James Churchward's Mu

March 10, 2012

“Fishing Among the Thousand Islands”

Filed under: James' life apart from the Lost Continent of Mu — JChurchward @ 5:03 pm


Fishing Among the Thousand Islands

James Churchward (1851-1936) is probably best known for his series of books on the Lost Continent of Mu in which he postulates that the Garden of Eden was on a now sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean. This post is not about lost continents or prehistoric civilizations, but examines his early work as an author of books on fishing.

When James got to the United States in the 1880s, he worked as a salesman on the railroad in the Northeast United States. He also began to patent some of his inventions pertaining to the railroad. These inventions included spikes and wear plates. His association with the railroads provided the opportunity to travel through the Northeast and engage in two of his favorite pastimes, fishing and hunting.

In an earlier posting entitled, “A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine,”, his 1897 work for the Bangor and Aroostock Railroad was discussed and mention was made of his 1894 work entitled “Fishing Among the Thousand Islands” as a work that I one day hoped to see. Thanks to the generosity of one individual, the work has been scanned and I have a copy that was published by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.

“Fishing Among the Thousand Islands” appears to be James’ first published work and like the later “A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine” was done in support of encouraging people to ride the railroad to engage in recreational activities in the untamed wilderness. Unlike the later work, James only covers fishing in this one, and his love of the sport is clearly evident in both.

In chapter 1, James sets the stage by describing the St. Lawrence River and the scenery in alluring terms, surreptitiously beckoning the reader to escape to the unparalleled beauty of nature and revel in the experience called, “The Fisherman’s Paradise.” He describes the entire enterprise, from the ever changing loveliness of the scenery in the safety and comfort of the St. Lawrence skiff, to the consumption of a lazy gourmet meal and the enjoyment of a cigar, followed eventually by the inevitable exchange of experiences after one reaches shore. After reading this, one might wonder if this is what is called heaven.

Chapter 2 starts the intelligence briefing about the expected targets of the leisure-time endeavor, allowing that a great many types of fish are present. The reader is informed that the true game fish to pursue are the Pike Proper, Black Bass, and Muskallonge, followed by an entire chapter devoted to the description of each, how to hook them, and keep them on the line until they are in the boat. His narrative is chock full of examples that lets the reader know that James did not go fishing a couple of times before he wrote this work; his skills and the advice he offers was crafted through years of diligent practice and experience.

The intelligence briefing continues with tips on trolling for that ‘Muskallonge from eighteen to twenty-five pounds (that) will give the fisherman more trouble, size for size, than any fish that exists.’

Next is presented a primer on fishing tackle with the inside information that brings you up to speed on the hardware requirements of your mission to ‘Fisherman’s Paradise.’ James discusses lines, hooks, rods and everything else required to be correctly outfitted, he even includes a list of the contents of a Muskallonge tackle box at the end.

The final section discusses the best places to find the Muskallonge, as James mentions they are not to be found throughout the St. Lawrence River. He provides charts and descriptions of the nine best Muskallonge ‘fishing holes’ on the St. Lawrence in the early 1890s.

As the later book “A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine” showed, this work contributes to an added dimension of James as an accomplished sportsman and man of his time. While there is no discussion of the hunting aspect in this work, James was also proficient in the care and use of firearms and suggested in “A Big Game…” that in addition to your hunting rifle, that one should carry a “holstered revolver (38 or 44 caliber)” and a hunting knife (not double-edged.)


Like many of his subsequent written works, James also provides the illustrations for this work, some which have graced this article.

To follow-up on the subject of ‘books I’d like to see,’ I must again thank my internet compatriot, Yannis Deliyannis, for his generosity in providing a scanned copy of “Copies of Stone Tablets Found by William Niven at Santiago Ahuizoctla near Mexico City.” I hope to make an announcement in the near future concerning the publication of “Lifting the Veil On Copies of Tablets Found by William Niven.” The new book contains the complete contents of the original, never before seen book plus accumulated research that shows each of the tablets as they appear and are translated/interpreted in James’ other works. Another manuscript remains, so far, as the next one I want to see. It is called, “Mu’s Colonies and Colonial Empires” and while I have been lucky enough to see a few pages, I am hopeful that in the future, the current owner will allow the manuscript come to light.

