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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 78
THE VIOLET RACE AFTER THE DAYS OF ADAM
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THE second Eden was the cradle of civilization for
almost thirty thousand years. Here in Mesopotamia the
Adamic peoples held forth, sending out their progeny to
the ends of the earth, and latterly, as amalgamated with
the Nodite and Sangik tribes, were known as the Andites.
From this region went those men and women who initiated
the doings of historic times, and who have so enormously
accelerated cultural progress on Urantia.
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This paper depicts the planetary history of the violet
race, beginning soon after the default of Adam, about
35,000 B.C., and extending down through its amalgamation
with the Nodite and Sangik races, about 15,000 B.C., to
form the Andite peoples and on to its final
disappearance from the Mesopotamian homelands, about
2000 B.C.
1. RACIAL AND CULTURAL DISTRIBUTION
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Although the minds and morals of the races were at a low
level at the time of Adam's arrival, physical evolution
had gone on quite unaffected by the exigencies of the
Caligastia rebellion. Adam's contribution to the
biologic status of the races, notwithstanding the
partial failure of the undertaking, enormously upstepped
the people of Urantia.
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Adam and Eve also contributed much that was of value to
the social, moral, and intellectual progress of mankind;
civilization was immensely quickened by the presence of
their offspring. But thirty-five thousand years ago the
world at large possessed little culture. Certain centers
of civilization existed here and there, but most of
Urantia languished in savagery. Racial and cultural
distribution was as follows:
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1. The violet
race -- Adamites and Adamsonites. The chief center
of Adamite culture was in the second garden, located in
the triangle of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; this
was indeed the cradle of Occidental and Indian
civilizations. The secondary or northern center of the
violet race was the Adamsonite headquarters, situated
east of the southern shore of the Caspian Sea near the
Kopet mountains. From these two centers there went forth
to the surrounding lands the culture and life plasm
which so immediately quickened all the races.
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2. Pre-Sumerians
and other Nodites. There were also present in
Mesopotamia, near the mouth of the rivers, remnants of
the ancient culture of the days of Dalamatia. With the
passing millenniums, this group became thoroughly
admixed with the Adamites to the north, but they never
entirely lost their Nodite traditions. Various other
Nodite groups that had settled in the Levant were, in
general, absorbed by the later expanding violet race.
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3. The Andonites
maintained five or six fairly representative settlements
to the north and east of the Adamson headquarters. They
were also scattered throughout Turkestan, while isolated
islands of them persisted throughout Eurasia, especially
in mountainous regions. These aborigines still held the
northlands of the Eurasian continent, together with
Iceland and Greenland, but they had long since been
driven from the plains of Europe by the blue man and
from the river valleys of farther Asia by the expanding
yellow race.
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4. The red man
occupied the Americas, having been driven out of Asia
over fifty thousand years before the arrival of Adam.
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5. The yellow
race. The Chinese peoples were well established in
control of eastern Asia. Their most advanced settlements
were situated to the northwest of modern China in
regions bordering on Tibet.
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6. The blue race.
The blue men were scattered all over Europe, but their
better centers of culture were situated in the then
fertile valleys of the Mediterranean basin and in
northwestern Europe. Neanderthal absorption had greatly
retarded the culture of the blue man, but he was
otherwise the most aggressive, adventurous, and
exploratory of all the evolutionary peoples of Eurasia.
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7. Pre-Dravidian
India. The complex mixture of races in India --
embracing every race on earth, but especially the green,
orange, and black -- maintained a culture slightly above
that of the outlying regions.
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8. The Sahara
civilization. The superior elements of the indigo
race had their most progressive settlements in what is
now the great Sahara desert. This indigo-black group
carried extensive strains of the submerged orange and
green races.
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9. The
Mediterranean basin. The most highly blended race
outside of India occupied what is now the Mediterranean
basin. Here blue men from the north and Saharans from
the south met and mingled with Nodites and Adamites from
the east.
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This was the picture of the world prior to the
beginnings of the great expansions of the violet race,
about twenty-five thousand years ago. The hope of future
civilization lay in the second garden between the rivers
of Mesopotamia. Here in southwestern Asia there existed
the potential of a great civilization, the possibility
of the spread to the world of the ideas and ideals which
had been salvaged from the days of Dalamatia and the
times of Eden.
