The Original Goths

Who were the original tall, red-haired, blue-eyed, tattooed
gods (Goths) ? They were of Bantu stock from West Africa and,
after crossing the Gibraltar strait, they pushed on up into France and
northwestern Europe; but, because of their black pigmentation, they did not
fare very well in the northern rain forest. In the primitive world,
most of the vitamin D required by an individual was obtained through
the radiation of the fat layers beneath the skin by ultra violet
radiation from the sun. In the European rain forest the sun's
radiation was too weak for a black man to remain healthy. A few
exceptional individuals developed a form of albinism, which in black
men is incomplete and, although the skin does become pink and devoid
of melanin, the hair becomes red rather than white, and the eyes
become blue rather than pink.

These red-heads expanded into Europe. They are known by
archaeologists as Cro-Magnon men because an early skull belonging to
their race was found in the Cro-Magnon rock shelter near Les Eyzies in
France. As the last Ice Age retreated, these men advanced eastwards
until they reached southern Russia in a district between the Don and
Volga rivers. There, they developed a skill that would transform the world.