The Oahspe Project

The Lords' Fifth Book

Chapter 5

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Thus the Lord established the five peoples who were saved from Pan; and he commanded them to preserve Panic words in their respective countries, which they did, and many of which exist to this day.

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Here follows what became of these I’hins, namely:

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Those that came to Guatama survived twenty-one thousand years, and then became extinct.

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Those that came to Jaffeth survived twenty-one thousand years, and then became extinct.

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Those that came to Shem survived twelve thousand years, and then became extinct by amalgamation.

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Those that came to Ham survived twenty-one thousand years, and then became extinct by amalgamation.

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Those of Guatama attained to one thousand large cities, and three thousand small cities, being more than four million souls. And they never had any king or queen, or other ruler, except the Lord, who ministered to them through the city fathers. And they retained their sacred name of Guatama to the last of them; but the I’huans called them Oech’lo’pan, signifying, people of another world [continent –Ed.].

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And in the course of time they became diminutive, and lost their desire to marry. And there came great darkness (ocgokok) on the earth, with falling ashes, heat, and fevers; and so the Lord took them up to heaven.

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Those of Jaffeth attained to two thousand large cities, and seven thousand small ones, being more than eight million souls. And they had no king, serving the Lord only. And they retained to the end of their line, the name Jaf-fa; but the I’huans called them Tua Git, signifying, people of spirit light.

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And there came a’ji on the earth, and it touched them with impotency, and they brought forth no more heirs; so the Lord took them home.

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Those of Shem attained to six hundred large cities, and two thousand small cities, being more than two million souls. Nor did they have any king, but they served the Lord through the city fathers. And they retained their name, Shem, to the last of them; but the I’huans called them Sri-vede-iyi, signifying, people of the true light, woman-like. And impotence came upon them, and they disappeared, even as a drop of water in the sunlight, and no man knew when they ceased to be.

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But hoping to preserve their seed to the Lord, many of them married with the I’huans; but their children became I’huans also, having neither the silken hair nor the musical voices of the I’hins, nor the light of the upper heavens.

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Those of Ham attained to one thousand two hundred large cities, and three thousand small cities, being four million souls. But, being of mixed colors, they did not become impotent. But they broke the law of God more than all other Faithists, being of warm blood; and they mixed greatly with the I’huans. And they had no kings or queens, serving the Lord only, through the city fathers. And they retained the name of Ham to the end of their line, when they ceased to exist as a separate people because of their amalgamation with the I’huans.

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Regarding the tribes that went in the two ships to the north land (Japan), after a thousand years, no man could draw the line between them and the I’huans, for they mingled with them, and were lost, as I’hins. Nevertheless, they redeemed the barbarians into wisdom and peace.