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Adam and Eve had left behind a limited but potent
progeny, and the celestial observers on Urantia waited
anxiously to find out how these descendants of the
erring Material Son and Daughter would acquit
themselves.
2. THE ADAMITES IN THE SECOND GARDEN
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For thousands of years the sons of Adam labored along
the rivers of Mesopotamia, working out their irrigation
and flood-control problems to the south, perfecting
their defenses to the north, and attempting to preserve
their traditions of the glory of the first Eden.
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The heroism displayed in the leadership of the second
garden constitutes one of the amazing and inspiring
epics of Urantia's history. These splendid souls never
wholly lost sight of the purpose of the Adamic mission,
and therefore did they valiantly fight off the
influences of the surrounding and inferior tribes while
they willingly sent forth their choicest sons and
daughters in a steady stream as emissaries to the races
of earth. Sometimes this expansion was depleting to the
home culture, but always these superior peoples would
rehabilitate themselves.
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The civilization, society, and cultural status of the
Adamites were far above the general level of the
evolutionary races of Urantia. Only among the old
settlements of Van and Amadon and the Adamsonites was
there a civilization in anyway comparable. But the
civilization of the second Eden was an artificial
structure -- it
had not been evolved -- and was therefore doomed to
deteriorate until it reached a natural evolutionary
level.
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Adam left a great intellectual and spiritual culture
behind him, but it was not advanced in mechanical
appliances since every civilization is limited by
available natural resources, inherent genius, and
sufficient leisure to insure inventive fruition. The
civilization of the violet race was predicated on the
presence of Adam and on the traditions of the first
Eden. After Adam's death and as these traditions grew
dim through the passing millenniums, the cultural level
of the Adamites steadily deteriorated until it reached a
state of reciprocal balance with the status of the
surrounding peoples and the naturally evolving cultural
capacities of the violet race.
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But the Adamites were a real nation around 19,000 B.C.,
numbering four and a half million, and already they had
poured forth millions of their progeny into the
surrounding peoples.
3. EARLY EXPANSIONS OF THE ADAMITES
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The violet race retained the Edenic traditions of
peacefulness for many millenniums, which explains their
long delay in making territorial conquests. When they
suffered from population pressure, instead of making war
to secure more territory, they sent forth their excess
inhabitants as teachers to the other races. The cultural
effect of these earlier migrations was not enduring, but
the absorption of the Adamite teachers, traders, and
explorers was biologically invigorating to the
surrounding peoples.
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Some of the Adamites early journeyed westward to the
valley of the Nile; others penetrated eastward into
Asia, but these were a minority. The mass movement of
the later days was extensively northward and thence
westward. It was, in the main, a gradual but unremitting
northward push, the greater number making their way
north and then circling westward around the Caspian Sea
into Europe.
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About twenty-five thousand years ago many of the purer
elements of the Adamites were well on their northern
trek. And as they penetrated northward, they became less
and less Adamic until, by the times of their occupation
of Turkestan, they had become thoroughly admixed with
the other races, particularly the Nodites. Very few of
the pure-line violet peoples ever penetrated far into
Europe or Asia.
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From about 30,000 to 10,000 B.C. epoch-making racial
mixtures were taking place throughout southwestern Asia.
The highland inhabitants of Turkestan were a virile and
vigorous people. To the northwest of India much of the
culture of the days of Van persisted. Still to the north
of these settlements the best of the early Andonites had
been preserved. And both of these superior races of
culture and character were absorbed by the
northward-moving Adamites. This amalgamation led to the
adoption of many new ideas; it facilitated the progress
of civilization and greatly advanced all phases of art,
science, and social culture.
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As the period of the early Adamic migrations ended,
about 15,000 B.C., there were already more descendants
of Adam in Europe and central Asia than anywhere else in
the world, even than in Mesopotamia. The European blue
races had been largely infiltrated. The lands now called
Russia and Turkestan were occupied throughout their
southern stretches by a great reservoir of the Adamites
mixed with Nodites, Andonites, and red and yellow
Sangiks. Southern Europe and the Mediterranean fringe
were occupied by a mixed race of Andonite and Sangik
peoples -- orange, green, and indigo -- with a
sprinkling of the Adamite stock. Asia Minor and the
central-eastern European lands were held by tribes that
were predominantly Andonite.
