eden. And then technology and culture went from the Maya to the Atlanteans, and the Atlanteans then brought it to Egypt. And Augustus Leplonchon got increasingly more sort of foolish and crazy as he went on.
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I guess, I guess just like Paul and John, though, is going to live into like 1908. And so he's going to be working in the 1880s into the 1890s. And he's the one who did the series of books with like Queen Mu and Prince Chocumul. Remember that he's also the guy who who named the Chocumul. So he and his wife.
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Again, we're in the Maya world, you know, and as they did some of this good data collection, I guess you could say they had terrible conclusions based on their data and they just wrote these, you know, flights of fancy narratives that had nothing to do with reality. Then.
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He is the last of the guys who actually have real experience in the Maya world, where it becomes pure stupidity is with your friend and mine, Ignatius Donnelly. Remember him? Episode 125. Ignatius Donnelly then just makes up a purely fantastical story about Atlantis, right? And then we're off. So you see how
00:16:55
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A bit of early pseudo-archaeology started with some facts in there, and there were early guys just trying their best, you know, but then bastardized itself into pure fiction. And I find that the break is when Ignatius Stonley does Atlantis the Anti-Diluvian World in 1882. In this mix, you then get this guy James Churchwald.
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And if you look Moo up, he's kind of the first name that comes up. James Churchwald is going to grab the evil ring from Augustus Leopold John. What's interesting is James Churchwald actually hung out with Augustus Leopold John in the 1890s with him and his wife. Right. What's the story of James Churchwald? OK, James Churchwald lived from 1851 to 1936.
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He's originally a British guy early in his life. Let's say in the 1880s, he travels to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is the big island off the coast of India, working in, I think, that in the tea industry or something like that makes sense.
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He and so in the early in his life, he has sort of travel experiences. He comes back. I think he becomes like a U.S. citizen or he comes or at least he emigrates back to the U.S. in the 1890s, I think. And it's in that time, too, where he discusses discusses the idea of Mo with the Le Plungeons. Now, he doesn't do too much with it until much later in his life.
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He finally starts writing a series of books on Moe when he's 75 years old. So if you do the math, this is 1926, right? This is later. Bresser de Bourbeourg is long dead. Augustus Leplonjean is gone too. So he's, as an old man, he's looking back and writing these stories. His first book that comes out in 1926 is called The Lost Continent of Moe, Motherland of Man.
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And okay, what's it about, right? What's his ideas on Mo? Right here, I'm gonna quote the Wikipedia entry. Now, this is not the Wikipedia entry for Mo. This is the Wikipedia entry for James Churchwald, because I think it's a really good boil down of the idea of
Churchwald's Fantastical Claims
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Mo. You're ready? Here we go.
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According to Churchwald, Mu extended from somewhere north of Hawaii to the south as far as the Fiji's and Easter Island, right? So it's huge. He claimed Mu was the site of the Garden of Eden and home to 64 million inhabitants.
00:19:33
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known as the Nicole's. Again, where does he get his numbers? Where does he get his names? Whatever. Its civilization, which flourished 50,000 years before Churchwald's Day, a very round number, was technologically more advanced than his own. Yeah, don't say. He said the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt, and the Mayas were the decayed remains of moose colonies. Good God, where have we heard this kind of stuff before?
00:19:58
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Churchwell claimed to have gained his knowledge of this lost land after befriending an Indian priest, you don't say, who taught him to read an ancient dead language spoken by only three people in all of India. The priest disclosed the existence of several ancient tablets written by the Nicole's. He allowed Churchwell to see these records after initial reluctance, of course. You know, so the the Indian priest is going to be like, no, I can't. No, I can't. And then Churchill is like, come on, come on. And he's like, OK.
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His knowledge remained incomplete as the available tablets were mere fragments of a larger text.
00:20:35
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You don't say. Churchwald claimed to have found verification and further information in the records of other ancient peoples. His writings attempt to describe the civilization of Mo, its history, inhabitants, and influence on subsequent history and civilizations. Churchwald claimed that the ancient Egyptian sun god Ra originated with the Mo. He claimed that Ra was the word which the Nakhals used for sun as well as for their god and rulers.
00:21:04
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And there you go. Yes, I know. What a horrendous crock of bullshit.
00:21:13
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But let's break this down. OK, so there's your background of Mo obviously just made up, you know, it's just and it's so typical. Oh, I talked to an ancient shaman. Yes, I did. You got to realize he's right. He's right. That's when he was 75. It's like it was 50 years in the past when he was in Sri Lanka. He's making all this up. And but I bet.
00:21:37
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You know, don't we always wonder if if these people truly believe their lies or not? I bet they do. It's like we wonder, does Graham Hancock believe his own bullshit? Of course he does at this point. Did he believe it? Did Graham Hancock believe his bullshit in like 1990? I bet he didn't.
