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TURKESTAN/EUROPE: While some Andites entered Europe via the islands of the Aegean, the
majority came by way of the Caspian Sea/Turkestan route. The highlands of
Turkestan had experienced a constant replenishing of the Adamite stock,
and now this land became the homeland of the Turkestan Andites.
Here the Aryan/Indo-European mother tongue—a combination of the regional
Andonic dialect and the language of the Adamsonites and later Andites—was
in the process of formation. These Andites poured into Europe in a steady
stream, in seven major invasions. The earlier, purer Adamic migrations had
been peaceful, but the mixed Andites were aggressive, and in the later
invasions they made military conquests.
INDIA/SE ASIA: The same population pressures that drove the Turkestan Andites into
Europe also brought about the first extensive Andite movement toward India.
For over fifteen centuries these Andites, together with their Iranian
Andite brethren whom they collected en route, streamed into India through
the highlands of Baluchistan. Their presence in central Asia greatly
upstepped the ancestors of the Turanians*. From this region they moved
into the Punjab, then spread out over the river valleys and southward into
the Deccan. This Andite pressure from the northwest drove much of the
darker southern and eastern population fringe into Burma and southern
China. By 10,000 BC, the Andites in India had become submerged, the
resultant mix called Dravidian. The Dravidian civilization has survived
into modern times in the Deccan.
CHINA: In China the earliest advanced yellow settlements were in
Tibet
and along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. For almost fifteen thousand years
the easternmost Andite communities were located in the Tarim Valley in
Sinkiang, where Andites entered into trade relations with the progressive
Chinese to the east and with the Andonites to the north. By 13,000 BC
Chinese culture was being boosted by a steady inpouring of blended Andites
and Andonites carrying Andite blood eastward from Sinkiang and Tibet to
the upper valley of the Yellow River. Presently they reached Honan*, where
the leading settlements were situated, and by 10,000 BC the northern
Chinese people had begun to build cities and engage in manufacture.
From time to time small groups of Andites entered
southern China,
coming from the north. This genetic infusion was beneficial, as the
southern Chinese had absorbed much of the green race and had been
infiltrated by masses of darker peoples crowded out of India by the
Dravidian-Andite invasion. Other groups of Andites made their way into Formosa*,
the East Indies, and Japan.
SOUTH PACIFIC: From Japan, 132 Andites embarked in a fleet of small boats and crossed
the Pacific, tarrying on the many islands they found along the way. The
Polynesian islands were larger and more numerous then, and as these
Andite sailors passed through they added some desirable traits to the
native stock. Many flourishing centers of civilization—Easter Island is
one of them—grew up on these now submerged lands as a result of Andite
penetration. Eventually these Andite seafarers reached South America,
and by intermarriage with the natives of the Andes established the
ancestry of the later rulers of the Incas. Of all the Andites who
sailed the Pacific in those days, only this group ever reached the
mainland.
By 8000 BC many groups of Andites had penetrated to the ends of
the earth as missionaries, teachers, and traders. From Europe to China,
the more highly civilized tribes began to assemble in cities devoted to
manufacture and trade. Adonia, located near the present city of Ashkhabad,
became the central Asian commercial metropolis.
8000–2000
BC: The Last Andite Migrations
For
almost twenty thousand years the
Andonites had been pushed farther and farther to the
north of central Asia, but by 8000 BC diminishing rainfall in Siberia
had started to nudge them back down. Further, the slowly increasing
aridity of the highland regions of central Asia began to drive the mixed
Turkestan Andites
to the river bottoms and the seashores, to the valleys of the Nile,
Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow rivers. A new class of men—the traders—appeared.
The tide of migration veered from northward to southward, and as the
cavalrymen from the north began to infiltrate Mesopotamia, the purer, more
civilized Andites were forced to disband.
Ten percent turned to the east and entered
Sinkiang, where they
blended with the Andite-yellow inhabitants. The offspring of this union
later contributed to the immediate improvement of the northern Chinese
peoples.
Ten percent, including a large group of the
Sethite priests, moved
eastward through the Elamite highlands to the Iranian plateau and
Turkestan. Their descendants later teamed up with their Aryan brothers to
invade India.
Ten percent made
their way to Egypt via Arabia, where the remnant of the blue race had
amalgamated with certain others, particularly the yellow. As the Andites
passed through they upstepped this blend, which has persisted as the
swarthy modern Arabs. During this time civilization in Egypt was thriving—there
were seven distinct groups, all of whom, save one, came from Mesopotamia.
The more adventurous Andites poured westward—some to Cyprus, others to
what was later known as Carthage.
Five percent, representing the purest Andite strains, refused to
leave their homeland near the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates. This
group, the Sumerians, had kept themselves free from intermarriage
with the neighboring tribes. By 5000 BC, when heavy floods in Mesopotamia
completed the disruption of Andite civilization, only in the south among
these Sumerians did any trace of the former glory remain.
Sixty-five percent of the remaining Mesopotamian Andites entered
Europe
by the Caspian Sea route to conquer and amalgamate with the newly
appearing white races, a blend of the blue man with the earlier Andites.
All previous waves of Andites had moved so slowly that they tended to
disintegrate at any great distance from Mesopotamia, but these later waves
on horseback moved so rapidly that they reached Europe as coherent groups,
still retaining some measure of higher culture. As they moved westward
across the Russian plains, absorbing the best of the blue man and
exterminating the worst, they became blended into one people. These were
the ancestors of the so-called Nordic races, the forefathers of the
Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon peoples. This blue/Andite race also
contained a considerable amount of Andonite blood, together with smaller
amounts of the red and yellow Sangik. The typical early Nordic was
long-headed, tall, and blond.
For three thousand years the military headquarters of the northern Andites
was in Denmark. From this central point there went forth the successive
invasions of Europe, which grew decreasingly Andite and increasingly white
as the passing centuries witnessed the final blending of the conquerors
with the conquered peoples. The Nordic aggressors met their biggest
challenge from the Cro-Magnons in southern France, where the older race
successfully defended their territories for five hundred years before
succumbing to the white invaders. The Cro-Magnoid blue man constituted the
biologic foundation for the modern European races, but he has survived
only as absorbed by his white conquerors. By 5000 BC the evolving
white races were dominant throughout all of northern Europe, including
northern Germany, northern France, and the British Isles.
By 3000 BC the
southward-moving
nomadic Andonites from the north
had reached the Caspian/Black Sea region, where they split to invade both
Europe and Turkestan. This push lasted for a thousand years and
dispossessed the remaining Turkestan Andites from their homeland.
EUROPE/INDIA: The residue of Adamson´s descendants migrated
north and west to enter Europe with the blended stock of the last Andite
wave coming out of Mesopotamia, and they were also numbered among the
Andite-Aryan invaders of India, which was the second Andite penetration of
India. [While the Urantia Book refers only to those Andites invading India
as Aryans, this is the same Andite stock that simultanously invaded
Europe.] The early Aryans were scattered over the northwestern half of
India; those going south were soon absorbed by the Dravidians, who
subsequently overran the entire peninsula except the Himalayan provinces.
The greater persistence of the so-called Aryan blood in northern India is
not only due to their presence in these regions in greater numbers but
also because they were reinforced by later conquerors, traders, and
missionaries. Aryan and Dravidian cultures eventually mingled on the
plains of the Ganges to produce a high culture, and this center was later
bolstered by contributions from China.
MESOPOTAMIA: The groups of commingled invaders from the north
that continued to press south into Mesopotamia carried in their ranks many
of the better Andite strains of the mixed northern races of Turkestan,
including some of the Adamson stock. These barbarians quickly assimilated
the residue of the civilization of Mesopotamia and presently developed
into those mixed peoples found in the Euphrates valley at the dawn of
recorded history. They did not immediately conquer the Sumerians, who were
determined to maintain their racial and cultural superiority, but by 1790
BC, during the rule of Hammurabi, the Sumerians had become absorbed into
the ranks of the northern Semites and the Mesopotamian Andites were no
more.
MEDITERRANEAN: The disruption of land traffic during the great
nomadic invasions brought about a big increase in Mediterranean sea
commerce, resulting in the sudden expansion of the descendants of the
Andites throughout the entire coastal territory of the Mediterranean
basin. The brunet Mediterranean race, the most highly mixed of all,
combined the blue man with a smaller Andonite strain than in the north, a
considerable amount of secondary Sangik blood, strong Andite elements from
the eastern Mediterranean and later, admixture from the blue-yellow-Andite
peoples of Arabia. In the south the blue man has survived in greater
numbers; the Basques of France and the Berbers of northern
Africa, though
thoroughly blended with the Saharans, represent two branches of this
race.
It was not long before Egypt was overrun, as
Mesopotamia had been, by inhospitable tribes from Arabia and from the
south. Soon internal warfare along the Nile brought Egypt´s brilliant
epoch of culture to an end. Large numbers of fleeing Andites entered Spain
from northern Africa and later mingled in Switzerland with their brethren
who had earlier come to Italy from the Aegean Islands. Many of the more
able families fled to Crete, thus greatly augmenting this already advanced
civilization. And when the arrival of unprogressive groups from Egypt
later threatened the civilization of Crete, the more cultured families
moved on west to Greece.
Presently Greece and the Aegean Islands region
succeeded Mesopotamia and Egypt as the Occidental center of trade, art,
and culture. Practically all of the art and science of the Aegean world
was derived from Mesopotamia and the culture of the Adamsonites, but this
high civilization soon regressed under the rapidly multiplying genetically
mediocre descendants of the later-imported Danubian slaves. Many of the
mixed descendants of these Adamsonites became incorporated in the tribes
of the adjacent mainlands, and many of the advances in early Greek
civilization persisted in the later peoples of southern Europe.
The older European Andonites retained a semblance of identity only in
Lapland and to some extent, in Brittany; the Bretons never mingled with
the Nordics, being survivors of the original Andonite inhabitants of
western Europe, mixed with the Mediterranean stock. Other broad-headed
survivors of the earlier European Andonites—often reinforced by arrivals
of Andonites from Asia Minor—were dispersed through most of the
mountainous regions of central and southeastern Europe. By 2500 BC the
westward thrust of the Andonites from Siberia reached Europe, penetrating
by way of both the Balkans and the Ukraine. This invasion carried with it
the remaining groups of Adamson´s descendants and considerable numbers of
the Iranian Andites as well as many of the descendants of the Sethite
priests. They moved slowly northward by way of the Danube valley, their
most northerly settlement being at Liege in Belgium.
These Danubian Andonites
later amalgamated with groups of Andonite sailors who came by boats from
the coast of Asia Minor. Much of central Europe was thus early settled
by these mixed types of swarthy, stocky, broad-headed white races,
predominantly Andonite but containing strains of blue and yellow.
These invaders have given the central white races a characteristically
Alpine appearance; they are sandwiched between the Nordic and
Mediterranean races, extending from eastern France to central Asia. The
Nordic-Danish and the Danubian-Andonite cultures met and mingled on the
Rhine as is witnessed by the existence of two racial groups in Germany
today.
The races of today
have resulted from various combinations of the five basic human stocks of
Urantia, each identified by certain distinguishing physical
characteristics. There were long-headed Adamites and Nodites,
broad-headed Andonites, broad-headed yellow and blue men, and medium- to
long-headed secondary Sangiks. While skull dimensions can help to
decipher racial origins, the skeleton as a whole is far more dependable.
Originally there were five distinct types of skeletal structure:
1. Andonic—Urantia
aborigines.
2. Primary Sangik—red,
yellow, and blue peoples.
3. Secondary Sangik—orange,
green, and indigo peoples.
4. Nodite—descendants
of the Dalamatians.
5. Adamic—the violet
race.
Extensive intermingling of these five racial groups tended to obscure
the Andonite type by Sangik hereditary dominance. The skeletons of the
Andonite/blue Lapps and Eskimos come the nearest to preserving the
aboriginal Andonic type. But the Adamites and the Nodites, so admixed
with the other races, can now be detected only as a generalized
Caucasoid order. While there still remain pockets of the original
pure-line indigo, red, yellow and Andonic races, for the most part the
racial distinctions have been blurred. Study of the skeletal structures
unearthed from over the last 20,000 years will disclose that mankind is
now divided into approximately three classes:
1. The Caucasoid—the
Andite (Nodite plus Adamite) blend, modified by mostly primary Sangik
admixture with considerable Andonic crossing. Included in this group are
the Occidental white races as well as some Indian and Turanian* peoples.
Andite inheritance is the unifying factor.
2. The Mongoloid—the
primary Sangik (original red/yellow/blue) type. The Chinese and Amerinds
belong to this group. In Europe the Mongoloid (blue) type has been
obscured by secondary Sangik, Andonic, and Andite infusion. Malayans and
other Indonesian peoples, while they contain a high percentage of
secondary Sangik blood, are included in this classification.
3. The Negroid—the
secondary Sangik (original orange/ green/indigo) type, best illustrated
by the Negro, and found through Africa, India, and Indonesia wherever
the secondary Sangik races located.
Caucasoid and Mongoloid types have blended somewhat in Northern China;
Caucasoid and Negroid in the Levant; all three types are represented in
India and South America. And the skeletal characteristics of the three
surviving types still persist and help to identify the later ancestry of
present-day human races.
These racial mixes have come about through the
rise and fall of civilizations, overpopulation, food shortages, war,
ice, floods, droughts, earthquakes and other planetary disruptions that
forced the human race to stay on the move. Whole ethnic groups have thus
been driven into the arms of other ethnic groups, insuring that the
mating and blending game will continue until people stop being attracted to each
other. Whether downstepping or upstepping, each group brought along his
culture, his religion, his food, and his art with which to enrich the
other. This is the history of our planet—past, present, and future.
THE FUTURE
On a normal world the post-Adamic epoch sees the races practically
blended, so that it can be truly proclaimed that "God has made of one
blood all the nations," and "has made of one color all
peoples." Our planet is still in a relatively primitive state and, we
are told, lags far behind the average planetary schedule. But fear not! We
are not out of the running! If we are to find wise solutions to our
problems we must first learn to identify them, by objectively facing our
planetary history and studying it, side by side, together with a blueprint
of God´s evolutionary plan. And on that distant day when Urantia is in
step with the more advanced spheres—when we are all of one color, with a
language in common and one representative world government—we will look
back on today's struggles and challenges as soul- and spirit-building
stepping stones that inched us ever closer to the God of all creation.
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