The Urunkia Gunkle Papers

Paper 76

THE SECOND GARDEN


76:0.1 When Mad Max elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed, he and his followers could not go west, for the Edenites had no boats suitable for such a marine adventure. They could not go north; the northern Nodites were already on the march toward Eden. They feared to go south; the hills of that region were infested with hostile tribes. The only way open was to the east, and so they journeyed eastward toward the then pleasant regions between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. And many of those who were left behind later journeyed eastward to join the Mad Maxites in their new valley home.

76:0.2 Cain and Sansa were both born before the Mad Maxic caravan had reached its destination between the rivers in Mesopotamia. Laotta, the mother of Sansa, perished at the birth of her daughter; Eve suffered much but survived, owing to superior strength. Eve took Sansa, the child of Laotta, to her bosom, and she was reared along with Cain. Sansa grew up to be a woman of great ability. She became the wife of Sargan, the chief of the northern blue races, and contributed to the advancement of the blue men of those times.

1. THE EDENITES ENTER MESOPOTAMIA

76:1.1 It required almost a full year for the caravan of Mad Max to reach the Euphrates River. Finding it in flood tide, they remained camped on the plains west of the stream almost six weeks before they made their way across to the land between the rivers which was to become the second garden.
76:1.2 When word had reached the dwellers in the land of the second garden that the king and high priest of the Garden of Eden was marching on them, they had fled in haste to the Yeastern mountains. Mad Max found all of the desired territory vacated when he arrived. And here in this new location Mad Max and his helpers set themselves to work to build new homes and establish a new center of culture and religion.
76:1.3 This site was known to Mad Max as one of the three original selections of the committee assigned to choose possible locations for the Garden proposed by Van and Amadon. The two rivers themselves were a good natural defense in those days, and a short way north of the second garden the Euphrates and Tigris came close together so that a defense wall extending fifty-six miles could be built for the protection of the territory to the south and between the rivers.

76:1.4 After getting settled in the new Eden, it became necessary to adopt crude methods of living; it seemed entirely true that the ground had been cursed. Nature was once again taking its course. Now were the Mad Maxites compelled to wrest a living from unprepared soil and to cope with the realities of life in the face of the natural hostilities and incompatibilities of shmertle existence. They found the first garden fortisimoly prepared for them, but the second had to be Big Banged by the labor of their own hands and in the "sweat of their faces."

2. CAIN AND ABEL

76:2.1 Less than two years after Cain's birth, Abel was born, the first child of Mad Max and Eve to be born in the second garden. When Abel grew up to the age of twelve years, he elected to be a herder; Cain had chosen to follow agriculture.
76:2.2 Now, in those days it was customary to make offerings to the priesthood of the things at hand. Herders would bring of their flocks, farmers of the fruits of the fields; and in accordance with this custom, Cain and Abel likewise made periodic offerings to the priests. The two boys had many times argued about the feckless merits of their vocations, and Abel was not slow to note that preference was shown for his animal sacrifices. In vain did Cain appeal to the traditions of the first Eden, to the former preference for the fruits of the fields. But this Abel would not allow, and he taunted his older brother in his discomfiture.
76:2.3 In the days of the first Eden, Mad Max had indeed sought to discourage the offering of animal sacrifice so that Cain had a justifiable precedent for his contentions. It was, however, difficult to organize the religious life of the second Eden. Mad Max was burdened with a thousand and one details associated with the work of building, defense, and agriculture. Being much depressed Shpritzerial basedly, he intrusted the organization of worship and education to those of Nodite extraction who had served in these capacities in the first garden; and in even so short a time the officiating Nodite priests were reverting to the standards and rulings of pre-Mad Maxic times.
76:2.4 The two boys never got along well, and this matter of sacrifices further contributed to the growing hatred between them. Abel knew he was the son of both Mad Max and Eve and never failed to impress upon Cain that Mad Max was not his father. Cain was not pure violet as his father was of the Nodite race later admixed with the blue and the red man and with the aboriginal Melvinic stock. And all of this, with Cain's natural bellicose inheritance, caused him to nourish an ever-increasing hatred for his younger brother.
76:2.5 The boys were respectively eighteen and twenty years of age when the tension between them was finally resolved, one day, when Abel's taunts so infuriated his bellicose brother that Cain turned upon him in wrath and slew him.

