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Naacal Tablets

In 1921, William Niven, a miner and excavator, discovered over 2,600 unidentifiable tablets while digging in the Valley of Mexico . This discovery led James Churchward, a tea planter in Sri Lanka, to claim finding tablets of the same type in his book, The Lost Continent of Mu. His book that claims the discovery of similar tablets was published in 1926, but he found them 50 years earlier when he was living in India during a famine. James Churchward claims that the similar tablets originated in a lost continent called Mu and were written by an ancient people named the Naacals who were the original inhabitants of the Earth . The tablets were transferred to Burma, then to India, then Egypt, where they dispersed around the globe and that is why Niven unearthed some of these tablets in Mexico . Although James Churchward and William Niven supposedly came in contact with tablets of the same origin, neither of them nor any other sources have provided information with actual evidence as to where the tablets are from and how they came to be where they are .

William Niven's Discovery

William Niven was a mineralogist turned excavator who began by promoting Arizona's mining interest, but eventually became interested in excavating the American Southwest and Mexico. In October 1921 Niven was digging at Santiago Ahuizoctla, when he came across an unusual andesite tablet with unrecognizable markings that was fourteen feet from the surface . The tablets ranged in height from just a few inches to thirty inches with lines filled with red, yellow, and green coloring. Some of the tablets had recognizable markings, such as human heads, animals, plants, crosses, solar signs, and temple plans, but many of them possessed markings that were unidentifiable, even to Sylvanus Morley who was an expert on Maya epigraphy. Morley was skeptical about the authenticity of Nevin's discovery because they were too crude and the paint seemed to be applied yesterday. in 1923, Morley decided to visit Nevin's excavation on his way to document Chichen Itza to see the tablets for himself. Morley and Niven took the tram north to Atcapotzalco, then walked to San Miguel Amantla where the excavating was taking place. Morley saw that a yard below the surface was a flat slab of tepetate with an exposed edge of nine feet, but the other edge had never been uncovered. The complete figure was near six or seven feet high with the same red and yellow pigment from the tablets. Morley did not believe this could be a hoax because it would be impossible to pull off. Nevin began digging in a hole right next to the six feet figure and unearthed a four inch high and one inch thick tablet of andesite with the same coloring of the tablets with the unrecognizable figures. Morley now had no doubts about the tablets, he had seen it come from the untouched black earth that was still damp .

The tablets were found in the latter years of Niven’s life, but he tirelessly searched for the tablets’ meaning and origin. Considering the difficulty in deciphering the tablets, numerous controversial explanations were given, such as the tablets being Scandinavian petroglyphs or from lost continents. The tablets were never truly understood by Niven, but James Churchward claims to have found similar tablets in India and postulates they were created by an ancient people that describes the creation of the Earth . Niven spent a considerable amount of time selling the tablets, which ultimately caused them to be lost during a shipment from Mexico to the United States, so the only remnants of the tablets are the rubbings that were taken from them.

Correspondence between Nevin and Churchward

Niven learned of Churchward's novel from a friend and was intrigued by his theories, but knew that scientists would be skeptical. Niven said about Churchward's work:

"His wonderful imagination in the accumulation of evidence from any source to prove his pet belief in the destruction of Mu...and his reckless extravagance in computing dates, must make the judicious grieve. Notwithstanding, some of my friends think that he may have paved the way for the correct deciphering of my tablets."

===James Churchward's Claims===

While living and exploring India, James Churchward met a man who was a high priest at a college temple . The priest supposedly helped Churchward learn a dead language that only three people in all of India knew . The high priest suggested that this was the original language created by humankind. The priest told Churchward about ancient tablets that had inscriptions of this dead language, which Churchward begged to see, but the priest refused to show him at the beginning . It took Churchward six months to gain access to the tablets, however when he did gain access he was able to begin translating and eventually understanding the story of the Naacals and Mu that was inscribed in the tablets before him. He claims there are thousands of tablets depicting the history of the Naacals and the creation of the Earth .

The Lost Continent of Mu

According to James Churchward’s understanding of the Naacal tablets, Mu and the civilization that supposedly originated there had come before the existence of the following civilizations: the Greeks, Chaldeans, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, and Hindus, but were far more advanced than any of these civilizations, in fact, he claimed it was more advanced than our own civilization . The continent of Mu existed 50,000 years ago and had 64,000 inhabitants, some of whom migrated to India, then Egypt, then Sinai, and it follows the story of the Bible after that. The boundaries of the continent Mu stretched from Hawaii to Fiji and Easter Island, also known as the Pacific Rim . The writings on the tablets, according to Churchward, confirmed the creation of Earth and humans, which had originated on the lost continent of Mu. Mu’s citizens, or the Naacals, supposedly spread across the globe and that is why correlating tablets have been found in numerous places, such as Niven’s tablets from Mexico. Churchward claims Mu was destroyed by massive natural disasters and cataclysmic events, which caused it to vanish in a vortex of water and fire 12,000 years ago .

Tablet's Series

The tablets were separated into several series, or chapters rather, that tell the story of the creation and destruction of Mu.

Tablets :

• Series one: Shows the origin of the world and the waiting of the expected arrival of man.

• Series two: Shows the creation of mountains by rising gases.

• Series three: Describes the creation of the great forces throughout the universe and how they work.

• Series four: Explains the differentiation of the two divisions of Earth’s primary force.

• Series five: Depicts the creation and workings of Earth’s atomic force.

• Series six: Shows the creation of the force that creates and sustains life and how it works.

• Series seven: Describes the beginning of life and shows what that means, as well as the different, changing forms of life.

• Series eight: The creation of man takes place and the tablets show how the life form of man differentiates from all else.

• Series nine: Says that man first appeared on “the Motherland of Man”, or Mu.

• Series ten: Were much larger than the tablets in the preceding series. These tablets were used as a key to understand the previous tablets and the glyphs, symbols, and hidden messages that are written as the story of the creation of Mu.

Churchward believed these to be the beginning of thousands of more tablets that portray the entire ancient history of the Naacal people and their original habitation of the Earth .