Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - Horus Centre

civilizations, they were in truth very, very different. Even as Cayce suggests, one was the red
race (the Atlanteans), and the other the brown race (the Lemurians). The Nine say that many
Lemurians were from Ashan (the planet of the artists), and many of the Atlanteans were from
Altea (the planet of technology).
According to Churchward, there were ten distinct tribes in the Motherland itself. These tribes
were easily differentiated physically, and these physical tribal differences are still evident in the
various remnants of the tribes scattered throughout the Pacific. There were few variations in their
language, however, and these were only minor in character. A greater change is seen in their
glyphs or writings. Before the Tower of Babel incident, much of the planet spoke what is referred
to as the Universal language, a very musical tonal language, aspects of which can still be heard
in many southeast Asian languages. This is referred to in the Bible, Genesis 1:11, “Now the
whole earth had one language and few words.”
The channeled entity Ramtha was at one time in his past earthly incarnations, a Lemurian,
and speaks of being treated like an animal by the arrogant Atlantean warriors.
Relics that can be traced back as coming directly from Mu, the Motherland, are extremely
rare. Churchward says that he was singularly fortunate in finding two that were at least intimately
connected with Mu. Both are symbolic figures in bronze, made either in the Motherland or in one
of the ancient Uighur cities “before the eastern half of that great empire was destroyed by the
north running wave of the last Magnetic Cataclysm which was the ‘Biblical Flood.’”
The Flood destroyed all the countryside over which it ran, according to Churchward, the
people being drowned and the cities washed away or buried under the drift. Incorrectly he relates
the demise of Uighur to the Flood, rather than to the earlier incidence of the Ice Age:
“The Uighur Capital City today lies under fifty feet of boulders , gravel and sand. It is situated
in the Gobi Desert, which today has large areas of rock only, the soil and everything with it having
been washed away by the flood.”
Churchward’s greatest contribution to the study of Lemuria, besides making others
cognizant of its existence, was in the field of its symbology. Much of this symbology can, he
suggests, still be seen in use commonly today.
“I will first take the symbol, the Royal Escutcheon of Mu, the empire of the Sun—a sun with
eight rays. The particular design . . . given was found on the dress of a Kootenay Indian living in
British Columbia. The border of the dress of another Kootenay Indian was composed of a
continuation of one of the symbols of “Mu submerged.” The garment with the sun symbol was
black, the sun in pale yellow, the points of the rays in pale indigo blue and the intervening space
between the sun and the points of its rays a pale reddish pink.”
Such eight pointed sun symbols appear on various religious edifices, spread around the
world, and is still a major symbol in the secret societies who like to trace their origins to this early
period in modern man’s history.
Besides the already mentioned archetypal differences between Atlantis and Lemuria, there
was also the archetypal battle of religion versus science, or the priest versus the scientist.
In their religion, Lemuria did not worship the sun as might be assumed from the example of
symbology given above, though it may be taken as the forerunner of many other ‘sunworshipping’
civilizations. In portraying the sun, the Lemurians were actually paying homage to
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