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Innumerable other hard-to-reach islands scattered throughout toe Pacific are dotted with enigmatic ruins, canals, and roadways from some long lost culture. They all seem to be interrelated, as if they were all once part of some great civilization. It would be prohibitively expensive to organize a proper scientific expedition to visit and study all of these far-flung ruins systematically. Besides, their existence doesn't fit in with any of the current anthropological theories. Suppose some scientist should find that they date back ten thousand years or more and are the remnants of some super-civilization of the past? No matter how substantial Ms evidence might be, he would be immediately crucified by his colleagues and drummed out of all the scientific societies. Obviously. Metalanim was built by cannibals with stone chisels, and those canals served their religious rites to the water gods. Believers in the lost continents of Mu, Pan, and Lemuria (which may have been one place) noisily embrace these tidbits as evidence that a great land mass did exist in the Pacific at one time and that it was populated with a highly advanced race while the Egyptians, Britons, and Cretans were all fashioning stone axes. One cultist tradition, passed along by talkative elementals and members of WOW, is that Lemuria preceded Atlantis. After temuria sank into the Pacific, the Atlantis culture got underway and flourished for 14,000 years before it, too, sank 10,500 years ago.* A mystical archaeologist named James Churchward is largely responsible for the modern revival of interest in Mu. In the early part of this century he travelled through Central and South America probing into ancient ruins and trying to decipher stone carvings and petroglyphs. Then he published a series of books which combined scientism and sciolism (that is, he applied the scientific method to dubious fragments of evidence) to support his contention that a supercontinent once existed in the Pacific. la his view, Easter Island served as a kind of factory, and the great stone heads manufactured there were shipped off to other parts of Mu. The poorly investigated ruins of the Pacific islands and the great island mounds (yes, huge man-made mounds are found on many of these islands) were all a part of that ancient civilization, he said. He leaned on scrambled translations of stone carvings and vague legends of undefined origin. These were mixed in with the flat statements of elementals and strange Vise men." Churchward also saw evidence or traces of Mu in the ruins of the Mayan civilization in Central America and the Aztec and Incan cultures further south. He compiled charts which compared the writing of Maya with the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and he constructed the ancient alphabet of Mu. Ultimately, he produced precise maps of Mu and tried to demonstrate how the mysterious ruins found in the United States were linked to that remote continent. Sciolists everywhere leaped on to his bandwagon, and an enormous body of Mu literature has developed, but science remains unconvinced.’ southwards from Maiden for twelve hundred miles, we arrive at Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. PE a et te ee a Here another ancient road of basalt blocks rises out of the ocean. > See Eklal Kueshana, The Ultimate Frontier.