Dilmun

• Nodite headquarters after submergence of Dalamatia

77:3.1Af­ter the sub­mer­gence of Dala­ma­tia the Nod­ites moved north and east, pres­ently found­ing the new city of Dil­mun as their racial and cul­tural head­quar­ters. And about fifty thou­sand years af­ter the death of Nod, when the off­spring of the Prince’s staff had be­come too nu­mer­ous to find sub­sis­tence in the lands im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing their new city of Dil­mun, and af­ter they had reached out to in­ter­marry with the An­don­ite and San­gik tribes ad­join­ing their bor­ders, it oc­curred to their lead­ers that some­thing should be done to pre­serve their racial unity. Ac­cord­ingly a coun­cil of the tribes was called, and af­ter much de­lib­er­a­tion the plan of Bablot, a de­scen­dant of Nod, was en­dorsed.

77:3.2Bablot pro­posed to erect a pre­ten­tious tem­ple of racial glo­ri­fi­ca­tion at the cen­ter of their then oc­cu­pied ter­ri­tory. This tem­ple was to have a tower the like of which the world had never seen. It was to be a mon­u­men­tal memo­rial to their pass­ing great­ness. There were many who wished to have this mon­u­ment erected in Dil­mun, but oth­ers con­tended that such a great struc­ture should be placed a safe dis­tance from the dan­gers of the sea, re­mem­ber­ing the tra­di­tions of the en­gulf­ment of their first cap­i­tal, Dala­ma­tia.

• Sumerians confused with traditions of Dalamatia

77:4.8The elab­o­rate rec­ords left by the Sume­ri­ans de­scribe the site of a re­mark­able set­tle­ment which was lo­cated on the Per­sian Gulf near the ear­lier city of Dil­mun. The Egyp­tians called this city of an­cient glory Dil­mat, while the later Adamized Sume­ri­ans con­fused both the first and sec­ond Nod­ite cities with Dala­ma­tia and called all three Dil­mun. And al­ready have ar­chae­ol­o­gists found these an­cient Sume­rian clay tablets which tell of this earthly par­a­dise “where the Gods first blessed man­kind with the ex­am­ple of civ­i­lized and cul­tured life.” And these tablets, de­scrip­tive of Dil­mun, the par­a­dise of men and God, are now silently rest­ing on the dusty shelves of many mu­se­ums.

77:4.9The Sume­ri­ans well knew of the first and sec­ond Edens but, de­spite ex­ten­sive in­ter­mar­riage with the Adamites, con­tin­ued to re­gard the gar­den dwellers to the north as an alien race. Sume­rian pride in the more an­cient Nod­ite cul­ture led them to ig­nore these later vis­tas of glory in fa­vor of the grandeur and par­a­di­si­a­cal tra­di­tions of the city of Dil­mun.