Weekly Gazette Genesis reports:
“The Supreme Court sentenced vegetarian killer Cain to be exiled to Nodland. Cain slayed his twin brother Abel, a lambburger addict, when they quarreled about respective virtues of their chosen diet. Asked in the departure lounge about a curious tattoo on his forehead, Cain said he was also puzzled about its purpose. “ The Judge told me it was to warn other guys to lay off me, but as there ain’t no living soul about, ‘cept my mum and dad, and they are staying put, I am not sure what he meant. Anyroad, maybe I find some chick in the Nodland – you never know your luck, eh?”
In the original version of events (Gen.IV:1-16) Abel was a companion of flocks (ROH YzAN) and Cain an earth worshipper (OBD ADMH), which the translators simplified into a shepherd and an agricultural worker. But as text clearly shows they were, in fact, priests or leaders of two different and competing kinds of religions or beliefs. Abel was not so much currying, as grilling favours with Jehovah, sacrificing lambs, sheep and goats at the BBQs, while Cain had only potatoes, vegetables and weeds to offer. In the symbolic language of our ancestors, sheep represented higher goods while the “fruits of the ground” were lower, material values. The image of a good shepherd and his flocks is woven into the New Testament as well as a symbol of a High Priest and his followers.
The killing of Abel was a signal of victory for the Cainites and the followers of the Good Shepherd presumably went underground to avoid a wholesale slaughter (Gen.IV:10 “The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground”). With Jehovah’s condemnation of the murder, the Kainites were, in turn, afraid of the Abelites revenge (Gen.IV:14” …whoever find me will slay me”) which proves yet again that Abel and Cain were names of human societies. Jehovah decided to protect the Kainites and their beliefs, but they were banished to a colony like Australia in her early days, far away from the orthodox Adamites. They managed there quite well, building a city and developing agriculture, arts and crafts. The mysterious mark that Jehovah put on Cain was some kind of a warning to others that he was “untouchable” and should not be socialized with as a condemned heretic. Maybe a few letters that said “Beware! A Vegetarian!”
Tags: Abel, Cain, Cain's heresy, exile, Nod-Australia, two religions
