Paper 78 Overview: The Violet Race After the Days of Adam

The second Eden in Mesopotamia served as the cradle of civilization for nearly thirty thousand years, from which the Adamic peoples sent their progeny throughout the world. These descendants, particularly when amalgamated with the Nodite and Sangik tribes, became known as the Andites, who significantly accelerated cultural progress on Urantia. Their influence spread far and wide as they migrated to various regions, bringing with them advanced knowledge and practices.

This paper traces the planetary history of the violet race from shortly after Adam's default (around 35,000 B.C.) through their amalgamation with other races to form the Andite peoples (about 15,000 B.C.), and concludes with their eventual disappearance from Mesopotamian homelands around 2,000 B.C. The Andites' migrations, expansions, and impacts on world civilization form the core narrative of this historical account, demonstrating how Adam's legacy persisted despite his partial failure.

The second Eden was the cradle of civilization for almost thirty thousand years, located in Mesopotamia where the Adamic peoples flourished and sent their descendants throughout the world. Over time, these people amalgamated with the Nodite and Sangik tribes to become known as the Andites, who accelerated cultural progress across Urantia through their migrations and settlements in distant lands.

This paper depicts the planetary history of the violet race beginning shortly after Adam's default around 35,000 B.C. It follows their journey through amalgamation with Nodite and Sangik races to form the Andite peoples around 15,000 B.C., and continues until their final disappearance from their Mesopotamian homelands approximately 2,000 B.C. Through this historical narrative, we witness the far-reaching influence of Adam's genetic and cultural contributions despite his partial failure.

Although the minds and morals of the races were at a low level when Adam arrived, physical evolution had progressed unaffected by the Caligastia rebellion. Adam's contribution, despite his partial failure, greatly uplifted the biological status of the races on Urantia. Adam and Eve also significantly contributed to social, moral, and intellectual progress, immensely quickening civilization's development worldwide.

When Adam arrived thirty-five thousand years ago, the world had little widespread culture, though certain centers of civilization existed in various locations. The violet race was centered in the second garden in Mesopotamia, which became the cradle of Occidental and Indian civilizations. Other racial distributions included the Nodites near the mouths of the rivers in Mesopotamia, Andonites across northern Eurasia, red men in the Americas, yellow race in China, blue men across Europe, mixed races in India, the indigo race in the Sahara region, and a blend of different peoples around the Mediterranean basin. It was from the second garden between the Tigris and Euphrates that the potential for future civilization emerged.

For thousands of years, Adam's descendants labored along the rivers of Mesopotamia, developing irrigation and flood-control systems to the south while fortifying their defenses to the north. They maintained traditions from the first Eden, and their leadership displayed remarkable heroism in fulfilling the Adamic mission. Despite challenges, they consistently sent their finest sons and daughters as emissaries to earth's races, even when this depleted their home culture.

The Adamites established a civilization far superior to the evolutionary races of Urantia, though it was somewhat artificial rather than evolved, making it vulnerable to deterioration over time. After Adam's death, as Eden's traditions faded through the millennia, their cultural level gradually declined until it reached balance with surrounding peoples and the natural evolutionary capacities of the violet race. By 19,000 B.C., the Adamites had become a substantial nation of four and a half million people, having already sent millions of their descendants to influence surrounding populations through interbreeding and cultural exchange.

The violet race retained the Edenic traditions of peacefulness for many millennia, which explains their delay in making territorial conquests. When facing population pressures, they sent excess inhabitants as teachers to other races rather than waging war for territory. While these early migrants didn't leave lasting cultural impacts, their genetic mixing with surrounding peoples biologically strengthened these host populations in significant ways.

Some Adamites journeyed westward to Egypt's Nile Valley and eastward into Asia, though these were minority movements. The main migration was a gradual but steady northward push, with most travelers eventually circling westward around the Caspian Sea into Europe. By 15,000 B.C., more descendants of Adam lived in Europe and central Asia than anywhere else, including Mesopotamia itself. The European blue races had been largely infiltrated with Adamite blood, while regions in Russia and Turkestan were populated by a mixture of Adamites with Nodites, Andonites, and red and yellow Sangiks, creating the foundation for the later expansion of the Andite civilization.

The Andite races emerged from the blending of the pure-line violet race with Nodites and other evolutionary peoples. Generally, Andites possessed between one-eighth to one-sixth Adamic blood in their genetic makeup, a significantly higher percentage than modern races, including northern white populations. The earliest Andites appeared in regions adjacent to Mesopotamia more than twenty-five thousand years ago through the mixing of Adamites and Nodites around the periphery of the second garden.

