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Paper 79

Andite Expansion in the Orient

Archangel

5. Red Man and Yellow Man

79:5.1While the story of In­dia is that of And­ite con­quest and even­tual sub­mer­gence in the older evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples, the nar­ra­tive of east­ern Asia is more prop­erly that of the pri­mary San­giks, par­tic­u­larly the red man and the yel­low man. These two races largely es­caped that ad­mix­ture with the de­based Ne­an­derthal strain which so greatly re­tarded the blue man in Eu­rope, thus pre­serv­ing the su­pe­rior po­ten­tial of the pri­mary San­gik type.

79:5.2While the early Ne­an­derthalers were spread out over the en­tire breadth of Eura­sia, the east­ern wing was the more con­tam­i­nated with de­based an­i­mal strains. These sub­hu­man types were pushed south by the fifth glacier, the same ice sheet which so long blocked San­gik mi­gra­tion into east­ern Asia. And when the red man moved north­east around the high­lands of In­dia, he found north­east­ern Asia free from these sub­hu­man types. The tribal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the red races was formed ear­lier than that of any other peo­ples, and they were the first to mi­grate from the cen­tral Asian fo­cus of the San­giks. The in­fe­rior Ne­an­derthal strains were de­stroyed or driven off the main­land by the later mi­grat­ing yel­low tribes. But the red man had reigned su­preme in east­ern Asia for al­most one hun­dred thou­sand years be­fore the yel­low tribes ar­rived.

79:5.3More than three hun­dred thou­sand years ago the main body of the yel­low race en­tered China from the south as coast­wise mi­grants. Each mil­len­nium they pen­e­trated far­ther and far­ther in­land, but they did not make con­tact with their mi­grat­ing Ti­betan breth­ren un­til com­par­a­tively re­cent times.

79:5.4Grow­ing pop­u­la­tion pres­sure caused the north­ward-mov­ing yel­low race to be­gin to push into the hunt­ing grounds of the red man. This en­croach­ment, cou­pled with nat­u­ral racial an­tag­o­nism, cul­mi­nated in in­creas­ing hos­til­i­ties, and thus be­gan the cru­cial strug­gle for the fer­tile lands of far­ther Asia.

79:5.5The story of this age­long con­test be­tween the red and yel­low races is an epic of Uran­tia his­tory. For over two hun­dred thou­sand years these two su­pe­rior races waged bit­ter and un­remit­ting war­fare. In the ear­lier strug­gles the red men were gen­er­ally suc­cess­ful, their raid­ing par­ties spread­ing havoc among the yel­low set­tle­ments. But the yel­low man was an apt pupil in the art of war­fare, and he early man­i­fested a marked abil­ity to live peace­ably with his com­pa­tri­ots; the Chi­nese were the first to learn that in union there is strength. The red tribes con­tin­ued their in­ternecine con­flicts, and pres­ently they be­gan to suf­fer re­peated de­feats at the ag­gres­sive hands of the re­lent­less Chi­nese, who con­tin­ued their in­ex­orable march north­ward.

79:5.6One hun­dred thou­sand years ago the dec­i­mated tribes of the red race were fight­ing with their backs to the re­treat­ing ice of the last glacier, and when the land pas­sage to the West, over the Bering isth­mus, be­came pass­able, these tribes were not slow in for­sak­ing the in­hos­pitable shores of the Asi­atic con­ti­nent. It is eighty-five thou­sand years since the last of the pure red men de­parted from Asia, but the long strug­gle left its ge­netic im­print upon the vic­to­ri­ous yel­low race. The north­ern Chi­nese peo­ples, to­gether with the An­don­ite Siberi­ans, as­sim­i­lated much of the red stock and were in con­sid­er­able mea­sure ben­e­fited thereby.

79:5.7The North Amer­i­can In­di­ans never came in con­tact with even the And­ite off­spring of Adam and Eve, hav­ing been dis­pos­sessed of their Asi­atic home­lands some fifty thou­sand years be­fore the com­ing of Adam. Dur­ing the age of And­ite mi­gra­tions the pure red strains were spread­ing out over North Amer­ica as no­madic tribes, hunters who prac­ticed agri­cul­ture to a small ex­tent. These races and cul­tural groups re­mained al­most com­pletely iso­lated from the re­main­der of the world from their ar­rival in the Amer­i­cas down to the end of the first mil­len­nium of the Chris­tian era, when they were dis­cov­ered by the white races of Eu­rope. Up to that time the Es­ki­mos were the near­est to white men the north­ern tribes of red men had ever seen.

79:5.8The red and the yel­low races are the only hu­man stocks that ever achieved a high de­gree of civ­i­liza­tion apart from the in­flu­ences of the And­ites. The old­est Amerindian cul­ture was the Ona­mo­na­lon­ton cen­ter in Cal­i­for­nia, but this had long since van­ished by 35,000 B.C. In Mex­ico, Cen­tral Amer­ica, and in the moun­tains of South Amer­ica the later and more en­dur­ing civ­i­liza­tions were founded by a race pre­dom­i­nantly red but con­tain­ing a con­sid­er­able ad­mix­ture of the yel­low, or­ange, and blue.

79:5.9These civ­i­liza­tions were evo­lu­tion­ary prod­ucts of the San­giks, not­with­stand­ing that traces of And­ite blood reached Peru. Ex­cept­ing the Es­ki­mos in North Amer­ica and a few Poly­ne­sian And­ites in South Amer­ica, the peo­ples of the West­ern Hemi­sphere had no con­tact with the rest of the world un­til the end of the first mil­len­nium af­ter Christ. In the orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek plan for the im­prove­ment of the Uran­tia races it had been stip­u­lated that one mil­lion of the pure-line de­scen­dants of Adam should go to up­step the red men of the Amer­i­cas.

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