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Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820–1915

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R. Tripp Evans's academic history of the Le Plongeons and the imaginative, nationalist, and diffusionist reception of Maya antiquity; corrective genealogy for pre-decipherment interpretations.

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The catalog traces the recognizable Mu claim to modern writings by Le Plongeon and Churchward rather than to an ancient Pacific source.

Answer / theory: The modern Mu claim is not an ancient tradition in the form usually presented. It comes mainly from Le Plongeon and Churchward. What supports it: The source trail points to nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. What is weak or disputed: Some writers try to connect Mu to older myths, but the direct source chain is modern. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for modern source origin.
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Le Plongeon and Churchward are the two cataloged claimant source points for the modern Mu narrative.

Answer / theory: The modern Mu claim is not an ancient tradition in the form usually presented. It comes mainly from Le Plongeon and Churchward. What supports it: The source trail points to nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. What is weak or disputed: Some writers try to connect Mu to older myths, but the direct source chain is modern. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for modern source origin.
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Churchward's Pacific mother-continent claim is documented as a modern claim, but the catalog does not establish Mu as a real continent or civilization destroyed by catastrophe.

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