Introduction

Before time, after time, dreamtime, we bravely measure our passing through eternity. With our limited cognizance, we strive to comprehend and extend each precious moment. We compose, syncopate and construct within a baroque symphony - complex sixteenth notes piled high atop thirty-seconds, sweet cacaphony - fervently performed in order to transport ourselves from the numbing present and perhaps capture a fleeting glimpse into forever.

We mark our centuries by the birth of Jesus, a relatively modern messiah, and before him Moses and Buddah.and yet, prior to their time, the animal that is man prowled a dark expance, an untrodden path. Consequently, our narrow perception of this history only highlights our tentative grasp we have on our origins and how that ancient reality continues to affect our current evolution.

Who was Noah? Was he a metaphor for the millions of fathers and farmers - and breeders - who during a flood would naturally take their stock to higher ground? Would he save only the milk cows and not the bull? Not likely, because he knew the mechanics of life and to prepare for a future season he would have to have calves for his unborn daughter’s dowry. He planned, he planted, and he kept sow and hog, cock and hen and bred them and survived.

Only recently have anthropologists uncovered the salient fact that before Noah, there existed hominids of differing kinds who lived side by side with other hominids, “other” men.* If we re-read the legend of Cain and Abel as “brothers” only in that they were both hominids - of a separate genus - within the type, then the parable makes perfect sense.

Often, when sub-species within a genome breed, a sterile drone is born. According to this scenario, if Cain and Abel’s differing progeny bred they would have created a “drone” named after the sterile worker bee. Seen in human terms, this hybrid curse (infertility) not unlike the horse and donkey producing the crossbred mule, a unique, useful albeit sterile animal, (purposefully bred for its superior stamina and tolerance to disease as compared to the horse) would have similarly fallen on Abel’s tribe. Did this anti-hero, Cain, righteously slay this competing hominid, to preserve the integrity of his godhead (genes)? If nature’s primary law is the survival of the fittest, we may yet come to judge our ancient forebear, Cain, differently.

It is more than likely, that over eons, several tribes bred their own versions of drones to use as soldiers and fodder in their brutal, never-ending wars. Captured enemies would have been invaluable in creating hybrids. Tribes would reward and encourage fertility and use their numbers (their best weapon) to overrun all “foreigners.” This dynamic would compel hominids to domesticate beasts of burden, elephant, (mastodon) horse, ox (auroch) and camel to aid them in reaching beyond their territories. Men of all stripes would circumnavigate the globe repeatedly and migrate into every corner of the world in their single-minded quest to hunt down and destroy their “sub-human” adversaries. This overriding instinct for specie survival caused them to hone their breeding techniques so as to add more drones (soldier-slaves) to their ever-expanding armies.

Concurrently, the fruits of knowledge - mortality, self-consciousness and a sense of cognition within the cosmos - were evolving exponentially in all types of men. Ironically the diverse perspectives that each sub-species (blood-enemies) brought to confrontations and conflicts, not only formed but also hastened our human evolution. When our long gestating synapses (gaps in the folds of the brain which are connected when experience causes electrical charges) were bridged through communication techniques, (words, gestures and hand-signals) resulting in memory-making, (with the help of narratives preserved in the cave-paintings, petroglyphs and hieroglyphs) there would be no looking back. Now, these hominids could never forget, even if they wished to. The concepts of revenge and the manipulation of specie (the breeding and domestication of man and animal) would evolve simultaneously among the various types of hominids. Also, the planning and practice of genocide, like quicksilver, would metastasize within this creature’s soul and inform all future generations. During this epoch, in order to protect and defend the integrity of each tribe, a social order based on ancestor worship and military discipline would evolve into tenets and laws. The separateness of nations (nationalism) would be born.

