Identifying Pan, the Submerged Continent

Outline of map of Pan, the submerged continent

Outline of map of Pan superimposed on the Tharp Map

Outline Map showing the Names and Divisions of the Earth

Outline Map showing the Names and Divisions superimposed on the Tharp Map

Both Oahspe Maps superimposed, showing the earth changes from before 24,000 to about 9000 years ago

Contents :-

Atlantis

Lemuria

Kumari Kandam

Ta Rua — the Empire of the Sun

The Lost Continent of Mu

Churchward's Belief, and Oahspe

The Oahspe 'History of the Flood'

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish

Studying the Ocean Floor for a Sign

List of Maps :-

Outline of map of Pan (above)

Outline of map of Pan superimposed on the Tharp Map(above)

Outline Map showing the Names and Divisions of the Earth (above)

Outline Map showing the Names and Divisions superimposed on the Tharp Map (above)

Both Oahspe Maps superimposed

Oceanus - the 'World Ocean'

Kumari Kandam

Churchward's Mu

Geographical position of Mu

Churchward's Mu and Oahspe's Pan superimposed

Pacific Islands which would fit into the continent of Pan

Map showing a of the eastern side of Pan and Easter Island

Western Interior Seaway

Colored map of Pan

Location of Shem, Jaffeth and Ham, also Guatama (America) and Yista (Japan)

World Ocean Floor by Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp

The Tharp map with Pan shown

Pan's location on the Pacific Plate

The world's tectonic plates

The world's tectonic plates with Pan shown

Ring of Fire with Pan shown

Trenches of the Pacific Plate

The Oahspe map of Pan scaled up and centered as best as possible over the Pacific Plate

Japan's tectonic plates and the triple junction of five volcanic arcs

Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Okinawa, Yonaguni and the Ryukyu trench.

Age of oceanic crust

Age of oceanic crust map with Pan superimposed

Detail of Micronesia, Pacific Islands and Pan

Ancients of Americas with compressed foreheads, Plate 15 and 16 of Oahspe.
Rulers often wore a bird deity headress, and were depicted on pre-classical Mesoamerican monuments dancing in bird regalia.
In the Classical period (250-900 AD), the bird deity headress fell from fashion

Nakbe Stela depicting a scene with two individuals standing face to face and dressed in costumes of a very early Mayan style. One figure is pointing upwards with an index finger to a disembodied head. The scene has been interpreted as a representation from the Popol Vuh. The two figures appear to portray the supernatural twins Hun-Apu and Ixbalanque, with Ixbalanque pointing towards his father’s severed head indicating his connection to a royal lineage.

Nakbe is one of the largest early Maya archaeological sites, rivaled by El Mirador. Nakbe is located in Guatemala. Excavations at Nakbe suggest that habitation began during the Early Formative period (circa 1400 BC) and continued to be a large site until its collapse during the Terminal Formative period (100-200 BC). The fall of Nakbe and El Mirador took place at roughly the same time.
Archaeologists found a middle Preclassic [600 BC] ceramic shard with a portion of an incised profile that displays the sloping forehead characteristic of later Maya elite society. This was a frontal cranial deformation that resulted from binding the head in infancy.

Reconstructed structure in El Mirador

Nakbe had established monumental architecture as early as the 8th century BC, with some platforms 59 ft high. Around 1200 BC villages were leveled and filled to serve as platform foundations for large new buildings, indicating that the platform construction and erection of monumental architecture were planned, simultaneous events. Buildings at Nakbe divided into three groups. Two of these groups, called East and West, were constructed during the formative periods and the third group, called Codex, was constructed during the reoccupation of the site in the late classic period. The most impressive and largest of the buildings at Nakbe is a pyramid. It is flanked by two large stucco masks and topped with three triadic style roofed structures. Causeways were also built to connect all these buildings. The Kan Causeway at Nakbe was 13 ft above ground level. One causeway was also built that connected Nakbe with El Mirador and later in the Late Classic Maya period Nakbe was connected to the Maya center of Calakmul.

Map of Mesoamerica During the Classic Period

Excavations recovered 23 stone tools that were used to cut the limestone blocks. These tools consisted of bifacial picks and axes, hammerstones, and flake cores that were made of chert. They made long handled picks which they used to cut the limestone from the bedrock. Then they used the stone axes to cut and form the block. Chert was an effective and durable stone to use for the cutting of limestone and other materials.

Nakbe vase

While at least some remains have been found from nearly every period of Maya society at Nakbe, the site was never a major center after the beginning of the late Preclassic period. The last construction phases of the largest pyramids at Nakbe date to the beginning of this period. Late Preclassic artifacts have proved sparse throughout the site of Nakbe, perhaps because the settlement was rapidly eclipsed by the rise of El Mirador. Nakbe remained virtually abandoned for a thousand years, until some late Classic Maya reoccupied the site. These people established small communities in and around the ruins and left some fine examples of Classic ceramics, but they built no monuments of their own.

Atlantis

Plato, Timaeus

The whole country was said by him [Solon] to be very lofty and precipitous on the side of the sea, but the country immediately about and surrounding the city was a level plain, itself surrounded by mountains which descended towards the sea ...
The surrounding mountains were celebrated for their number and size and beauty, far beyond any which still exist

Plato, Critias

Oceanus - the 'World Ocean'

For the Greeks of Solon's time the Atlantic Ocean was a body of water that completely surrounded the world.

For this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent.

Plato, Timaeus

Poseidon and Cleito has five pairs of male children. "And the eldest, who was the first king, he named Atlas, and after him the whole island and the ocean were called Atlantis.

Plato, Critias

In Plato’s day Libya was the entire North African continent west of Egypt (comparable to Europe). Asia was considered to stretch between Egypt in the west, the Caucuses in the north, Arabia in the south, and India in the east. Asia of Plato’s day might be compared to N America. This suggests the former existence of an almighty landmass of gigantic proportions, too big to fit in the Atlantic Ocean.
It is believed that Plato invented the story in order to convey a political and moral point about aggression violence and greed. It would seem that to do this he merged tales of Minoans, and Bronze age Mediterranean island warriors like that of Troy with a pre-existing collective memory of a worldwide deluge that detroyed an ancient civilization as a result of losing their virtue. Both Homer's account of the Trojan war and Plato's (or Solon's) description of Atlantis mention a fleet of 1,200 ships and the use of chariots and bronze weapons, and have the Greeks hold back the onslaught, freeing the region from terror.

A comprehensive discussion of the Atlantis hypothesis is congressman Ignatius Donnelly's 'Atlantis: the Antediluvian World', first published in 1882.
You can read or download the whole book at this link:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ataw303.htm

In 1939 Edgar Casey predicted that proof of Atlantis would be found off the coast of Bimini in 1968. 29 years later as propheciesed an underwater elevated roadway or wide wall 2000 ft long, with one end curving in a J-shape aligned in precise geometric patterns. The Bimini road appears to be manmade, and could have existed above land before the ice age ended. The myth of Atlantis serves also to spark our yearning for Utopia, even a heaven on earth.

Lemuria

Kumari Kandam

Ta Rua — the Empire of the Sun

“Born were noises bursting in the air, explosions from volcanoes that blew the earth to pieces. Ta Rua disintegrated and sank lower and lower into the eddying sea while the four winds howled from all directions. The earth quaked and quivered, shook and shivered, as volcanic explosions rent Ta Rua asunder. The swirling shifting ocean climbed the mountains, sucked in and swallowed up life as it climbed higher and higher above the homes of the inhabitants.”

This same source, while substituting 'Ta Rua' for Mu, uses Churchward's claims as fact, saying "references to Ta Rua can be found in Mayan writings housed in the British museum, a translation reads; 'the country of the hills of earth--the Land of Mu was sacrificed. Twice up-heaved, it disappeared during the night, having been constantly shaken by the forces of the underneath. At last the surface gave way and the 10 Countries or Tribes were torn asunder and scattered.'
[It turns out that Mayan writing is the Troano Manuscript, which had been mistranslated.]
Before disappearing into the sea, the legendary continent of Ta Rua is believed to have covered an area that would include present day Hawaii, New Zealand, Tahiti, Samoa, and Easter Island. Various expressions of the pre-Christian religion known as Tahunaism (not Huna) (thought to be a remnant of the spiritual tradition of Ta Rua) can be found scattered throughout these and other Pacific islands."

