Danubians

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.

80:7.6The Aegean re­gion passed through five dis­tinct cul­tural stages, each less spir­i­tual than the pre­ced­ing, and ere­long the last glo­ri­ous era of art per­ished be­neath the weight of the rapidly mul­ti­ply­ing mediocre de­scen­dants of the Danu­bian slaves who had been im­ported by the later gen­er­a­tions of Greeks.

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.