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Sage:
Read what the Urantia Book
says about my people
The Urantia Book
The race of dominance during the early ages
of the inhabited worlds is the red man, who ordinarily is
the first to attain human levels of development. But
while the red man is the senior race of the planets, the
succeeding colored peoples begin to make their appearances
very early in the age of mortal emergence.
The earlier races are somewhat superior to
the later. The Life Carriers impart the full bestowal
of the living energies to the initial or red race, and each
succeeding evolutionary manifestation of a distinct group
of mortals represents variation at the expense of the original
endowment.
The Red Man: These peoples were remarkable
specimens of the human race. They were a most intelligent
group and were the first to develop a tribal civilization
and government. They were always monogamous.
About 85 thousand years ago, the comparatively
pure remnants of the red race went en masse across to North
America, and shortly thereafter the Bering land isthmus
sank, thus isolating them. No red man ever returned
to Asia.
When the red man crossed over into America,
he brought along much of the teachings and traditions of
his early origin. But in a short time after reaching
the Americas, the red men began to lose sight of these teachings,
and there occurred a great decline in intellectual and spiritual
culture. Very soon these people again fell to fighting
so fiercely among themselves that it appeared that these
tribal wars would result in the speedy extinction of this
remnant of the comparatively pure red race.
Because of this retrogression the red men
seemed doomed when, about 65 thousand years ago, Onamonalonton
appeared as their leader and spiritual deliverer.
He brought temporary Peace among the American red men and
revived their worship of the Great Spirit. Onamonalonton
lived to be 96 years of age and maintained his headquarters
among the great redwood trees of California. Many
of his later descendants have come down to modern times
among the Blackfoot Indians.
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