Badonan tribes

86:5.17The chil­dren of Bado­nan de­vel­oped a be­lief in two souls, the breath and the shadow. The early Nod­ite races re­garded man as con­sist­ing of two per­sons, soul and body. This phi­los­o­phy of hu­man ex­is­tence was later re­flected in the Greek view­point. The Greeks them­selves be­lieved in three souls; the veg­e­ta­tive resided in the stom­ach, the an­i­mal in the heart, the in­tel­lec­tual in the head. The Es­ki­mos be­lieve that man has three parts: body, soul, and name.

64:3.3While the tribes of the north grew more and more to fear the ice, those liv­ing near the home­land of their ori­gin be­came ex­ceed­ingly fear­ful of the wa­ter. They ob­served the Mes­o­po­ta­mian penin­sula grad­u­ally sink­ing into the ocean, and though it emerged sev­eral times, the tra­di­tions of these prim­i­tive races grew up around the dan­gers of the sea and the fear of pe­ri­odic en­gulf­ment. And this fear, to­gether with their ex­pe­ri­ence with river floods, ex­plains why they sought out the high­lands as a safe place in which to live.

64:3.1Be­sides the Fox­hall peo­ples in the west, an­other strug­gling cen­ter of cul­ture per­sisted in the east. This group was lo­cated in the foothills of the north­west­ern In­dian high­lands among the tribes of Bado­nan, a great-great-grand­son of An­don. These peo­ple were the only de­scen­dants of An­don who never prac­ticed hu­man sac­ri­fice.

64:2.4Dur­ing this long pe­riod of cul­tural deca­dence the Fox­hall peo­ples of Eng­land and the Bado­nan tribes north­west of In­dia con­tin­ued to hold on to some of the tra­di­tions of An­don and cer­tain rem­nants of the cul­ture of On­a­gar.

64:3.2These high­land Ba­don­ites oc­cu­pied an ex­ten­sive pla­teau sur­rounded by forests, tra­versed by streams, and abound­ing in game. Like some of their cousins in Ti­bet, they lived in crude stone huts, hill­side grot­toes, and semi­un­der­ground pas­sages.

64:3.4To the east of the Bado­nan peo­ples, in the Si­wa­lik Hills of north­ern In­dia, may be found fos­sils that ap­proach nearer to tran­si­tion types be­tween man and the var­i­ous pre­hu­man groups than any oth­ers on earth.

64:3.5850,000 years ago the su­pe­rior Bado­nan tribes be­gan a war­fare of ex­ter­mi­na­tion di­rected against their in­fe­rior and an­i­mal­is­tic neigh­bors. In less than one thou­sand years most of the bor­der­land an­i­mal groups of these re­gions had been ei­ther de­stroyed or driven back to the south­ern forests. This cam­paign for the ex­ter­mi­na­tion of in­fe­ri­ors brought about a slight im­prove­ment in the hill tribes of that age. And the mixed de­scen­dants of this im­proved Ba­don­ite stock ap­peared on the stage of ac­tion as an ap­par­ently new peo­ple—the Ne­an­derthal race.

64:5.1500,000 years ago the Bado­nan tribes of the north­west­ern high­lands of In­dia be­came in­volved in an­other great racial strug­gle. For more than one hun­dred years this re­lent­less war­fare raged, and when the long fight was fin­ished, only about one hun­dred fam­i­lies were left. But these sur­vivors were the most in­tel­li­gent and de­sir­able of all the then liv­ing de­scen­dants of An­don and Fonta.

64:5.2And now, among these high­land Ba­don­ites there was a new and strange oc­cur­rence. A man and woman liv­ing in the north­east­ern part of the then in­hab­ited high­land re­gion be­gan sud­denly to pro­duce a fam­ily of un­usu­ally in­tel­li­gent chil­dren. This was the San­gik fam­ily, the an­ces­tors of all of the six col­ored races of Uran­tia.

64:5.3These San­gik chil­dren, nine­teen in num­ber, were not only in­tel­li­gent above their fel­lows, but their skins man­i­fested a unique ten­dency to turn var­i­ous col­ors upon ex­po­sure to sun­light. Among these nine­teen chil­dren were five red, two or­ange, four yel­low, two green, four blue, and two in­digo. These col­ors be­came more pro­nounced as the chil­dren grew older, and when these youths later mated with their fel­low tribes­men, all of their off­spring tended to­ward the skin color of the San­gik par­ent.