Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

Asiatic group who followed two quite different professions, some of themwere engaged in various marine occupations, and others in raising cattle andsheep."The sheep-raising families settled chiefly on the southern shores of thecontinent, which at that time were very suitable for the grazing and fatteningof these quadruped beings."And that group of terrestrial beings was then called 'Latinaki,' a word thatmeant 'shepherds.'"At first these shepherds, with their families and flocks, were scattered indifferent places Later on their numbers gradually increased, partly through theimmigration of Asiatic beings with the same profession as themselves andpartly because they were becoming more and more 'prolific,' since Nature onthe planet Earth had begun to adapt herself to the deteriorating quality of thevibrations she required, which should have been formed from the radiations ofthese three-brained beings, by substituting those vibrations obtained only fromthe process of their sacred 'rascooarno' or, as they say, from their 'death.'"And when thanks to all this their numbers had considerably increased, andexternal conditions demanded frequent relations between isolated families,they formed their first place of common existence, which was called 'Rimk.'"It was from that group of Asiatic shepherds that the later famous 'Romans'originated, their name having come from this first common dwelling place,Rimk."As for the Asiatic beings engaged in 'marine occupations,' such as fishingand gathering sponges, coral, and seaweed, they also emigrated with theirfamilies for the convenience of their profession, some of them settling on thewestern shores of their own continent of Ashhark, some on the southeasternshores of the continent of Europe, and others on the islands near the straitsthat still divide these two continents.