But where was Mu? It is only a theory that it existed, and only another theory that some “great geologic upheaval destroyed Mu”.
However, the area from the Korean peninsula to Indonesia was above sea level during most of the Great Ice Age - and speculation is that millions of people lived there during that era.
When the first of the glacial melting began some 16,500 years ago, this vast swath slowly began to be covered by water. Then, at some point the melting rate increased dramatically, rapidly inundating much of the area. People fled, undoubtedly panicked, millions upon millions must have drowned, other millions died before they found a safe haven, still others fought and died over ownership of those safe havens; the survivors may have gone on to produce the remnant cultures we see today.
Mu, if it existed as the modern theory posits, would have existed there. Did it have all the technology attributed to it now? Who knows? They or their descendants would have settled Sumeria long before the Old Kingdom came to be in Egypt.
One thing we do know about the gods of the Egyptian Old Kingdom was that they were never thought of as real entities, but, as you mention, as symbolizing or representing a force in Nature or the Universe.
You are very correct: we do have much to learn regarding pre-historic times. But I fear, the prospect will be more difficult than it appears on the surface. We lost most of classical western civilization during the Great Islamic Onslaught (628-728 AD) under Mohammad and his Disciples when they destroyed everything they found which was not in the koran.
So what we find has to be, first recognized for what it is, then interpreted, rather than that something prove its existence from a written account. Then, that interpretation, to be accurate, must reflect the culture that created it. And therein lies the rub. The Egyptian Old Kingdom, lying some 5,000 years in the past, is so different, so alien to today’s mind set, that attempting to imagine what an individual thought in that culture about “life, the Universe. and everything” is nearly impossible.
How then are we to see, to recognize, to think about, something even older, something from 10,000 years prior to the Egyptian Old Kingdom?
The video below was made by a woman exploring in Rumania, I think. I don’t know if what she sees and finds is right, wrong, or just pareidolia, but it gives the sense of how does a person today think about a culture and the things made by a people so old that words fail.
Neanderthal Culture, Faces and the Carpathian Sphinx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI7IQQLqO6Y
Voyages Of The Pyrimid Builders
There are more pyramids in Mexico than all the rest of the world combined.
(I expect there was serious drying in the Gulf Of Mexico during the Ice Age too.)
I remember reading something interesting regarding Egypt and Mu, (which btw was located in the Pacific and was about 5K miles long by 3K miles high). In Upper Egypt the peoples believed they came from the West, (which they did from Atlantis via South America and Mu), while the folks in Lower Egypt believe they came from the east, (which they did through INDO-asia and Burma via Mu. Fascinating..
I will have to take a further look at the columns in Golbecki-Tepe to see if the pictograph carved on those columns bear any symbols that might be related to Mu, according to Churchyards book.