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A blended colored race, about this time greatly
reinforced by arrivals from Mesopotamia, held forth in
Egypt and prepared to take over the disappearing culture
of the Euphrates valley. The black peoples were moving
farther south in Africa and, like the red race, were
virtually isolated.
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The Saharan civilization had been disrupted by drought
and that of the Mediterranean basin by flood. The blue
races had, as yet, failed to develop an advanced
culture. The Andonites were still scattered over the
Arctic and central Asian regions. The green and orange
races had been exterminated as such. The indigo race was
moving south in Africa, there to begin its slow but
long-continued racial deterioration.
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The peoples of India lay stagnant, with a civilization
that was unprogressing; the yellow man was consolidating
his holdings in central Asia; the brown man had not yet
begun his civilization on the near-by islands of the
Pacific.
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These racial distributions, associated with extensive
climatic changes, set the world stage for the
inauguration of the Andite era of Urantia civilization.
These early migrations extended over a period of ten
thousand years, from 25,000 to 15,000 B.C. The later or
Andite migrations extended from about 15,000 to 6000
B.C.
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It took so long for the earlier waves of Adamites to
pass over Eurasia that their culture was largely lost in
transit. Only the later Andites moved with sufficient
speed to retain the Edenic culture at any great distance
from Mesopotamia.
4. THE ANDITES
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The Andite races were the primary blends of the
pure-line violet race and the Nodites plus the
evolutionary peoples. In general, Andites should be
thought of as having a far greater percentage of Adamic
blood than the modern races. In the main, the term
Andite is used to designate those peoples whose racial
inheritance was from one-eighth to one-sixth violet.
Modern Urantians, even the northern white races, contain
much less than this percentage of the blood of Adam.
78:4.2
The earliest Andite peoples took origin in the regions
adjacent to Mesopotamia more than twenty-five thousand
years ago and consisted of a blend of the Adamites and
Nodites. The second garden was surrounded by concentric
circles of diminishing violet blood, and it was on the
periphery of this racial melting pot that the Andite
race was born. Later on, when the migrating Adamites and
Nodites entered the then fertile regions of Turkestan,
they soon blended with the superior inhabitants, and the
resultant race mixture extended the Andite type
northward.
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The Andites were the best all-round human stock to
appear on Urantia since the days of the pure-line violet
peoples. They embraced most of the highest types of the
surviving remnants of the Adamite and Nodite races and,
later, some of the best strains of the yellow, blue, and
green men.
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These early Andites were not Aryan; they were pre-Aryan.
They were not white; they were pre-white. They were
neither an Occidental nor an Oriental people. But it is
Andite inheritance that gives to the polyglot mixture of
the so-called white races that generalized homogeneity
which has been called Caucasoid.
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The purer strains of the violet race had retained the
Adamic tradition of peace-seeking, which explains why
the earlier race movements had been more in the nature
of peaceful migrations. But as the Adamites united with
the Nodite stocks, who were by this time a belligerent
race, their Andite descendants became, for their day and
age, the most skillful and sagacious militarists ever to
live on Urantia. Thenceforth the movements of the
Mesopotamians grew increasingly military in character
and became more akin to actual conquests.
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These Andites were adventurous; they had roving
dispositions. An increase of either Sangik or Andonite
stock tended to stabilize them. But even so, their later
descendants never stopped until they had circumnavigated
the globe and discovered the last remote continent.
5. THE ANDITE MIGRATIONS
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For twenty thousand years the culture of the second
garden persisted, but it experienced a steady decline
until about 15,000 B.C., when the regeneration of the
Sethite priesthood and the leadership of Amosad
inaugurated a brilliant era. The massive waves of
civilization which later spread over Eurasia immediately
followed the great renaissance of the Garden consequent
upon the extensive union of the Adamites with the
surrounding mixed Nodites to form the Andites.