These Andites represented the best all-around human stock on Urantia since the days of the pure violet race, embodying the highest types of the surviving Adamite and Nodite races, later incorporating some of the best strains of yellow, blue, and green races. They were not yet Aryan or white, but pre-Aryan and pre-white in classification. However, it is their genetic inheritance that gives the mixed white races their general homogeneity, commonly referred to as Caucasoid. While the purer strains of the violet race preserved the Adamic tradition of peace-seeking, the Andites, influenced by the militaristic Nodites, became skilled warriors who began to engage in conquests rather than peaceful migrations.

For twenty thousand years, the culture of the second garden persisted despite steady decline, until around 15,000 B.C., when a renaissance occurred under the leadership of Amosad and the regenerated Sethite priesthood. This revival triggered massive waves of civilization that spread throughout Eurasia, largely resulting from the union of Adamites with the surrounding mixed Nodites to form the powerful Andite civilization, whose language was developing in the highlands of Turkestan.

The Andites introduced significant advances across Eurasia and North Africa, with their influence extending from Mesopotamia through Sinkiang to China. By 12,000 B.C., three-quarters of the world's Andite population resided in northern and eastern Europe, having migrated there over thousands of years. Andite groups also penetrated to northern China, India, and even to distant parts of the world as missionaries, teachers, and traders, considerably uplifting the surrounding peoples wherever they went. Their migrations continued until their final dispersal between 8,000 and 6,000 B.C., during which they depleted their homelands' biological reserves while strengthening surrounding peoples with their superior genetic contributions.

The final three waves of Andites poured out of Mesopotamia between 8,000 and 6,000 B.C., forced to migrate by pressure from hill tribes to the east and harassment from plainsmen to the west. The inhabitants of the Euphrates valley departed in their final exodus in several directions, distributing themselves across Europe, Asia, and Africa in a massive population movement that reshaped the demographic and cultural landscape of the ancient world.

Sixty-five percent of these departing Andites entered Europe via the Caspian Sea route, while ten percent of them, including many Sethite priests, moved eastward through the Elamite highlands to the Iranian plateau and Turkestan. Another ten percent traveled east in their northern trek to Sinkiang, where they blended with the local Andite-yellow inhabitants, and their descendants later entered China. Ten percent crossed Arabia to enter Egypt, and the remaining five percent—representing superior Nodite and Adamite strains—refused to leave their homes. By 6,000 B.C., the Andites had almost completely evacuated Mesopotamia, and civilization's center had shifted westward to the Nile valley and Mediterranean islands.

The river-dwelling peoples of Mesopotamia were accustomed to seasonal flooding, but new dangers emerged due to progressive geological changes in the northern regions. For thousands of years after the first Eden was submerged, mountains around the eastern Mediterranean coast and those northwest and northeast of Mesopotamia continued to rise, creating changing watershed patterns and increasing seasonal flood risks in the valley.

Around 5,000 B.C., this elevation of highlands accelerated dramatically, coinciding with increased snowfall on northern mountains that caused unprecedented spring floods throughout the Euphrates valley. These floods grew increasingly severe over time, eventually forcing inhabitants to abandon river regions for eastern highlands. For nearly a thousand years, scores of cities were practically deserted due to these extensive deluges. These catastrophic floods completed the disruption of Andite civilization, and with the end of this flood period, the second garden effectively ceased to exist, leaving only traces of former glory among the Sumerians in the south.

When the final Andite dispersion fractured Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this superior race remained near the mouths of the rivers. These were the Sumerians, who by 6,000 B.C. had become largely Andite in genetic makeup, though their culture maintained stronger Nodite characteristics as they preserved the ancient traditions of Dalamatia. The racial mixing in Mesopotamia was already thoroughly advanced by this period, as evidenced by skull types found in graves from this era.

The peaceful grain farmers of the Euphrates and Tigris valleys had long faced raids from barbarians, but as highland pastures became increasingly arid, a coordinated invasion with horse-mounted warriors overwhelmed the region. These northern conquerors, possessing large numbers of domesticated horses, had a tremendous military advantage over their rich southern neighbors. They quickly overran all Mesopotamia, except for the Sumerians at the river mouth who successfully defended themselves due to superior intelligence, better weapons, and an extensive canal system. The invaders soon learned to value these peace-loving Sumerians as teachers and administrators, seeking their expertise in art, industry, commerce, and civil governance across the entire region from Egypt to India.