Deep in the mountainous interior of Irian Jaya, formerly Dutch New Guinea, there lives a

tribe of natives called the Yalu. They were one of the most isolated peoples on the face of
the earth yet they had a very formalized blood sacrificial system. They had a law of Ten
Commandments called the wene malalek and a holy ground called an osuwa. That osuwa
was surrounded by a stone wall. Any man not consecrated to the spirits of kembu, or any
woman who trespassed on that ground, would be killed. Within the osuwa was a sacred
building called the kembu-vam. It had two rooms, an outer room where the priests of
kembu held ceremonies, and an inner room which held the sacred stone. The stone was
never allowed to be moved by one man, but had to be carried by four men at its four
corners. Pigs were slaughtered and roasted in the court outside the kembu-vam, and
priests, with awesome ceremony, took pig fat into that holiest of rooms and anointed the
sacred stone. A more detailed account of the Yalu folk religion may be found in Don
Richardson's Lords of the Earth (Ventura, CA Regal Books, 1977) pp. 76-80.
In Burma, there was a tribe of people called the Karen who worshiped the God Ywa.
Their prophets declared that they once possessed a book of the law but had lost it many
centuries before. Sacred songs passed down from generation to generation, reminded
them of their lost law: Omnipotent is Ywa; Him have we not believed. Ywa created men
anciently. He has a perfect knowledge of all things. Ywa created men at the beginning.
The earth is the treading place for the feet of Ywa. And heaven is the place where He sits.
He sees all things and we are manifest to Him. Ywa formed the earth originally. He
appointed food and drink. He appointed the fruit of trial. Mu-kaw-lee deceived two
persons. He causes them to eat of the fruit of the tree of trial. They obeyed not; they
believed not Ywa ...They became subject to sickness, aging and death ...O children and
grandchildren, If we repent of our sins, And cease to do evil - restraining our passions -
And pray to Ywa. He will have mercy upon us again. If Ywa does not have mercy on us,
there is no other one who can. He who saves us is the only one - Ywa. O Children and
grandchildren! Pray to Ywa constantly. By day and by night.
Ywa is just too close to Yahweh (the Hebrew name for God) to be coincidental. And
what about the fruit of trial and prayer? Those traditions do not appear to be founded in
the New Testament Gospel, but upon a knowledge of the Old Testament. Again we have
to ask: Where did they get all that? The Lahu of northern Burma had a tradition that
GuiSha, the Creator of all things, had given their forefathers His law written on rice
cakes. The Rengma tribe in India believed that the Supreme Being gave His words to
their forefathers written on animal skins (which, by the way, is what the Mosaic law was
written on). But according to their traditions, the forefathers of the Rengma people had
been careless with the skins and dogs had eaten them. Don Richardson, Eternity in Their
Hearts (Ventura, CA, Regal Books, 1981) pp.77-79, cites from The Gospel in Burma,
Wylie, p. 6, and The Karen Apostle, Mason, p. 97-99.
The Lahu of northern Burma had a tradition that GuiSha, the Creator of all things, had
given their forefathers His law written on rice cakes. The Rengma tribe in India believed
that the Supreme Being gave His words to their forefathers written on animal skins
(which, by the way, is what the Mosaic law was written on). But according to their
traditions, the forefathers of the Rengma people had been careless with the skins and
dogs had eaten them. These examples are not unique. The native religions of almost
every isolated people on earth contain haunting memories, in varying detail, of an earlier
knowledge of the true God, or of His Law.
Some think that these are the remnant of the scattered ten tribes of Israel. In 725 B.C.,
Shalmaneser began a major deportation of Israel, and put Samaria under siege. Samaria
itself fell in 722 B.C. and what was left of the nation of Israel was taken captive and
relocated near the Caspian Sea (north of what is now Iran) and they were never heard
from again. This happened just as Moses prophesied it would: Nehemiah 1:8 Remember,
I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye
transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations. Coincidence or not, many people
from various cultures and places are coming up with the same basic story. Whether we
will know for certain or not matters not so much as the fact remains that many only
believed in One true God originally. As well as the origins of sin and Satan in the garden
of Eden. This tends to prove the truth that all men of every nation are but of one blood,
and made by One creator God. Satan likes to divide and conqueror whereas Christ grants
peace and unity. The last time that man will be unified again will be because Satan had
already divided and conquered somewhere. But it will be for his purposes (like with
Nimrod, who was a anti-Christ type) under a one world government. Since that's another
story, let's conclude this one with the knowledge that many things are in common across
the globe concerning the creation story, that is despite differences in languages and
cultures.