Sumerians

• Nodite and Adamite origin

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.

• lived at mouth of Tigris and Euphrates rivers
• Nodite and Adamite origin

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.

• language Aryan, not Semitic
• originated 200,000 years ago as full-grown superior culture after submergence of Dalamatia

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.

• knew of first and second Edens

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.

• Nodite and Adamite origin

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.

78:8.1When the last And­ite dis­per­sion broke the bi­o­logic back­bone of Mes­o­po­ta­mian civ­i­liza­tion, a small mi­nor­ity of this su­pe­rior race re­mained in their home­land near the mouths of the rivers. These were the Sume­ri­ans, and by 6000 B.C. they had be­come largely And­ite in ex­trac­tion, though their cul­ture was more ex­clu­sively Nod­ite in char­ac­ter, and they clung to the an­cient tra­di­tions of Dala­ma­tia. Nonethe­less, these Sume­ri­ans of the coastal re­gions were the last of the And­ites in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. But the races of Mes­o­po­ta­mia were al­ready thor­oughly blended by this late date, as is ev­i­denced by the skull types found in the graves of this era.

78:8.2It was dur­ing the flood­times that Susa so greatly pros­pered. The first and lower city was in­un­dated so that the sec­ond or higher town suc­ceeded the lower as the head­quar­ters for the pe­cu­liar artcrafts of that day. With the later diminu­tion of these floods, Ur be­came the cen­ter of the pot­tery in­dus­try. About seven thou­sand years ago Ur was on the Per­sian Gulf, the river de­posits hav­ing since built up the land to its pres­ent lim­its. These set­tle­ments suf­fered less from the floods be­cause of bet­ter con­trol­ling works and the widen­ing mouths of the rivers.

78:8.3The peace­ful grain grow­ers of the Eu­phrates and Tigris val­leys had long been ha­rassed by the raids of the bar­bar­ians of Tur­kes­tan and the Ira­nian pla­teau. But now a con­certed in­va­sion of the Eu­phrates val­ley was brought about by the in­creas­ing drought of the high­land pas­tures. And this in­va­sion was all the more se­ri­ous be­cause these sur­round­ing herds­men and hunters pos­sessed large num­bers of tamed horses. It was the pos­ses­sion of horses which gave them a tremen­dous mil­i­tary ad­van­tage over their rich neigh­bors to the south. In a short time they over­ran all Mes­o­po­ta­mia, driv­ing forth the last waves of cul­ture which spread out over all of Eu­rope, west­ern Asia, and north­ern Africa.

78:8.4These con­querors of Mes­o­po­ta­mia car­ried in their ranks many of the bet­ter And­ite strains of the mixed north­ern races of Tur­kes­tan, in­clud­ing some of the Adam­son stock. These less ad­vanced but more vig­or­ous tribes from the north quickly and will­ingly as­sim­i­lated the residue of the civ­i­liza­tion of Mes­o­po­ta­mia and pres­ently de­vel­oped into those mixed peo­ples found in the Eu­phrates val­ley at the be­gin­ning of his­toric an­nals. They quickly re­vived many phases of the pass­ing civ­i­liza­tion of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, adopt­ing the arts of the val­ley tribes and much of the cul­ture of the Sume­ri­ans. They even sought to build a third tower of Ba­bel and later adopted the term as their na­tional name.

• no city groups able to overcome united S.

78:8.5When these bar­bar­ian cav­al­ry­men from the north­east over­ran the whole Eu­phrates val­ley, they did not con­quer the rem­nants of the And­ites who dwelt about the mouth of the river on the Per­sian Gulf. These Sume­ri­ans were able to de­fend them­selves be­cause of su­pe­rior in­tel­li­gence, bet­ter weapons, and their ex­ten­sive sys­tem of mil­i­tary canals, which were an ad­junct to their ir­ri­ga­tion scheme of in­ter­con­nect­ing pools. They were a united peo­ple be­cause they had a uni­form group re­li­gion. They were thus able to main­tain their racial and na­tional in­tegrity long af­ter their neigh­bors to the north­west were bro­ken up into iso­lated city-states. No one of these city groups was able to over­come the united Sume­ri­ans.