Carving of the feathered serpent at Xochicalo’s Temple of Quetzalcóat

"Erected as a monument to the Motherland of Man, the Land to the West, to commemorate her memory and her destruction with all mankind thereon.

This report seems to come from Churchward's 'The Lost Continent of Mu', in which he calls Mu the 'Empire of the Sun', and says: "The empire received the name "Empire of the Sun. All followed the same religion, a worship of the Deity through symbols."
and
"The Uxmal temple has a west facing inscription which reads:
Dedicated to the lands of the west, whence we came'."
also
"Man first came into being in Mu, then travelled west from India to Egypt."

Oahspe tells us Pan was west of America, and was the motherland from where its chosen survivors brought us civilization.

[Mexico’s Xochicalco archaeological site is in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, south of Mexico City. Xochicalco (meaning, “in the place of the house of flowers”) was occupied beginning around 200 B.C., and reached its apex architecturally between A.D. 700 and 1000, after the fall of Teotihuacán. Numerous stone outer buildings spread out on terraces at the foot of the ceremonial pyramid, from palaces, step-style pyramids, ball courts, a circular set of altars, and an underground observatory.]

Photograph taken by a Mayan scholar at an unknown remote location deep in the jungles of the Yucatan. It is rumored that the after the Frieze was discovered it was kept in the Berlin Museum until it was destroyed in a bombing.

There are similarities of the Popol Vuh to the Christian bible. Like the story of Noah and the ark myth, a flood was brought about by the heart of Heaven; a great flood was formed which fell on the heads of the wooden creatures. As the Judaic prophets sometimes lost their way, so did the Mayans. At the crossroads they were overcome. One of the four roads was red, another black, another white, and another yellow. And the black road said to them: I am the one you must take because I am the way of the Lord - word of Hun Came. Like the tower of Babel myth, the speech of the tribes changed; their tongues became different. They could no longer understand each other clearly after arriving at Tulan. In Oahspe the tower of Babel myth corresponds to the cycle of Osiris, of about 10,350 BC, in association with the Hindu lord Hirto, when the Yi-ha language became confounded and was replaced by Vede.

Izapa Stela 5, found in the region of Chiapas along the Guatemalan border, dated 300-100 BCE, is known as the "Tree of Life" stone. Mainstream Mesoamerican researchers indentify the central image as a Mesoamerican world tree, connecting the sky above and the water or underworld below. Linda Schele proposes that the stela records a creation myth, with barely-formed humans emerging from a hole drilled into the tree's left side. The associated seated figures are completing these humans in various ways. Julia Guernsey Kappelman suggests the seated figures are Izapa elites conducting ritual activities in a "quasi-historical scene", which is placed in the context of the 'symbolic landscape of creation'.
Others have interpreted the imagery to support theories of an African origin, citing what appears to be a boat at the bottom of the scene. This is done in support of a two-race Mayan-Olmec theory of Mesoamerica, one of African origin and the other of Middle Eastern or Asiatic origins.

Izapa Stela 5. In the center of the boat is a tree with seven braches and twelve roots. Landa said "Some old men of Yucatan say that they heard from their ancestors that this country was peopled by a certain race who came from the east, who God delivered by opening 12 roads".

The Lost Continent of Mu

William Niven (1850-1937), mineralogist and archaeologist, came to the United States in 1879 and worked as a mineralogist. In the early 1890s his attention turned to the mineralogical exploration of Mexico. In 1911 Niven discovered ancient ruins buried beneath volcanic ash near Azcapotzalco just north of Mexico City. He established a private museum in Mexico City with more than 20,000 exhibits.
He recovered the first in a series of unusual stone (andesite) tablets bearing pictographs from his digs at San Miguel Amantla, Azcapotzalco, and elsewhere in the Valley of Mexico in 1921. This discovery eventually totaled more than 2,600 tablets with markings on them that Niven did not recognize. All the tablets found had very similar markings and symbols. They were eventually lost during the latter part of Niven's life, during their attempted shipment from Mexico to the US. The only remaining evidence, of which the location is known, are the rubbings that were taken from the actual tablets.

The occult writer, patented inventor and engineer Colonel James Churchward (1851-1936) discussed Mu with Augustus LePlongeon in the 1890s.
He interpreted Niven's tablets, and believed that the symbols and markings found on the tablets had roots in the ancient culture of Mu. This civilization was said to be very technologically advanced but was destroyed due to natural disaster. The people that escaped destruction and migrated to other parts of the world spreading their culture and belief system. In 1926, at the age of 75, he published 'The Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Man'.

According to Churchward, Mu "extended from somewhere north of Hawaii to the south as far as the Fijis and Easter Island." He claimed the civilization of Mu, the home to the Naacals, flourished 50,000 BK, was technologically more advanced than ours, and the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt and the Mayas were merely the decayed remnants of its colonies.
Churchward claimed to have gained his knowledge of Mu after befriending an Indian priest, who taught him to read an ancient dead language (spoken by only three people in all of India). The priest disclosed the existence of several ancient tablets written by the Naacals, which Churchward gained access to. But they were fragments of a larger text, so Churchward found further information in the records of other ancient peoples.
Churchward began his book with his claim that, “All matter of science in this work are based on translations of two sets of ancient tablets,” which he and a colleague were the only ones who knew how to translate.
In his attempt to create a vivid description of an ancient yet lost civilization capable of explaining the greatness of the “white” race, Churchward connects several civilizations. He includes Egypt, Greece, Central America, India, Burma and others, as well as Easter Island. These are all cultures that are known for their megalithic art and architecture and have been a topic of interest for scholars for centuries.
Churchward claims that the origin of these ancient peoples is the lost continent of Mu.
Symbols from throughout the world are used as proof of this lost continent. There is a common theme of birds, the relation of the Earth and the sky and especially the Sun. Churchward claimed the king of Mu was Ra and he relates this to the Egyptian god Ra, and the Rapanui word for Sun, ra’a. These symbols of the Sun which, according to Churchward, prove the existence of Mu, are also found in “Egypt, Babylonia, Peru and all ancient lands and countries – it was a universal symbol.”
Churchward accredited all megalithic art in Polynesia to the people of Mu. Churchward and Graham Hancock both date this cataclysm to have occurred around 10,000 BC. However, all scientific dating methods indicate that humans did not inhabit Easter Island until 300 CE or later.
Plate Tectonics have left no scientific basis for geologically recent lost continents such as Mu, though as we shall see, Plate Tectonics has its own scientific problems.

Churchward's book 'Sacred Symbols of Mu' is on-line. You can read or download the whole book at this link:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ataw303.htm

The following are notes from ‘The Lost Continent of Mu’.

In the Codex Cortesianus it said the dominant race was white, there were also yellow, brown and black races.
Page 48 - The dominant race in the land of Mu was a white race, exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skins, large, soft, dark eyes and straight black hair. Besides this white race, there were other .races, people with yellow, brown and black skins. They did not dominate.
Page 62 - One of the most startling discoveries is that the natives of the Polynesian groups of South Sea Islands are a white race.

On Page 81 Churchward says: Xochicalo pyramid - This pyramid is situated 60 miles southwest of Mexico City, and antedates all of the Egyptian pyramids by thousands of years.

The yet to be translated intricately carved glyphs on a doorway lintel of the Akab-Dzib

Page 84 Akab-Dzib. — In the city of Chichen Itza, there is a slab which forms the lintel of the door of the inner chamber at the southern end of the building called Akab-Dzib. Here we have "the awful, the tenebrous record." This slab is a description of The Lands of the West being shaken to their foundations by earthquakes and then engulfed.
[Akab Dzib means, in Maya, "The House of Mysterious Writing." It was the home of the administrator of Chichén Itzá. The southern end of the building has one entrance. The door opens into a small chamber and on the opposite wall is another doorway, above which on the lintel are intricately carved glyphs—the “mysterious” or “obscure” writing that gives the building its name today. Under the lintel in the door jamb is another carved panel of a seated figure surrounded by more glyphs.]

Geographical position of Mu

Naturally formed prismatic basalt laid in stacks to form the 260-foot long north wall of Nandauwas.

Walls up to 25 feet high surround the royal tomb compound of Nandauwas. The centre enclosure contains the islet's largest crypt, flanked by additional tombs to the north and south.