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These Andites inaugurated new advances throughout
Eurasia and North Africa. From Mesopotamia through
Sinkiang the Andite culture was dominant, and the steady
migration toward Europe was continuously offset by new
arrivals from Mesopotamia. But it is hardly correct to
speak of the Andites as a race in Mesopotamia proper
until near the beginning of the terminal migrations of
the mixed descendants of Adam. By this time even the
races in the second garden had become so blended that
they could no longer be considered Adamites.
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The civilization of Turkestan was constantly being
revived and refreshed by the newcomers from Mesopotamia,
especially by the later Andite cavalrymen. The so-called
Aryan mother tongue was in process of formation in the
highlands of Turkestan; it was a blend of the Andonic
dialect of that region with the language of the
Adamsonites and later Andites. Many modern languages are
derived from this early speech of these central Asian
tribes who conquered Europe, India, and the upper
stretches of the Mesopotamian plains. This ancient
language gave the Occidental tongues all of that
similarity which is called Aryan.
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By 12,000 B.C. three quarters of the Andite stock of the
world was resident in northern and eastern Europe, and
when the later and final exodus from Mesopotamia took
place, sixty-five per cent of these last waves of
emigration entered Europe.
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The Andites not only migrated to Europe but to northern
China and India, while many groups penetrated to the
ends of the earth as missionaries, teachers, and
traders. They contributed considerably to the northern
groups of the Saharan Sangik peoples. But only a few
teachers and traders ever penetrated farther south in
Africa than the headwaters of the Nile. Later on, mixed
Andites and Egyptians followed down both the east and
west coasts of Africa well below the equator, but they
did not reach Madagascar.
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These Andites were the so-called Dravidian and later
Aryan conquerors of India; and their presence in central
Asia greatly upstepped the ancestors of the Turanians.
Many of this race journeyed to China by way of both
Sinkiang and Tibet and added desirable qualities to the
later Chinese stocks. From time to time small groups
made their way into Japan, Formosa, the East Indies, and
southern China, though very few entered southern China
by the coastal route.
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One hundred and thirty-two of this race, embarking in a
fleet of small boats from Japan, eventually reached
South America and by intermarriage with the natives of
the Andes established the ancestry of the later rulers
of the Incas. They crossed the Pacific by easy stages,
tarrying on the many islands they found along the way.
The islands of the Polynesian group were both more
numerous and larger then than now, and these Andite
sailors, together with some who followed them,
biologically modified the native groups in transit. Many
flourishing centers of civilization grew up on these now
submerged lands as a result of Andite penetration.
Easter Island was long a religious and administrative
center of one of these lost groups. But of the Andites
who navigated the Pacific of long ago none but the one
hundred and thirty-two ever reached the mainland of the
Americas.
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The migratory conquests of the Andites continued on down
to their final dispersions, from 8000 to 6000 B.C. As
they poured out of Mesopotamia, they continuously
depleted the biologic reserves of their homelands while
markedly strengthening the surrounding peoples. And to
every nation to which they journeyed, they contributed
humor, art, adventure, music, and manufacture. They were
skillful domesticators of animals and expert
agriculturists. For the time being, at least, their
presence usually improved the religious beliefs and
moral practices of the older races. And so the culture
of Mesopotamia quietly spread out over Europe, India,
China, northern Africa, and the Pacific Islands.
6. THE LAST ANDITE DISPERSIONS
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The last three waves of Andites poured out of
Mesopotamia between 8000 and 6000 B.C. These three great
waves of culture were forced out of Mesopotamia by the
pressure of the hill tribes to the east and the
harassment of the plainsmen of the west. The inhabitants
of the Euphrates valley and adjacent territory went
forth in their final exodus in several directions:
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Sixty-five per cent entered Europe by the Caspian Sea
route to conquer and amalgamate with the newly appearing
white races -- the blend of the blue men and the earlier
Andites.
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Ten per cent, including a large group of the Sethite
priests, moved eastward through the Elamite highlands to
the Iranian plateau and Turkestan. Many of their
descendants were later driven into India with their
Aryan brethren from the regions to the north.
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Ten per cent of the Mesopotamians turned eastward in
their northern trek, entering Sinkiang, where they
blended with the Andite-yellow inhabitants. The majority
of the able offspring of this racial union later entered
China and contributed much to the immediate improvement
of the northern division of the yellow race.
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Ten per cent of these fleeing Andites made their way
across Arabia and entered Egypt.
