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Paper 80

Andite Expansion in the Occident

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8. The Danubian Andonites

80:8.1The And­ite peo­ples of the Eu­phrates val­ley mi­grated north to Eu­rope to min­gle with the blue men and west into the Med­i­ter­ra­nean re­gions to mix with the rem­nants of the com­min­gled Sa­ha­rans and the south­ern blue men. And these two branches of the white race were, and now are, widely sep­a­rated by the broad-headed moun­tain sur­vivors of the ear­lier An­don­ite tribes which had long in­hab­ited these cen­tral re­gions.

80:8.2These de­scen­dants of An­don were dis­persed through most of the moun­tain­ous re­gions of cen­tral and south­east­ern Eu­rope. They were of­ten re­in­forced by ar­rivals from Asia Mi­nor, which re­gion they oc­cu­pied in con­sid­er­able strength. The an­cient Hit­tites stemmed di­rectly from the An­don­ite stock; their pale skins and broad heads were typ­i­cal of that race. This strain was car­ried in Abra­ham’s an­ces­try and con­tributed much to the char­ac­ter­is­tic fa­cial ap­pear­ance of his later Jew­ish de­scen­dants who, while hav­ing a cul­ture and re­li­gion de­rived from the And­ites, spoke a very dif­fer­ent lan­guage. Their tongue was dis­tinctly An­don­ite.

80:8.3The tribes that dwelt in houses erected on piles or log piers over the lakes of Italy, Switzer­land, and south­ern Eu­rope were the ex­pand­ing fringes of the African, Aegean, and, more es­pe­cially, the Danu­bian mi­gra­tions.

80:8.4The Danu­bians were An­don­ites, farm­ers and herders who had en­tered Eu­rope through the Balkan penin­sula and were mov­ing slowly north­ward by way of the Danube val­ley. They made pot­tery and tilled the land, pre­fer­ring to live in the val­leys. The most northerly set­tle­ment of the Danu­bians was at Liege in Bel­gium. These tribes de­te­ri­o­rated rapidly as they moved away from the cen­ter and source of their cul­ture. The best pot­tery is the prod­uct of the ear­lier set­tle­ments.

80:8.5The Danu­bians be­came mother wor­shipers as the re­sult of the work of the mis­sion­ar­ies from Crete. These tribes later amal­ga­mated with groups of An­don­ite sailors who came by boats from the coast of Asia Mi­nor, and who were also mother wor­shipers. Much of cen­tral Eu­rope was thus early set­tled by these mixed types of the broad-headed white races which prac­ticed mother wor­ship and the re­li­gious rite of cre­mat­ing the dead, for it was the cus­tom of the mother cultists to burn their dead in stone huts.