Churchward posited that the site of Nan Modal, on Pohnpei Island in Micronesia, was one of the seven cities of ancient Mu / Lemuria. The cyclopean ruins of Nan Modal, at one time a ceremonial centre covering 11 square miles, consist of around 90 small artificial islands built up out of a lagoon, and interlinked by a network of tidal canals. These islands contain house foundations, sea walls, tunnels and burial vaults, all constructed entirely from prismatic basalt columns stacked crisscross like log cabins. These rocks weigh several tons on average, with the largest weighing 25 tons.
According to wikipedia the name Nan Madol means "spaces between" and is a reference to the canals that criss-cross the ruins. Nan Madol was the ceremonial and political seat of the Saudeleur dynasty until about AD 1500. Carbon dating indicates that the construction of Nan Madol began around AD 1200, while excavations show that the area may have been occupied as early as 200 BC. Some probable quarry sites around the island have been identified, but the exact origin of the stones of Nan Madol is yet undetermined. The stone would have been transported some distance to the site, as no quarries have been found nearby. A clue to how this feat was achieved are a trail of dropped stones between the island and the quarries, which would suggest that the stones were transported by raft.

Aerial view of Nandauwas shows the outer seawall facing the Pacific Ocean. Karian appears to the upper right.

Madol Powe, the mortuary sector, contains 58 islets in the northeastern area of Nan Madol. Most islets were once occupied by the dwellings of priests. Some islets served special purpose, like food preparation on Usennamw, canoe construction on Dapahu, and coconut oil preparation on Peinering. High walls surrounding tombs are located on Peinkitel, Karian, and Lemenkou, but the crowning achievement is the royal mortuary islet of Nandauwas, where walls of 18 to 25 feet high surround a central tomb enclosure within the main courtyard.

Portal into the mortuary enclosure of Nandauwas

Second entryway in Nandauwas leading to the inner courtyard and central tomb, where the remains of the deceased saudeleur were interred.

According to Pohnpeian legend, the Saudeleur Dynasty began with the arrival of the two brothers Olisihpa and Olosohpa, who voyaged into Pohnpei seeking a place to build an altar so that they could worship Nahnisohn Sahpw, the god of agriculture. The last Saudeleur was conquered by Isokelekel. According to the legend, Isokelekel was born of the Thunder god and a human female. He instituted the nahnmwarki title system that persists on Pohnpei to this day. Nan Madol had been abandoned by the time the first Europeans arrived, early in the 19th century.

http://www.janeresture.com/micronesia_madol/

A depiction of the Tinian latte stone colonnades.

Latte stones

Page 96 - About 30 miles from Hilo (Hawaii) there is a great ruin on a hill called Kukii. There are no stones on this hill except those which have been carried there. "The summit was leveled and squared, and the building laid out according to the cardinal points and the floor paved. Two square blocks of stone in an upright position, about 15 or 16 feet apart, range exactly east and west. "The upper part of the hill was terraced, and the terraces had been faced with hewn stone. The stones were perfect squares, the smallest three feet in diamenter., while others were larger. Every stone was faced and polished on all sides, so that they could perfectly fit together. There is still about 30 feet of facing left on the lower terrace partly in position. On the western side there was a stairway running from the base to the top of the hill, a height of nearly 300 ft. On the Kona side is another ruin.

Churchward's Mu and Oahspe's Pan superimposed

"To form an ice cap around the Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere down to the 40th Parallel, of a thickness of 20,000 feet, would require more water than now exists in the Artic Ocean, North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. Where did the water come from? and where has it gone to since? The water which formed the Northern Ice Cap could not have come from the the South, because the South Pole was imitating her northern sister by dressing herself also up in an equally imposing ice cap. Between the two, there was more water used in forming these two lumps of ice than now exists on the face of the earth!"[Cosmic Forces of Mu]
"The earth has been subjected to two forms of cataclysms, arising from two distinct causes. First, the volcanic cataclysm arising from volcanic workings. These cataclysms affect local areas only. Second, the magnetic cataclysm, caused by a lurch of the earth going back into magnetic balance. A magnetic cataclysm results from the earth getting out of magnetic balance. The earth is out of magnetic balance when her pole gets drawn towards the sun more than 23 1/2 degrees from its mean position. When the pole has been drawn more than 23 1/2 degrees from mean, the earth's gyroscopical force carries it back at too great a velocity, which causes a displacement of the earth's surface waters. During the early part of the earth's history, magnetic cataclysms were of frequent occurence, as shown by various rock formations. They continued down to the end of the Tertiary Era, when the earth's crust had been so thickened and compacted that the earth went into the final magnetic balance."
"The Bible relates that the waters of the 'Flood' rose 26 feet and covered the mountains. In Psalms there is a reference 'before the mountains were raised.' Many of the Central Asiatic tribes date their time from the raising of the Himalayas and mountains of Central Asia. The Zulus claim that they came to South Africa from the north, as their country in the north was ruined by the raising of the mountains." [The Children Of Mu]
"Gas belts could not form until after the rock above was too thick to raise and puncture. This occured about 12,500 to 13,000 years ago, so that mountains are of camparatively recent origin."
"Nearly the entire continent of Mu fell into the Pacific Ocean around 10,000 B.C. After the sinking of the Motherland Mu, all civilizations throughout the world either degenerated or came to a standstill, not only Egypt, but all others, including India."
"The ancient civilization of Burma was reportedly wiped out about 12,000 years ago, during the forging of various gas belts, and the raising of mountains."
"The various phenomena which are shown throughout the Valley of Mexico today demonstrate without the possibility of controversy that the mountain ranges in North America are not over 11,500 years old, if as much." [The Children of Mu]
Page 131 - In the Capital Hill, Smyrna, Asia Minor, 500 feet above the level of the sea, are to be seen the remains of three prehistoric civilizations, one above the other, with a srtratum of sand, gravel and covering each civilization. The civilizations are not lying horizontally, but at an angle of 45 deg. Were it not for the fact that the civilizations are at an angle, following the angle of the mountain, our scientists might assert that they were built on top of the hill and had not been raised. Their angle, however, proves beyond all controversy that they existed before the mountains were raised. What are the ages of these civilizations?
Page 131 - Twenty-nine miles north of Mexico City, Niven has discovered three civilizations, buried one beneath the other, with strata of sand, gravel and boulders between them. These cities are above 1000 ft above Sea Level with mountains ranging from 5000-15000 ft altitude interveneing between them and the sea. I have traced the boulders to a formation on the west coast of Mexico, and the lowest mountain between the cities and the source of the boulders is 5000 ft in height.
These cities must have been built before the the mountain were raised, as is shown by tablets coming from them.
When Tiahuanaco was built it was just above sea level. Now it is 15,000 ft above sea level.
Niven’s buried cities have a layer of ash that covers the city. The city is on a plain surrounded by mountains many miles distant 7,400 ft above sea level.
30 ft below ground geological
It is known that deposits of boulders, gravel and sand are the works of tidal waves from the ocean. No tidal waves could pass over the mountains to 7,000 ft above sea level.
The deposits prove that at the time these were made the land was only a few feet above sea level.
During that time these cities were in existence there were no mountain ranges between Mexico City and the oceans and the plateau of Mexico City had not been raised to 7,400 ft above sea level.
Mountain ranges were formed by gas belts. At the end of the Pliocene [1.6 million years ago], the earth went into final magnetic balance. Up to the beginning of the Pleistocene no mountains existed. Cities antedate the Pleistocene and are of the Tertiary era. According to geological calculation 200,000 years old. He gives 50,000. The boulders originated on the pacific coast of Mexico.

Up to the time of Mu's submersion all symbols retained their original meanings. From the time of Mu's destruction I must pass over about 5,000 or 6,000 years. Those were years when seemingly no history was written except a few scraps in India and Egypt.
During this time mankind apparently was reviving and repeopling the earth, after its almost total destruction by the submersion of Mu and other lands and the subsequent formation of gas belts and mountains.