Jack Churchward
Clearwater, Florida

February 26, 2012

Update to ‘Relics of Mu’ Podcast

Filed under: Ancient Relics — JChurchward @ 6:03 pm

In a March 2077 podcast, I posted the latest information about one of the few relics from James Churchward’s book on the Lost Continent of Mu.


Click on image for larger version

James described it in the 1931 Lost Continent of Mu as follows:

A Relic from Mu
“This is believed to be the oldest jar ever uncovered. It is made of bronze, inlaid with gold symbols, and was taken from one of Mu’s submerged cities. It is estimated to be over 12,500 years old.”

In that podcast, it was related that the vessel had surfaced and been evaluated by a member of the staff at the British Museum. It was identified as late 18th to early 19th century from India, however the inscription was not translated.

Click on images for larger version

I recently received an email from Alexander Voronin, President of the Russian Society on Studying of Problems of Atlantis with the translation. According to his colleague, Willie Melnikov, the inscription (in the Gudgarati language) reads:

Master Nedge did for all.

Have a great day,
Jack Churchward

February 11, 2012

Mexican ‘Chinaman’ Statues

Filed under: References to James' work — JChurchward @ 12:59 pm

James Churchward described, as part of his materials on William Niven’s Mexican discoveries, a small statue of what he termed, a ‘Chinaman.’

From Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men page 114:

RELICS FROM NIVEN’S LOWEST CITY 1. Egyptian head. 2. Ancient Grecian vase. 3. A toy. 4. Little Chinaman


From Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men, pages 215-218

THE LITTLE CHINAMAN
“This image proves with indisputable evidence that the people who lived ages ago in the Valley of Mexico knew and were familiar with the Mongolian type. The ruin in which I found the Chinese image was in the remains of the third or lowest civilization thirty feet down from the surface in the pit which I had dug at San Miguel Amanda, near Haluepantla, nineteen miles from the national palace in Mexico City. The first (upper) civilization, marked by a cement floor, and walls of a concrete building I found at a depth of eight feet. Eleven feet below this was the second (middle) civilization of about the same grade of development as the first, and 30 feet 3 inches from the surface of the ground I came on a bed chamber, or tomb, I do not know which, in the third stratum of ruins, which contain the finest artefacts I have ever seen in Mexico. I am inclined to think the room was thirty feet square, its walls were made of concrete and crushed down to within a foot of their bases. Below was a tomb. In the center, on a raised rectangular platform, also of concrete, lay the skull and some of the bones of a man who could not have been more than five feet in height. His arms were very long, reaching almost to the knees, and his skull was decidedly of a Mongolian type. Around his neck had been a string of green jade beads. Green jade is not a Mexican mineral.
“Lying beside the body was a string of 597 pieces of shell. I say string, but the buckskin thong which had once born them was long since rotted to dust, and the wampum, or money, lay as if it had fallen from a string. With this money lay the greatest find of all – the little Chinaman.
“It is the first of its kind ever found in Mexico, though Mongoloid types persist in sufficient numbers among the Indians of all Mexico to convince anyone that the Indian blood of the country originally came from Asia.
“His oblique eye-slits, padded coat, flowing trousers and slippers make him a present-day Chinaman in all respects, except for the queue which is lacking. The Chinese did not, however, adopt the queue until they had been conquered by the Tartar hordes from the north.
“The little statuette is about 7 inches high, and where the arms are broken off, the clay of which the image is made shows red and friable in the center; outside, however, the clay has metamorphosed into stone, so that it can be chipped with the hammer only with the greatest difficulty. It is about 3 1/2 inches in width across the chest and 1 1/2 inches in thickness through the abdomen. In the ears are huge rings similar to those worn by the Chinese today, on the head is a skull cap with a tiny button in the center, almost exactly like the caps of the mandarins of the Empire, which has now become a republic. The coat, which is loose and of a type still worn by the Chinese, is shown fastened with a frog and a button, while on the breast is a circular plate or ornament, evidently covered with a layer of beaten gold, but worn bare by contact with the earth of unknown ages. Each arm is broken off at the shoulder, and the opening of the entire tomb has failed to disclose the missing hands. This Chinese image was not made by Aztecs. It had been buried in the earth in the Valley of Mexico’ for thousands of years before the Aztecs set foot on the plateau. The Aztecs were newcomers in Mexican history, the blood-thirsty conquerors of the great civilized and organized races of Mexico, who ravaged with fire and sword the cities built by the Toltecs, Ohmecs and Mayas. The Aztecs did not build; they took buildings from the builders by force of arms.
“The little Chinaman furnishes exactly the link for which we have been searching. He says without speaking that the most ancient tribes of Mexico were offshoots of the Mongoloid. “Near the skeleton, but off the platform, lay a flower vase about 15 inches high, undoubtedly filled with Xochitl, the yellow sacred flower of practically all of the ancient races of this country.”

