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Mu-Nissing
Among Michigan’s Ojibwa, an island (Mu) in a body of water (nissing).Mu-nsungan
Known as the “Humped Island” among the Algonquian-speaking native people
of Maine.Murias
Antediluvian capital of the Tuatha de Danann, described in the Book of
Invasions, a collection of oral histories written during the Middle Ages, as a
“sea people” who arrived in ancient Ireland 1,000 years before the Celts, circa
1600 B.C. They were immigrants, survivors of a cataclysm that sank Murias
beneath the sea. Some researchers conclude from this characterization, to-
gether with its name and alleged location in the far west, that Murias was an
Irish version of the sunken Pacific civilization, Mu, or Lemuria.
Before the disaster, the surviving Tuatha de Danann were able to save their
most valuable treasure, a mysterious object called “Un-dry,” also known as the
“Cauldron of Dagda,” the “Good God,” who led them away from the catastrophe.
The same vessel is implied in the most sacred artifact from Murias, “a hollow
filled with water and fading light.” The renowned Atlantean scholar, Edgerton
Sykes, believed Un-dry was “possibly the origin of the Grail.”
The story of drowned Murias is not confined to Ireland, but known in
various parts of the British Isles and the European Continent. In Wales, it is
remembered as Morvo, and it is known as Morois, in French Normandy.
(See Falias, Finias, Gorias, Mu, Tir-nan-Og, Tuatha da Danann)Mu-ri-wai-o-ata
Known throughout Polynesia as a legendary palace at the bottom of the
sea, home of the divine hero, Toona, an apparent reference to the lost Pacific
civilization of Mu.Murrugan
A god whose worship was carried from Mu to India, where it still flourishes.
(See Land of the Kumara)Musaeus
Listed in Plato’s Kritias as an Atlantean king. He appears to have been deified
as Muyscas, the “Civilizer” of the Chibchas. They were a people not unlike the