Cro-Magnons

80:3.1The an­cient cen­ters of the cul­ture of the blue man were lo­cated along all the rivers of Eu­rope, but only the Somme now flows in the same chan­nel which it fol­lowed dur­ing preglacial times.

80:3.2While we speak of the blue man as per­vad­ing the Eu­ro­pean con­ti­nent, there were scores of racial types. Even thirty-five thou­sand years ago the Eu­ro­pean blue races were al­ready a highly blended peo­ple car­ry­ing strains of both red and yel­low, while on the At­lantic coast­lands and in the re­gions of pres­ent-day Rus­sia they had ab­sorbed a con­sid­er­able amount of An­don­ite blood and to the south were in con­tact with the Sa­ha­ran peo­ples. But it would be fruit­less to at­tempt to enu­mer­ate the many racial groups.

80:3.3The Eu­ro­pean civ­i­liza­tion of this early post-Adamic pe­riod was a unique blend of the vigor and art of the blue men with the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion of the Adamites. The blue men were a race of great vigor, but they greatly de­te­ri­o­rated the cul­tural and spir­i­tual sta­tus of the Adamites. It was very dif­fi­cult for the lat­ter to im­press their re­li­gion upon the Cro-Mag­noids be­cause of the ten­dency of so many to cheat and to de­bauch the maid­ens. For ten thou­sand years re­li­gion in Eu­rope was at a low ebb as com­pared with the de­vel­op­ments in In­dia and Egypt.

80:3.4The blue men were per­fectly hon­est in all their deal­ings and were wholly free from the sex­ual vices of the mixed Adamites. They re­spected maid­en­hood, only prac­tic­ing polygamy when war pro­duced a short­age of males.

80:3.5These Cro-Magnon peo­ples were a brave and farsee­ing race. They main­tained an ef­fi­cient sys­tem of child cul­ture. Both par­ents par­tic­i­pated in these labors, and the ser­vices of the older chil­dren were fully uti­lized. Each child was care­fully trained in the care of the caves, in art, and in flint mak­ing. At an early age the women were well versed in the do­mes­tic arts and in crude agri­cul­ture, while the men were skilled hunters and coura­geous war­riors.

80:3.6The blue men were hunters, fish­ers, and food gath­er­ers; they were ex­pert boat­builders. They made stone axes, cut down trees, erected log huts, partly be­low ground and roofed with hides. And there are peo­ples who still build sim­i­lar huts in Siberia. The south­ern Cro-Magnons gen­er­ally lived in caves and grot­toes.

80:3.7It was not un­com­mon dur­ing the rig­ors of win­ter for their sen­tinels stand­ing on night guard at cave en­trances to freeze to death. They had cour­age, but above all they were artists; the Adamic mix­ture sud­denly ac­cel­er­ated cre­ative imag­i­na­tion. The height of the blue man’s art was about fif­teen thou­sand years ago, be­fore the days when the darker-skinned races came north from Africa through Spain.

80:3.8About fif­teen thou­sand years ago the Alpine forests were spread­ing ex­ten­sively. The Eu­ro­pean hunters were be­ing driven to the river val­leys and to the seashores by the same cli­matic co­er­cion that had turned the world’s happy hunt­ing grounds into dry and bar­ren deserts. As the rain winds shifted to the north, the great open graz­ing lands of Eu­rope be­came cov­ered by forests. These great and rel­a­tively sud­den cli­matic mod­i­fi­ca­tions drove the races of Eu­rope to change from open-space hunters to herders, and in some mea­sure to fish­ers and tillers of the soil.

80:3.9These changes, while re­sult­ing in cul­tural ad­vances, pro­duced cer­tain bi­o­logic ret­ro­gres­sions. Dur­ing the pre­vi­ous hunt­ing era the su­pe­rior tribes had in­ter­mar­ried with the higher types of war cap­tives and had un­vary­ingly de­stroyed those whom they deemed in­fe­rior. But as they com­menced to es­tab­lish set­tle­ments and en­gage in agri­cul­ture and com­merce, they be­gan to save many of the mediocre cap­tives as slaves. And it was the progeny of these slaves that sub­se­quently so greatly de­te­ri­o­rated the whole Cro-Magnon type. This ret­ro­gres­sion of cul­ture con­tin­ued un­til it re­ceived a fresh im­pe­tus from the east when the fi­nal and en masse in­va­sion of the Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans swept over Eu­rope, quickly ab­sorb­ing the Cro-Magnon type and cul­ture and ini­ti­at­ing the civ­i­liza­tion of the white races.

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.

80:4.6It was not long be­fore the su­pe­rior blue strains had been fully ab­sorbed by the And­ites through­out all north­ern Eu­rope. Only in La­p­land (and to a cer­tain ex­tent in Brit­tany) did the older An­don­ites re­tain even a sem­blance of iden­tity.

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.

80:9.4The Nordics con­tin­ued the trade in am­ber from the Baltic coast, build­ing up a great com­merce with the broad­heads of the Danube val­ley via the Bren­ner Pass. This ex­tended con­tact with the Danu­bians led these north­ern­ers into mother wor­ship, and for sev­eral thou­sands of years cre­ma­tion of the dead was al­most uni­ver­sal through­out Scan­di­navia. This ex­plains why re­mains of the ear­lier white races, al­though buried all over Eu­rope, are not to be found—only their ashes in stone and clay urns. These white men also built dwellings; they never lived in caves. And again this ex­plains why there are so few ev­i­dences of the white man’s early cul­ture, al­though the pre­ced­ing Cro-Magnon type is well pre­served where it has been se­curely sealed up in caves and grot­toes. As it were, one day in north­ern Eu­rope there is a prim­i­tive cul­ture of the ret­ro­gress­ing Danu­bians and the blue man and the next that of a sud­denly ap­pear­ing and vastly su­pe­rior white man.

80:1.7Slowly these mi­grat­ing sons of Eden united with the higher types of the blue race, in­vig­o­rat­ing their cul­tural prac­tices while ruth­lessly ex­ter­mi­nat­ing the lin­ger­ing strains of Ne­an­derthal stock. This tech­nique of race blend­ing, com­bined with the elim­i­na­tion of in­fe­rior strains, pro­duced a dozen or more vir­ile and pro­gres­sive groups of su­pe­rior blue men, one of which you have de­nom­i­nated the Cro-Magnons.