Mu

The English word “Mu” has 2 meanings listed here.

proper noun

A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

noun

μ (a mu particle)

Etymology

Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in the Mayan Madrid Codex using the De Landa alphabet), as the name of a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe; later identified as Atlantis by Augustus Le Plongeon.

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