The Nine Races : The Forgotten Origin of Humanity
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Nearly one million years ago, two children were born who were unlike anything the world had ever seen. They were the first true humans, and every person alive today descends from them.
But they were only the beginning.
Over time, nine distinct racial origins emerged on Earth. Six colored races - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo - sprang from a single family in the highlands of central Asia. A people born from cosmic rebellion built cities and writing systems that predated Sumer by hundreds of thousands of years. A superhuman pair arrived with a specific mission to biologically uplift the human races - and failed, leaving behind a genetic legacy that reshaped every population they touched. And beneath it all, the original human stock founded by those first two individuals spread across three continents, adapting, fragmenting, and enduring.
Each of these nine peoples carried unique biological endowments. Each shaped the world in different ways. And over tens of thousands of years, through migration, conflict, intermarriage, and absorption, they blended into the complex mosaic of modern humanity.
The Nine Races presents a sweeping narrative of human origins spanning nearly a million years. It traces the emergence and fate of each racial origin, follows the migrations that carried them across continents, and examines how their eventual blending produced the civilizations of recorded history. Along the way, readers will encounter the first prayer ever spoken, a rebellion that destroyed humanity's first organized civilization, the rise and fall of peoples who left no trace in the archaeological record, and the horsemen from Mesopotamia whose arrival transformed Europe in a single generation.
This is not a textbook, a theological argument, or a work of speculation. It is narrative nonfiction - written in accessible prose for general readers, scholars, and spiritual seekers who want to understand where humanity came from and how nine ancient peoples became one modern world.
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