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Queen Moo
Queen Moo is a mythical Mayan queen written about by Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon. The Plongeons undertook the first excavation of Chichen Itza in 1875, and based their theories about Queen Moo on the murals and inscriptions that they found there. It is generally accepted that Plongeon's theories are not supported by the archaeological evidence, therefore Queen Moo is considered a fictional character.
==Mythology==
Augustus Le Plongeon believed that Queen Moo was a historical Mayan queen whose life was documented in the carved bas reliefs, statues and paintings he found at Chichen Itza. He asserted that Moo and her husband, Prince Coh, also known as Chac Mool, were the inspiration for the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris. Queen Moo was the eldest daughter of King Canchi and Queen Zoc.〔McDaniel 2007 p.50〕 She was desired by her brothers, Prince Coh and Prince Aac. She chose Coh as her mate, and Prince Aac killed him in a jealous rage. After Prince Coh's death, Queen Moo fled to seek refuge in the Land of Mu (also known as Atlantis).〔McDaniel 2007 p.50〕 When she reached the location where it once was she found that the civilization had disappeared, so she made her way to Egypt.〔Le Plongeon 1896 p.xix〕
Queen Moo's name was drawn from the Mayan word for macaw, based on the bird imagery in the Mayan representations of her figure.〔Fagan 1988 p.31〕 Le Plongeon took this as further evidence that Moo and Isis were the same figure, as Isis is often represented as a winged figure.〔Le Plongeon 1896 p.13〕 Chacmool means jaguar paw〔Miller 1985 p.7〕 and Plongeon believed the great cat was Prince Coh's symbol. Plongeon claimed that the Egyptian Sphinx, with its cat body and human head, was built by Queen Moo to honor her dead husband.〔Le Plongeon 1896 p.xix〕
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