The Midway Creatures

77:4.1The dis­per­sion of the Nod­ites was an im­me­di­ate re­sult of the in­ternecine con­flict over the tower of Ba­bel. This in­ter­nal war greatly re­duced the num­bers of the purer Nod­ites and was in many ways re­spon­si­ble for their fail­ure to es­tab­lish a great pre-Adamic civ­i­liza­tion. From this time on Nod­ite cul­ture de­clined for over one hun­dred and twenty thou­sand years un­til it was up­stepped by Adamic in­fu­sion. But even in the times of Adam the Nod­ites were still an able peo­ple. Many of their mixed de­scen­dants were num­bered among the Gar­den builders, and sev­eral of Van’s group cap­tains were Nod­ites. Some of the most ca­pa­ble minds serv­ing on Adam’s staff were of this race.

77:4.2Three out of the four great Nod­ite cen­ters were es­tab­lished im­me­di­ately fol­low­ing the Bablot con­flict:

77:4.31. The west­ern or Syr­ian Nod­ites. The rem­nants of the na­tion­al­is­tic or racial memo­ri­al­ists jour­neyed north­ward, unit­ing with the An­don­ites to found the later Nod­ite cen­ters to the north­west of Mes­o­po­ta­mia. This was the largest group of the dis­pers­ing Nod­ites, and they con­tributed much to the later ap­pear­ing As­syr­ian stock.

77:4.42. The east­ern or Elamite Nod­ites. The cul­ture and com­merce ad­vo­cates mi­grated in large num­bers east­ward into Elam and there united with the mixed San­gik tribes. The Elamites of thirty to forty thou­sand years ago had be­come largely San­gik in na­ture, al­though they con­tin­ued to main­tain a civ­i­liza­tion su­pe­rior to that of the sur­round­ing bar­bar­ians.

77:4.5Af­ter the es­tab­lish­ment of the sec­ond gar­den it was cus­tom­ary to al­lude to this near-by Nod­ite set­tle­ment as “the land of Nod”; and dur­ing the long pe­riod of rel­a­tive peace be­tween this Nod­ite group and the Adamites, the two races were greatly blended, for it be­came more and more the cus­tom for the Sons of God (the Adamites) to in­ter­marry with the daugh­ters of men (the Nod­ites).

77:4.63. The cen­tral or pre-Sume­rian Nod­ites. A small group at the mouth of the Tigris and Eu­phrates rivers main­tained more of their racial in­tegrity. They per­sisted for thou­sands of years and even­tu­ally fur­nished the Nod­ite an­ces­try which blended with the Adamites to found the Sume­rian peo­ples of his­toric times.

77:4.7And all this ex­plains how the Sume­ri­ans ap­peared so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously on the stage of ac­tion in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. In­ves­ti­ga­tors will never be able to trace out and fol­low these tribes back to the be­gin­ning of the Sume­ri­ans, who had their ori­gin two hun­dred thou­sand years ago af­ter the sub­mer­gence of Dala­ma­tia. With­out a trace of ori­gin else­where in the world, these an­cient tribes sud­denly loom upon the hori­zon of civ­i­liza­tion with a full-grown and su­pe­rior cul­ture, em­brac­ing tem­ples, met­al­work, agri­cul­ture, an­i­mals, pot­tery, weav­ing, com­mer­cial law, civil codes, re­li­gious cer­e­mo­nial, and an old sys­tem of writ­ing. At the be­gin­ning of the his­tor­i­cal era they had long since lost the al­pha­bet of Dala­ma­tia, hav­ing adopted the pe­cu­liar writ­ing sys­tem orig­i­nat­ing in Dil­mun. The Sume­rian lan­guage, though vir­tu­ally lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in com­mon with the so-called Aryan tongues.

77:4.8The elab­o­rate rec­ords left by the Sume­ri­ans de­scribe the site of a re­mark­able set­tle­ment which was lo­cated on the Per­sian Gulf near the ear­lier city of Dil­mun. The Egyp­tians called this city of an­cient glory Dil­mat, while the later Adamized Sume­ri­ans con­fused both the first and sec­ond Nod­ite cities with Dala­ma­tia and called all three Dil­mun. And al­ready have ar­chae­ol­o­gists found these an­cient Sume­rian clay tablets which tell of this earthly par­a­dise “where the Gods first blessed man­kind with the ex­am­ple of civ­i­lized and cul­tured life.” And these tablets, de­scrip­tive of Dil­mun, the par­a­dise of men and God, are now silently rest­ing on the dusty shelves of many mu­se­ums.

77:4.9The Sume­ri­ans well knew of the first and sec­ond Edens but, de­spite ex­ten­sive in­ter­mar­riage with the Adamites, con­tin­ued to re­gard the gar­den dwellers to the north as an alien race. Sume­rian pride in the more an­cient Nod­ite cul­ture led them to ig­nore these later vis­tas of glory in fa­vor of the grandeur and par­a­di­si­a­cal tra­di­tions of the city of Dil­mun.

77:4.104. The north­ern Nod­ites and Ama­don­ites—the Van­ites. This group arose prior to the Bablot con­flict. These north­ern­most Nod­ites were de­scen­dants of those who had for­saken the lead­er­ship of Nod and his suc­ces­sors for that of Van and Amadon.

77:4.11Some of the early as­so­ciates of Van sub­se­quently set­tled about the shores of the lake which still bears his name, and their tra­di­tions grew up about this lo­cal­ity. Ararat be­came their sa­cred moun­tain, hav­ing much the same mean­ing to later-day Van­ites that Sinai had to the He­brews. Ten thou­sand years ago the Van­ite an­ces­tors of the As­syr­i­ans taught that their moral law of seven com­mand­ments had been given to Van by the Gods upon Mount Ararat. They firmly be­lieved that Van and his as­so­ciate Amadon were taken alive from the planet while they were up on the moun­tain en­gaged in wor­ship.

77:4.12Mount Ararat was the sa­cred moun­tain of north­ern Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and since much of your tra­di­tion of these an­cient times was ac­quired in con­nec­tion with the Baby­lo­nian story of the flood, it is not sur­pris­ing that Mount Ararat and its re­gion were wo­ven into the later Jew­ish story of Noah and the uni­ver­sal flood.

77:4.13About 35,000 B.C. Adam­son vis­ited one of the east­ern­most of the old Van­ite set­tle­ments to found his cen­ter of civ­i­liza­tion.