• greatly respected as teachers, directors, and civil rulers

78:8.6And the in­vaders from the north soon learned to trust and prize these peace-lov­ing Sume­ri­ans as able teach­ers and ad­min­is­tra­tors. They were greatly re­spected and sought af­ter as teach­ers of art and in­dus­try, as di­rec­tors of com­merce, and as civil rulers by all peo­ples to the north and from Egypt in the west to In­dia in the east.

• city-states ruled by apostate descendants of Sethites

78:8.7Af­ter the breakup of the early Sume­rian con­fed­er­a­tion the later city-states were ruled by the apos­tate de­scen­dants of the Sethite priests. Only when these priests made con­quests of the neigh­bor­ing cities did they call them­selves kings. The later city kings failed to form pow­er­ful con­fed­er­a­tions be­fore the days of Sar­gon be­cause of de­ity jeal­ousy. Each city be­lieved its mu­nic­i­pal god to be su­pe­rior to all other gods, and there­fore they re­fused to sub­or­di­nate them­selves to a com­mon leader.

78:8.8The end of this long pe­riod of the weak rule of the city priests was ter­mi­nated by Sar­gon, the priest of Kish, who pro­claimed him­self king and started out on the con­quest of the whole of Mes­o­po­ta­mia and ad­join­ing lands. And for the time, this ended the city-states, priest-ruled and priest-rid­den, each city hav­ing its own mu­nic­i­pal god and its own cer­e­mo­nial prac­tices.

• from Mesopotamia city state of Sumer

78:8.9Af­ter the breakup of this Kish con­fed­er­a­tion there en­sued a long pe­riod of con­stant war­fare be­tween these val­ley cities for su­prem­acy. And the ruler­ship var­i­ously shifted be­tween Sumer, Akkad, Kish, Erech, Ur, and Susa.

• absorbed into northern Semites

78:8.10About 2500 B.C. the Sume­ri­ans suf­fered se­vere re­verses at the hands of the north­ern Suites and Gui­tes. La­gash, the Sume­rian cap­i­tal built on flood mounds, fell. Erech held out for thirty years af­ter the fall of Akkad. By the time of the es­tab­lish­ment of the rule of Ham­murabi the Sume­ri­ans had be­come ab­sorbed into the ranks of the north­ern Semites, and the Mes­o­po­ta­mian And­ites passed from the pages of his­tory.

78:8.11From 2500 to 2000 B.C. the no­mads were on a ram­page from the At­lantic to the Pa­cific. The Ner­ites con­sti­tuted the fi­nal erup­tion of the Caspian group of the Mes­o­po­ta­mian de­scen­dants of the blended An­don­ite and And­ite races. What the bar­bar­ians failed to do to ef­fect the ru­ina­tion of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, sub­se­quent cli­matic changes suc­ceeded in ac­com­plish­ing.

78:8.12And this is the story of the vi­o­let race af­ter the days of Adam and of the fate of their home­land be­tween the Tigris and Eu­phrates. Their an­cient civ­i­liza­tion fi­nally fell due to the em­i­gra­tion of su­pe­rior peo­ples and the im­mi­gra­tion of their in­fe­rior neigh­bors. But long be­fore the bar­bar­ian cav­al­ry­men con­quered the val­ley, much of the Gar­den cul­ture had spread to Asia, Africa, and Eu­rope, there to pro­duce the fer­ments which have re­sulted in the twen­ti­eth-cen­tury civ­i­liza­tion of Uran­tia.

