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Pacata-Mu
This huge and important pre-Inca religious center featured a complex labyrinth
the size of four football fields surrounded by high walls of mud brick. The maze
was apparently the scene of large-scale ritual activities, judging from the sacrificed
remains of llamas and curious tiny squares of exquisitely woven cloth of no apparent
utilitarian value. Such squares are still used, however, by North American
aboriginals of the southwestern states to contain religious offerings of tobacco.
Pacata-Mu’s name and location in northern coastal Peru, on a promontory
overlooking the Pacific Ocean, underscore its Lemurian origins.Painted Cave
A site located on the North American west coast above Los Angeles. Its interior
is decorated with dozens of red, white, and black pictoglyphs and astronomical
depictions created by the Chumash Indians before their extinction in the late 19th-
century. Painted Cave and all such illustrated sites were revered by Chumash
shamans as the spiritual centers of their ancestors, who named a number of
islands and settlement after the lost Pacific civilization of Mu, such as Pismu, modern
Pismo beach, at San Nicholas Island, formerly Limu.
(See Mu)