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Paper 80

Andite Expansion in the Occident

Archangel

5. The Andite Conquest of Northern Europe

80:5.1The tribes of north­ern Eu­rope were be­ing con­tin­u­ously re­in­forced and up­stepped by the steady stream of mi­grants from Mes­o­po­ta­mia through the Tur­kes­tan-south Rus­sian re­gions, and when the last waves of And­ite cav­alry swept over Eu­rope, there were al­ready more men with And­ite in­her­i­tance in that re­gion than were to be found in all the rest of the world.

80:5.2For three thou­sand years the mil­i­tary head­quar­ters of the north­ern And­ites was in Den­mark. From this cen­tral point there went forth the suc­ces­sive waves of con­quest, which grew de­creas­ingly And­ite and in­creas­ingly white as the pass­ing cen­turies wit­nessed the fi­nal blend­ing of the Mes­o­po­ta­mian con­querors with the con­quered peo­ples.

80:5.3While the blue man had been ab­sorbed in the north and even­tu­ally suc­cumbed to the white cav­alry raiders who pen­e­trated the south, the ad­vanc­ing tribes of the mixed white race met with stub­born and pro­tracted re­sis­tance from the Cro-Magnons, but su­pe­rior in­tel­li­gence and ever-aug­ment­ing bi­o­logic re­serves en­abled them to wipe the older race out of ex­is­tence.

80:5.4The de­ci­sive strug­gles be­tween the white man and the blue man were fought out in the val­ley of the Somme. Here, the flower of the blue race bit­terly con­tested the south­ward-mov­ing And­ites, and for over five hun­dred years these Cro-Mag­noids suc­cess­fully de­fended their ter­ri­to­ries be­fore suc­cumb­ing to the su­pe­rior mil­i­tary strat­egy of the white in­vaders. Thor, the vic­to­ri­ous com­man­der of the armies of the north in the fi­nal bat­tle of the Somme, be­came the hero of the north­ern white tribes and later on was revered as a god by some of them.

80:5.5The strongholds of the blue man which per­sisted longest were in south­ern France, but the last great mil­i­tary re­sis­tance was over­come along the Somme. The later con­quest pro­gressed by com­mer­cial pen­e­tra­tion, pop­u­la­tion pres­sure along the rivers, and by con­tin­ued in­ter­mar­riage with the su­pe­ri­ors, cou­pled with the ruth­less ex­ter­mi­na­tion of the in­fe­ri­ors.

80:5.6When the tribal coun­cil of the And­ite el­ders had ad­judged an in­fe­rior cap­tive to be un­fit, he was, by elab­o­rate cer­e­mony, com­mit­ted to the shaman priests, who es­corted him to the river and ad­min­is­tered the rites of ini­ti­a­tion to the “happy hunt­ing grounds”—lethal sub­mer­gence. In this way the white in­vaders of Eu­rope ex­ter­mi­nated all peo­ples en­coun­tered who were not quickly ab­sorbed into their own ranks, and thus did the blue man come to an end—and quickly.

80:5.7The Cro-Mag­noid blue man con­sti­tuted the bi­o­logic foun­da­tion for the mod­ern Eu­ro­pean races, but they have sur­vived only as ab­sorbed by the later and vir­ile con­querors of their home­lands. The blue strain con­tributed many sturdy traits and much phys­i­cal vigor to the white races of Eu­rope, but the hu­mor and imag­i­na­tion of the blended Eu­ro­pean peo­ples were de­rived from the And­ites. This And­ite-blue union, re­sult­ing in the north­ern white races, pro­duced an im­me­di­ate lapse of And­ite civ­i­liza­tion, a re­tar­da­tion of a tran­sient na­ture. Even­tu­ally, the la­tent su­pe­ri­or­ity of these north­ern bar­bar­ians man­i­fested it­self and cul­mi­nated in pres­ent-day Eu­ro­pean civ­i­liza­tion.

80:5.8By 5000 B.C. the evolv­ing white races were dom­i­nant through­out all of north­ern Eu­rope, in­clud­ing north­ern Ger­many, north­ern France, and the British Isles. Cen­tral Eu­rope was for some time con­trolled by the blue man and the round-headed An­don­ites. The lat­ter were mainly sit­u­ated in the Danube val­ley and were never en­tirely dis­placed by the And­ites.

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