Map showing which Pacific Islands would fit into the continent of Pan. Note how the Hawaiian Islands correspond to Pans eastern mountains, how Japan is a remnant of the mainland, and how the Pacific Islands which have ancient ruins fit into Pan

In ‘The Volcanoes of the Pacific’ [1898] Coleman Phillips says:
The Langiis in Tongatabu must have been built cœval with the ruins we find at Stonehenge, Brittany, Central America, and other places. Mr A. W. Mackay kindly gave me two photographs of the trinolith there, which I lay before the meeting. I have always considered the stone images of Easter Island and the trinolith at Tonga came from almost the one and the same people, existing at the time of the pyramid-building age, four to five thousand years ago—a gentle, unwarlike, artistic race. “Viti” or “fiji” in Japanese means “a chain of hills”; Mount Fuji is its sacred mountain, I think. The ruins at Ponape and Espiritu Santo, in the New Hebrides—and I think some will be found also in New Caledonia—may have dated from the same time, or they may be of a later construction.
We find ruins at Tonga, Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides), Ponape, the Carolines, I think New Caledonia, Easter Island, and I am not certain whether there are not traces of the mound-builders to be met with in the Sandwich Group and Tahiti. It may have been that the Aztecs and Toltecs of Central America and the highly civilised ancient Peruvians sent out their colonising galleys westward into the Pacific four or five thousand year ago, and it is the ruins left by these colonies we find to-day.
Neither the ruins at Ponape nor the Langiis at Tongatabu show much alteration in land-levels, so that those that support the theory of a great sunken continent in the Pacific will have to account for this absence of alteration during the past four to five thousand years.
The whole of the central and eastern islands of the Pacific appear to me to be purely volcanic, for even what we name the “coral islands” are built up by the coral polyp from a volcanic base. What we call “atolls” are only the tops of extinct craters or volcanic hills, subsiding from the result of previous volcanic action.

Map showing a detail of the eastern side of Pan and Easter Island (shown on the far right. To see it move the page with the horizonal slider at the bottom) and the Tonga trench. Churchward quoted Darwin as saying "the South Sea Islands were the tops of a submerged continent or land bridge that stretched along the floor of the Pacific.

Churchward's Belief, and Oahspe

“The Algonkin Indians have a tradition as told by John Ballou in his Oahspe, about the flood, and the submersion of Mu – called Pan. As related in this book, the tradition is actually two traditions in one.
138 ships, the vortex of the earth closed from the extreme, and lo, the earth was broken … rise no more”

Also:
"Most Guataman inscriptions commemorate the motherland of man and its destruction."

On Page 172 Chapter IX Symbols Vignettes, Tableaux and Diagrams Churchward says:
"The Cosmogonic Diagram of the land of Mu was the first book written by man.
I have traced this diagram back to more than 35,000 years ago."

Somewhere else in the book he says:
“Cosmic diagram of the land of Mu, copied by the Mayas of the Yucatan, Nagas (Mayas) of India, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians and pueblo Indians of North America. The Mayas retained its simplicity."

The symbol he refers to is shown left. Compare it to the one in the bottom Left hand corner of the diagram below.
It is one of Oahspe's sacred symbols.
The symbol is used by the great grandson of Churchward in his My-Mu.com website.
It is shown in his youtube video 'Ancient Relics of Mu', in which he admits that Churchward's vases seem to be fraudulent.

Cosmogonic Diagram of Mu. To its right is a sign from the Mayan 'Nunnery Quadrangle' at Uxmal

Plate 83 Bible of the Mound Builders. Read from left to right, beginning from the top

Western Interior Seaway during the mid-Cretaceous, about 100 million years ago

Western Interior Seaway with the American part of the Pan map roughly superimposed. The red shape has not been altered, only rotated and scaled to fit the curvature of the background map due to its type of projection.

Mound Builder's Calendar Stone Found in the Ouachita River. The symbols for the 13 moons are given in the top divisions, and the 12 zodiac symbols are below them.

The stone [shown right] is 16 inches long and 13 inches across at its widest part. "It is a sandstone boulder such as found in shale near Hot Springs. In the center is a slightly raised ring 7¼ inches in diameter divided into thirteen equal divisions. On each division is inscribed a figure. Superimposed on this circle is another which is much higher. This, I presume to be meant for a picture of the Sun. Above this main figure is engraved a caption, the Moon in its various phases during a calendar month.
This tells us the meaning of what is below, namely: the circle with the thirteen divisions represents thirteen calendar months, making one year. The thirteen months, forming a circle, tell us that the year is completed, the beginning and the end. Over the caption is shown the All Seeing Eye looking down from heaven above. This is an ancient symbol dating back to the earliest writings, and universally found. Outside of the calendar proper, to the edge of the stone, various animals are shown, including Man.

[In England near Stonehenge is a Serpent Mound said to be an exact duplication of the American Serpent Mound at Peebles, Ohio.]

Symbols which Churchward asserts are of the Mound Builders, recording 'Four Great Primary Forces', and others are found among the writings of all ancient peoples.

Churchward seems to ignore a lot of Oahspe's revelation. For example, when discussing the Exodus he gives a different explanation.
"When they arrived at the Sea of Reeds a submarine earthquake occurred in the Mediterranean Sea off the mouth of the Nile which drew off the water, leaving the Sea of Reeds dry--the Israelites passed over, the Egyptian army followed. During its passage the returning cataclysmic wave rolled in over the Sea of Reeds overwhelming the Egyptians. A mistranslation evidently occurs in the Bible. The Sea of Reeds was mistaken for the Red Sea. The Red Sea at the point where it is stated the Israelites crossed lies 200 miles from Goshen."

An engraved conch shell gorget from a mound in Tennessee shown in Wikipedia

Churchward is influenced by the Vedas, quoting:
AUM, the nameless, is figured as a trinity by the equilateral triangle.
Book of Manu, Sloka 77. "The monosyllable A U M means earth, sky and heaven."
Manava dharma Sastra . Book 2. Sloka 74. "In the beginning the Infinite only existed called Aditi. In this Infinite dwelt A U M

Only the supreme spirit, the seven headed serpent, moved within the abyss of darkness. Originally the universe was only a soul. Everything was without life, calm, silent, soundless void, and darkness was the immensity of space. Desire came and He created worlds …
Book 1, sloka 10 : "The visible universe in the beginning was only darkness."
Book 1, sloka 9 : "He first produced the waters and in them deposited an egg."
Book 1 , Sloka 8 : "This germ became an egg"
Rig Veda, sec. 3, 1. 2, v. 4, pp.- (2000-2500 BC) : "In this egg was reproduced the intellect of the Supreme Being under the form of Buddha, through whose union with the goddess Maya, the good mother of all gods and man. (This corresponds with Adam and Eve 1700 years later) Other than him nothing existed; darkness there was."

Yucatan—Nahuatl: "The particles of atmosphere on being hit by the divine arrows became animated. Heat, which determines the movement of matter, was developed in it."

[compare this to the Oahspe line below from the Book of Cosmogony and Prophecy Ch1:34-5:]

As the lines of vortexya are in currents from the outer toward the interior, so do the solutions of corpor take the shape of needles, in the master, pointing toward the center, which condition of things is called LIGHT; and when these needles approach the center, or even the photosphere, the actinic force thereof is called HEAT.

Aitareya-A'ram-'ya, slokas 4 to 8 : "Originally this universe was only a soul, nothing active or inactive existed. The thought came to Him, 'I wish to create worlds, 'and so he created the worlds, the light, the mortal beings, the atmosphere that contains the light, the earth that is perishable, and the lower depths, that of the waters."
Page 4: He who measures out the light in the air"

In 'The Golden Embryo Hymn' (Rig Veda Book 10 Hymn 121) it says:
5) By him the heavens are strong and the earth is steadfast, by him light's realm and sky-vault are supported. By him the regions in mid air were measured. What God shall we adore with our oblation?

Giles B Stebbins (of the 1880's Freethinkers Association, who included Materialists, Spiritualists, Free Religionists, and all who endorsed the Nine Demands of Liberalism), in 'Chapters from the Bible of the Ages' says:
" ... whom the highest heaven was established — He who measures out the light in the air. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

In 'Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx' by Augustus Le Plongeon on Page 94 he says:
"According to Nahuatl cosmogony, when Omeyocax, the Creator, who dwelt in himself, thought that the time had come when all things should be created, he arose, and from one of his hands, resplendent with light, he darted four arrows, which struck and put in motion four molecules, origin of the four elements that floated in space. These molecules, on being hit by the divine arrows, became animated. Heat, which determined movement in matter, was developed in them. Then appeared the first rays of the rising sun, which brough life and joy throughout nature."

The Oahspe 'History of the Flood'

Colored map of Pan highlighting rivers and mountains.

