archaeology adjacent

 I remember one time, years ago when I was smoking a bit more weed than usual and had a somewhat steady supply of shrooms, I convinced myself that the lost city of Shangri-La was real and could be found if sufficient research was given to the subject. I spent a few weeks or months in the pursuit and eventually gave up because the internet doesn't have nearly enough information and I wasn't about to fly somewhere to be swindled by some counterfeit monks. 

The whole thing left me with a bit of a sour taste for a while as far as cryptic lost locations go, then I'm pretty sure I got real into Lost and my interest was renewed with my palette cleansed. The focus shifted towards more reasonable lost locales such as Atlantis or Mu. Most folks may have heard of Atlantis because I think they filmed the Justice League documentaries partially in the actual city, but I doubt many have heard of the lost continent of Mu in the Pacific.

It's easier to lose an island or a city than an entire continent, so I'd personally like to try some of the drugs the folks who lost a continent were using. That's some super charged ayahuasca they were brewing, and they probably lost the recipe too, considering the continent. There's actually loads of people clamoring about a large landmass or something of the sort in the Pacific. It would explain (to them): lemurs, snake people, snake people and Maya hybrid languages, Egypt, Greece, India, Burma, the civilizations of South America, shape shifting humans, rosicrucianism, and the Turks, among others I'd assume. This is all stuff I read in that Mu article. Different folks think those things and peoples and cultures came from Mu, the lost continent in the Pacific that may have been up to 50 million square miles.

Mu is pseudoarchaeological, in the sense that it hasn't been proven to exist. I have absolutely no idea, personally, whether it does or not. I'm going to make some jokes about it here for a while and then conclude with something I think is insightful and hopefully you will too.

One of the theories as to why Mu is no longer around is because, I think it pretty obvious, it sank or something. It would have either sank or been submerged by water, which I think are both pretty much the same thing. However, it shows us the two distinct possibilities of something either seismic or aquatic happening to the continent. I guess, this is all supposing you want to entertain the notion that the island or continent or whatever it was actually existed at one point. If you do, you're an amateur pseudoarchaeologist now and no one can take that away from you.

The seismic or tectonic possibility is that some great upheaval occurred that swallowed Mu or at least sunk it enough to hide it. The plates that are under some parts of the Pacific are quite active and aggressive. This is the same area that's often referred to as the "Ring of Fire" so ... maybe it's possible? They have a lot of volcanic activity now, like as you read this and as I type this. I think the Fukushima event was due to these same active plate tectonics. There could have been some great event unknown to the world today that happened because of the way the planets aligned and pulled on that portion of the earth one day, 11-12,000 years ago. 

The aquatic possibility is that the land mass of the missing continent is still there, it's just submerged. I think the issue with this possibility is that there is no such place they can find that's within an acceptable depth. If the landmass was flooded, it should be more or less intact but within ... a certain number of feet from the surface of the ocean. This hasn't been found so it kind of rules out this possibility. However, there could have been some cataclysmic flood at the same time as the planet alignment and maybe the combination of the two mangled the land under the water sufficiently enough to prevent recognition.

I'm not sure, I'm no pseudoarchaeologist like you, I just play one on the internet. I also kind of shy away from the fact that one of the proponents of Mu thinks that it was ruled by white people for 40,000 years. At the time of its destruction, this guy thought there were 64 million people there, but they may have been shape shifters. I'm not making fun of this idea even though it may seem like I am. It's interesting to me to entertain the possibility of a large landmass full of people that was destroyed thousands of years ago. This type of thing is beyond our scope so it's something to think about as much as you'd like. 

Maybe these guys are right and everything you imagine about some early and massive civilization is exactly as it was. There were flying cars going over intricate water fountains and people with hover boards, like Back to the Future but more real and with loads of white marble. Maybe it was a dingy shit hole that smelled of urine and excrement because it was actually a small island but they had futuristic technology. Everything, if it existed, was lost. Possibly in some sort of cosmic event with a subsequent flood a long time ago.

Viracocha had a similar flood event around the same time. I think there may have been some sort of biblical flood event as well. It's weird that they all talk about a flood. Weird because a flood destroys all evidence and washes it away, or keeps it submerged for thousands of years. So maybe the coincidence here is that a flood destroys the evidence and not that there may have actually been a serious flood that happened around 11,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene era. Weird that an entire era of Earth's history would also end around the same time as these alleged cataclysmic events. 

The era also lines up with humans entering the scene and the end of the era lines up with the beginning of modern humans. "The evolution of anatomically modern humans took place during the Pleistocene. In the beginning of the Pleistocene Paranthropus species were still present, as well as early human ancestors, but during the lower Palaeolithic they disappeared, and the only hominin species found in fossilic records is Homo erectus for much of the Pleistocene."

Some of this is purposeful, humans have had such an impact on the world that of course our age is something different than what came before. I think it's all pretty fascinating and certainly worth knowing about as more of this series on myths and ancient stuff coalesces. This might be a little bit shorter but I think I have to make this the first of two parts. This is finished enough, though, that it can stand alone as a brief examination of some of the scene around the end of the Pleistocene era. It was the Ice Age and they made a couple movies about it if you'd like to learn more.