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Five per cent of the Andites, the very superior culture
of the coastal district about the mouths of the Tigris
and Euphrates who had kept themselves free from
intermarriage with the inferior neighboring tribesmen,
refused to leave their homes. This group represented the
survival of many superior Nodite and Adamite strains.
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The Andites had almost entirely evacuated this region by
6000 B.C., though their descendants, largely mixed with
the surrounding Sangik races and the Andonites of Asia
Minor, were there to give battle to the northern and
eastern invaders at a much later date.
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The cultural age of the second garden was terminated by
the increasing infiltration of the surrounding inferior
stocks. Civilization moved westward to the Nile and the
Mediterranean islands, where it continued to thrive and
advance long after its fountainhead in Mesopotamia had
deteriorated. And this unchecked influx of inferior
peoples prepared the way for the later conquest of all
Mesopotamia by the northern barbarians who drove out the
residual strains of ability. Even in later years the
cultured residue still resented the presence of these
ignorant and uncouth invaders.
7. THE FLOODS IN MESOPOTAMIA
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The river dwellers were accustomed to rivers overflowing
their banks at certain seasons; these periodic floods
were annual events in their lives. But new perils
threatened the valley of Mesopotamia as a result of
progressive geologic changes to the north.
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For thousands of years after the submergence of the
first Eden the mountains about the eastern coast of the
Mediterranean and those to the northwest and northeast
of Mesopotamia continued to rise. This elevation of the
highlands was greatly accelerated about 5000 B.C., and
this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the
northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each
spring throughout the Euphrates valley. These spring
floods grew increasingly worse so that eventually the
inhabitants of the river regions were driven to the
eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years scores of
cities were practically deserted because of these
extensive deluges.
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Almost five thousand years later, as the Hebrew priests
in Babylonian captivity sought to trace the Jewish
people back to Adam, they found great difficulty in
piecing the story together; and it occurred to one of
them to abandon the effort, to let the whole world drown
in its wickedness at the time of Noah's flood, and thus
to be in a better position to trace Abraham right back
to one of the three surviving sons of Noah.
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The traditions of a time when water covered the whole of
the earth's surface are universal. Many races harbor the
story of a world-wide flood some time during past ages.
The Biblical story of Noah, the ark, and the flood is an
invention of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian
captivity. There has never been a universal flood since
life was established on Urantia. The only time the
surface of the earth was completely covered by water was
during those Archeozoic ages before the land had begun
to appear.
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But Noah really lived; he was a wine maker of Aram, a
river settlement near Erech. He kept a written record of
the days of the river's rise from year to year. He
brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down
the river valley advocating that all houses be built of
wood, boat fashion, and that the family animals be put
on board each night as the flood season approached. He
would go to the neighboring river settlements every year
and warn them that in so many days the floods would
come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods
were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so
that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire
village; only Noah and his immediate family were saved
in their houseboat.
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These floods completed the disruption of Andite
civilization. With the ending of this period of deluge,
the second garden was no more. Only in the south and
among the Sumerians did any trace of the former glory
remain.
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The remnants of this, one of the oldest civilizations,
are to be found in these regions of Mesopotamia and to
the northeast and northwest. But still older vestiges of
the days of Dalamatia exist under the waters of the
Persian Gulf, and the first Eden lies submerged under
the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
8. THE SUMERIANS -- LAST OF THE ANDITES
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When the last Andite dispersion broke the biologic
backbone of Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority
of this superior race remained in their homeland near
the mouths of the rivers. These were the Sumerians, and
by 6000 B.C. they had become largely Andite in
extraction, though their culture was more exclusively
Nodite in character, and they clung to the ancient
traditions of Dalamatia. Nonetheless, these Sumerians of
the coastal regions were the last of the Andites in
Mesopotamia. But the races of Mesopotamia were already
thoroughly blended by this late date, as is evidenced by
the skull types found in the graves of this era.
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It was during the floodtimes that Susa so greatly
prospered. The first and lower city was inundated so
that the second or higher town succeeded the lower as
the headquarters for the peculiar artcrafts of that day.
With the later diminution of these floods, Ur became the
center of the pottery industry. About seven thousand
years ago Ur was on the Persian Gulf, the river deposits
having since built up the land to its present limits.
