A Wiccan Bible - Exploring the Mysteries of the Craft from Birth to Summerland

Liber ab Exodus (Book of Departure)^75

the Great Flood made the land livable. Some accounts state that, rather than

from living trees, Odin selected two logs that were floating in the receding

waters of the flood from which to carve humanity.

Neandertal Man: Map Location 12

Some cite Germany as the first place humanity meets Neandertal. If this meeting

occurred, it is likely that Neandertal man was a migration out of Africa that occurred

much prior to the migration of humanity. If that is the case, by 38,000 B.C.E. we see no

further evidence of the existence of Neandertal. Like the extinction of megafauna in

Australia, without any evidence of war or large-scale conflict, upon meeting humanity

the Neandertal simply became extinct.

However, there are a growing number of researchers that believe Neandertal man

simply did not exist. Instead, the evidence found might have been the remains of that

portion of humanity that migrated too quickly for sexual selection to have lightened their

skin. This school of thought says that the remains that were given the name Neandertal

were actually shorter humans with sloped foreheads because they suffered from vitamin

D deficiencies and the degenerative state of the bone structure known as rickets. If that

is the case, those bones would not contain the DNA record of the migration out of Africa

because they were most likely the ancestors of that first exodus from Africa, which are

currently not thought to have made the migration as far north as Germany.

While both schools of science exist in conflict on this matter, there is absolutely no

genetic evidence that would lead a person to believe Neandertal was an evolutionary

step of humanity outside of Africa. Of that fact, both either agree or ignore.

The First East Coast Entrance into North America: Map location 6b

Approximately 22,000 B.C.E.

Approximately 6,000 generations after Ash and Elm

After crossing the Himalayas and moving through Siberia, this arm of our family

moved east to cross into North America at the Bearing Straits. When they entered

North America, they continued to migrate along the coastline, this time in a southern

direction because any migration west or north was blocked by the thick sheets of ice

that covered the majority of North America.

The Second East Coast Entrance into North America:

Map Location 9

Approximately 10,000 B.C.E.

Approximately 6,500 generations after Ash and Elm

Those members of our family that had moved up the coast of China entered into

Siberia, continued north, and eventually went east into North America. These folk also

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