78:8.13[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]

• Dravidian commerce with

79:3.6The Dra­vid­ian cen­ters of cul­ture were lo­cated in the river val­leys, prin­ci­pally of the In­dus and Ganges, and in the Dec­can along the three great rivers flow­ing through the East­ern Ghats to the sea. The set­tle­ments along the sea­coast of the West­ern Ghats owed their promi­nence to mar­itime re­la­tion­ships with Sume­ria.

79:3.7The Dra­vid­i­ans were among the ear­li­est peo­ples to build cities and to en­gage in an ex­ten­sive ex­port and im­port busi­ness, both by land and sea. By 7000 B.C. camel trains were mak­ing reg­u­lar trips to dis­tant Mes­o­po­ta­mia; Dra­vid­ian ship­ping was push­ing coast­wise across the Ara­bian Sea to the Sume­rian cities of the Per­sian Gulf and was ven­tur­ing on the wa­ters of the Bay of Ben­gal as far as the East In­dies. An al­pha­bet, to­gether with the art of writ­ing, was im­ported from Sume­ria by these sea­far­ers and mer­chants.

• in 5000 B.C. purest Adamite strains in Sumeria

80:7.9By 5000 B.C. the three purest strains of Adam’s de­scen­dants were in Sume­ria, north­ern Eu­rope, and Greece. The whole of Mes­o­po­ta­mia was be­ing slowly de­te­ri­o­rated by the stream of mixed and darker races which fil­tered in from Ara­bia. And the com­ing of these in­fe­rior peo­ples con­tributed fur­ther to the scat­ter­ing abroad of the bi­o­logic and cul­tural residue of the And­ites. From all over the fer­tile cres­cent the more ad­ven­tur­ous peo­ples poured west­ward to the is­lands. These mi­grants cul­ti­vated both grain and veg­eta­bles, and they brought do­mes­ti­cated an­i­mals with them.

• made pottery

81:2.19While pot­tery had been first in­tro­duced by the staff of the Prince about one-half mil­lion years ago, the mak­ing of clay ves­sels had prac­ti­cally ceased for over one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years. Only the gulf coast pre-Sume­rian Nod­ites con­tin­ued to make clay ves­sels. The art of pot­tery mak­ing was re­vived dur­ing Adam’s time. The dis­sem­i­na­tion of this art was si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the ex­ten­sion of the desert ar­eas of Africa, Ara­bia, and cen­tral Asia, and it spread in suc­ces­sive waves of im­prov­ing tech­nique from Mes­o­po­ta­mia out over the East­ern Hemi­sphere.

• used castor oil and opium as medicine

90:4.9The Greeks were the first to evolve truly ra­tio­nal meth­ods of treat­ing the sick. Both the Greeks and the Egyp­tians re­ceived their med­i­cal knowl­edge from the Eu­phrates val­ley. Oil and wine was a very early med­i­cine for treat­ing wounds; cas­tor oil and opium were used by the Sume­ri­ans. Many of these an­cient and ef­fec­tive se­cret reme­dies lost their power when they be­came known; se­crecy has al­ways been es­sen­tial to the suc­cess­ful prac­tice of fraud and su­per­sti­tion. Only facts and truth court the full light of com­pre­hen­sion and re­joice in the il­lu­mi­na­tion and en­light­en­ment of sci­en­tific re­search.

• distinguished between inanimate and animate

103:6.10Early man did not dif­fer­en­ti­ate be­tween the en­ergy level and the spirit level. It was the vi­o­let race and their And­ite suc­ces­sors who first at­tempted to di­vorce the math­e­mat­i­cal from the vo­li­tional. In­creas­ingly has civ­i­lized man fol­lowed in the foot­steps of the ear­li­est Greeks and the Sume­ri­ans who dis­tin­guished be­tween the inan­i­mate and the an­i­mate. And as civ­i­liza­tion pro­gresses, phi­los­o­phy will have to bridge ever-widen­ing gulfs be­tween the spirit con­cept and the en­ergy con­cept. But in the time of space these di­ver­gen­cies are at one in the Su­preme.