Drone-slaves would have been reared thoroughly programmed, trained in mind, heart and body to work, fight and die for their creator-master’s most essential concern; the continuity of their particular tribe or sub-specie. Because of the extensive propagation of slaves over hundreds of thousands of years, the breeders may have inadvertently readied and groomed their best-built model of a sterile drone for eventual species distinction. Ironically, this over-reliance on slave-drones may have foreshadowed their own extinction. This purposeful action in the breeding of a hominid that was physically stronger and less susceptible to disease (although sterile at first) eventually and unknowingly derailed their own evolutionary progress and hastened their impending march toward oblivion. By their determination and to their detriment, these ancient, master-breeders had let a whirlwind - Homo sapiens- loose upon the world.

This inborn, programmed fear of the “other,“ indoctrinated in us over the ages, has become instinctual, forming the ready fighters we are today. This creates a conundrum for modern man and makes it all the more poignant and difficult to win this most apocalyptic battle of our lives - against ourselves! Our challenge - to eradicate in our hearts and minds the self-destructive and stubborn tendency (instinct) of mistaking our own kind as the infidel.

Throughout the time of these ancients, the chattel, all “others,” (any genetically dissimilar versions of hominids) were imprisoned and enslaved within breeding caves and secured stockades. They were raised, organized, reorganized, birthed and purged, from the womb to the tomb - drones, hybrids, and purebreds. Hominids and hominoids (a more primitive ape-man) fertile or not, regardless of sub-species, the currency was people, in any and every version to be bred, bartered and used without mercy, wholly and with an obsessive efficiency.

About 28,000 years ago all vestiges of the last hominid, what we now call Neanderthal (Homo Sapiens’ main competitor and pre-genitor) became extinct. Yet we, the survivors, the victors of their deliberate breeding programs, which began before we could speak,** still nurse our grudge, still hold that remnant in our hearts and in our bones. Today, this enduring, self-destructive inclination continues to confound, as we dwell on petty differences, probing in vain for that “other” that is no longer, and in error, turn against our own.

During this prehistoric epoch, specie-ism would have been a necessary reaction among hominids struggling against the onslaught of each other’s deep genetic differences. The uncontrolled co-mingling of incompatibles could doom a tribe by raising the specter of sterility and barrenness. Today’s belief in eugenics and racism - a phantom of that past - has been thoroughly discredited through biological evidence and scientific investigation. The fact is, that today, we are all members of one family, and there is only one singular species of man remaining on this earth.***

Could this primordial mechanism be behind the reason why men continue to encourage and regularly commit genocide? Among all animals, only H. sapiens practices this common, albeit, futile action. And so tribes of men continue to battle nearby tribes of men, ad infinitum. And yet, as we continue to evolve, there is hope that the meaning of science “to know” will catch up with our not-so-modern culture and assist us in surviving ourselves.

When people create their own prosperity, (mystical as well as material) peace follows. With that new day approaching, men must be inspired to wisdom by the experiences we have accumulated over the countless centuries of our existence. Human nature is forever in flux, and if there ever was a time to get along, mend things, plant things and be obliged to reflect and celebrate the palpable and awe-inspiring beauty that is life, it is now.

In 1946 AD, after a series of atomic bombs had been detonated, Albert Einstein predicted that our manipulation of the atom would require from us a new way of thinking. There are already signs of such enlightenment, and this story is one of them.

*In 1996 AD scientists discovered through DNA analysis that the Neanderthal, Australopithecus, Homo Sapiens and several other hominid strains were distinct and separate species within the genus of hominids and lived at the same time (coeval) for over one million years.

**In 1997 AD the discovery of an ancient skull showed that the human voice box developed before four hundred and fifty thousand years ago. This extraordinary time-frame (suggesting millions of years of human existence) lends credence to the theory that huge populations of genetically diverse and intellectually sophisticated hominids were compelled by their diverse natures to wage an interminable holocaust upon each other, across the centuries - ending only upon the “other’s” extinction. This virtually incomprehensible time frame also explains why very few artifacts remain from this epoch.

*** Today, in our modern era, 99.9 percent of the 3.1 billion nucleotides in the human genome are identical between any two people living anywhere in the world. This proves unequivocally, the biological uniformity of modern man and negates any notions of physiological diversity.

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