This passage is from Chapter 11 (“Niven’s Buried Cities”) of Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men. Almost the entirety of the chapter is contained in an article in one of James Churchward’s scrapbooks and is published as a footnote in “Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men”. This account provides that the grave and statue were from San Miguel Amanda, near Haluepantla. It is unfortunate that the source and date of the article were removed from the article.

As reported in the “The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser” on January 11, 1913 in an article entitled, “Discoverers of America: Chinese First to Land,” Niven must have found another ‘chinaman’ statue. The article describes that Niven, while digging at the base of the great pyramid at ‘Tootihuacan(Teotihuacan)’ under three levels of civilization. It is described almost exactly the same as the ‘chinaman’ statue in the 1926 Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men.

One aid to help decipher the mystery is also included in one of James’ scrapbooks. The following map (source and date also removed) provides the locations of ancient ruins and includes the location of Azcapotzalco, “where traces of a Mongoloid civilization were uncovered by William Niven.”

The map also distinctly shows that Teotihuacan is in another location, so perhaps the placement of the artifacts from Teotihuacan was derived with the intent of bolstering the importance of the discovery, and saving them from having to write/type ‘Azcapotzalco.’

This ‘chinaman’ statue has been referenced in recent literary works also. The artifact was used by Gavin Menzies to show ‘Chinese influence in Central America,’ however that opinion is not unanimous. Mr. Menzies’ statue is the version discovered at Teotihuacan and it is even included on the People’s Daily (official information organ of the People’s Republic of China.) Jason Colavito provides an analysis of the statue on his website and indicates that far from being a ‘chinaman’ or an Asian figure, the artifact shows Mexican influences.

So, when is a ‘chinaman’ statue not Chinese? – when it is Mayan.

Jack Churchward

February 4, 2012

The Silver Hook – Part 2

Filed under: James' life apart from the Lost Continent of Mu — JChurchward @ 12:28 pm

In an online article entitled, “L.L.Bean Combines Heritage and Innovation with 100th Anniversary Catalog Covers,” a vintage L.L. Bean catalog image from 1933 is shown and at the bottom of the cover are the words “The Silver Hook.”
1904 James Churchward painting

Readers may remember the my-mu.com blog posting entitled, “James Churchward Painting Surfaces… The Silver Hook,” which has all the same elements as the 1933 catalog cover, except that James’ painting is dated in 1904, twenty-nine years before the cover on the L.L. Bean catalog.

Have a great day!

January 31, 2012

Churchward and Radio Days at WNYC

Filed under: References to James' work — JChurchward @ 11:08 pm

Before he wrote about the Lost Continent of Mu, James Churchward spoke on WNYC on a variety of topics. Recently, the WNYC blog celebrated the 87th anniversary of one of James’ broadcasts (WNYC and the Land of Mu or [My-mu.com guestblog].

The article also mentioned Churchward’s original WNYC broadcast scripts that are to be published in an electronic format.

In a ‘pre-my-mu.com’ website, I had collected the various clippings from James’ scrapbooks concerning his radio broadcasts and assembled them on a single page. While the clippings were nice, the page did not make the cut, because there was no really no substance to them. Again, I am grateful for the invaluable assistance of Historian (and all-around good guy) Yannis Deliyannis to provide the ‘substance.’

