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Asia
is the homeland of the human race. On a southern peninsula of this
continent, in the highlands of
what is now Afghanistan, the first human
beings, Andon and
Fonta, were born of primate parents almost a million
years ago. The mutant twins were superior anatomically to their parents,
but what distinguished them—what made them human—was their
potential for being self-conscious will creatures who could recognize the
Creator and choose to do his will. Andon and Fonta were vaguely aware that
they were more than mere animals due to their possession of personality
and the presence of a fragment of God within their minds. To prevent the
possibility of admixture they conspired to move away from their animal
relatives and fled north, to the highlands of
India.
Andon and Fonta had nineteen children.
Their clans grew, and for twenty generations the Andonites stayed close to
their homeland, developing a language and establishing the rudiments of
human culture, until tribal conflicts and irritations, as well as
competition for food, forced them to disperse. This was during the ice
age, and while some groups remained behind, others migrated to the
north and to the west into what is now Europe. Along the rivers and
waterways leading to the North Sea they established more than one
thousand separate settlements, and for tens of thousands of years they
dwelt along the Somme River
in France.
In those days England was connected to the
continent, and the earliest Andonites living in that region were the Foxhall
peoples. They were established farthest west and succeeded in
retaining much of the original Andonic culture. In later times these same
Andonites built boats and sailed to Iceland
and Greenland, and
later still to the arctic regions of North America. They have survived as
the present-day Eskimos. In general physical appearance primitive
man resembled the Eskimo more than any other living human type.
Whenever the Andonites drifted down into
the warmer southern climes they tended to mate with their subhuman
cousins. In later years many of their mongrel descendants returned to
England from southern France to breed with the expanding Andonic tribes.
While the absorption of inferior animal strains retarded the progress of
the European Andonites, they were somewhat invigorated by a biologically
superior group who followed them and spread out over Europe, the Heidelberg
race.
At times there was a continuous land path
from England to
Java, and later on down as far as Tasmania. The
groups going west were not as contaminated with debased animal strains as
those going east, who mingled so freely with their retarded cousins.
Culturally and spiritually, the most advanced of the early Andonic tribes
existed in the region of the present Caspian Sea
at a settlement called Oban. Under the leadership of Onagar, these tribes had developed
doctrines of one Deity, and sent out the world´s first missionaries to
the distant settlements.
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