The Lords’ First Book Ch. I, cotemporaneous with the Book Of Aph

Chapter II
8. And when my work was in readiness I raised up my hand, as a surgeon that would lop off a diseased limb, and I cleft asunder the continent of Pan and sunk it beneath the waters.
10. I said unto the guardian angels: In the lands whither I will take my people, let them build mounds and walled cities, with ladders to enter, after the manner of the ancients. In all the divisions of the earth, alike and like shall they build.
11. For in the time of kosmon their relics shall be testimony that the I'hin forerun the I'huan, the copper-colored, race in all the world.
12. So also will I, the Lord, provide in the kosmon era to discover the sunken land of Whaga (Pan), that mortals may comprehend the magnitude of the work of the Lord.
13. In those days the I'hins dwelt not alone, but in cities and villages; and they were clothed. And they tilled the ground and brought forth grains and seeds good to eat; and flax and hemp, from which to make cloth for covering the body. And their food was of every herb and root, and grain and seed, and fruit that cometh of the earth; but they ate not flesh nor fish, nor of anything that breathed the breath of life.
19. In three thousand years thereafter, behold, there were thousands of cities and hundred of thousands of inhabitants who had spread abroad over the lands of the earth.
20. And they had built ships and sailed abroad on the seas, and inhabited the islands thereof, north and south and east and west.

Book of Aph Ch. III, being the heavenly records of Aph as pertaining to the submersion of the continent of Whaga ( afterward called Pan )

14. And let thy [Aph's] consorts extend in a line from thy place down to the earth, for this shall be the delivery of them whom I shall cut off.
16. Quickly, now, the ships of fire formed in line, extending from my [Aph's] place down to hada, where rested Neph and his Lords of the earth, whose hosts extended to all the divisions of land and water.
17. And in the line of the etherean ships were stationed the plateaux of rank; and the hosts of Gods and Goddesses took their places according to the rank of wisdom, power and love manifested in the etherean departments whence they came, with the two Orian Chiefs at either extremity.
18. And I divided the line into sections, each with two hundred and fifty ships, and there were one thousand sections. And every ship was contracted ten thousand fold, which was the force required to break the crust of the earth and sink a continent.

Chapter VI
1. And now Aph, Son of Jehovih, said: When the etherean hosts were arranged in due order, I called out to Thee, O Jehovih, saying: In Thy Strength and Wisdom, O Father, join Thou the heavens above and the earth below!
2. And the end of the etherean column that extended to Chinvat, on the border of the vortex of the earth, was made fast by the pressure of Thy wide heavens.
3. Again I said: In Thy Strength and Wisdom, O Jehovih, join Thou the heavens above with the earth below! 4. And the end of the etherean column that extended down to the earth was made fast around the borders of Whaga, by the sea and the high mountains on the north.
5. Again I said: O Jehovih, deliver Thou the earth from evil, for Thy glory, forever!
6. And the vortex of the earth closed in from the extreme, and lo, the earth was broken! A mighty continent was cut loose from its fastenings, and the fires of the earth came forth in flames and clouds with loud roaring. And the land rocked to and fro like a ship at sea.
7. Again I said: O Jehovih, deliver Thou Thy heavens, which are bound as with a chain, to a rotten carcass.
8. And again the vortex of the earth closed in about on all sides, and by the pressure, the land sank down beneath the water, to rise no more.

Chapter VII
4. And when I came to the ships in which the I'hins were escaped, Thy voice, O Jehovih, came to me, saying: Bend thou the currents of the winds of heaven, O My Son; and shape the ships that they shall fall into groups; and thou shalt divide the groups, making four groups in all. And thou shalt drive the groups of ships before the winds of heaven, and bring them into the four different lands of the earth, according to its previous history and adaptation.
5. For in all countries shall My chosen begin the laying down of the foundation of My everlasting kingdom, and they shall never more be destroyed by the people of darkness, neither of earth or heaven.

7. I said: By Thy light, Jehovih, I desire two ships to go to the north land, which was not sunken, for they shall be a testimony in time to come.

Chapter VIII
1.Thou hast stretched a line beyond the moon, and by thy spoken word crushed in the side of the great earth, as if it were nothing.

Putting a picture together from Oahspe Information
The 'Synopsis Of Sixteen Cycles' passages quoted above tell of great cities, rich valleys, temples and the great capital of Penj. Indeed Pan was a great empire, as was Plato's Atlantis.
The 'Lords’ First Book' says the continent of Pan was surrounded on all sides by etherean ships of fire that 'cut loose the foundations of the earth' at the borders of the ocean and the mountains of Gan.
Zha'Pan (Zha'pahn), or Japan (a name signifying relic of Pan) lay to the north, where the land was cleaved in twain.
The heavenly records of Aph reveal that the etherean ships formed a line from beyond the moon, on the border of the vortex of the earth, down to the borders of the land mass of Pan. The line was comprised of:

1,000 sections
250 ships each section
every ship was contracted 10,000 fold - the force required to break the crust of the earth and sink a continent
1,000 × 250 = 250,000 ships

Given that the average distance between Chinvat and the earth's surface is about 250,000 miles, that would make the size of a ship one mile high when compressed 10,000 fold, or 10,000 miles high when normal.
The line was a column, of diameter comparable to the borders of Pan, made fast at each end by the pressure of the heavens (at Chinvat above), and the continent (at the earth below).
It would seem that as the 250,000 contracted ships decompressed (acting like a line of hydraulic jacks), the pressure between the outer extreme of the earth's vortex and the continent caused the vortex of the earth to close in from the extreme. The pressure of the 'wide heavens' (presumably etheria) gave an unseen anchor point somehow, and possibly even supplied 'pneumatic' pressure for the ships to decompress against the resistence of the land.
The pressure at the base of the column would have been applied from the continents center out to the borders of the ocean, except at the 'high mountains on the north' where the land was to be cleaved in twain.

"There are no archaeological [fossil] finds that can be placed in the period between 20,000 and 25,000 BC., although we have finds from before and after those dates... It seems feasible that an event that modified the concentration of carbon 14 in the atmosphere took place in those days." Page 65 "The Eternal Man" by Pauwels and Bergier.

From Notes on Chapter 16 of 'O-ah-spe, Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

The Chaldean Account of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish by Wallis Budge [1929]

The Legend of the Deluge according to Berosus
"After the death of Ardates, his son Xisuthrus reigned. In his time happened a great Deluge. The Deity, Cronus, appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that upon the 15th day of the month Daesius there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. He therefore enjoined him to write a history of the beginning, procedure and conclusion of all things; and to bury it in the city of the Sun at Sippara; and to build a vessel, and take with him into it his friends and relations; and to convey on board everything necessary to sustain life, together with all the different animals, both birds and quadrupeds, and trust himself fearlessly to the deep. Having asked the Deity, whither he was to sail? he was answered, 'To the Gods ': upon which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind.
He then obeyed the divine admonition; and built a vessel 5 stadia in length, and 2 in breadth. Into this he put everything which he had prepared; and last of all conveyed into it his wife, his children, and his friends. After the flood had been upon the earth, and was in time abated, Xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel; which, not finding any food nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an interval of some days, he sent them forth a second time; and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made a trial a third time with these birds; but they returned to him no more: from whence he judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above the waters. He therefore made an opening in the vessel, and upon looking out found that it was stranded upon the side of some mountain; upon which he immediately quitted it with his wife, his daughter, and the pilot. Xisuthrus then paid his adoration to the earth, and, having constructed an altar, offered sacrifices to the gods, and, with those who had come out of the vessel with him, disappeared.
They, who remained within, finding that their companions did not return, quitted the vessel with many lamentations, and called continually on the name of Xisuthrus. Him they saw no more; but they could distinguish his voice in the air, and could hear him admonish them to pay due regard to religion; and likewise informed them that it was upon account of his piety that be was translated to live with the gods; that his wife and daughter, and the pilot, had obtained the same honour. To this he added that they should return to Babylonia; and, it was ordained, search for the writings at Sippara, which they were to make known to mankind: moreover that the place, wherein they then were, was the land of Armenia. The rest having heard these words, offered sacrifices to the gods; and taking a circuit journeyed towards Babylonia."

The Babylonian Legend of the Deluge as told to Gilgamish by Uta-Napishtim
The Legend of the Deluge has no original connection with the Epic of Gilgamish, but was introduced into it by the editors of the Epic, perhaps during the reign of Ashur-bani-pal (669-626 BC). Gilgamish, who was horrified when his companion Enkidu died, meditated deeply how he could escape death himself. He knew that his ancestor Uta-Napishtim a had become immortal, therefore he determined to set out for the place where Uta-Napishtim lived so that he might obtain from him the secret of immortality. Guided by a dream, Gilgamish set out for the Mountain of the Sunset, and, after great toil and many difficulties, came to the shore of a vast sea. Here he met Ur-Shanabi, the boatman of Uta-Napishtim, who was persuaded to carry him in his boat over the "waters of death", and at length he landed on the shore of the country of Uta-Napishtim. The immortal came down to the shore and asked the newcomer the object of his visit, and Gilgamish told him of the death of his great friend Enkidu, and of his desire to escape from death and to find immortality.

1. Gilgamish said unto Uta-Napishtim ...
7. How hast thou stood the company of the gods and sought life?"
8. Uta-Napishtim said unto Gilgamish:
9. "I will reveal unto thee, O Gilgamish, a hidden mystery, And a secret matter of the gods I will declare unto thee.
11. Shurippak, a city which thou thyself knowest, On the river Puratti (Euphrates) is situated,
13. That city is old; and the gods [dwelling] within it. Their hearts induced the great gods to make a windstorm
15. There was their father Anu, their counsellor, the warrior Enlil,
17. Their messenger En-urta and their prince Ennugi.
19. Nin-igi-ku, Ea, was with them [in council] and reported their word to a house of reeds."

[First speech of Ea to Uta-Napishtim who is sleepingiin a reed hut.]
22. O House of reeds, hear! O Wall, understand!
23. O man of Shurippak, son of Ubar-Tutu, throw down the house, build a ship,
25. Forsake wealth, seek after life, hate possessions, save thy life,
27. Bring all seed of life into the ship.
28. The ship which thou shalt build, the dimensions thereof shall be measured,
30. The breadth and the length thereof shall be the same.
31. Then launch it upon the ocean.

32. I understood and I said unto Ea, my lord:
33. See, my lord, that which thou hast ordered, I regard with reverence, and will perform it,
35. But what shall I say to the town, to the multitude, and to the elders?
36. Ea opened his mouth and spake and said unto his servant, myself,
38. Thus, man, shalt thou say unto them:
39. Ill-will hath the god Enlil formed against me, therefore I can no longer dwell in your city,
41. And never more will I turn my countenance upon-the soil of Enlil.
42. I will descend into the ocean to dwell with my lord Ea.
43. But upon you he will rain riches, a catch of birds, a catch of fish

48. As soon as [something of dawn] broke . . . 55. The child . . . brought bitumen, the strong . . . brought what was needed.
57. On the fifth day I laid down its shape.
58. According to the plan its walls were 10 gar, (i.e. 120 cubits) high,
59. And the width of its deck (?) was equally 10 gar.
60. I laid down the shape of its forepart and marked it out (?).
61. I covered (?) it six times . . . . I divided into seven,
63. Its interior I divided into nine,
64. Caulking I drove into the middle of it.
65. I provided a steering pole, and cast in all that was needful.
66. Six sar of bitumen I poured over the hull (?),
67. Three sar of pitch I poured into the inside.
68. The men who bear loads brought three sar of oil,
69. Besides a sar of oil which the tackling (?) consumed,
70. And two sar of oil which the boatman hid.
75. I celebrated a feast as if it had been New Year's Day.
77. Before the sunset (?) the ship was finished.

81. With everything that I possessed I loaded it (i.e., the ship).
84. With all that I possessed of all the seed of life I loaded it.
85. I made to go up into the ship all my family and kinsfolk,
86. The cattle of the field, the beasts of the field, all handicraftsmen I made them go up into it.
87. The god Shamash had appointed me a time (saying)
88. The sender of . . . . . will at eventide make a hail to fall;
89. Then enter into the ship and shut thy door.
90. The appointed time drew nigh;
91. The sender of . . . . . made a hail to fall at eventide.
92. I watched the aspect of the [approaching] storm,
93. Terror possessed me to look upon it,
94. I went into the ship and shut my door.
95. To the pilot of the ship, Puzur-Enlil the sailor
96. I committed the great house (i.e., ship), together with the contents thereof.

97. As soon as something of dawn shone in the sky
98. A black cloud from the foundation of heaven came up.
99. Inside it the god Adad thundered,
100. The gods Nabû and Sharru (i.e., Marduk) went before,
101. Marching as messengers over high land and plain,
102. Irragal (Nergal) tore out the post of the ship,
103. En-urta went on, he made the storm to descend.
104. The Anunnaki [The star-gods of the southern sky] brandished their torches,
105. With their glare they lighted up the land.
106. The whirlwind (or, cyclone) of Adad swept up to heaven.
107. Every gleam of light was turned into darkness.
108. . . . . . the land . . . . . as if had laid it waste.
109. A whole day long [the flood descended] . . .

110. Swiftly it mounted up . . . . . [the water] reached to the mountains
111. [The water] attacked the people like a battle.
112. Brother saw not brother. Men could not be known (or, recognized) in heaven.
114. The gods were terrified at the cyclone.
115. They shrank back and went up into the heaven of Anu.
116. The gods crouched like a dog and cowered by the wall.
117. The goddess Ishtar cried out like a woman in travail.
118. The Lady of the Gods lamented with a sweet voice [saying]:
119. May that former day be turned into mud,
120. Because I commanded evil among the company of the gods.
121. How could I command evil among the company of the gods,
122. Command battle for the destruction of my people?
123. Did I of myself bring forth my people that they might fill the sea like little fishes?
125. The gods, the Anunnaki wailed with her.
126. The gods bowed themselves, and sat down weeping.
127. Their lips were shut tight (in distress) . . .

128. For six days and nights the wind, the storm raged, and the cyclone overwhelmed the land.
130. When the seventh day came the cyclone ceased, the storm which had fought like an army.
132. The sea became quiet, the grievous wind went down, the cyclone ceased.
133. I looked on the day and voices were stilled,
134. And all mankind were turned into mud,
135. The land had been laid flat like a terrace.
136. I opened the air-hole and the light fell upon my cheek,
137. I bowed myself, I sat down, I cried,
138. My tears poured down over my cheeks.
139. I looked over the quarters of the world, (to] the limits of ocean.
140. At twelve points islands appeared.

141. The ship grounded on the mountain of Nisir.
142. The mountain of Nisir held the ship, it let it not move.
146. When the seventh day had come I brought out a dove and let her go free.
148. The dove flew away and [then] came back;
149. Because she had no place to alight on she came back.
150. I brought out a swallow and let her go free.
151. The swallow flew away and [then] came back;
152. Because she had no place to alight on she came back.
153. 1 brought out a raven and let her go free.
154. The raven flew away, she saw the sinking waters.
155. She ate, she waded (?), she rose (?), she came not back.
156. Then I brought out [everything] to the four winds and made a sacrifice;
157. I set out an offering on the peak of the mountain.
158. Seven by seven I set out the vessels,
159. Under them I piled reeds, cedarwood and myrtle (?).

161. The gods smelt the sweet savour and gathered together like flies over him that sacrificed.
163 Now when the Lady of the Gods [Ishtar] came nigh,
164. She lifted up the priceless jewels which Anu had made according to her desire, [saying]
165. O ye gods here present, as I shall never forget the sapphire jewels of my neck
166. So shall I ever think about these days, and shall forget them nevermore!
167. Let the gods come to the offering,
168. But let not Enlil come to the offering,
169. Because he took not thought and made the cyclone,
170. And delivered my people over to destruction."

171. Now when Enlil came nigh he saw the ship; then was Enlil wroth
173. And he was filled with anger against the gods, the Igigi [The star-gods of the northern heaven] saying:
174. Hath any being escaped with his life?
175. He shall not remain alive, a man among the destruction.
176. Then En-urta said unto the warrior Enlil:
178. Who besides the god Ea can make a plan?
179. The god Ea knoweth everything that is done.

18o. The god Ea said unto the warrior Enlil,
182. O Prince among the gods, thou warrior,
183. How, how couldst thou, not taking thought, make a cyclone?
184. He who is sinful, on him lay his sin, he who transgresseth, on him lay his transgression.
186. But be merciful that [everything] be not destroyed be long-suffering that [man be not blotted out].
187. Instead of thy making a cyclone, would that a famine had arisen and [laid waste] the land.
195. As for me I have not revealed the secret of the great gods.
196. I made Atra-hasis to see a vision, and thus he heard the secret of the gods.
197. Now therefore take counsel concerning him.

