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By RENE B ACHE NE of the mosf repulsive pathetic and puzzling figures of all Biblicaf history is the first man t6 spill his brother's blood Cain Like almost every other character in the Sacred Book he Jiajs from time to time engaged the rapt attention of fundamentahstls and modernists in defininjr his precise character In general neither side has been jable to establish a final and authoritative portraitLof the fratricide as he actually seemed to his neighbors and family The sole source of documentation is Tiaturally the Fourth Chapter of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament This pells us that Cain and Abel were the sons of Adan and Eve that both made thank offerings to thje Lord and that whren Abel's oblation was preferred above that of Cain the latter slew the forrper The implication is that Cain wa a wicked callous and selfish person but as presented in a twentieth century aspect by poets and playwrights his spiritual hue is somewhat altered George Bernard Shaw for example ih his "Back to Methuselah" depicts Cain as a boijsterous and assertive bully a man to whom killing is instinctive just as it is to some soldiers But Shaw's Cain is not a skulking fellow indieed in his bumptiousness rather likable Now a fresh and provocative controversy has arisen over Cain the exact point of inquiry being: "Who was his wife? Where djid he meet her? What was her nationality? And what was she like?" These queries seem never to haves been satis- factorily answered yet an answer can be made and with reasonable directness If the detailed a mystery! it is at all Identity of Cain's wife be J ner events Known wnere ne iouna For the Bible tells us that he "went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt fin "the land of Nod on the east of Eden" The next parashe bore graph refers to his wife and the son i him Ml Ii' St I v m s I sa a i - ? Hi M 3 v ' s 1 1! 8 1 lis IIS H K A 1 HI p8U f i KV "V I 1 1 1 i Mis j j n § § n 5 V i "y- - ft ' N ' ft -- 1 1 1 N I 1111 I m s K "The First Death by the! Famous French' Painter Bougereau He Pictures Eve Weeping on Adam's Breast for Their Son Abel Slain by ilia Brother cam and Lying an ills is v Hit 111! nil iiii lilt ! other two though it is believed that the Gihon is the stream known today as th$ Hindia and that d & river with channels which has gone dry within recent centuries was the Pison The Euphrates a few miles Ibelow Hit leaves the desert and debouches intp a vast alluvial In this departure it has" a considerable plain fall with a number of cataracts flowing through a narrow valley The entrance to thfo valley (according to Hebrew tradition) was the gate of the Paradise in 'the fact that it seems to have been the first irrigated area in the world That region was called Eden by the ancient Babylonians from whom sayi students of Chaldean many-arme- llll llll llli llll ll ll llll I llll llll i r §5 X W T 1(1 V ''i 1 M '1 — - - "V i i I i I 1 I ?sS 1 I f r ti i which Adam and Eve dwelt sand from which they were expelled for disobeying a divine command There the traveler first meets the date palm which is a "tree of life" to the whole Arab I world 'i Along the valley today garden succeeds garden It is even now a veritable paradise with fields of cotton checkering orchards and date groves The climate is everlasting Summerso that three or four crops a year can be growiji Along the valley giant water4wheels lift water to irrigate the land Anciently the cataracts were much higher and such apparatus was not needed the water being led off through ditches Indeed the Garden of Eden gains interest from i or' t 1 fathers IS But how could he find a wife wheti barring his mother there were n women ia the world? That is where the puzzle comes ini Obviously there was a mistake j There must have been people living at that timje inithe land of Nod Where was that country? There is no mention of it elsewhere in the Bible That question can be answered for! the descriptive words "on the east of Eden" settle it The location of Eden is known beyondi the of a doubt as will presently be shown It was in Babylonia and therefore! the land of Nod must have been in western Persia That' wa3 where Cain found a wife She was a Persian woman and probably a person of some social consequence even in those days To the cast of Eden there was! only Persia beyond that nothing except what the ancient Hebrew geographers described as the "Ends of the Earth" Cain previously had been a farmer The same i