Naacal

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Naacal is the name of a people or a culture and their language that, according to Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908) and later James Churchward (1851-1936) , should have existed on a submerged continent called Mu . According to Le Plongeon, this continent was in the Atlantic , according to Churchward in the Pacific , between Asia and America . Neither such continents, nor the people, language or culture of the Naacal are archaeologically or otherwise scientifically proven, but they have been used in various fictional and para- scientific works.

Augustus Le Plongeons (1896)

The term Naacal was first mentioned in Le Plongeon's work Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx in 1896 . Here it says on pages xxiii - xxiv of the preface:

“ Perhaps also will be felt the necessity of recovering the libraries of the Maya sages (hidden about the beginning of the Christian era to save them from destruction at the hands of the devastating hordes that invaded their country in those times), and to learn from their contents the wisdom of those ancient philosophers, of which that preserved in the books of the Brahmins is but the reflection. That wisdom was no doubt brought to India , and from there carried to Babylon and Egypt in very remote ages by those Maya adepts (Naacal - "the exalted"), who, starting from the land of their birth as missionaries of religion and civilization, went to Burmah , where they became known as Nagas , established themselves in the Dekkan , while they carried their civilizing work all over the earth. "

- Augustus LePlongeon : Queen Moó and the Egyptian Sphinx

According to Le Plongeon, the Naacal were the missionaries of the Mayan religion and culture. He believed that the culture emanated from Central America , which is inconsistent with Churchward's opinion.

James Churchward (1926)

In 1926 James Churchwards spoke about the people and culture of the Naacal in his book The Lost Continent of Mu, Motherland of Man . According to him, they came from the lost continent of Mu, as did their language, which he also called Naacal .

According to Churchward, the Naacal population was at times up to 64 million. Their culture is said to have peaked around 50,000 years ago and to have been more technologically advanced than Churchward's own time (late 19th, early 20th centuries). The ancient civilizations of India , Babylon , Persia , Egypt and the Maya are just crumbling remnants of Naacal colonies .

He also claimed that the Egyptian sun god Ra came from the Naacal. He stated that “Rah” was the Naacal word for “sun”, their god and rulers.

The Naacal tablets

Churchward claimed to have obtained his knowledge of the Naacal after he befriended an old Indian priest who taught him to read the dead Naacal language, which is now only spoken by three people in India. The priest initiated him into the existence of some old tablets that were written in Naacal, which he was allowed to look at with some persuasion. However, since the tablets were only fragments of a much larger collection of texts, Churchward's knowledge of the Naacal remained incomplete, but he claimed to have found confirmations and further information in other old tablets.

Baird T. Spalding (1927)

In the second volume of The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East , which appeared in 1927, the writer Baird T. Spalding (1857–1953) makes the following statement about the Naacal:

" The teachings that Buddha received came from the same source as did those of Osiris but in a different way. The teachings that Buddha contacted came from the Motherland direct to Burma , brought there by the Naacals. Osiris ' teachings came direct to him, as his forefathers lived in the Motherland and when he was a young man he had gone to the Motherland to study. "

According to Spalding's biographer David Bruton, these books are “magical autobiographies” and thus in principle fictions .

Modern fiction

  • In HP Lovecraft's story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key " (dt. By the gates of the silver key ) it is mentioned that the occultist Harley Warren is supposed to be an expert of Naacal language.
  • In the anime series RahXephon , the character Ernst Von Bähbem , a Mulian, is sometimes referred to as the "brother of Naacal" and founded the Naacal Company , which later became the Bähbem Foundation .
  • In some of Andre Norton's novels, two of the main characters are Nacaal. She describes Draupadi from the Mahabharata and the Hindu god Ganesha as survivors of the Nacaal who stand by the people. It describes two hostile factions among the Naacal, whose aims and means are very different. With her, the Naacal originally come from islands deep in the Asian Sea, which later went under.
  • In "The Dweller in the Tomb" describes Lin Carter engraved pieces black jade, as Zanthu panels (Engl. Zanthu tablets) are referred to and written in Naacal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augustus LePlongeon: Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx . Self-published by Agent Kegan Paul, New York 1896, PREFACE , p. xxiii-xxiv .
  2. ^ David Bruton: Baird T. Spalding as I knew him . Devorss & Co., Marina del Rey, Calif. 1980, ISBN 978-0-87516-392-5 .

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