Naacal Tablets
Origin: The pseudo-scientific antediluvian book series by James Churchward, including The Lost Continent of Mu, The Children of Mu, The Sacred Symbols of Mu, The Cosmic Forces of Mu and The Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu.
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Description
A set of clay tablets said to be kept in secret libraries by the high priests of mysterious secret religions, describing the antediluvian history of Earth, focusing on the lost continent of Mu, placed in the Pacific ocean, describing the continent's rise to great technological and spiritual enlightenment far in advance of the 20th century, some 50,000 years ago, in an age when Darwin believed the ancestors of Man to be pre-human ape-like beasts; this golden age was to be eventually followed by catastrophe, sending the continent to the bottom of the ocean following centuries of extended volcanic disaster. The tablets are said to be written in Naacal, a language known only to a few initiates in the world, linking Mayan, Egyptian, and Polynesian languages together as a common ancestor, with the Mayan civilization being older than the rest as the origin of "old world" civilizations influenced after the fall of Mu through migrations to the east, through Atlantis.
Churchward, one of the few westerners granted permission to tee the Naacal tablets and learn their language, was allowed to see the tome only once, with great reluctance from the priests who kept it, and was allowed to scan it only after earning the priests' trust; because of the shortness of the glance Churchward was given and because of the fragmentary nature of the tablets, Churchward was forced to complete his translation work from within the Dreamlands.
Churchward's Tablets
Language: Naacal
Physical Description: a set of fragmentary red clay tablets engraved in Naacal hieroglyphs;
General Content: A broad history of the rise and fall of the pre-human/proto-human Naacal civilisation on Mu, along with its commerce and influence over the rest of the world at the height of the civilization's power.
Number of known copies (if rare): only one known copy has been admitted to exist, though there may be others in hiding
Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): in the hands of the high priest of the remnant of a pre-human Naacal cult in India
Mythos Content
Spells:
- Sanity Loss:
- Mythos Knowledge:
- Occult Knowledge:
Dreamlands Copy
Language: Naacal
Physical Description: a set of red clay tablets engraved in Naacal hieroglyphs
General Content: A broad history of the rise and fall of the pre-human/proto-human Naacal civilisation on Mu, along with its commerce and influence over the rest of the world at the height of the civilization's power.
Number of known copies (if rare): at least two
Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): one copy is believed to exist in the Akashic Record, another may exist in the Library at Oneiros; not much is known about the copy that James Churchward apparently consulted, but it seems possible that he might have consulted a third, as yet unknown copy..
Mythos Content
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- Sanity Loss:
- Mythos Knowledge:
- Occult Knowledge:
Quotes
Appearances
- fiction: referenced at least indirectly by...
- August Derleth and Mark Schorer, "The Lair of the Star Spawn" (1932)
- Colin Wilson, "The Return of the Lloigor" (1974)
- H.P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price "Through the Gates of the Silver Key (fiction)" (makes reference to the tome's "discoverer"/inventor, Churchward)
- H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald "Out of the Aeons" (makes reference to the tome's "discoverer"/inventor, Churchward)
Heresies and Controversies
Associated Mythos Elements
- language: Naacal
- settings:
- locations:
- tomes: may have served the basis for, been inspired by, or otherwise be a relative of...
- a number of Occult Books of Theosophical and pseudo-scientific nature
- Pnakotic Fragments
- G’harne Fragments
- The Eltdown Shards
- Zanthu Tablets
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- deities:
