Nodites

• descendants of rebels on Prince’s staff

67:4.2The sixty mem­bers of the plan­e­tary staff who went into re­bel­lion chose Nod as their leader. They worked whole­heart­edly for the rebel Prince but soon dis­cov­ered that they were de­prived of the sus­te­nance of the sys­tem life cir­cuits. They awak­ened to the fact that they had been de­graded to the sta­tus of mor­tal be­ings. They were in­deed super­hu­man but, at the same time, ma­te­rial and mor­tal. In an ef­fort to in­crease their num­bers, Dali­gas­tia or­dered im­me­di­ate re­sort to sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, know­ing full well that the orig­i­nal sixty and their forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates were doomed to suf­fer ex­tinc­tion by death, sooner or later. Af­ter the fall of Dala­ma­tia the dis­loyal staff mi­grated to the north and the east. Their de­scen­dants were long known as the Nod­ites, and their dwell­ing place as “the land of Nod.”

• practices › belligerent

70:1.2War is an an­i­mal­is­tic re­ac­tion to mis­un­der­stand­ings and ir­ri­ta­tions; peace at­tends upon the civ­i­lized so­lu­tion of all such prob­lems and dif­fi­cul­ties. The San­gik races, to­gether with the later de­te­ri­o­rated Adamites and Nod­ites, were all bel­liger­ent. The An­don­ites were early taught the golden rule, and, even to­day, their Es­kimo de­scen­dants live very much by that code; cus­tom is strong among them, and they are fairly free from vi­o­lent an­tag­o­nisms.

73:1.1On a nor­mal planet the ar­rival of the Ma­te­rial Son would or­di­nar­ily her­ald the ap­proach of a great age of in­ven­tion, ma­te­rial prog­ress, and in­tel­lec­tual en­light­en­ment. The post-Adamic era is the great sci­en­tific age of most worlds, but not so on Uran­tia. Though the planet was peo­pled by races phys­i­cally fit, the tribes lan­guished in the depths of sav­agery and moral stag­na­tion.

73:1.2Ten thou­sand years af­ter the re­bel­lion prac­ti­cally all the gains of the Prince’s ad­min­is­tra­tion had been ef­faced; the races of the world were lit­tle bet­ter off than if this mis­guided Son had never come to Uran­tia. Only among the Nod­ites and the Ama­don­ites was there per­sis­tence of the tra­di­tions of Dala­ma­tia and the cul­ture of the Plan­e­tary Prince.

• 8th race to appear

73:1.3The Nod­ites were the de­scen­dants of the rebel mem­bers of the Prince’s staff, their name de­riv­ing from their first leader, Nod, one­time chair­man of the Dala­ma­tia com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade. The Ama­don­ites were the de­scen­dants of those An­don­ites who chose to re­main loyal with Van and Amadon. “Amadonite” is more of a cul­tural and re­li­gious des­ig­na­tion than a racial term; racially con­sid­ered the Ama­don­ites were es­sen­tially An­don­ites. “Nod­ite” is both a cul­tural and racial term, for the Nod­ites them­selves con­sti­tuted the eighth race of Uran­tia.

• practices › traditional enmity with Amadonites

73:1.4There ex­isted a tra­di­tional en­mity be­tween the Nod­ites and the Ama­don­ites. This feud was con­stantly com­ing to the sur­face when­ever the off­spring of these two groups would try to en­gage in some com­mon en­ter­prise. Even later, in the af­fairs of Eden, it was ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for them to work to­gether in peace.

• split into 3 groups after Dalamatia destroyed

73:1.5Shortly af­ter the de­struc­tion of Dala­ma­tia the fol­low­ers of Nod be­came di­vided into three ma­jor groups. The cen­tral group re­mained in the im­me­di­ate vicin­ity of their orig­i­nal home near the head­wa­ters of the Per­sian Gulf. The east­ern group mi­grated to the high­land re­gions of Elam just east of the Eu­phrates val­ley. The west­ern group was sit­u­ated on the north­east­ern Syr­ian shores of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean and in ad­ja­cent ter­ri­tory.

• later some joined Van

73:1.6These Nod­ites had freely mated with the San­gik races and had left be­hind an able progeny. And some of the de­scen­dants of the re­bel­lious Dala­ma­tians sub­se­quently joined Van and his loyal fol­low­ers in the lands north of Mes­o­po­ta­mia. Here, in the vicin­ity of Lake Van and the south­ern Caspian Sea re­gion, the Nod­ites min­gled and mixed with the Ama­don­ites, and they were num­bered among the “mighty men of old.”

73:1.7Prior to the ar­rival of Adam and Eve these groups—Nod­ites and Ama­don­ites—were the most ad­vanced and cul­tured races on earth.

• took tree of life after default; did them no good

73:6.7When the plans of the Ma­te­rial Son went astray, Adam and his fam­ily were not per­mit­ted to carry the core of the tree away from the Gar­den. When the Nod­ites in­vaded Eden, they were told that they would be­come as “gods if they par­took of the fruit of the tree.” Much to their sur­prise they found it un­guarded. They ate freely of the fruit for years, but it did noth­ing for them; they were all ma­te­rial mor­tals of the realm; they lacked that en­dow­ment which acted as a com­ple­ment to the fruit of the tree. They be­came en­raged at their in­abil­ity to ben­e­fit from the tree of life, and in con­nec­tion with one of their in­ter­nal wars, the tem­ple and the tree were both de­stroyed by fire; only the stone wall stood un­til the Gar­den was sub­se­quently sub­merged. This was the sec­ond tem­ple of the Fa­ther to per­ish.

• occupied Garden of Eden after default

73:7.1Af­ter the first gar­den was va­cated by Adam, it was oc­cu­pied var­i­ously by the Nod­ites, Cu­tites, and the Sun­tites. It later be­came the dwell­ing place of the north­ern Nod­ites who op­posed co-op­er­a­tion with the Adamites. The penin­sula had been over­run by these lower-grade Nod­ites for al­most four thou­sand years af­ter Adam left the Gar­den when, in con­nec­tion with the vi­o­lent ac­tiv­ity of the sur­round­ing vol­ca­noes and the sub­mer­gence of the Si­cil­ian land bridge to Africa, the east­ern floor of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea sank, car­ry­ing down be­neath the wa­ters the whole of the Edenic penin­sula. Con­comi­tant with this vast sub­mer­gence the coast line of the east­ern Med­i­ter­ra­nean was greatly el­e­vated. And this was the end of the most beau­ti­ful nat­u­ral cre­ation that Uran­tia has ever har­bored. The sink­ing was not sud­den, sev­eral hun­dred years be­ing re­quired com­pletely to sub­merge the en­tire penin­sula.

• gave valuable co-operation to Edenites

75:2.5The Gar­den dwellers had been in con­tact with the Nod­ites since the early days of Eden. From these mixed de­scen­dants of the de­fault­ing mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff they had re­ceived much valu­able help and co-op­er­a­tion, and through them the Edenic regime was now to meet its com­plete un­do­ing and fi­nal over­throw.

• gave valuable co-operation to Edenites
• took tree of life after default; did them no good

75:3.5He held many con­fer­ences with Adam and Eve—es­pe­cially with Eve—and they talked over many plans for im­prov­ing their meth­ods. One day, dur­ing a talk with Eve, it oc­curred to Ser­a­p­ata­tia that it would be very help­ful if, while await­ing the re­cruit­ing of large num­bers of the vi­o­let race, some­thing could be done in the mean­time im­me­di­ately to ad­vance the needy wait­ing tribes. Ser­a­p­ata­tia con­tended that, if the Nod­ites, as the most pro­gres­sive and co-op­er­a­tive race, could have a leader born to them of part ori­gin in the vi­o­let stock, it would con­sti­tute a pow­er­ful tie bind­ing these peo­ples more closely to the Gar­den. And all of this was soberly and hon­estly con­sid­ered to be for the good of the world since this child, to be reared and ed­u­cated in the Gar­den, would ex­ert a great in­flu­ence for good over his fa­ther’s peo­ple.

• Garden dwellers destroyed near-by N. settlement upon learning of Eve’s default; N. retaliated; bitter warfare

75:5.3When they learned what had hap­pened to Eve, the in­fu­ri­ated in­hab­i­tants of the Gar­den be­came un­man­age­able; they de­clared war on the near-by Nod­ite set­tle­ment. They swept out through the gates of Eden and down upon these un­pre­pared peo­ple, ut­terly de­stroy­ing them—not a man, woman, or child was spared. And Cano, the fa­ther of Cain yet un­born, also per­ished.

• Garden dwellers destroyed near-by N. settlement upon learning of Eve’s default; N. retaliated; bitter warfare

75:5.9But still more trou­ble was brew­ing: The news of the an­ni­hi­la­tion of the Nod­ite set­tle­ment near Eden was not slow in reach­ing the home tribes of Ser­a­p­ata­tia to the north, and pres­ently a great host was as­sem­bling to march on the Gar­den. And this was the be­gin­ning of a long and bit­ter war­fare be­tween the Adamites and the Nod­ites, for these hos­til­i­ties kept up long af­ter Adam and his fol­low­ers em­i­grated to the sec­ond gar­den in the Eu­phrates val­ley. There was in­tense and last­ing “en­mity be­tween that man and the woman, be­tween his seed and her seed.”

• priests in 1st and 2nd gardens were

76:2.2Now, in those days it was cus­tom­ary to make of­fer­ings to the priest­hood of the things at hand. Herders would bring of their flocks, farm­ers of the fruits of the fields; and in ac­cor­dance with this cus­tom, Cain and Abel like­wise made pe­ri­odic of­fer­ings to the priests. The two boys had many times ar­gued about the rel­a­tive mer­its of their vo­ca­tions, and Abel was not slow to note that pref­er­ence was shown for his an­i­mal sac­ri­fices. In vain did Cain ap­peal to the tra­di­tions of the first Eden, to the for­mer pref­er­ence for the fruits of the fields. But this Abel would not al­low, and he taunted his older brother in his dis­com­fi­ture.

76:2.3In the days of the first Eden, Adam had in­deed sought to dis­cour­age the of­fer­ing of an­i­mal sac­ri­fice so that Cain had a jus­ti­fi­able prece­dent for his con­tentions. It was, how­ever, dif­fi­cult to or­ga­nize the re­li­gious life of the sec­ond Eden. Adam was bur­dened with a thou­sand and one de­tails as­so­ci­ated with the work of build­ing, de­fense, and agri­cul­ture. Be­ing much de­pressed spir­i­tu­ally, he in­trusted the or­ga­ni­za­tion of wor­ship and ed­u­ca­tion to those of Nod­ite ex­trac­tion who had served in these ca­pac­i­ties in the first gar­den; and in even so short a time the of­fi­ci­at­ing Nod­ite priests were re­vert­ing to the stan­dards and rul­ings of pre-Adamic times.

• Adam impregnated 1,682 N. in second garden to found the Andite race

76:4.8Af­ter be­com­ing es­tab­lished in the sec­ond gar­den on the Eu­phrates, Adam elected to leave be­hind as much of his life plasm as pos­si­ble to ben­e­fit the world af­ter his death. Ac­cord­ingly, Eve was made the head of a com­mis­sion of twelve on race im­prove­ment, and be­fore Adam died this com­mis­sion had se­lected 1,682 of the high­est type of women on Uran­tia, and these women were im­preg­nated with the Adamic life plasm. Their chil­dren all grew up to ma­tu­rity ex­cept 112, so that the world, in this way, was ben­e­fited by the ad­di­tion of 1,570 su­pe­rior men and women. Though these can­di­date moth­ers were se­lected from all the sur­round­ing tribes and rep­re­sented most of the races on earth, the ma­jor­ity were cho­sen from the high­est strains of the Nod­ites, and they con­sti­tuted the early be­gin­nings of the mighty And­ite race. These chil­dren were born and reared in the tribal sur­round­ings of their re­spec­tive moth­ers.

77:2.1While this is the nar­ra­tive of the ori­gin, na­ture, and func­tion of the mid­way crea­tures of Uran­tia, the kin­ship be­tween the two or­ders—pri­mary and sec­ondary—makes it nec­es­sary to in­ter­rupt the story of the pri­mary mid­way­ers at this point in or­der to fol­low out the line of de­scent from the rebel mem­bers of the cor­po­real staff of Prince Cali­gas­tia from the days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion to the times of Adam. It was this line of in­her­i­tance which, in the early days of the sec­ond gar­den, fur­nished one half of the an­ces­try for the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way crea­tures.

77:2.2The phys­i­cal mem­bers of the Prince’s staff had been con­sti­tuted sex crea­tures for the pur­pose of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the plan of pro­cre­at­ing off­spring em­body­ing the com­bined qual­i­ties of their spe­cial or­der united with those of the se­lected stock of the An­don tribes, and all of this was in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the sub­se­quent ap­pear­ance of Adam. The Life Car­ri­ers had planned a new type of mor­tal em­brac­ing the union of the con­joint off­spring of the Prince’s staff with the first-gen­er­a­tion off­spring of Adam and Eve. They had thus pro­jected a plan en­vi­sion­ing a new or­der of plan­e­tary crea­tures whom they hoped would be­come the teacher-rulers of hu­man so­ci­ety. Such be­ings were de­signed for so­cial sov­er­eignty, not civil sov­er­eignty. But since this project al­most com­pletely mis­car­ried, we shall never know what an aris­toc­racy of be­nign lead­er­ship and match­less cul­ture Uran­tia was thus de­prived of. For when the cor­po­real staff later re­pro­duced, it was sub­se­quent to the re­bel­lion and af­ter they had been de­prived of their con­nec­tion with the life cur­rents of the sys­tem.

• referred to as Nephilim in Old Testament

77:2.3The postre­bel­lion era on Uran­tia wit­nessed many un­usual hap­pen­ings. A great civ­i­liza­tion—the cul­ture of Dala­ma­tia—was go­ing to pieces. “The Nephilim (Nod­ites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daugh­ters of men and they bore to them, their chil­dren were the ‘mighty men of old,’ the ‘men of renown.’” While hardly “sons of the gods,” the staff and their early de­scen­dants were so re­garded by the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals of those dis­tant days; even their stature came to be mag­ni­fied by tra­di­tion. This, then, is the ori­gin of the well-nigh uni­ver­sal folk tale of the gods who came down to earth and there with the daugh­ters of men be­got an an­cient race of heroes. And all this leg­end be­came fur­ther con­fused with the race mix­tures of the later ap­pear­ing Adamites in the sec­ond gar­den.

• 60 rebel members of Prince’s staff and 44 Andonic counterparts constituted 104 ancestors of
• far superior to Andonites and Sangiks

77:2.4Since the one hun­dred cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff car­ried germ plasm of the An­donic hu­man strains, it would nat­u­rally be ex­pected that, if they en­gaged in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, their progeny would al­to­gether re­sem­ble the off­spring of other An­don­ite par­ents. But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the fol­low­ers of Nod, ac­tu­ally en­gaged in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, their chil­dren proved to be far su­pe­rior in al­most ev­ery way to both the An­don­ite and the San­gik peo­ples. This un­ex­pected ex­cel­lence char­ac­ter­ized not only phys­i­cal and in­tel­lec­tual qual­i­ties but also spir­i­tual ca­pac­i­ties.

77:2.5These mu­tant traits ap­pear­ing in the first Nod­ite gen­er­a­tion re­sulted from cer­tain changes which had been wrought in the con­fig­u­ra­tion and in the chem­i­cal con­stituents of the in­her­i­tance fac­tors of the An­donic germ plasm. These changes were caused by the pres­ence in the bod­ies of the staff mem­bers of the pow­er­ful life-main­te­nance cir­cuits of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. These life cir­cuits caused the chro­mo­somes of the spe­cial­ized Uran­tia pat­tern to re­or­ga­nize more af­ter the pat­terns of the stan­dard­ized Sa­ta­nia spe­cial­iza­tion of the or­dained Neb­a­don life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The tech­nique of this germ plasm meta­mor­pho­sis by the ac­tion of the sys­tem life cur­rents is not un­like those pro­ce­dures whereby Uran­tia sci­en­tists mod­ify the germ plasm of plants and an­i­mals by the use of X rays.

77:2.6Thus did the Nod­ite peo­ples arise out of cer­tain pe­cu­liar and un­ex­pected mod­i­fi­ca­tions oc­cur­ring in the life plasm which had been trans­ferred from the bod­ies of the An­don­ite con­trib­u­tors to those of the cor­po­real staff mem­bers by the Avalon sur­geons.

77:2.7It will be re­called that the one hun­dred An­don­ite germ plasm con­trib­u­tors were in turn made pos­ses­sors of the or­ganic com­ple­ment of the tree of life so that the Sa­ta­nia life cur­rents like­wise in­vested their bod­ies. The forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ites who fol­lowed the staff into re­bel­lion also mated among them­selves and made a great con­tri­bu­tion to the bet­ter strains of the Nod­ite peo­ple.

• 8th race to appear
• 60 rebel members of Prince’s staff and 44 Andonic counterparts constituted 104 ancestors of

77:2.8These two groups, em­brac­ing 104 in­di­vid­u­als who car­ried the mod­i­fied An­don­ite germ plasm, con­sti­tute the an­ces­try of the Nod­ites, the eighth race to ap­pear on Uran­tia. And this new fea­ture of hu­man life on Uran­tia rep­re­sents an­other phase of the out­work­ing of the orig­i­nal plan of uti­liz­ing this planet as a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world, ex­cept that this was one of the un­fore­seen de­vel­op­ments.

77:2.9The pure-line Nod­ites were a mag­nif­i­cent race, but they grad­u­ally min­gled with the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples of earth, and be­fore long great de­te­ri­o­ra­tion had oc­curred. Ten thou­sand years af­ter the re­bel­lion they had lost ground to the point where their av­er­age length of life was lit­tle more than that of the evo­lu­tion­ary races.

• pre-Sumerian N. blended with Adamites to become Sumerians

77:2.10When ar­chae­ol­o­gists dig up the clay-tablet rec­ords of the later-day Sume­rian de­scen­dants of the Nod­ites, they dis­cover lists of Sume­rian kings run­ning back for sev­eral thou­sand years; and as these rec­ords go fur­ther back, the reigns of the in­di­vid­ual kings lengthen from around twenty-five or thirty years up to one hun­dred and fifty years and more. This length­en­ing of the reigns of these older kings sig­ni­fies that some of the early Nod­ite rulers (im­me­di­ate de­scen­dants of the Prince’s staff) did live longer than their later-day suc­ces­sors and also in­di­cates an ef­fort to stretch the dy­nas­ties back to Dala­ma­tia.

77:2.11The rec­ords of such long-lived in­di­vid­u­als are also due to the con­fu­sion of months and years as time pe­ri­ods. This may also be ob­served in the Bib­li­cal ge­neal­ogy of Abra­ham and in the early rec­ords of the Chi­nese. The con­fu­sion of the twenty-eight-day month, or sea­son, with the later in­tro­duced year of more than three hun­dred and fifty days is re­spon­si­ble for the tra­di­tions of such long hu­man lives. There are rec­ords of a man who lived over nine hun­dred “years.” This pe­riod rep­re­sents not quite sev­enty years, and such lives were re­garded for ages as very long, “three­score years and ten” as such a life span was later des­ig­nated.

77:2.12The reck­on­ing of time by the twenty-eight-day month per­sisted long af­ter the days of Adam. But when the Egyp­tians un­der­took to re­form the cal­en­dar, about seven thou­sand years ago, they did it with great ac­cu­racy, in­tro­duc­ing the year of 365 days.

• built tower of Babel as memorial to N. racial greatness

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.

• dispersion and decline
• gave valuable co-operation to Edenites
• still an able people in times of Adam

77:4.1The dis­per­sion of the Nod­ites was an im­me­di­ate re­sult of the in­ternecine con­flict over the tower of Ba­bel. This in­ter­nal war greatly re­duced the num­bers of the purer Nod­ites and was in many ways re­spon­si­ble for their fail­ure to es­tab­lish a great pre-Adamic civ­i­liza­tion. From this time on Nod­ite cul­ture de­clined for over one hun­dred and twenty thou­sand years un­til it was up­stepped by Adamic in­fu­sion. But even in the times of Adam the Nod­ites were still an able peo­ple. Many of their mixed de­scen­dants were num­bered among the Gar­den builders, and sev­eral of Van’s group cap­tains were Nod­ites. Some of the most ca­pa­ble minds serv­ing on Adam’s staff were of this race.

77:4.2Three out of the four great Nod­ite cen­ters were es­tab­lished im­me­di­ately fol­low­ing the Bablot con­flict:

• Elamite N. were culture and commerce advocates; Syrian N. were nationalistic memorialists

77:4.31. The west­ern or Syr­ian Nod­ites. The rem­nants of the na­tion­al­is­tic or racial memo­ri­al­ists jour­neyed north­ward, unit­ing with the An­don­ites to found the later Nod­ite cen­ters to the north­west of Mes­o­po­ta­mia. This was the largest group of the dis­pers­ing Nod­ites, and they con­tributed much to the later ap­pear­ing As­syr­ian stock.

77:4.42. The east­ern or Elamite Nod­ites. The cul­ture and com­merce ad­vo­cates mi­grated in large num­bers east­ward into Elam and there united with the mixed San­gik tribes. The Elamites of thirty to forty thou­sand years ago had be­come largely San­gik in na­ture, al­though they con­tin­ued to main­tain a civ­i­liza­tion su­pe­rior to that of the sur­round­ing bar­bar­ians.

77:4.5Af­ter the es­tab­lish­ment of the sec­ond gar­den it was cus­tom­ary to al­lude to this near-by Nod­ite set­tle­ment as “the land of Nod”; and dur­ing the long pe­riod of rel­a­tive peace be­tween this Nod­ite group and the Adamites, the two races were greatly blended, for it be­came more and more the cus­tom for the Sons of God (the Adamites) to in­ter­marry with the daugh­ters of men (the Nod­ites).

• pre-Sumerian N. blended with Adamites to become Sumerians

77:4.63. The cen­tral or pre-Sume­rian Nod­ites. A small group at the mouth of the Tigris and Eu­phrates rivers main­tained more of their racial in­tegrity. They per­sisted for thou­sands of years and even­tu­ally fur­nished the Nod­ite an­ces­try which blended with the Adamites to found the Sume­rian peo­ples of his­toric times.

77:4.7And all this ex­plains how the Sume­ri­ans ap­peared so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously on the stage of ac­tion in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. In­ves­ti­ga­tors will never be able to trace out and fol­low these tribes back to the be­gin­ning of the Sume­ri­ans, who had their ori­gin two hun­dred thou­sand years ago af­ter the sub­mer­gence of Dala­ma­tia. With­out a trace of ori­gin else­where in the world, these an­cient tribes sud­denly loom upon the hori­zon of civ­i­liza­tion with a full-grown and su­pe­rior cul­ture, em­brac­ing tem­ples, met­al­work, agri­cul­ture, an­i­mals, pot­tery, weav­ing, com­mer­cial law, civil codes, re­li­gious cer­e­mo­nial, and an old sys­tem of writ­ing. At the be­gin­ning of the his­tor­i­cal era they had long since lost the al­pha­bet of Dala­ma­tia, hav­ing adopted the pe­cu­liar writ­ing sys­tem orig­i­nat­ing in Dil­mun. The Sume­rian lan­guage, though vir­tu­ally lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in com­mon with the so-called Aryan tongues.

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.

77:4.104. The north­ern Nod­ites and Ama­don­ites—the Van­ites. This group arose prior to the Bablot con­flict. These north­ern­most Nod­ites were de­scen­dants of those who had for­saken the lead­er­ship of Nod and his suc­ces­sors for that of Van and Amadon.

77:4.11Some of the early as­so­ciates of Van sub­se­quently set­tled about the shores of the lake which still bears his name, and their tra­di­tions grew up about this lo­cal­ity. Ararat be­came their sa­cred moun­tain, hav­ing much the same mean­ing to later-day Van­ites that Sinai had to the He­brews. Ten thou­sand years ago the Van­ite an­ces­tors of the As­syr­i­ans taught that their moral law of seven com­mand­ments had been given to Van by the Gods upon Mount Ararat. They firmly be­lieved that Van and his as­so­ciate Amadon were taken alive from the planet while they were up on the moun­tain en­gaged in wor­ship.

77:4.12Mount Ararat was the sa­cred moun­tain of north­ern Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and since much of your tra­di­tion of these an­cient times was ac­quired in con­nec­tion with the Baby­lo­nian story of the flood, it is not sur­pris­ing that Mount Ararat and its re­gion were wo­ven into the later Jew­ish story of Noah and the uni­ver­sal flood.

77:4.13About 35,000 B.C. Adam­son vis­ited one of the east­ern­most of the old Van­ite set­tle­ments to found his cen­ter of civ­i­liza­tion.

• in Mesopotamia

78:1.42. Pre-Sume­ri­ans and other Nod­ites. There were also pres­ent in Mes­o­po­ta­mia, near the mouth of the rivers, rem­nants of the an­cient cul­ture of the days of Dala­ma­tia. With the pass­ing mil­len­ni­ums, this group be­came thor­oughly ad­mixed with the Adamites to the north, but they never en­tirely lost their Nod­ite tra­di­tions. Var­i­ous other Nod­ite groups that had set­tled in the Lev­ant were, in gen­eral, ab­sorbed by the later ex­pand­ing vi­o­let race.

• practices › belligerent

78:4.5The purer strains of the vi­o­let race had re­tained the Adamic tra­di­tion of peace-seek­ing, which ex­plains why the ear­lier race move­ments had been more in the na­ture of peace­ful mi­gra­tions. But as the Adamites united with the Nod­ite stocks, who were by this time a bel­liger­ent race, their And­ite de­scen­dants be­came, for their day and age, the most skill­ful and saga­cious mil­i­tarists ever to live on Uran­tia. Thence­forth the move­ments of the Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans grew in­creas­ingly mil­i­tary in char­ac­ter and be­came more akin to ac­tual con­quests.

• considerable inheritance in white race

80:0.2The mod­ern white peo­ples in­cor­po­rate the sur­viv­ing strains of the Adamic stock which be­came ad­mixed with the San­gik races, some red and yel­low but more es­pe­cially the blue. There is a con­sid­er­able per­cent­age of the orig­i­nal An­don­ite stock in all the white races and still more of the early Nod­ite strains.

• practices › established extensive culture in eastern Mediterranean, north Africa

80:1.2In the east­ern trough of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean the Nod­ites had es­tab­lished one of their most ex­ten­sive cul­tures and from these cen­ters had pen­e­trated some­what into south­ern Eu­rope but more es­pe­cially into north­ern Africa. The broad-headed Nod­ite-An­don­ite Syr­i­ans very early in­tro­duced pot­tery and agri­cul­ture in con­nec­tion with their set­tle­ments on the slowly ris­ing Nile delta. They also im­ported sheep, goats, cat­tle, and other do­mes­ti­cated an­i­mals and brought in greatly im­proved meth­ods of met­al­work­ing, Syria then be­ing the cen­ter of that in­dus­try.

• practices › belligerent

80:4.3The ear­lier ex­pan­sions of the purer vi­o­let race were far more pa­cific than were those of their later semimil­i­tary and con­quest-lov­ing And­ite de­scen­dants. The Adamites were pa­cific; the Nod­ites were bel­liger­ent. The union of these stocks, as later min­gled with the San­gik races, pro­duced the able, ag­gres­sive And­ites who made ac­tual mil­i­tary con­quests.

• descendants settled Crete ca. 12,000 B.C.

80:7.2About 12,000 B.C. a bril­liant tribe of And­ites mi­grated to Crete. This was the only is­land set­tled so early by such a su­pe­rior group, and it was al­most two thou­sand years be­fore the de­scen­dants of these mariners spread to the neigh­bor­ing isles. This group were the nar­row-headed, smaller-statured And­ites who had in­ter­mar­ried with the Van­ite di­vi­sion of the north­ern Nod­ites. They were all un­der six feet in height and had been lit­er­ally driven off the main­land by their larger and in­fe­rior fel­lows. These em­i­grants to Crete were highly skilled in tex­tiles, met­als, pot­tery, plumb­ing, and the use of stone for build­ing ma­te­rial. They en­gaged in writ­ing and car­ried on as herders and agri­cul­tur­ists.

• long-headed

81:4.2Each of the Uran­tia races was iden­ti­fied by cer­tain dis­tin­guish­ing phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics. The Adamites and Nod­ites were long-headed; the An­don­ites were broad-headed. The San­gik races were medium-headed, with the yel­low and blue men tend­ing to broad-head­ed­ness. The blue races, when mixed with the An­don­ite stock, were de­cid­edly broad-headed. The sec­ondary San­giks were medium- to long-headed.

81:4.3Al­though these skull di­men­sions are ser­vice­able in de­ci­pher­ing racial ori­gins, the skele­ton as a whole is far more de­pend­able. In the early de­vel­op­ment of the Uran­tia races there were orig­i­nally five dis­tinct types of skele­tal struc­ture:

• practices › favored in-marriage

82:5.4Su­pe­rior groups, when iso­lated, al­ways re­verted to con­san­guineous mat­ing. The Nod­ites for over one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years were one of the great in-mar­riage groups. The later-day in-mar­riage mores were tremen­dously in­flu­enced by the tra­di­tions of the vi­o­let race, in which, at first, mat­ings were, per­force, be­tween brother and sis­ter. And brother and sis­ter mar­riages were com­mon in early Egypt, Syria, Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and through­out the lands once oc­cu­pied by the And­ites. The Egyp­tians long prac­ticed brother and sis­ter mar­riages in an ef­fort to keep the royal blood pure, a cus­tom which per­sisted even longer in Per­sia. Among the Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans, be­fore the days of Abra­ham, cousin mar­riages were oblig­a­tory; cousins had prior mar­riage rights to cousins. Abra­ham him­self mar­ried his half sis­ter, but such unions were not al­lowed un­der the later mores of the Jews.

• regarded man as soul and body

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.

• practices › originally not cannibalistic

89:5.3Can­ni­bal­ism was once well-nigh uni­ver­sal among the evolv­ing races. The San­giks were all can­ni­bal­is­tic, but orig­i­nally the An­don­ites were not, nor were the Nod­ites and Adamites; nei­ther were the And­ites un­til af­ter they had be­come grossly ad­mixed with the evo­lu­tion­ary races.

• practices › encouraged cremation to combat cannibalism

89:5.146. Then it be­came taboo among the higher tribes. The taboo on man-eat­ing orig­i­nated in Dala­ma­tia and slowly spread over the world. The Nod­ites en­cour­aged cre­ma­tion as a means of com­bat­ing can­ni­bal­ism since it was once a com­mon prac­tice to dig up buried bod­ies and eat them.

• practices › originally not cannibalistic

89:6.1Hu­man sac­ri­fice was an in­di­rect re­sult of can­ni­bal­ism as well as its cure. Pro­vid­ing spirit es­corts to the spirit world also led to the less­en­ing of man-eat­ing as it was never the cus­tom to eat these death sac­ri­fices. No race has been en­tirely free from the prac­tice of hu­man sac­ri­fice in some form and at some time, even though the An­don­ites, Nod­ites, and Adamites were the least ad­dicted to can­ni­bal­ism.