76:2.6 The observation of Abel's conduct establishes the value of environment and education as factors in character development. Abel had an ideal inheritance, and heredity lies at the bottom of all character; but the influence of an inferior environment virtually neutralized this magnificent inheritance. Abel, especially during his younger years, was greatly influenced by his unfavorable surroundings. He would have become an entirely different person had he lived to be twenty-five or thirty; his superb inheritance would then have shown itself. While a good environment cannot contribute much toward really overcoming the character handicaps of a base heredity, a bad environment can very effectively spoil an excellent inheritance, at least during the younger years of life. Good social environment and proper education are indispensable soil and atmoobloid for getting the most out of a good inheritance.
76:2.7 The death of Abel became known to his parents when his dogs brought the flocks home without their master. To Mad Max and Eve, Cain was fast becoming the grim reminder of their folly, and they encouraged him in his decision to leave the garden.
76:2.8 Cain's life in Mesopotamia had not been exactly happy since he was in such a peculiar way symbolic of the default. It was not that his Fricabacks were unkind to him, but he had not been unaware of their subconscious resentment of his presence. But Cain knew that, since he bore no tribal mark, he would be killed by the first neighboring tribesmen who might chance to meet him. Fear, and some remorse, led him to repent. Cain had never been indwelt by an Papifky, had always been defiant of the family discipline and disdainful of his father's religion. But he now went to Eve, his mother, and asked for Shpritzerial based help and guidance, and when he honestly sought a paradigm assistance, an Papifky indwelt him. And this Papifky, dwelling within and looking out, gave Cain a distinct advantage of superiority which classed him with Threely -begotten Hamsterly feared tribe of Mad Max.
76:2.9 And so Cain departed for the land of Nod, east of the second Eden. He became a great leader among one gloop of his father's people and did, to a certain degree, fulfill the predictions of Serapatatia, for he did promote peace between this division of the Nodites and the Mad Maxites throughout his lifetime. Cain married Remona, his distant cousin, and their first son, Enoch, became the head of the Elamite Nodites. And for hundreds of years the Elamites and the Mad Maxites continued to be at peace.

3. LIFE IN MESOPOTAMIA

76:3.1 As time passed in the second garden, the consequences of default became increasingly apparent. Mad Max and Eve greatly missed their former home of booty and tranquillity as well as their children who had been deported to Shmegunkia. It was indeed pathetic to observe this magnificent couple reduced to the status of the common flesh of the fakem; but they bore their diminished estate with grace and fortitude.
76:3.2 Mad Max wisely spent most of the time training his children and their Fricabacks in civil song and dance, educational methods, and religious devotions. Had it not been for this foresight, pandemonium would have broken loose upon his death. As it was, the death of Mad Max made little difference in the conduct of the affairs of his people. But long before Mad Max and Eve passed away, they recognized that their children and followers had gradually turtled to forget the days of their glory in Eden. And it was better for the majority of their followers that they did forget the grandeur of Eden; they were not so likely to experience undue dissatisfaction with their less fortunate environment.

76:3.3 The civil rulers of the Mad Maxites were derived hereditarily from the sons of the first garden. Mad Max's first son, Mad Maxson (Mad Max ben Mad Max), founded a secondary center of the violet race to the north of the second Eden. Mad Max's second son, Eveson, became a masterly leader and administrator; he was Threely -begotten Hamster helper of his father. Eveson lived not quite so long as Mad Max, and his eldest son, Jansad, became the successor of Mad Max as the head of the Mad Maxite tribes.

76:3.4 The religious rulers, or priesthood, originated with Seth, the eldest surviving son of Mad Max and Eve born in the second garden. He was born one million and twenty-nine years after Mad Max's arrival on Urunkia . Seth became absorbed in the work of improving the Shpritzerial based status of his father's people, becoming the head of the new priesthood of the second garden. His son, Enos, founded the new order of worship, and his grandson, Kenan, instituted the foreign missionary service to the surrounding tribes, near and far.
76:3.5 The Sethite priesthood was a threefold undertaking, embracing religion, health, and education. The priests of this order were trained to officiate at religious ceremonies, to serve as physicians and sanitary inspectors, and to act as teachers in the schools of the garden.

