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Did Cain's (Ka-in's) Race End with the FLOOD? (You'll be surprised at My Answer!) According to the Bible, in Genesis 6:5-8 "And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord (Yahweh) that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord (Yahweh) said,.. I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Yahweh)." In the Bible, in the Genesis story of the FLOOD, only Noah and his wife and three sons, and their wives (8 persons) survived the FLOOD, and no one in Cain's family was among them (unless, of course, one or several of those wives were among Cain's descendents). On my last page, page three of this series, I quoted the opinions of most of modern Bible researchers, who feel sure although the Bible may have been composed in Judea, it was composed by scribes who were trained by the Persians. That King Solomon was a very rich and powerful king, and had a contingent of scribes working for him collecting wise sayings, and parables, and historical gems from all over the civilized world is a very popular Jewish tradition, and a great number of people believed it at one time. It's there in the Bible to read and believe if you choose to do so. But the number of archaeologists and scholars who still believe this to be true has diminished to a vanishingly small number. Similarly in trouble nowadays are the ideas that he had a magnificent palace, had envoys visiting him from all over the world, and had 700 wives. The generalized skepticism is due to the lack of any real documents that can be shown to come from the so-called "First Temple" period, any evidence of scribal schools, or even any real places of worship, other than outdoors for this era.
In recent years we have come to rely more and more on such things as pottery shards and the excavated ruins of houses, settlements, and even temples and cities to make up our minds about what really happened to past civilizations. And not so much any more on what scribes, prophets and priests said and wrote down in the Bible, realizing that all these people had an agenda. This agenda being to promote the idea that their god was the most powerful or only god, and that their nation was this god's favorite nation, and wishes for them to rule the whole world religiously, and perhaps even politically. To the extent what we find in these excavations supports what we read in the Bible, to that extent I, and a lot of others, can believe that what we have been taught is the truth! There are FLOOD STORIES in these ancient pre-Biblical documents and enough of the details match the Biblical story that we can assume that Jewish scribes, possibly in the second temple period, scribes taught by Persian and Babylonian teachers, copied these earlier FLOOD STORIES, adapting them to their own One-God theology. I found it very helpful and in support of this supposition when I saw the picture made by a very old carved stone cylinder seal when it is rolled on clay, shown above. And discovered that it exactly illustrates Genesis chapter 14. The cylinder seal is unlabeled, belonging at one time to some unidentified ancient official. Now its in the British museum, in a collection of ancient artifacts called the Spartoli collection. Beneath this picture I have shown cuneiform writing from a clay tablet that seems to describe the same scene pictured on the cylinder seal, which should not surprise us being from the same ancient era, and same area as the seal. But that both these artifacts tell the same story as does Genesis chapter 14 should convince some of us that part of the Bible is indeed historical, and that the scribes who composed the Bible knew this history. And are quoting exactly and repeatedly from these old clay tablets. If they believed them, why shouldn't we?
Zechariah Sitchin is a Jewish researcher and linguist who over the years has specialized in reading translations of ancient Sumerian, Accadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian documents that have been found in archaeological excavations all over the areas, many in southern Iraq, where archaeologists believe the Garden of Eden was located.
