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King Cain

The Story of Pre-Calendar Christianity

By © Es^o Anton Vendamenc, 2019

11 FROM FISH

TO BLOOD OF THE LAMB

It used to be that in order to keep wild animals from attacking a community, the community created what is known as a street. A community built its houses, one facing the other on either side of the street for a short parallel stretch. The doors of the houses faced the street and each other; while the backs of the houses were joined to each other and formed a wall or embankment against would be intruders from the outside. At either end of the street were gates, which were shut at nighttime. The gates were manned by guards armed with spears to repel such beasts as were attracted by the smell and taste of human flesh.

This form of village defense became insufficient once the wood, field, and river shore was invaded by armed men from parts unknown. Even if the villagers could increase the number of the guards at the gates and repel sneak attacks, they were helpless when the invaders began to sow dissention among them by promising rewards to who betrayed the community’s weak points.

The penetration of village defenses resulted not only in the theft of goods, but in loss of lives and in strife within the community. No shaman could offer a cure to the arrow shaft or spear that struck someone’s chest and heart. No song, chant, or prayer was able to cure certain death, even if some (like the Lakota Indians) believed that a ‘ghost shirt’ and a ghost dance would make them invulnerable.

It became obvious that punishment of the betrayers of a community would not return a village to the condition that had existed before the appearance of violent outsiders. Punishment resulted in long lasting resentment among friends and relatives of those punished—even when they knew that the guilty one was one of their own. Desire for revenge is a phenomenon that is not easily forgotten and shaken from the mind. Somehow punishment would have to be more than punishment.

Once Abel slew Cain, it became obvious that no one could secure Cain’s safety. This is why God set upon Cain a mark that warned everyone who would take revenge. The mark said: do not to start a nescient blood feud. God’s mark warned that anyone who killed Cain would suffer punishment that He, God, would multiply ‘sevenfold’ (Genesis 4:15). What did God mean by ‘sevenfold’?

Cain thanked God (become real by making His presence felt by His appearance as a Sacred King) for lifting from him the curse of anxiety over early death. Yet Cain also knew that words and prayers alone were not enough and he had to do more to atone for the murder he had committed. But what was ‘more’? Because his sense of guilt did not diminish with the passing of time, Cain realized that whatever he did, it would have to be something that caused him to suffer more than suffering the memory of the murder.

So Cain took from his flock of sheep a lamb who had been given a name and was beloved by his young daughter and took the lamb to the altar of God, where—as his daughter pleaded for its life—he killed it.

After he killed the lamb, Cain never failed to pray to God. As long as he prayed, he felt better. Prayer enabled him to unburden and even trust himself. One thing led to another: having killed the lamb, Cain began to wonder what would happen if God killed him in the same way.

12 THE Mortification

OF RELIGION

Most Christians are wont to believe that before the arrival of Jesus Christ, there were only the ‘gods’ of the pagans. The pagan gods were believed to be blithe spirits of the wood and meadow. Even the devil was seen as blithe, more like a prankster than master of evil. This aspect of the devil is presented by Lithuanian folk art images. In the Latvian language, the name for devil is ‘velns’, which word translates (by way of Grimm’s Law) into a mirror image of ‘bērns’, child. Pinocchio is a good example of how the devil used to be perceived before the city invented evil.

Contrary to the pagan and herder Gods of sovereign tribal people, Who were manifest in wind and clouds, the God of the Kazars or Yuhds (a Turkic people) had His origin in a self-sacrificial God. For reasons too complex to discuss here in detail, the sacrificial God was forgotten. He was later—by the grace of luck—recovered in a woodsman (not a carpenter) named Jesus.

The origin of the self-sacrificial God came by way of transition from a people of the wood and a society dominated by sovereign households or Romas (see Ch10) to a society that for reasons of self-defense increasingly gathered in a village. Village life increased conflicts between neighbors. One such conflict is told of by the biblical story of how Cain murders his brother Abel.

If such conflicts were to go unresolved, the village would either disintegrate of its own, or would be maintained through the force of a police subservient to a dictator.

Though anthropologists tell us that the Turkic people of the past were ruled by a self-sacrificial king (bey), the Bible of the Kazars tells us of no such thing. Instead, we have the story of Abraham come to kill his son Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19), because he has most likely discovered (the Bible omits telling this) that Isaac is not of his seed. To confuse what had once been a true story, the biblical story teller has replaced the word ‘kill’ with ‘sacrifice’. Even so, it is plain to see that the sacrifice of Isaac is as plainly murder as the murder by Cain of Abel.

Essentially the Bible is a story concerning the failure of a community to maintain itself (sometimes indeed with great pain, confusion, tears and prayers) by means of its own inner resources, and surrender its sovereignty to an outside force, a secular king, who proves himself to be a transcended force by means of daring to take another’s life. The Sacred self-sacrificial King, whom the secular king orders be forgot, is not mentioned until the New Testament makes appear Jesus.

We read in John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”. What is to keep me from replacing the word ‘friends’ with ‘buddies’ or ‘mates’ as the respective American and Australian military do?

Of course, those are nice sentiments. The statement in its New Internation (NIV) version, however, diverts the readers’ attention from the implications of defensive self-sacrifice on behalf of family, household, extended family, tribe, and other personal bonds with a civil community.

The difference of the NIV version and the version understood by the ludds of the Sacred King is noted in the following:

“Greater love hath no ludd than to lay down by his own will his life for his community....”’or for “fellow man”. Translation by the author based on John 15:13.

The NIV translation is a version of Newspeak and accommodates the ‘buddy system’ of the U.S. Marine Corps, wherein the marines in trenches make-believe themselves to be in a homosexual relationship like that of the Greeks at Thermopylae. While such bonds are strong, indeed, the biblical version originates in intent to distract from its nonviolent original meaning.

As for those who criticize this author for making read “...by his own will”, let us remember that the spoken word—a spirit in sound before it was captured by ideograms and transformed into an alphabet—used to meander through the space of mind as freely as a fish in the current. It was in an unencumbered stream-space that the mind found shelter in the lee of a rock, and created therein any number of cultures, the tatters of which we may, sometimes, still discover. If ancient writers and philosophers believed the discovery of letters to be a great step forward, the step turned into an unmitigated disaster with the advent of the Gutenberg printing press.

Folk songs and poetry, storytelling and history disintegrated before the magic of print. What had once been a process of debate among religious persons suddenly became locked into the prison of a book that allowed thought only delineated movement. Religion became a victim of this lockup. What had been ‘Vivre’ became ‘Bible’. The Spirit that used to express itself as “Joie de vivre”(exultation of life), became “Mortis de Bible”. The latter phenomenon is known today as religious fundamentalism, aka evangelism.