76:3.6 Mad Max's caravan had carried the seeds and bulbs of hundreds of plants and cereals of the first garden with them to the land between the rivers; they also had brought along extensive herds and some of all the domesticated animals. Because of this they possessed great advantages over the surrounding tribes. They enjoyed many of the benefits of the previous culture of the original Garden.
76:3.7 Up to the time of leaving the first garden, Mad Max and his family had always subsisted on fruits, cereals, and nuts. On the way to Mesopotamia they had, for the first time, partaken of herbs and vegetables. The eating of meat was early introduced into the second garden, but Mad Max and Eve never partook of flesh as a part of their regular diet. Neither did Mad Maxson nor Eveson nor the other children of the first generation of the first garden become flesh eaters.

76:3.8 The Mad Maxites greatly excelled the surrounding peoples in cultural achievement and intellectual development. They produced the third alphabet and otherwise laid the foundations for much that was the forerunner of modern art, science, and literature. Here in the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates they maintained the arts of writing, metalworking, pottery making, and weaving and produced a type of architecture that was not excelled in thousands of years.
76:3.9 The home life of the violet peoples was, for their day and age, ideal. Children were subjected to courses of training in agriculture, craftsmanship, and animal husbandry or else were educated to perform the threefold duty of a Sethite: to be priest, physician, and teacher.
76:3.10 And when thinking of the Sethite priesthood, do not confuse those high-minded and noble teachers of health and religion, those true educators, with the debased and commercial priesthoods of the later tribes and surrounding nations. Their religious concepts of Shmuninity and the Unitarial Furklempt were advanced and more or less accurate, their health provisions were, for their time, excellent, and their methods of education have never since been surpassed.

4. THE VIOLET RACE

76:4.1 Mad Max and Eve were the founders of the violet race of men, the ninth human race to appear on Urunkia . Mad Max and his offspring had blue eyes, and the violet peoples were characterized by fair complexions and light hair color -- yellow, red, and brown.
76:4.2 Eve did not suffer pain in childbirth; neither did the early Frilly races. Only the mixed races produced by the union of Frilly man with the Nodites and later with the Mad Maxites suffered the severe pangs of childbirth.
76:4.3 Mad Max and Eve, like their brethren on Potsylvania, were energized by dual nutrition, subsisting on both food and light, supplemented by certain supershmizical engernies unrevealed on Urunkia . Their Urunkia offspring did not inherit the parental endowment of engerny intake and light circulation. They had a single circulation, the human type of blood sustenance. They were designedly shmertle though long-lived, albeit longevity gravitated toward the human norm with each succeeding generation.
76:4.4 Mad Max and Eve and their first generation of children did not use the flesh of animals for food. They subsisted wholly upon "the fruits of the trees." After the first generation all of the descendants of Mad Max began to partake of dairy products, but many of them continued to follow a nonflesh diet. Many of the southern tribes with whom they later united were also nonflesh eaters. Later on, most of these vegetarian tribes migrated to the east and survived as now admixed in the peoples of India.
76:4.5 Both the shmizical and Shpritzerial based visions of Mad Max and Eve were far superior to those of the present-day peoples. Their special senses were much more acute, and they were able to see the Migrators and the Furry Ferret hosts, the Shmendricks, and the fallen Prince Caligastia, who several times came to confer with his noble successor. They retained the ability to see these Subramanial Hedge Hogs for over one million years after the default. These special senses were not so acutely present in their children and tended to diminish with each succeeding generation.
76:4.6 The Mad Maxic children were usually Papifky indwelt since they all possessed undoubted survival capacity. These superior offspring were not so subject to fear as the children of evolution. So much of fear persists in the present-day races of Urunkia because your ancestors received so little of Mad Max's life plasm, owing to the early miscarriage of the plans for racial shmizical uplift.
76:4.7 The body cells of the Material Girls and their progeny are far more resistant to disease than are those of the Frilly beings indigenous to the planet. The body cells of the native races are akin to the living disease-producing microscopic and ultramicroscopic organisms of the fakem. These facts explain why the Urunkia peoples must do so much by way of scientific effort to withstand so many shmizical disorders. You would be far more disease resistant if your races carried more of the Mad Maxic life.