00:21:56
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But he does now. Again, we all are the heroes of our own stories, right? I think that James Churchwald, he just kind of ginned up his own remembrances and then believed his own remembrances. He maybe he knew an Indian guy, you know, or maybe somebody kind of told him a story at one point having nothing to do with us. Just happened to be an old old guy who's talked about some sort of history.
00:22:23
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But he's translated this into his own mind, you know, to make a believable for himself lie. We've seen this so often in pseudo-archaeology, right? Let's remember back to remember way back to Mitchell Hedges' skull. This is the Crystal Skull of Belize, episode 97, friends. With the Crystal Skull of Belize, remember the woman? It's the daughter. You know, she had it and she lived to be very, very old, like 100 years old.
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And she had the story of how her dad came across it. She found it and believes in all this. And if you look at the facts, her story is a total lie.
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But I'm sure she believed her lie because it's an amalgamation of some truths, you know, that are that are twisted and bastardized to make a lie. They're the best lies, right? They're based in some bits and bobs. You know, she had been to Belize, you know, but none of the rest happened. So. I do find in talking about pseudo archaeology, it's also a really interesting
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psychological study into lying and false claims and that kind of stuff, you know, and how people believe ostentatious, odd, obviously false bullshit, but they believe it, you know, they have substituted it in their mind and it is now their reality. And I'm sure James Churchwald did it.
00:23:55
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with all this moo stuff, because again, the numbers and the dates, it's just fanciful crap that he just slapped on there. Right. What I love, if you also look down on on his Wikipedia page at the bottom, it has a list of his books and the dates. So Lost Continent Boom, Motherland of Man comes out in 1926. Oh, and I also am curious. That's also, I think it might even be the same year.
00:24:24
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that Margaret Mead's coming of age in Samoa comes out. Now, Margaret Mead is a real anthropologist who studied real people in Samoa and talked about adolescence in Samoa. I think that the Lost Continent of Mu also comes out at a time in the 1920s when there's a resurgence in this interest of just sort of what would be seen as exciting travel related, you know, far away places.
Cultural Fascination with Exoticism
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And we also have to realize this is only like four years after the discovery of King Tut. So along with Tut mania, along with the excitement overcoming of Agent Samoa, you can see how the last kind of a book on this would would slot right in and be kind of in the right time in the right place. After this, he must have met with some success with this book.
00:25:09
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He writes The Children of Mo, Sacred Symbols of Mo, Cosmic Forces of Mo, and then, if that's not enough, the second book of The Cosmic Forces of Mo. I'm bummed that he didn't get to Moo the Revenge, Moo and the Wrath of Khan, and my favorite, Moo 2, Electric Boogaloo. When we return, my closing thoughts on the lost continent of Moo.
00:25:40
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Hello and welcome back to the pseudo-archaeology podcast episode 138 and we have been discussing the lost continent of Mo.
00:25:48
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And my final thoughts. There's just, you know, what you think about it for yourselves, you guys, like, what would you say at this point? You know, it's so thin. There's just not much. You know, I can see how this can be a dark hole, a doom and gloom when people start to argue about it, because there's no argument.
00:26:11
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It's so obviously just a dopey, dumb, empty, thin story, right? Sometimes it's even called a hoax. I wouldn't give it that much credit. It's not a hoax. It's just a dumb story. Like nobody goes, wait, I bought some plane tickets to Moo and what? Damn it.
00:26:32
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You know, you don't do that. And because of that, it just deserves to be laughed at and not taken seriously. On the flip side, just like if somebody makes a video game about Moo or makes a fictional story of Moo or makes like a sci-fi movie about Moo, I think that's awesome. You know, I think that can be like really fun.
00:26:54
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I got no problem with that. Same with Atlantis. You know, it's intrinsically just like silly fun. You know, there are some other terms that come up if you guys look, look up mo. You might have also heard of Lemuria. And sometimes I think Churchwald and his writings even kind of put the two together. Lemuria, the idea of Lemuria was an ancient lost continent. This idea came up in the 1860s.
00:27:23
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The idea was it sunk into the indian ocean and the reason why this last comment again you know. Just fill it in with the same story but it's called the maria because it's the last island where lemurs are from. Accept it's totally not because we know where lemurs are from.
00:27:42
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lemurs are from Madagascar. Madagascar is an island. It's not lost. And it's right off the coast of Africa. If you're curious about lemurs, I recommend a movie called Madagascar. Right. And in seriousness, the animated Madagascar, not bad, you know, with with the idea of lemurs and that kind of stuff. So.
00:28:06
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That's that's one. It's from the 1860s. They didn't have a handle. 1864, Darwin's book on evolution comes out in 1859. It only came out five years earlier, right? They still don't have a good hook on where exactly primates are from and the organization. We've we've gone so far past that. It's like there's why can't we just all agree on something as silly as Lemuria and be like, oh, yeah, that was, you know, there's a mistake from the 1860s. That's understandable.
00:28:35
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But no, the pseudo archaeology crowd never lets any of their bullshit go.