198. Then the god Enlil went up into the ship,
199. He seized me by the hand and brought me forth.
200. He brought forth my wife and made her to kneel by my side.
201. He touched our brows, he stood between us, he blessed us [saving],
202. Formerly Uta-Napishtim was a man merely,
203. But now let Uta-Napishtim and his wife be like unto us gods.
204. Uta-Napishtim shall dwell afar off, at the mouth of the rivers.
205. And they took me away to a place afar off, and made me to dwell at the mouth of the rivers.

Signs in Today's Culture
Today a deep urge within the modern generation has developed an identification with tribal cultures, and an interest in the sign of the rainbow. This has now become a world wide movement, which will some day need to discover its soul. This movement is happening along side the 'new age' movement, whose reprocessing of ancient knowledge and prophecy is adding momentum to a visible new era of Kosmon, and anticipating the fast approaching time of Jehovih's 'glory on the earth'.
These, and popular book writers, anthropologists and archaeologists are unravelling the 'preserved' names and symbols of rites and ceremonies, land and water, and the stars etc., for clues to Man's origin.
Intellectual circles are unraveling the ancient mystery of the precession of the equinoxes, one cycle of which happens to be the passage of time since the great flood.

Studying the Ocean Floor for a Sign

"The rim of the Pacific basin is marked by a succession of trenches that cut into its floor like deep gashes.... By the 1950s the trenches (and the strangely weak gravity above them) had emerged as one of the most remarkable features of the earth's surface. ... some of them extending farther below sea level than Everest rises above it by a margin of a kilometer or more.... materials recovered "resemble... deposits laid down in shallow water." What implacable forces could have caused such large- scale distortions of the sea floor? Why are they so narrow so long and so deep?... What is the significance of the fact that they lie along the Pacific ring of fire?... The most prominent ones are all about the same depth- ten kilometers (six miles) below sea level- suggesting they were all products of a similar, uniform process. If the floor of the Pacific was old compared to that of the Atlantic... why is the average thickness of Atlantic sediment twice that of Pacific sediments? If trenches mark where sea floor, moving away from a central ridge, descends beneath the continents, where are the trenches on either side of the Atlantic? If the trenches on the rim of the northwest Pacific are swallowing sea floor manufactured along a midocean ridge, ... where is that ridge?" Pages 58- 60 & 109 "Continents in Motion" by Walter Sullivan.

From Notes on Chapter 17 of 'O-ah-spe, Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

World Ocean Floor by Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp, illustrating the tectonic earth, mid-ocean ridges, sea-floor spreading (at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise etc), seam-like planetary girdle, Pacific plate, continental shelves, and undersea mountain chains.

The Tharp map with Pan shown

Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere
is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches.

"Ocean- basin studies show that island-arc trench fills, where "subduction" supposedly takes place, are undeformed. The volumes of undeformed sedimentary rocks in layer 1 indicate (1) that sea- floor spreading has not taken place since Mesozoic [251-65.5 million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs and rifting of the supercontinent Pangaea into nearly the present continent forms] or earlier time; or (2) that subduction must take place seaward from the island- arc trenches; or (3) that there is no such process as "subduction." Page 461 "Unknown Earth" by William Corliss quoting A. A. Meyerhoff in "American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin 1972".

From Notes on Chapter 16 of 'O-ah-spe, Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

Geometry of a subduction zone. Insets show accretionary prism and partial melting of hydrated asthenosphere.

Subduction results from the difference in density between lithosphere and underlying asthenosphere. Where, very rarely, lithosphere is denser than asthenospheric mantle, it can easily sink back into the mantle at a subduction zone; however, subduction is resisted where lithosphere is less dense than underlying asthenosphere. Whether or not lithosphere is denser than underlying asthenosphere depends on the nature of the associated crust. Crust is always less dense than asthenosphere or lithospheric mantle, but because continental crust is always thicker and less dense than oceanic crust, continental lithosphere is always less dense than oceanic lithosphere. Oceanic lithosphere is generally not denser than asthenosphere but continental lithosphere is lighter. Exceptionally, the presence of the large areas of flood basalt that are called large igneous provinces (LIPs), which result in extreme thickening of the oceanic crust, can cause some sections of older oceanic lithosphere to be too buoyant to subduct. Where lithosphere on the downgoing plate is too buoyant to subduct, a collision occurs.
Trenches are related to but distinguished from continental collision zones (like that between India and Asia to form the Himalaya), where continental crust enters the subduction zone. When buoyant continental crust enters a trench, subduction eventually stops and the convergent plate margin becomes a collision zone.
Most subduction zones are arcuate, where the concave side is directed towards the continent. This is especially so where a back-arc basin develops between the subduction zone and the continent. Volcanoes that occur above subduction zones, such as Mount St. Helens and Mount Fuji, often occur in arcuate chains, hence the term volcanic arc. Not all "volcanic arcs" are arced: trenches and arcs are often linear.
The magmatism associated with the volcanic arc occurs 100-300 km away from the trench. However, a relationship has been found, which relates volcanic arc location to depth of the subducted crust as defined by the Wadati-Benioff zone. Studies of many volcanic arcs around the world have revealed that volcanic arcs tend to form at a location where the subducted slab has reached a depth of about 100 km. This has interesting implications for the mechanism that causes the magmatism at these arcs. Arcs produce about 25% of the total volume of magma produced each year on Earth (~30-35 km³), much less than the volume produced at mid-ocean ridges.
Subduction zones are associated with the deepest earthquakes on the planet. Earthquakes are generally restricted to the shallow, brittle parts of the crust, generally at depths of less than 20 km. However, in subduction zones, earthquakes occur at depths as great as 700 km. These earthquakes define inclined zones of seismicity known as Wadati-Benioff zones, which outline the descending lithosphere. Seismic tomography has helped outline subducted lithosphere in regions where there are no earthquakes. Some subducted slabs seem not to be able to penetrate the major discontinuity in the mantle that lies at a depth of about 670 km, whereas other subducted oceanic plates can penetrate all the way to the core-mantle boundary. The great seismic discontinuities in the mantle - at 410 and 670 km depth - are disrupted by the descent of cold slabs in deep subduction zones.
There are about 50,000 km of convergent plate margins, mostly around the Pacific Ocean, but they are also in the eastern Indian Ocean, with relatively short convergent margin segments in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. Trenches are sometimes buried.

Pan's location on the Pacific Plate

The world's tectonic plates. The red arrows indicate whether the plate boundaries are divergent, convergent or transform.

The world's tectonic plates with Pan shown

Ring of Fire with Pan shown

From Notes on Chapter 16 of 'O-ah-spe, Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

Aerial photo of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain

Native Americans developed myths and legends concerning the Cascade volcanoes. According to some of these tales, Mounts Baker, Jefferson, Shasta were used as refuge from a great flood.

Historical movement of the San Andreas Fault

Trenches of the Pacific Plate

"The volcanic rocks of Easter Island, rising from the East Pacific Rise, were suspiciously continental also. The quakes in the Gulf of Alaska were also in a "continental area." "The Ocean of Truth" by H. W. Menard.

From Notes on Chapter 17 of 'O-ah-spe, Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

The Oahspe map of Pan scaled up and centered as best as possible over the Pacific Plate

The oceanic crust displays a pattern of parallel magnetic lines, parallel to the ocean ridges, frozen in the basalt. In the 1950’s, scientists mapped the magnetic field generated by rocks on the ocean floor. They noticed a symmetrical pattern of positive and negative magnetic lines as they moved along the ocean floor, and the line of symmetry was at the mid ocean ridge. The fact that the anomalies were symmetrical at the mid-ocean ridge was explained by the hypothesis that new rock was being formed by magma at the mid-ocean ridges, and the ocean floor was spreading out from this point. When the magma cooled to form rock, it aligned itself with the current position of the north magnetic pole of the Earth (which has reversed many times in its past) at the time of its cooling. New magma forced the older cooled magma away from the ridge. Approximately half of the new rock was formed on one side of the ridge and half on the other.

Distribution of deep sea sediments in the area of the Pacific Ocean from the equator northward, unlike the rest of the worlds oceans, does not contain calcareous mud, from the shells of crustaceans settled to the bottom over long ages. Page 32 & 37 "Oceanography" by M. Grant Gross.