These settlements suffered less from the floods because
of better controlling works and the widening mouths of
the rivers.
78:8.3
The peaceful grain growers of the Euphrates and Tigris
valleys had long been harassed by the raids of the
barbarians of Turkestan and the Iranian plateau. But now
a concerted invasion of the Euphrates valley was brought
about by the increasing drought of the highland
pastures. And this invasion was all the more serious
because these surrounding herdsmen and hunters possessed
large numbers of tamed horses. It was the possession of
horses which gave them a tremendous military advantage
over their rich neighbors to the south. In a short time
they overran all Mesopotamia, driving forth the last
waves of culture which spread out over all of Europe,
western Asia, and northern Africa.
78:8.4
These conquerors of 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 less advanced but more vigorous tribes from the
north quickly and willingly assimilated the residue of
the civilization of Mesopotamia and presently developed
into those mixed peoples found in the Euphrates valley
at the beginning of historic annals. They quickly
revived many phases of the passing civilization of
Mesopotamia, adopting the arts of the valley tribes and
much of the culture of the Sumerians. They even sought
to build a third tower of Babel and later adopted the
term as their national name.
78:8.5
When these barbarian cavalrymen from the northeast
overran the whole Euphrates valley, they did not conquer
the remnants of the Andites who dwelt about the mouth of
the river on the Persian Gulf. These Sumerians were able
to defend themselves because of superior intelligence,
better weapons, and their extensive system of military
canals, which were an adjunct to their irrigation scheme
of interconnecting pools. They were a united people
because they had a uniform group religion. They were
thus able to maintain their racial and national
integrity long after their neighbors to the northwest
were broken up into isolated city-states. No one of
these city groups was able to overcome the united
Sumerians.
78:8.6
And the invaders from the north soon learned to trust
and prize these peace-loving Sumerians as able teachers
and administrators. They were greatly respected and
sought after as teachers of art and industry, as
directors of commerce, and as civil rulers by all
peoples to the north and from Egypt in the west to India
in the east.
78:8.7
After the breakup of the early Sumerian confederation
the later city-states were ruled by the apostate
descendants of the Sethite priests. Only when these
priests made conquests of the neighboring cities did
they call themselves kings. The later city kings failed
to form powerful confederations before the days of
Sargon because of deity jealousy. Each city believed its
municipal god to be superior to all other gods, and
therefore they refused to subordinate themselves to a
common leader.
78:8.8
The end of this long period of the weak rule of the city
priests was terminated by Sargon, the priest of Kish,
who proclaimed himself king and started out on the
conquest of the whole of Mesopotamia and adjoining
lands. And for the time, this ended the city-states,
priest-ruled and priest-ridden, each city having its own
municipal god and its own ceremonial practices.
78:8.9
After the breakup of this Kish confederation there
ensued a long period of constant warfare between these
valley cities for supremacy. And the rulership variously
shifted between Sumer, Akkad, Kish, Erech, Ur, and Susa.
78:8.10
About 2500 B.C. the Sumerians suffered severe reverses
at the hands of the northern Suites and Guites. Lagash,
the Sumerian capital built on flood mounds, fell. Erech
held out for thirty years after the fall of Akkad. By
the time of the establishment of the rule of Hammurabi
the Sumerians had become absorbed into the ranks of the
northern Semites, and the Mesopotamian Andites passed
from the pages of history.
78:8.11
From 2500 to 2000 B.C. the nomads were on a rampage from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Nerites constituted the
final eruption of the Caspian group of the Mesopotamian
descendants of the blended Andonite and Andite races.
What the barbarians failed to do to effect the ruination
of Mesopotamia, subsequent climatic changes succeeded in
accomplishing.
78:8.12
And this is the story of the violet race after the days
of Adam and of the fate of their homeland between the
Tigris and Euphrates. Their ancient civilization finally
fell due to the emigration of superior peoples and the
immigration of their inferior neighbors. But long before
the barbarian cavalrymen conquered the valley, much of
the Garden culture had spread to Asia, Africa, and
Europe, there to produce the ferments which have
resulted in the twentieth-century civilization of
Urantia.
78:8.13
Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.
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