Science vs Pseudo-Archaeology
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Right. And that's one of their great problems is how to slap all this together. And that's where the hilarity ensues on the flip side. Science does move forward and the foolish idea of the lost continent of Moo
00:28:59
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You can't argue against it until you get modern plate tectonics and continental drift, which weren't roundly supported by the scientific community until the 1950s. Isn't that crazy? The idea that the that there's like sea floor floor spreading, that the continents move on the earth over time. There were a couple of people.
00:29:19
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In the geology world who argued against plate tectonics for a long time they really push hard in the nineteen thirties into the nineteen forties by the nineteen fifties finally and it is one of those things a famous scientific story where. The guy who came up with plate tectonics and again. Every eight year old who looks at the world map goes hey south america and africa fit together.
00:29:48
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That was denied until the 1950s. Now that is the people who argued against that. They did argue a bit too long. They were a bit too like stalwart in their beliefs. They wouldn't let go their beliefs that were obviously wrong. But look, science moves forward, right? Nobody in science argues against plate tectonics these days. Nobody argues against continental drift.
00:30:16
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because there's good research, good data, and it's easily provable. Right. And that's great. That's what makes science so great. On the flip side, stuff like Mu and Lemuria are obvious examples of what makes pseudo archaeology so stupid. Right. And people just hold on and double down on this miasma.
00:30:41
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No, whenever you can say miasma, it's a good day. This miasma of beliefs and half truths and cherry picked half data, you know, to make this bastardized, twisted, odd lie, which is also pretty fun to talk about. But still, you know, it's just sad. And of course, in all this, in all the lost content of Moo situation, you also have
00:31:10
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You got to throw in the, like, you know, racist aspect of it, too, which is like, of course. So if you if you remember back the search words, the idea of mail. Was that the movie and.
00:31:28
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They believed in the sun god Ra, right? And that's just a rip off of Egypt, where there is really a sun god called Ra. But Churchward was like, oh, yeah, well, the Easter Island, its true name is Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui.
00:31:44
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See, so the islanders are the original movie ants, and I don't even know if they're supposed to be called movie ants, but I think it's pretty good. The movie ants name that island after the sun. Ra Hanyui. Right. Which is ludicrous. But then.
00:32:02
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You know, he's just sort of, again, bastardizing the true Rapa Nuians culture. He's like, look, look, look, look, look. But see, current Polynesians out there, be there, they on Hawaii, Fiji, you know, Rapa Nui, pick your poison.
00:32:16
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current pollinations, no, no, no, they're not related to the true movians, to the true clean and pure and civilized movians. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. The current pollination is, look guys, they're just savages. Okay. I mean, I have my standards, right? So that's what church ward is saying. There's always that. Why did he even have to say that?
00:32:38
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You know, like, why couldn't he just be happy with his bullshit most story? No, he's got to also give that little racist like addition there, you know, and underneath it all, unfortunately, in so much of pseudo archaeology, you have that little racial racist quotient where this idea of civilization with a capital C
00:33:00
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It started way before them and moved on to other places and what's left in all these other places of the world, except for like, you know, Egypt and Europe is just a bunch of backwards second class citizens. And it's just you're not making any friends with that, dude.
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But yeah, even with all that mood, this cancer of Mo is still with us today, my friends. Like the radiation therapy continues not to work 100%. If you guys remember, maybe in the last 20, 30 years, any of you who are fans of various TV shows, you know, on this stuff, like there's one where
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off the coast of Japan, they found some straight looking stones. You know, it's just like the stones of Atlantis in Bermuda. Same idea, but they're like, ah, this is evidence of a move. You know, and of course.
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with, again, with modern geology, the Pacific Ocean is just a huge ocean plate. And the Pacific Islands are, of course, volcanic, which is awesome in its own way because you have an island like the Big Island of Hawaii with Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, which are the tallest mountains on Earth. They just had their volcanoes and they had to make it from the ocean floor. This is, you know, true geology is really interesting and awesome.
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And of course, the various cultures in Polynesia are varied and deep and interesting and awesome. You know, you have the Polynesians like, man, I always vote them as the best navigators on Earth, you know, with their double holed canoes. Ah, so much cool stuff, you know, but you got to dirty it with this cancer. But I don't want to leave on a low note, do you? I don't. So.
Closing Thoughts and Contact Info
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We can just let's just shake moo off, just shake just, you know, shake it off like some fleas and think about something completely different. Go outside, dude. Spring's coming. The sun's out. You haven't had a motorcycle accident, hopefully. And life is good. Enjoy yourselves, my friends, and I'll see you guys next time.
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This episode was produced by Chris Webster from his RV traveling the United States, Tristan Boyle in Scotland, DigTech LLC, Cultural Media, and the Archaeology Podcast Network, and was edited by Rachel Rodin. This has been a presentation of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Visit us on the web for show notes and other podcasts at www.archapodnet.com. Contact us at chrisatarchaeologypodcastnetwork.com.