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Light1111
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Hello to everyone!
I came across some information recently that I thought you all might find interesting. I’d like your thoughts on the matter.
Perhaps you have heard of the mythical lost island of Atlantis? I was familiar with this concept, though I’ve only just heard of another lost civilization, Lemuria or Mu. Atlantis was supposed to have been between North America and North Europe; Mu was supposed to have been between Asia and North America. Mu was significantly larger in size, spanning nearly the entire Pacific Ocean from coast to coast.
In researching the beliefs of the peoples who subscribe to the notion that these civilizations were indeed real, I came across the following. At one time, when all current continents as well as Atlantis and Mu existed, there was one religion on earth. All peoples simply worshiped God, and held certain beliefs regarding the origin of creation, etc. (Estimated time was 150,000 B.C.)
Once Atlantis and Lemuria went underwater, the remaining peoples divided up into 5 distinct religious groups, though each of the five remained based in the original one. According to what I read, all of today’s modern religions derive from one of these five:
Hindu
Egyptian
Incan
Mayan
Tibetan (At first I thought this referred to Buddhism, but no, it predates Buddhism; it is an ancient religion known as “Bon”)
The topic concluded by stating that one could trace all modern religions to one of these five. For the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions, we trace back to Egyptian. Indeed, once one starts looking at the various beliefs, they are at times identical. They did worship sun gods and so on, while the Judeo-Christian-Islamic peoples dropped such ideas, moving instead toward monotheism that did not hold up earth-based deities. But the creation story, for instance, is almost identical, in Egyptian tradition, as it is in the OT. Also the Egyptians recognized a figure named “Mises” instead of Moses, who had a similar life story.
Does anyone know the validity/scholarly basis to such claims? Is this in fact the case? Was the literature I was reviewing merely opinion, or backed by theology?
Just found it interesting and thought others might as well.
Peace!
Light1111
I came across some information recently that I thought you all might find interesting. I’d like your thoughts on the matter.
Perhaps you have heard of the mythical lost island of Atlantis? I was familiar with this concept, though I’ve only just heard of another lost civilization, Lemuria or Mu. Atlantis was supposed to have been between North America and North Europe; Mu was supposed to have been between Asia and North America. Mu was significantly larger in size, spanning nearly the entire Pacific Ocean from coast to coast.
In researching the beliefs of the peoples who subscribe to the notion that these civilizations were indeed real, I came across the following. At one time, when all current continents as well as Atlantis and Mu existed, there was one religion on earth. All peoples simply worshiped God, and held certain beliefs regarding the origin of creation, etc. (Estimated time was 150,000 B.C.)
Once Atlantis and Lemuria went underwater, the remaining peoples divided up into 5 distinct religious groups, though each of the five remained based in the original one. According to what I read, all of today’s modern religions derive from one of these five:
Hindu
Egyptian
Incan
Mayan
Tibetan (At first I thought this referred to Buddhism, but no, it predates Buddhism; it is an ancient religion known as “Bon”)
The topic concluded by stating that one could trace all modern religions to one of these five. For the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions, we trace back to Egyptian. Indeed, once one starts looking at the various beliefs, they are at times identical. They did worship sun gods and so on, while the Judeo-Christian-Islamic peoples dropped such ideas, moving instead toward monotheism that did not hold up earth-based deities. But the creation story, for instance, is almost identical, in Egyptian tradition, as it is in the OT. Also the Egyptians recognized a figure named “Mises” instead of Moses, who had a similar life story.
Does anyone know the validity/scholarly basis to such claims? Is this in fact the case? Was the literature I was reviewing merely opinion, or backed by theology?
Just found it interesting and thought others might as well.
Peace!
Light1111