Therefore, I need to announce the rebirth of a new/old webpage aptly (I believe,) called ‘Radio Days‘.

A review on his January 30, 1925 broadcast, printed 87 years ago today read as follows:

Review: Talking of elocutionary stunts and all that, Colonel Churchward at WNYC used the words delicious fish. He did it without making a mess of it, but we “defy anyone to say these two words five times in succession quickly without hashing them. (Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle, January 31, 1925).

In addition to outlining the James’ entire appearances on WNYC, there are also some pictures of James from that time period that are different from his normal portrait contained in front of all his books. I must admit, the one I am most looking forward to reading about is ‘Hunting Pygmies in Central America.’ (My only question: What were they going to do when they found them?)

Jack Churchward

January 28, 2012

Did Churchward Give Niven A Bad Name in 1926?

Filed under: James Churchward,Miscellaneous,References to James' work — JChurchward @ 4:50 pm

While researching for my next book, “Lifting the Veil on Copies of Stone Tablets Found by William Niven,” I was reacquainted with the implication that James Churchward was responsible for sullying the reputation of Niven by publishing images of his tablets in the 1926 cult classic, “Lost Continent of Mu.”
While I certainly have no quarrel with Mr. Wicks or Mr. Harrison; if James’ translations/interpretations of the tablets really provoked the controversy that overshadowed Niven’s other great accomplishments, does James bear responsibility?

From the preface of Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods, William Niven’s Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest, the biography of William Niven:

By 1910 Niven’s interests shifted to the Valley of Mexico,
where he was the first person to recognize that a stratigraphic
approach to the valley’s archaeology had chronological impli-
cations. In 1921 Niven unearthed the first of what would be-
come a collection of more than twenty-six hundred inscribed
stone tablets from various sites in the Valley of Mexico. Because
they are unlike any other artifacts recovered from the valley,
their authenticity is still not fully resolved. The controversy
over these inscribed tablets, especially after a number were
published by James Churchward in his occultist The Lost Conti-
nent of Mu (1926), provides a valuable look at the divergent
views regarding the origins and development of native Ameri-
can cultures current during the 1920s and’ 30s.

The same book provides that James never met or corresponded with Niven until after Niven wrote him a letter dated September 19, 1927 (page 238,) which is after the publication of the 1926 “Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men.” Prior to James’ correspondence with William Niven, James’ only access to Niven’s discoveries would have been through newspaper articles written on the subject. James would have had to see them somewhere before he could include them in the 1926 book. As shown in my book, “Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men“, almost the entirety of chapter 11 is contained in one article in James’ scrapbook, along with the only images shown of Niven’s tablets, which indicates that Niven’s promotion of his Mexico City discoveries (in a newspaper article) was ultimately responsible for their inclusion in the 1926 “Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men.”
From Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men page 114:

RELICS FROM NIVEN’S LOWEST CITY 1. Egyptian head. 2. Ancient Grecian vase. 3. A toy. 4. Little Chinaman

From Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men page 221:

Courtesy of the Dearborn Independent TABLETS FROM NIVEN’S MEXICAN BURIED CITIES. SECOND CITY

From Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men page 222:

Courtesy of the Dearborn Independent TABLETS FROM NIVEN’S MEXICAN BURIED CITIES. SECOND CITY

Another random fact is William Niven and James Churchward were mentioned in a 1931 article entitled “Tracing the First Love Story Back to Ancient Mexico” from the Newspaper Features Service:

“In despair, only a few weeks ago, Niven sent it to Colonel James Churchward of London,
distinguished traveler, explorer and archaeologist, and member of the Royal Society. Colonel
Churchward has spent fifty years of his life delving far into antiquity, a great part of this time in
learning the most ancient languages of man in India and Thibet.

Colonel Churchward was delighted to be entrusted with the task of deciphering what was
so closely related to a literary work of his on a continent which he holds has been submerged in
the Pacific – and he was greatly gratified to find himself wholly familiar with the symbols used.
These symbols were in use many thousands of years before the time of Moses.

One might wonder the source of such an article (included in James’ scrapbooks) that paints ‘Colonel’ James Churchward in such high standing. The readers will have to answer the question themselves.