In the Bible, there are two CREATION STORIES that do not agree with each other. In the FIRST STORY, the one we read first when we read the Bible today, the earth, the vegetation on earth, the sun, moon and stars, the birds and fishes, all the animals and creeping things, and even mankind, both Adam and Eve, are all created in seven literal 24-hour days. They are created by the "Word" of the Lord (Yahweh). The word formula, repeated at the beginning and end of each 24-hour day is, "And God said--- and it was so." The first part of the picture below illustrates this week of CREATION. But any discriminating reader of Genesis with a training in Freshman Composition (as I studied it at Atlantic Union College in 1951-1952) can tell that a SECOND CREATION STORY that does not rely on, nor support, this one literal week of CREATION begins in Genesis 2:4 with the words "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the DAY that the Lord God (NOT Yahweh but the Elohim) made the earth and the heavens." In this SECOND CREATION STORY, the one we are reading through chapter 2 and 3 of Genesis, only Adam exists after God (the Lord God, NOT Yahweh) formed him from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7), and the Lord God (NOT Yahweh) put him in a garden the Elohim had made (Genesis 2:8-9). He put Adam in the garden as his gardener (slave, servant) to tend the garden, but he was not to eat of a certain tree in that garden, the "Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil." (Genesis 2:15-17) Adam was alone, and had no female companion (Genesis 2:18). But instead of creating such a companion right away, the Elohim started creating a whole new series of animals and birds, which the Elohim brought to Adam to name (Genesis 2:19-20). When Adam could not find a female companion among these newly created animals, then the Elohim put Adam into a deep sleep and made a wife for him out of one of his ribs (Genesis 2:21-25). But Eve, his new wife, paid no heed to the instruction not to eat of the "Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil" and both Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden of Eden (Genesis chapter 3 and the second part of the above picture). There are no Adam and Eve stories in the pre-Biblical literature that match the "sinful Eve" story that is found in the Bible, but there was a troublesome goddess named Inanna who was indeed responsible for obtaining some tablets containing a lot of the knowledge of the ancient gods she, the goddess, was not supposed to have access to. Adapa and Tiki This pair of hybrid children, part human and part divine, were the children of Lord EA (not Yahweh), and are, I believe, the pre-Biblical equivalent of the Adam and Eve of the Bible. The ones the Persian and Babylonian trained scribes of the second temple period used as a model for their semi-historical Bible stories. Tiki was not made from Adapa's rib, but she was his sister. A close enough relative so that he could say, if he wished to, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." (Genesis 2:23) These two were taught everything by the Elohim and their father Lord EA they could possibly learn, and Tiki had thirty (30) sons and daughters by her brother Adapa. Two of these sons (twins) were Ka-in and Aba-el (Cain and Abel)
Here's a posed picture, modeled by actors, of Lord EA's hybrid (part human, part divine) children, Adapa and Titi. Adapa's children were Ka-IN and Aba-EL. Back Now to Adapa (Bible "Adam") Adapa, being part homo erectus, had enough facial hair to grow a beard when he reached adulthood, but his wife did not, as we are used to seeing in human females of today. The picture below can be used to show what Adapa's family may have looked like while Ka-IN and Aba-EL were small children. What is not shown here is the city of Eridu in the background, where Adapa lived most of his lifetime as a priest of his father the god Lord EA. Enlil (Yahweh) balanced the Enkiites control of livestock. He insisted his own eldest son Ninurta tutor Ka-in to raise the grain seeds Ningishzidda brought from Nibiru. Enlil’s lineage, the Enlilites, not Enki's lineage, the Enkiites, would farm Earth. And so it was that when the space-ship loaded with goats and sheep arrived from the planet Nibiru, that Aba-EL had a new trade to learn, animal husbandry, while Kain continued on as a grain-farmer, tending the fields and canals in southern Iraq where irrigation was required both then and now, to insure a grain crop worthy of harvesting. The work was harder and the responsibility greater now that Aba-EL was no longer available to help him. But they both were now no longer working for their grandfather, the god Lord EA (Enki) but for another god, the "God of Heaven", Enlil. (The equivalent, it seems, to the Yahweh of the Bible.) "By the lack of Enki’s blessing greatly was Ka-in aggrieved" Genesis 4:7 "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, ...etc." The twins quarreled for an entire winter about whether–Ka-in’s grains and fish-abundant irrigation canals or Abael’s meat and wool--contributed most. And now we already have some answers to those nagging questions that I suggested on the previous page. Why are these brothers working at conflicting occupations? They had no choice, they were servants of the gods doing what they were told to do. Why was Aba-EL's offering accepted by Yahweh? Because animal husbandry was a new project requiring extra effort and Aba-EL was making that extra effort and being successful. Why was Kain's offering of grain and vegetables ignored by Yahweh (Enlil)? Poor judgment on his part. He was used to Kain's activities, and taking them for granted. His conciliatory remarks to Kain were too little, too late. How long did Kain and Aba-EL "talk" about this problem? An entire winter, perhaps 3 to 6 months. How long did the gods Enlil and Enki have an opportunity to prevent, by any number of corrective actions, the tragedy that happened next? An entire winter, 3 to six months. "When summer began, it was not raining, the meadows were dry, the pastures dwindled. Into the fields of his brother Abael his flocks drove, from the furrows and canals to drink water. By this Ka-in was angered." The twins fought with fists till Ka-in bludgeoned Abael with a stone, then sat and sobbed. [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 183- 184].
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