From Notes on Chapter 16 of 'Oahspe Condensed and Annotated with Confirmational Research' by Martha H. Jones

"About 80 percent of all the islands in the world lie within a triangle whose apexes are Tokyo, Jakarta and Pitcairn." Page 21 "Lost Paradise" by Ian Cameron.
[hundreds more have since been mapped] ... drowned islands of the Pacific basin... from 3000 to 4000 meters... rarely closer than 1000 meters to the waters surface.
He named the flat topped ones "guyots"... in 1956 it was found that sediments retrieved from the tops of some mid-Pacific guyots contained fossils of shallow- water species dating from the relatively recent Cretaceous Period,... What, Hess wondered, could possibly have submerged these mountains to such great depths in so short a time? It was also discovered that some of the sea mounts are tilted on the edges of oceanic trenches... though having been formed upright." Page 61,62 "Continents in Motion, the New Earth Debate" by H. W. Menard.

"Recent geophysical and geological investigations of the floor of the deep Pacific indicate that this area has been the scene of large- scale geologic activity during relatively late stages of earth history... Mesozoic or Early Tertiary... the apparently slight thickness of deep- sea sediment suggests that relatively rapid deposition did not begin until the Mesozoic." Page 717 "Unknown Earth" by William Corliss quoting Roger Revelle in "Geological Society of America, Bulletin 1951.

"The great extent of a sub- bottom echo at depths of 0 to 40 meters below bottom in the tropical Eastern Pacific has been demonstrated... The first sub-bottom echo is well correlated by cores throughout the area with a white ash layer. Since the layer is fairly near the surface and is not discolored and contains nothing but the glassy ash material, it must have been laid down fairly quickly... The great extent of the ash and its shallow cover would imply a great amount of recent activity for a short time. Page 283 "Unknown Earth" by William Corliss quoting J. Worzel in "National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings 1959"

"The flat- topped guyots, high level terraces, and submarine canyons may have been cut by oceans miles lower and/or thousands of feet higher than those that roll against today's shores." Page 285 "Unknown Earth" by William Corliss.

When the flat- topped mesas, of Monument Valley, Arizona for example, are observed above water it is fairly obvious that their flat tops are all of similar height and most likely represent a former surface of the land before aeons eroded it away, first to become islands and until eventually the receding the water level left them standing completely exposed.

From Notes on Chapter 16 of 'O-ah-spe, Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

Japan's tectonic plates and the triple junction of five volcanic arcs ). The red line is part of the eastern border of Pan. Subduction zones are shown in green. The small red dots are volcanoes. Their lines comprise a volcanic arc

Cross-section of the Northeast Honshu Arc. Hot rocks in the asthenosphere are modified by fluids that leave the subducted Pacific Plate. The fluids lower the melting temperature of the rocks in the overlying asthenosphere. The rocks melt to make the magma that feeds volcanoes.

Detailed arial view of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. Okinawa is a group within this group of islands. The proximity of Yonaguni is shown to the Ryukyu trench.Detailed arial view of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

Detail of Micronesia, Pacific Islands and Pan. Outlines of Churchward's Mu (red) and Oahspe's Pan are superimposed. In the pink circle is Pohnpei, called Panape by Churchward.

An Expanding Earth?

The expanding earth theorists have a useful youtube movie for locating the sunken continent, and the manner of its submerging. Click on this link:

The earth is Expanding

Though it claims to have established a perfect fit in the Pacific, leaving no place for Pan, there are a few questions involved.

The Pangaea theory has continents moving, even rotating to an extent, on tectonic plates which then fit into their places, on a constant sized planet.

The expanding earth theorists claim that the continents fit together perfectly on a much smaller planet. According to them the land masses sit there and dont move. Their is only ocean floor spreading at the rifts as the earth expands. They use no subduction, and claim no rotation or twist of the tectonic plates, no form fitting, or altering of shape or size, yet I seem to see form fitting.
The movie admits to its going back in time imperfectly. This might refer to the rapid rate at which the east coast of the Americas fits into Australia and Asia.
Notice in the beginning of the movie Africa has fit into the east coast of the Americas even before Australia and Asia show any sign of being in closer proximity to the west coast of the Americas.
It would be easier to have a sunken continent in that region. Then the time with respect to the distance moved would be more uniform with the Atlantic side.
Besides, looking at the undersea map, the area where Pan is appears as a land mass with mountains and valleys, whereas the rift expansion area is smooth.
Indochina has twisted around and Australia has moved upwards to fill the gap where Pan would be.
Notice the rift in the Atlantic goes right up the middle, while rift in the Pacific is the East Pacific Rise .
Notice when the sequence goes to 70 million years old (when Africa closes with Sth America) the only so-called ocean left is what we would call Pan [unfortunartely that part can not be seen]

Here are some key lines from the movie:

The land masses sit there and dont move. Only the rifts open

The pacific opens to broadly compared to the Atlantic. This is why the Pangaea theory exists. The pacific spread is too difficult to visualise because its so big.
The Navy and others took Core samples to find the age of the sea bottom. No part of the under-sea is much older than 70 million years old.
Most of the under-sea wasnt there 70 million years ago.

The measurement of the Core samples give the age of the sea floor.
From red (newest, 10 million years or so ago) to blue (oldest, I assume 70 million years ago).

The ocean bottom is up to 180 million years old.
70% of it is no lder tham 60 million years old

The continents are older than 2 billion years old [1000 million c/f 70 million, 10-20 times as old as the undersea plates].
The undersea plates are new and spreading at the rifts.
The scientific community clings to the idea that the ocean bottom is sliding under the continents and into a magma that is twice as dense as solid granite.

Age of oceanic crust. Youngest crust (red) is along spreading centres

Tectonic spreading has caused 2/3 of the earth's surface in the last 200 million years

Age of oceanic crust with Pan superimposed

More notes from 'Selected Verses; Scientific & Historic Confirmation' by Martha H. Jones

"Yonaguni's most experienced diver Kihachiro Aratake... [whose] lifetime project [is] to explore... the coast of Yonaguni... made a discovery which some scholars believe could be of immense and disturbing historical significance... What Aratake found was an apparently man- made structure, carved out of solid rock in complex shapes and patterns, that lay with its base on the ocean bed at a depth of 27 metres. More than 200 metres long, it rose gracefully before his eyes in a series of pyramid- like steps to a summit platform just 5 metres beneath the surface...
Professor Masaaki Kimura, a leading Japanese geologist from Okinawa University... has studied the monument intensively, making hundreds of dives to it over many years of research... he adamantly insists that it is a man- made object... Blocks carved off during the formation of the monument are not found lying in the places where they should have fallen if only gravity and natural forces were operating; instead they seem to have been artificially cleared away to one side and in some cases are absent from the site entirely... two metre- deep circular holes, a stepped, cleanly angled geometrical depression, and a perfectly straight narrow trench...
Between its north and south walls the 4- metre- wide floor at the foot of the trench was littered with the debris of large apparently quarried blocks that seemed to have fallen from above... A series of steps rises at regular intervals... a distinct 'wall' encloses the western edge of the monument... it consists of limestone blocks not indigenous to the Yonaguni area. What looks like a ceremonial pathway winds around the western and southern faces of the monument... That such stark differences of topography can be observed side by side is therefore strong evidence in favor of artificiality... If only natural erosional forces had been at work, one would expect them to have acted uniformly on the same member of rock in the same locality of the monument...
At the eastern end of the platform we found a straight channel, approximately three- quarters of a metre wide and half a metre deep, running for 8 metres through a raised plinth... We noted that the bearing of the trench was very insistently east- west... In our view it may well be significant that the structure.41 incorporates characteristics that would unhesitatingly be recognized as astronomical if it stood above sea- level. It is oriented due south, towards the meridian, and features a massive east- west trench targeted to sunrise and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes. It stands at a latitude... that there have been times... when the Yonaguni 'monument', located at 24 degrees 27 minutes north latitude, would have stood exactly astride the Tropic of Cancer... 9000 & 9900 yrs ago." Pages 201- 220 "Heavens Mirror" by Graham Hancock.

Other Links

Encounter with Dr Kimura, and the 'Underwater Pyramid
The Galactic Alignment
Plasma Kosmology
Zarathushtrians and Hinduism
Faithists of Hapta
Read 'OAHSPE' On Line