From James’ scrapbook under “Niven’s Buried Cities”:

Newspaper clipping from James Churchward's Scrapbooks

Subsequent publication of Niven’s discoveries in the 1931 “Children of Mu,” 1931 “Lost Continent of Mu” and the 1933 “Sacred Symbols of Mu” are a direct result of Niven sending rubbings or tracings of the tablets to James for interpretation. While I can’t vouch for the veracity of the translations, James simply engaged in what he was asked to do, interpret the tablets. None of the tablets were discovered after James became aware of them, so there can’t be any accusations James Churchward is involved in any hoax concerning these tablets (other than he may not have translated them properly.)

It should be mentioned that James Churchward was not the only one to hazard a guess as to the meaning of the tablets that Niven found. As mentioned in Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods, William Niven’s Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest, Ludovic Mann (1869-1955), Glascow archaeologist, wrote to Niven:

Quite similar carvings have been found in the Old Hemisphere…
Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods, William Niven’s Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest, page 233

and John Cornyn (1875-1941), specialist in Aztec literature, deciphered the iconography on the some of the tablets and placed them in the context of a Mexican cultural discoveries.
Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods, William Niven’s Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest, page 236

Although Niven’s Guerrero collections are now in the American Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, and elsewhere, the location of his finds from Santiago Ahuizoctla, Hacienda de Leon, Remedios, and Chimpala (the tablets discussed in Copies of Stone Tablets Found by William Niven at Santiago Ahuizoctla near Mexico City) is unknown. Other researchers continue to search for these tablets, but it appears (for now), that the only way we have to research them is to look at the available images that remain (see below.) The tablets existed, that part is assured. Whether or not those that created them had the same meaning as interpreted by James Churchward is quite another matter.

From 'Children of Mu' (facing page 41)

btw, Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods, William Niven’s Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest has more photographed tablets than James Churchward shows in his books.

Certainly more is to be written about James’ ‘translation’ of William Niven’s discovery of 2600 tablets, especially if (and when) they again surface. Hopefully, the sensationalism will subside soon thereafter and permit an opportunity for serious academic research that will answer the questions. As indicated earlier, a knowledgeable expert already recognized and identified elements of Niven’s discoveries within standard Mexican cultural iconography. Just because the tablets are connected to the lost continent of Mu should not imply they are a hoax or should not be studied to ascertain the truth. Such a bias helps keep people in the dark about early Mexican history and stifles discussion.

Jack Churchward

December 27, 2011

Old Map – New Interpretation (?)

Filed under: Great Uighur Empire,Miscellaneous — JChurchward @ 11:01 am

Recently I was sent a link to a website entitled, “Map of the Creator.” The link was sent along by a friend from Elle Ayat, the Central Asian healing system pioneered by an ethnic Uighur gentleman named Abdullaev Farhata Muhamedovicha (or Farhata) born in Aksu in 1937.

Abdullaev Farhata Muhamedovicha (or Farhata-ata), Founder of Elle Ayat

He has since passed on and I believe that he was selected by his Uyghur heritage – his genetics permitted him to access information that harkens back to the Great Uighur Empire. There is a mantra to chant that he purports changes consciousness, not just the person reciting the mantra, but others that he/she is connected with. My visit with Radik Kurbanov (October 2010) was described in the My-Mu.com podcast #23 and the mantra can be heard in the podcast. A followup was covered in this blog posting from early 2011.

The website includes two Pravda articles to say that the 3-D map is 120 million years old and that there was some form of writing on the enormous slabs. Originally it was thought that the inscription was Chinese, however closer examination indicates that is not the case.

So, is the ‘Map of the Creator’ proof positive that there was an ancient and formally unknown civilization in Central Asia?
Are the unidentified inscriptions similar to anything that James Churchward wrote about and described?
Is this map from the Great Uighur Empire as described by James Churchward?