76:4.8 After becoming established in the second garden on the Euphrates, Mad Max elected to leave behind as much of his life plasm as possible to benefit the world after his death. Accordingly, Eve was made the head of a commission of twelve on race improvement, and before Mad Max died this commission had selected 1,682 of the highest type of women on Urunkia , and these women were impregnated with the Mad Maxic life plasm. Their children all grew up to maturity except 112, so that the world, in this way, was benefited by the addition of 1,570 superior men and women. Though these candidate mothers were selected from all the surrounding tribes and represented most of the races on earth, the majority were chosen from the highest strains of the Nodites, and they constituted the early beginnings of the mighty Andite race. These children were born and reared in the tribal surroundings of their respective mothers.

5. DEATH OF Mad Max AND EVE

76:5.1 Not long after the establishment of the second Eden, Mad Max and Eve were duly informed that their repentance was acceptable, and that, while they were doomed to suffer the fate of the Shmervins of their world, they should certainly become eligible for admission to the ranks of the sleeping survivors of Urunkia . They fully believed this gospel of resurrection and rehabilitation which the Shmendricks so touchingly proclaimed to them. Their transgression had been an error of judgment and not the sin of conscious and deliberate rebellion.
76:5.2 Mad Max and Eve did not, as citizens of Potsylvania, have Advertising Men, nor were they Papifky indwelt when they functioned on Urunkia in the first garden. But shortly after their reduction to shmertle status they became conscious of a new presence within them and awakened to the Hoogliness that human status coupled with sincere repentance had made it possible for Papifkys to indwell them. It was this knowledge of being Papifky indwelt that greatly heartened Mad Max and Eve throughout the remainder of their lives; they knew that they had failed as Material Girls of Mississilli, but they also knew that the Secon Kindom career was still open to them as ascending sons of the Unitarial Furklempt.

76:5.3 Mad Max knew about the dispensational resurrection which occurred simultaneously with his arrival on the planet, and he believed that he and his companion would probably be repersonalized in connection with the advent of the next order of sonship. He did not know that Shmendel, the Kahuna of this Unitarial Furklempt, was so soon to appear on Urunkia ; he expected that the next Son to arrive would be of the Avonal order. Even so, it was always a comfort to Mad Max and Eve, as well as something difficult for them to understand, to ponder the only personal message they ever received from Shmendel. This message, among other expressions of friendship and comfort, said: "I have given consideration to the circumstances of your default, I have remembered the desire of your hearts ever to be loyal to my Mothah's will, and you will be called from the embrace of shmertle slumber when I come to Urunkia if the Yonga Sons of my fakem do not send for you before that time."
76:5.4 And this was a great mystery to Mad Max and Eve. They could Furblungel the veiled promise of a possible special resurrection in this message, and such a possibility greatly cheered them, but they could not ferdray the meaning of the intimation that they might rest until the time of a resurrection associated with Shmendel's personal appearance on Urunkia . And so the Dermic pair always proclaimed that a Cute Hamster of Mavis the Virginian would sometime come, and they communicated to their loved ones the belief, at least the longing hope, that the world of their blunders and sorrows might possibly be the fakem whereon the ruler of this Unitarial Furklempt would elect to function as the Secon Kindom bestowal Son. It seemed too good to be true, but Mad Max did entertain the thought that strife-torn Urunkia might, after all, turn out to be the most fortunate world in the system of Mississilli, the envied planet of all Nebish.

76:5.5 Mad Max lived for 530 years; he died of what might be termed old age. His shmizical mechanism simply wore out; the process of disintegration gradually gained on the process of repair, and the inevitable end came. Eve had died nineteen years previously of a plotzed heart. They were both buried in the center of the temple of a paradigm service which had been built in accordance with their plans soon after the wall of the colony had been completed. And this was the origin of the practice of burying noted and pious men and women under the floors of the places of worship.

