Andonites

In the Urantia Book

Andonites are the descendants of Andon and Fonta, the parents of humankind, and therefore the first race on Earth

• The appearance of the earlier Andonites on Urantia was also something new in Satania. On no other world in the local system has such a race of will creatures evolved in advance of the evolutionary races of color. 64:6.2

Migrations

• the family of Andon and Fonta held together until the twentieth generation, when combined food competition and social friction brought about the beginning of dispersion. 63:3.6 63:5
• the better Primate strains were assimilated by Andonites 65:3.4
• the race retrogressed for 500,000 years after Andon 63:5.7 63:6.1
• their further migration was blocked by the ice 64:1.1-2
• During the periods of farthest glacial advance the westernmost of the Andon tribes came very near being driven into the sea. 64:7.17
• they were driven from the plains of Europe by the blue man and from the river valleys of farther Asia by the expanding yellow race. 78:1.5 79:6.1
• By 3000 B.C. increasing aridity drove Andonites into Turkestan, and then to Europe 80:9.6
• it was this extensive southward movement of Andonites that diluted the Andites in central Asia nearly to the vanishing point. 79:1.7
• The earliest race mixtures in India were a blending of the migrating red and yellow races with the aboriginal Andonites. 79:2.2
• Andonites held northern Pacific islands 79:6.3
• Andites and Andonites, in considerable numbers, were traversing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading out over the upper valley of the Yellow River 79:7.1
• The purer Andonites lived in the extreme northern regions of Europe and in Iceland, Greenland, and northeastern North America. 64:7.16
• a horde of Andonites entered Europe from the north, having come from Siberia by way of the Russian rivers and the Baltic, and they were immediately assimilated by the northern Andite tribes. 80:4.2
• The Danubians were Andonites, farmers and herders who had entered Europe through the Balkan peninsula and were moving slowly northward by way of the Danube valley. 80:8
• These descendants of Andon were dispersed through most of the mountainous regions of central and southeastern Europe. 80:8.2
• The Andonites maintained five or six fairly representative settlements to the north and east of the Adamson headquarters, after Adam 78:1.5
• they were scattered over Arctic and central Asia in 15,000 B.C. 78:3.7
• migrated to Iceland, and Greenland 64:7.18
• Hittites stemmed directly from the Andonite stock 80:8.2
• Andonites were absorbed in blue and white races 80:0.2 80:3.2 80:9.2

Physical characteristics (63:4.1)

• the Andonites had black eyes and a swarthy complexion, something of a cross between yellow and red.
• The Danubians were Andonites, farmers and herders who had entered Europe through the Balkan peninsula and were moving slowly northward by way of the Danube valley. 80:8.4-5
• they had 36 teeth 65:6.5
• Lapps and Eskimos are the nearest today's peoples to aboriginal Andonic type 61:6.3 63:4.1 65:2.7 70:1.2 81:4.9
• they were not so sensitive to pain nor so reactive to unpleasant situations as were many of the later evolving mortals. 63:4.2
• they had pale skins and broad-heads 80:8.2 81:4.2-4
• reached full maturity at twelve years of age and possessed a potential life span of about seventy-five years. 62:5.3

Practices

• possessed a touching affection for their comrades and certainly had a real, although crude, idea of friendship 63:4.4
• They were very loyal to their families; they would die without question in defense of their children, but they were not able to grasp the idea of trying to make the world a better place for their grandchildren. 63:4.3
• all except Badonans practiced human sacrifice 64:3.1
• they were cliff and grotto dwellers 63:5.4
• showed great skill in constructing stone sleeping chambers, dome-shaped stone huts, into which they crawled at night 63:5.5
• they evolved a form of animal worship 63:6.3
• They were exceedingly imitative, but the play instinct was only slightly developed, and the sense of humor was almost entirely absent. 63:4.2
• they became highly skillful in the fashioning of flint tools 63:5.6 64:2.5
• The Andonites early developed a fear of the elements—thunder, lightning, rain, snow, hail, and ice. 63:6.3
• The Andonites were fearless and successful hunters and, with the exception of wild berries and certain fruits of the trees, lived exclusively on flesh. 63:5.6
• They were the first marine adventurers. 64:7.17
• with the exception of wild berries and certain fruits of the trees, lived exclusively on flesh. 63:5.6
• The Sangiks were all cannibalistic, but originally the Andonites were not 89:5.3-5 89:6.1
• While taboos on twins were once well-nigh universal, they were never a part of the Andonite mores; these peoples always regarded twins as omens of good luck. 68:6.8
• warfare
• they had constant battles with inferior tribes 63:4.4
• A thoughtful Andonite who had severely bruised his fist in a serious combat rediscovered the idea of using a long stick for his arm and a piece of hard flint, bound on the end with sinews, for his fist. 68:5.4
• This early race and its primitive civilization were threatened with extinction by this incessant warfare of the clans. 63:4.7-9
• Only two things came to occupy the minds of these peoples: hunting to obtain food and fighting to avenge of the neighboring tribes. 63:4.7
• sexual practices
• some mated with simians 63:1.4
• the more intelligent groups never entertained the idea of going southward to live among their hairy tree-dwelling cousins of inferior intellect. 64:1.1-2
• The groups going west became less contaminated with the backward stocks of mutual ancestral origin than those going east, who mingled so freely with their retarded animal cousins. 64:1.7 85:3.1
• they mixed with blue races 81:4.2-9

Religion

• Onagar was truth teacher to Andonites 63:6
• they taught golden rule 70:1.2
• The Andonites were early taught the golden rule; custom is strong among them, and they are fairly free from violent antagonisms. 70:1.2

Language

• they had a well-developed language 63:4.6
• Hebrew language was distinctly Andonite 80:8.2

Renown Andonites

• * Amadon | Amadon
• * Andon and Fonta | Andon and Fonta
• * Badonan | Badonan
• * Onagar | Onagar
• * the first Sangik family | Sangik family
• * Sontad | Sontad

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Breath giver 63:6.1 — Gn 2:7; Is 42:5.

Where it appears

Andonites is linked in 53 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• mortals:primitive mortals

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