I’ll leave these questions for others to answer, but I would like to interject with some further thoughts.
1. James Churchward’s theories include the hypothesis that the mountains were not raised until ten to twelve thousand (10,000 – 12,000) years ago. How could a map be made of mountains before they were raised?
2. If these maps are left behind from the cataclysm that destroyed the eastern half of the Great Uighur Empire, the inscriptions should resemble what James called ‘Uighur-Maya’ writing. According to James, all the people that left Mu in the peopling of the rest of the Earth were called ‘Maya’ and ‘Uighur-Maya’ denotes those individuals that traveled to Asia and formed Mu’s Primary Colony, the Great Uighur Empire.

More information about the Great Uighur Empire is available on the My-Mu.com website. The direct link to the page is here.

Have a great day.

December 17, 2011

Sunken Landmass(es) Found

Filed under: Lost continent of Mu,References to James' work — JChurchward @ 11:54 am

Last month (Nov. 2011,) a report from the University of Sydney remarked that two sunken islands the size of Tasmania were found off the west coast of Australia. From Wikipedia, I learned that the area of the main island of Tasmania is a little over 24,000 square miles (62,409 sq. km.,) so these islands are not exactly small.

Entitled, “Sunken islands could cause tectonic shift in Gondwana story,” the scientists noted that the finds were discovered almost a mile (1.5 km) beneath the surface and the expedition was able to collect samples. To provide a couple of quotes from the article:

“The sunken islands charted during the expedition have flat tops, which indicates they were once at sea level before being gradually submerged,” said Dr Whittaker.

and

Dr Williams commented: “A detailed analysis of the rocks dredged up during the voyage will tell us about their age and how they fit into the Gondwana jigsaw.”

This isn’t the smoking gun for James Churchward’s theory of a sunken Pacific Ocean continent that he called Mu, however it does provide more information about how the continents moved about the planet. From this we may be able to pinpoint the real location of the often hypothesized advanced ancient civilization.

These findings from the Southern Surveyor expedition have more to do with continental drift rather than other sunken features discussed previously.

For instance, in entries entitled, “James Churchward’s Western India Discovery?” and “Another Submerged Civilization Rises,” evidence of man-made structures were found dating back to at least 8,000 years ago, sunken under water. Researchers in Florida are traveling miles out in the Gulf of Mexico to recover evidence of human habitation, so obviously we still do not know the complete story.

And earlier this year, Dale Drinnon posted information on the Darwin Rise entitled, “Lost Mu’s Geological Counterpart, The Darwin Rise,” and “Another Darwin Rise Page.”

There is a specific Geological structure recognised by science which corresponds to the continent of Mu as stated by James Churchward in his Lost Continent of Mu books and that structure is known as the Darwin Rise.

(climbing on soapbox)
The story was also covered in an article entitled, “Evidence Of Lost Continent Of Mu Found? Sunken Islands Could Cause Tectonic Shift In Gondwana Story” and actual information from the wikipedia entry on James Churchward or the ‘Mu (lost continent)’ was used. While a lot of James pronouncements have been shown to be inaccurate, it seems that the focus tends to highlight those points that time has proved incorrect. This isn’t a defense of the inaccuracies, I don’t shy away from disagreeing with my great-grandfather’s theories. My point would be that James postulated a common ancestry of all human beings (which science shows us is true); that we are all born with a part of the divine spark that sets us apart from other creatures and that realization, coupled with our shared human existence should encourage human beings to ‘get along.’ This isn’t a call for everyone to sit around a campfire and sing ‘Kumbaya,’ but certainly, if we used less angry words and walked a mile in our neighbor’s moccasins, perhaps we could see a better tomorrow. Please don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
(climbing down from soapbox)

Have a great day,
Jack E. Churchward

November 28, 2011

2011 My-Mu.com Research Update

Filed under: Uncategorized — JChurchward @ 7:57 am

Greetings
This has been another busy and exciting year at My-Mu.com, your source for information on James Churchward and his theories of a lost Pacific Ocean continent that he called Mu.

Let’s discuss old business first.

1. The 2010 visit by Radik Kurbanov, an ethnic Uyghur from Kazakhstan and proponent of the Central Asian healing system known as Elle Ayat was finally covered in a February podcast. Follow-up materials were placed online in the My-Mu.com blog.

2. Response to our request for participation in a Great Uighur Empire conference was less than mediocre and the conference was not held.