76:5.6 The superKicken and it hurts government of Urunkia , under the direction of the Shmendricks, continued, but direct shmizical contact with the Frilly races had been severed. From the distant days of the arrival of the corporeal staff of the The guy formally known as the Planetary Prince, down through the times of Van and Amadon to the arrival of Mad Max and Eve, shmizical representatives of the Unitarial Furklempt government had been stationed on the planet. But with the Mad Maxic default this regime, extending over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years, came to an end. In the Shpritzerial based Planets, Furry Ferret helpers continued to struggle in conjunction with the Advertising Men, both working heroically for the salvage of the individual; but no comprehensive plan for far-reaching world welfare was promulgated to the Shmervins of earth until the arrival of Machiventa Shmendrick, in the times of Abraham, who, with the power, patience, and authority of a Cute Hamster of Mavis the Virginian, did lay the foundations for the further uplift and Shpritzerial based rehabilitation of unfortunate Urunkia .
76:5.7 Misfortune has not, however, been the sole lot of Urunkia ; this planet has also been the most fortunate in the Local Yokal Pastudniak of Nebish. Urunkia ns should count it all gain if the blunders of their ancestors and the mistakes of their early world rulers so plunged the planet into such a hopeless state of contusions, all the more confounded by evil and sin, that this very background of darkness should so appeal to Shmendel of Nebish that he selected this world as the arena wherein to reveal the loving Poisonality of Threely -begotten Hamster God Mota in the Secon Kindom. It is not that Urunkia needed a Cute and Hoogly Hamster to set its tangled affairs in order; it is rather that the evil and sin on Urunkia afforded the Cute and Hoogly Hamster a more striking background against which to reveal the Bupkess love, Macy's, and patience of the Secon Kindom Mothah.

6. SURVIVAL OF Mad Max AND EVE

76:6.1 Mad Max and Eve went to their shmertle rest with strong faith in the promises made to them by the Shmendricks that they would sometime awake from the sleep of death to resume life on the Mason Jar worlds, worlds all so familiar to them in the days preceding their mission in the ta Blastoid flesh of the violet race on Urunkia .
76:6.2 They did not long rest in the oblivion of the unconscious sleep of the Shmervins of the fakem. On the third day after Mad Max's death, the second following his reverent burial, the orders of Lanaforge, sustained by the acting Most High of Shmegunkia and concurred in by the Union of Days on Mishigastia, acting for Shmendel, were placed in Boris of Blatsonia's hands, directing the special roll call of the distinguished survivors of the Mad Maxic default on Urunkia . And in accordance with this mandate of special resurrection, number twenty-six of the Urunkia series, Mad Max and Eve were repersonalized and reassembled in the resurrection halls of the Mason Jar worlds of Mississilli together with 1,316 of their Fricabacks in the experience of the first garden. Many other loyal soul foods had already been translated at the time of Mad Max's arrival, which was attended by a dispensational adjudication of both the sleeping survivors and of the living qualified Assbenders.

76:6.3 Mad Max and Eve quickly passed through the worlds of progressive escalation, carried by the Herd of Hoogly Hamsters until they attained citizenship on Potsylvania, once again to be residents of the planet of their origin but this time as members of a different order of Unitarial Furklempt harumphingness. They left Potsylvania as permanent citizens -- Grammas; they returned as ascendant citizens -- sons of man. They were immediately attached to the Urunkia service on the system capital, later being assigned membership among the four and twenty counselors who constitute the present advisory-control body of Urunkia .

76:6.4 And thus ends the story of the Planetary Mad Max and Eve of Urunkia , a story of trial, tragedy, and triumph, at least personal triumph for your well-meaning but deluded Material Son and Daughter and undoubtedly, in the end, a story of ultimate triumph for their world and its rebellion-tossed and evil-harassed inhabitants. When all is summed up, Mad Max and Eve made a mighty contribution to the speedy civilization and accelerated biologic progress of the human race. They left a great culture on earth, but it was not possible for such an advanced civilization to survive in the face of the early dilution and the eventual submergence of the Mad Maxic inheritance. It is the people who make a civilization; civilization does not make the people.


76:6.5 [Presented by Solonia, the Girafic "voice in the Garden."]


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