Mu (Continent)

Mu
Name	Mu
Location Details
Reality	Earth-616
Galaxy	Milky Way
Star System	Sol
Planet	Earth
Region	Pacific Ocean (Earth-57780: Subterranea)
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Augustus Le Plongeon, Bill Woolfolk
First	Namora #1 (May, 1948)
First	Namora #1 (May, 1948)

Mu was a continent of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, that was (formerly, by 18,000 BC) connected to Lemuria (which was also considered to part of Mu in ancient times), that sank during the Great Cataclysm. It was considered a barbaric land.

A city also known as Mu, preserved from the Cataclysm by a protective dome, persisted into the Modern Age as the kingdom of Mu, located on an island on the Pacific Ocean somewhere near modern day Hawaii.

History

Pre-Cataclysmic Age

By the time Valusia was young, Mu (like Atlantis) was a mere island of primitives.

Astarta, the daughter of the king of Mu, was wed to a Sea-God so ancient that the people had forgotten his name. On her bridal night, Astarta met the god who gave him the gift of life everlasting, causing her to remain young as her friends aged and died.

The people of Mu had built an otherworldly city, Paradiss.

By 18,000 BC, the continent Mu, like most of the world save for Atlantis, was under the domination of the Deviants.

The people of a city also known as Mu, were described as war-like and highly civilized.

Great Cataclysm

Circa 18,000 BC, Muvian Navy's and Lemurian air forces' attacks forced the Atlanteans to activate a magma-propelling device, causing ultimately the destruction of the city and the sinking of the continent, known as the Great Cataclysm.

Astarta stated that at the same moment the oceans swallowed Atlantis' cities, the Sea-God rose and caused the destruction of the coastal cities. Meanwhile, the Celestials' Second Host was attacked, while arriving over Lemuria, by the Deviants. The Space Gods retaliated by an assault that submerged all of Mu.

Hyborian Age

A few groups and people from the continent of Mu survived into the Hyborian Age:

• Muvians:
  • Though he caused the destruction of the coastal cities of Mu, the Sea-God protected his wife Astarta and bore her toward the distant island of Kelka, when she was confused for Ashtoreth by the Kelkan priests, and later .

    

    The underwater city of Mu

  • The war-like people of the city of Mu were preserved from the Cataclysm by a protective dome, and persisted into the Modern Age as the kingdom of Mu, located on an island on the Pacific Ocean somewhere near modern day Hawaii.
  • Muvians also possibly established the undersea Mu, where Gigantus allegedly dwelt (though it was revealed Gigantus was a Deviant Mutate living on Monster Isle rather being from Mu)
  • Others survived, and became the fathers of Vedic wisdom.
• Lemurians:
  • A group led by the Tarim fled aboard ships westward, on the eastern coast of the Thuria (later known as the eastern shore of the Vilayet), were enslaved for thousands of years by the ancient race that dwelt there, later rose and destroyed their masters and became savages. They evolved a strange semi-civilization built on the wreckage of their masters' and eventually rose as the Hyrkanians.
  • Another group Lemurians also remained on isles east of Khitai, seemingly Yamatai (which seemingly became Japan).

Modern Age

The ghosts of Atlantis and Mu hovered over Great Britain along those of Druid priests.

The otherworldy city of Para-Diss was left uninhabited.

By the year 1948, high priest Karlak informed the people of Mu that the wreckage of a vessel landed near the dome, and convinced them that they should conquer the surface world. Attempting to capture specimens to examine, they almost succeeded in capturing Namor and Namora, but they two evaded capture. Convinced that the surface people were no match for their kingdom (as despite their physical strength, they were unarmed, Karlak theorized their civilization wasn't far advanced), Karlak led an invasion of the surface. They attacked Pearl Harbor and gained ground on the element of surprise, however the Sub-Mariner, Namora and the United States military forced them back.

Karlak and his men returned to Mu where Karlak petitioned the queen and the royal council to allow him another attack. When they refused, he threatened to kill them with his electric gun, but died in a struggle with Namor. In the aftermath the queen promised to Namor that her people wouldn't threaten the surface world anymore.

Atlantis and Mu share an uneasy relationship.

Alternate realities

Earth-57780

Mu was a city on Earth. When thousands of years ago, a great quake ruined the city, causing its inhabitants to flee underground where they rebuilt their city in a hundred years, using their mental powers.

With the intent of using the Lost Race of Mu's power to destroy the surface world, Mole Man had his Moloids abduct Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn in order to blackmail Spider-Man in helping him. Spidey accepted and soon encountered Megos and Frela who brought him to the city. They offered to teach humanity their powers if they were to use them wisely. At that moment, the Moloids led by the Mole Man who had used his radar powers to monitor Spider-Man entered. The people of Mu first accused Spider-Man, who stopped most of the army and desperately fought the remaining Moloids until Megos and Frela came to help. They took Spidey back up, asking him to kept their existence a secret and stating that they would someday perhaps visit him.

Society

From all accounts, it would appear that the people of Mu lived in a highly intellectual society that was ruled by a queen and her ruling council.

Technology

The people of Mu have varied types of technology, ranging from the primitive to the advanced, at least by the standards in which they resurfaced in 1948. They were able to erect a massive dome around their kingdom to protect them from drowning in the ocean, as well as protect them from the oceans crushing pressure. Through some unknown means they had also established a method of maintaining oxygen in their domed world.

The city was accessible through a hatch in the side of the dome. People and objects could be pulled into the domed city through a whirlpool generating device situated at the top of the dome.

In terms of vehicular transports, the people of Mu travelled the oceans in submarines that vaguely resembled Viking warships with glass domes. These vessels did not appear to have any sort of armaments. The people of Mu also developed diving suits that allowed them to survive on the ocean floor.

Weapons available to the people of Mu were the most varied. The primary of these weapons were bows and arrows, but they had developed two types of guns: An ink gun that fired octopus ink from sacks attached to the bottom of the gun, and Karlak had developed an "electric gun" that used electricity in some capacity that was not explicitly depicted.

Points of Interest

• Lemuria (formerly as part of Mu in ancient times, or connected to it.
• Coastal cities
• Mu - city that survived the Great Cataclysm, preserved under a dome

Residents

Modern Age: Karlak (deceased), unnamed queen, royal council, many others

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Pre-Cataclysmic Age: Astarta, Muvian Navy

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Earth-57780: Megos, Frela

Notes

• Mu was a hypothetical "lost land", coined by archeologist and author Augustus Le Plongeon as a substitute name for Atlantis. The term was later used as a substitute for Lemuria by James Churchward.
  • It was used in Cthulhu Mythos tales, including by H.P. Lovecraft in his revision of Hazel Heald's short story "Out of the Aeons" (1935), and in many written by Lin Carter.
    • Apart from its name, mentioned in The Shadow Kingdom and Riders Beyond the Sunrise, nothing about Mu has been revealed in the Saga of Conan and Kull, created by Robert E. Howard, and developed by the likes of Lin Carter.
• The story "The Kingdom Beneath the Sea" (Namora #1) depicts the sinking of the island of Mu as occurring ten thousand years ago. This is an error on the date, given the Great Cataclysm's profile in Blockbusters of the Marvel Universe #1 lists the sinking of Mu in Namora #1 as the earliest key chronicle referenced listed in its infobox.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Mu (Continent)
• 10 mention(s) of Mu (Continent)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Mu (Continent)
• 1 image(s) of Mu (Continent)
• 2 article(s) related to Mu (Continent)
• 4 citizen(s) of Mu (Continent)

Links and References

• Mu on Wikipedia.org