3. There was a follow-up to last year’s announcement of the discovery of the Naacal Tablets. My great-grandfather, James Churchward reported that he found the Naacal tablets in India in the 1860s and derived many of his theories from the information contained in them. A German gentleman announced that he had re-discovered them in India. We received and posted alleged images of his discovery only to find out that they were not even from India. The tablets in the images are currently on display in a Beirut, Lebanon museum and are not connected with India or the Naacal Tablets. Unless further, substantiated evidence is provided, it has to be labeled a hoax. Every remarkable discovery or revelation has to pass remarkable tests to verify its authenticity.

4. Although the my-mu.com forum was restarted last year to permit a discussion of the Naacal Tablets discovery, it has been removed permanently due to suspicious activity.

5. My new book, “Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men“, announced in previous podcasts, was published earlier this year. This is the definitive edition of the 1926 classic and includes 170 new footnotes, an appendix on the Persons of Interest, an appendix on the Printed works and an index.

For new business, we were very happy to receive images from a traveler to Sri Lanka that visited the tea plantation that James owned and worked back in the 1860s. The very paths that James walked and the beautiful views of the countryside were an exciting glimpse into his world. These pictures were also published on our blog.

We were also very happy to receive one of James’ paintings in the mail from the family of one of his patrons. Originally created in 1904, the painting, as well as the story about the painting on the back, was also published in the blog and is entitled ‘The Silver Hook.’ James was a fisherman as well as having a gift for painting.

Another contributor, historian Yannis Deliyannis, has provided invaluable historical information on my great-grandfather, James. Mr. Deliyannis has added a depth to the research that expands the horizons and promotes a better understanding of the real James Churchward. This was apparent when the real information about Princess Arawalli was discovered and posted in the My-Mu.com blog. Further research on James’ time in Ceylon and his recreational writings are on deck from information supplied by Mr. Deliyannis.

At the end of May, I appeared on Dolores Canon’s ‘Metaphysical Hour’ internet radio show to speak about my research and the release of my upcoming book.

In June, I attended the 2011 Awakening to Higher Consciousness Transformation Conference in Rogers Arkansas and gave a presentation entitled, “My Mu: the Search for Truth.”

In October, I was a guest on the Kevin Smith radio show and we discussed my great-grandfather James Churchward, his theories and my new book.

Each of these were recorded and can be accessed from the website at ltv1.my-mu.com along with some other entertaining videos.

Speaking of videos, this year’s podcasts covered the Non-discovery of the Naacal Tablets, my June speech, and an interview with ancient alien expert Philip Coppens entitled, strangely enough, “Ancient Aliens and James Churchward.”

I was a panel member in early November on the webinar entitled, “Human Annunaki Origins – What Lies Ahead For The Human Race” and hope to have a video available soon.

Our bookstore has been completely renovated and we hope to add some new documents in the near future. Please check out the bookstore at my-mu.com.

Thanks for listening and have a great day.

The podcast video can be accessed at: Podcast #28

October 23, 2011

James Churchward Painting Surfaces… The Silver Hook

Filed under: James' life apart from the Lost Continent of Mu — JChurchward @ 2:30 pm

James was a fisherman.
In a future blog entry I will produce examples of his articles in ‘Forest and Stream’ as well as ‘American Angler,’ but his interest in the outdoor sports has been mentioned here before.

To cut to the point, I received a package in the mail recently that held, among other things, an original painting by James Churchward from 1904. I am indebted to my not-to-be-named benefactor for the contents.

The painting is reproduced below, with the story printed on the back as well.

1904 James Churchward painting

story on reverse of painting

The story reads:

Sometimes ye city gentleman, he’s away to the country brook to circumvent the pesky little trout – Sometimes this said pesky little trout refuses to be snared by this city gentleman but there is always the proverbial small boy who does entice this pesky little trout to be attracted to a little willow which he carrys in his hand for that purpose – this little sketch shows the two characters – also the Silver Hook which transfers the string of trout from the boys willow to the city man’s creel no one but the boy and himself knows of the transaction hence he goes home and so looked upon by his wifey and chums as a great fisherman “where ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to be wise”
JChurchward Dec. 1904

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