per-advent- rough-and-rea- cHI ll3lf V Ml V5! H 1-- Mt dy j of the ground" while his brother Abel kept of Ndti he seems to sheep On reaching the-lanhave gone into the real estate business lie "builded therej city" and called thname of the city aftpr his f son Enoch Why a city'-- if there were rirfs peo-ule- 7 Hi- i The Bible dffcribes Eden as locatedjn the midst of four: ttverp the names ofiflyhich are given: tiij Eu- phrates t h 4 fsr writings the Israelites got the story of Adam and Eve and Garden and the Fall The geographical knowledge of the ancient peoples was extremely vague hence the Biblical narrator could do no better than guess at: the rivers he mentions Thus he said that the Pison encompassed' "the whole of Havilah" land which was the old Hebrew name for Also that Arabia the Gihon flowed Gustave Dore's Classic around "the whole Engraving of the land of Ethiopia" his - Murder of AbeL notion apparently being that the river was a northerly extension of the Nile He speaks of Havilah as a country "where there is gold" In Biblical times nearly all of tha gold that reached Palestine and the Mesopo-tamia- n region came from southern Arabia or by way of southern Arabia from cjuartz mines (recently rediscovered) in Rhodesia South Africa It was from that source that King Solomon obtained his great stores of gold !"And the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden" It was to the east of Jerusalem across five hundred "and beyond the great desert about ' i miles j The location of Eden being thus definitely established we know just about where Cain went-tget a wife and build a city Inj! the land of Nod In the meantime it may be Jpresomed Adam and Eve went on living somewhere in the country though in a place or places less delectable than the Garden and they were r obliged to labor for their subsistence Genesis (Chapters 4 and 5) says that Eve bore a third son named Sethwhora "God apBut pointed instead of Abel whom Cain slew" hunAdam at the time of Seth's birth was one dred and thirty years old Other children came later "The days of Adam after "he had beand he gotten Seth were eight hundred years a was It sons and large daughters" begat Meso-potami- Hjid-deck- el ihbn the t and the PisonJ The Euphrates in later history "riin 'directly througfi the great city ot ?Baby-- i Ion Hiddeckij the ancient name of the Tigris TLs two of the four rifrs are identified witfyi l j - tainty One ciniiot be so sure aboi the 111 Interesling Artistic Conception of the First Fratricide Showing Cain -- with a Rude Farming Implement About ho Kill Abel Who Has Defenselessly Dropped His Staff i Krrmper retur Sen-ie- - family' SIf the J V : Map Used by Ancient Geographers: Which Has Helped Modern Savits to Determine How Cain Left the Garden of Eden and Where He Fot$d His Wife It Was Only a Short Trip Into the Land of No(L: Lap an I man or woman were asked what was Adam's first job he or she probably would be unable to answer accurately ) f I - i ! j i f s that the raging elements wrote- "finis - career fe&M r ii! 1 l km to his 1 i I 'i 3Rt 192JL Ok tt ' Yet the answer found in the secprid Chapter of Genesis is easy enough It was to give! names to all the newly-create- d animals "And out of the ground th Lord God formed every beist of the field and every X6wl of the air and brought them unto Aaam to 'see Mrhat ho would call them and whatsoever Adam called every living thing that was the name thereof" It seems to have been a Sort of 'prelijminary I sketch of the Noah's Ark episode As for Cain he seems to pave hjicl only one" son Enoch But Enoch's descendants in the male line looked opon the word wife as an indefinite plural whereby the multiplication of the family if was likely to be greatly incrf ased jr The descendants of Seth appear t£ hava been most remarkable for longevity their lives commonly running over eight or nine hundred yea-One of them Methuselah still holds the Irecord beating that of his ancester Adam by thirty-nin- e years He had the further distinction of being the grandfather of Noah who with his family was destined to start tne peopling of the world all over again when the rest of mankind t j rj was wiped out by the flood The ages of the patriarchs ifronv Adam to Noah are given in the Bible Figured out they reveal one fact of more than ordinary! interest Tho namely the cause of Methufeelah's death old: gentleman was drowned! He was alive (as the figures show)-a- t the datie of th flood He was not on board the ark Hence it: is apparent ! ml vj :::: yr:d 1 1 IT : i - - |