Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

===Cosmogony and mythology===

[[File:Khidr.jpg|thumb|right|York claimed that in Sudan he had a vision of [[Khidr]] (pictured), with the latter also being the figure [[Melchisedek]]]]

York promoted his own myth regarding the origins of the black man.{{sfn|Palmer|2021a|p=345}}
In his earlier writings, York claimed that the name of Adam – the first man in various [[Abrahamic religions|Abrahamic]] mythologies – derived from the Hebrew ''Ah-Dam'', meaning 'black mud', which he took as evidence that Adam was a black man.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xxxvi}} Subsequently, from 1992 York changed his claims and began insisting that Adam came not from black mud but from brown dust.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=17–18}} By the 1990s, York was maintaining that "Adama" was the first man created by the Eloheem, 49,000 years ago.{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|p=127}} He maintained that both Adam and Eve were formed at the junction of the Blue and White Niles in Sudan.{{sfn|Knight|2020|pp=39-40}} They then went to the [[Garden of Eden]], which was located at Mecca, but after being cast out of the Garden they returned to Sudan, which thus constitutes the cradle of humanity.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=40}} 

York's teachings maintain that the descendants of [[Cain]] waged an ancient war on Salaam, a technologically advanced society that existed on land now beneath the [[Red Sea]]. Salaam was centred at a capital city named Mu and ruled by Khidr/Melchisedek. Once Cain's descendants destroyed Mu, the Red Sea rose and submerged Salaam, cutting off Africa from the Arabian peninsula.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=40}} York stated that this break between the two continents was alluded to in Elijah Muhammad's NOI story regarding how the moon broke from the Earth; York insisted that Elijah Muhammad's tale was allegorical, with the moon symbolising Asia and the Earth symbolising Africa.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=40}}

York stated that after [[Noah]] was seen naked by his son [[Ham (Genesis)|Ham]], the former cursed Ham's son [[Canaan (son of Ham)|Canaan]], whose descendants would suffer albinism. This is one of York's various accounts for the origins of white people.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=41}} In York's mythology, Canaan and his sister-wife then fled to the [[Caucasus Mountains]], where they had 11 sons. York claimed that their descendants became increasingly animalistic, walking on all-fours and engaging in [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]].{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=41}} He further maintained that the white Amorite women began copulating with dogs and other animals, explaining the development of straight hair textures among their descendants.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=41}}

In York's writings, it is claimed that both [[Abraham]] and [[Moses]] were sent by Allah to civilise the white Amorites.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=41}} York stated that Abraham attracted a group of white followers, who falsely believed themselves to be his descendants and became the "pale Jews".{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=42}} York maintains that the claim, made by that "pale Jews", that they are descendants of the ancient Israelites is false;{{sfnm|1a1=O'Connor|1y=2000|1p=122|2a1=Knight|2y=2020|2p=44}} instead he says that the only true living descendants of the Israelites are the Ethiopian [[Beta Israel]].{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=42}} 
York's teachings also claim that [[the Buddha]] was a prophet sent by Allah to the Amorites living in the Indian subcontinent.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=42}}

York stated that Abraham's son [[Ishmael]] was the first Arab.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=44}} However, York maintains that, of Ishmael's sons, only [[Qedar (person)|Kedar]] preserved his racial purity;{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=42}} he thus presented his Nuwaubians as the descendants of Abraham via Ishmael and Kedar.{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|p=122}} York claimed that Kedar's descendants were racially Nubian and were the true Arabs. He contrasts these against what he considers false, "pale Arabs", who tricked the true Arabs, scattering them out of Arabia, kidnapping them, and selling them to European slave traders.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=44}} York's teachings thus de-centre the "pale Arabs" of Arabia as the natural authorities in Islam and instead centres Sudan as the true heartland of Islam.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=29}}

====Jesus and Muhammad====

According to York, [[Jesus]] was the biological son of the angel [[Gabriel]], who had had sex with Jesus' mother [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]].{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=16}}
In his 1980 book ''Was Christ Really Crucified?'', York claimed that Jesus escaped crucifixion and then traveled throughout Africa and the Middle East.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=40}} This was an idea that probably derived ultimately from [[Levi H. Dowling]]'s ''[[Aquarian Gospel of Jesus]]''.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=40}}

In York's view, the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]] was a black Nubian, something that has been concealed by pale Arab Muslims.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=67}}
York taught that the [[Buraq]], an animal that Muhammad allegedly rode into the heavens in Islamic belief, was actually a fleet of spaceships.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=22}} He maintained that these ships will one day ascend to Earth to gather the 144,000.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=22}}
For York, the first three [[Caliphs]] who succeeded Muhammad were all usurpers.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=67}}
In his view, Muhammad's "unmistakably black" daughter [[Fatima]] and son-in-law [[Ali]] had to flee persecution by the "pale Arab" [[Abu Bakr]].{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=24}}