So Cain could have been in his hundreds and there'd be lots of people by then.
Born of whom, is the question ...
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
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§ ita § - Apr 13, 2005 11:40:54 am PDT #3157 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-t - Apr 13, 2005 11:41:43 am PDT #3158 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lilith isn't in the bible. She's sort of implied in the first "Male and female he created them" or something like that, and she's big in Jewish folklore, in which she left the Garden of Eden of her own volition and became a child-stealing infant-killing demon, more or less.
askye - Apr 13, 2005 11:41:48 am PDT #3159 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
But there's still the icky incest that no one I asked wanted to account for.
Gudanov - Apr 13, 2005 11:42:37 am PDT #3160 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Well, Cain would have had to marry one of his sisters, there are lots of unmentioned daughters of Adam and Eve. 23 or something.
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2005 11:42:39 am PDT #3161 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Born of whom, is the question ...
Adam and Eve, or of their children. Maybe their grandchildren.
There's no getting around the incest thing.
-t - Apr 13, 2005 11:42:57 am PDT #3162 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I had who Cain married explained to me, but I don't remember. I think it had something to do with, um, giants. But I might be mixing my mythologies.
Gudanov - Apr 13, 2005 11:43:55 am PDT #3163 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
But there's still the icky incest that no one I asked wanted to account for.
There was incest, but Adam and Eve were perfect humans so there wasn't any worry about birth defects and such from inbreeding.
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2005 11:43:59 am PDT #3164 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, Cain would have had to marry one of his sisters, there are lots of unmentioned daughters of Adam and Eve. 23 or something.
Were there other brothers? If not, Cain and Able would have been pretty busy....
Gudanov - Apr 13, 2005 11:45:17 am PDT #3165 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I'm pretty sure there were other brothers. I think there is some line about how Adam had many sons and daughters by the time he lived his 800 years or so.
Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2005 11:46:41 am PDT #3166 of 10001
brillig
These were my questions that never got answered. They seemed to make my Sunday School teachers uncomfortable.
That made Sunday School worth going to. Like my riff on Jesus entering into Jerusalem at Passover and cursing a tree that didn't bear fruit at his command. I was all, "But--it's barely spring! Trees aren't supposed to bear fruit yet!" See what happens when you tell these stories to farm kids?
Later I was told it was some parable about how people should be productive for Christ, but at the time it just made think Jesus was a big meanie.