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King Cain

The Story Of Pre-Calendar Christianity

By © Es^o Anton Vendamenc, 2019

29 THE DEATH OF KING CAIN

When faced with the likelihood that his twin sons (grown of his own horns and tusks) would kill each other, he, Cain, knew he would need to discover a way to cause them to awaken to what they were doing and desist from replacing life with death.

He did not have to look far for the intimidating force: he himself was still awed by the sight of Kirtimukha’s two rows of teeth grinding each other down to dust as each vied with the other to cut off the tongue of Cadmus before it had leched the well of Artemis dry and infertile and it was but a cemetery’s arse.

When news arrived that his sons had begun to war over who would succeed him, Cain roused himself and went to what was then known as the Seventh or Gol-Gate of Teves,akaJerusalem. This was the place where the sons had agreed to face each other in one final fight.

Polynices stood on the inside of the gate, while Eteokles paced back and forth on the outside. In the middle of the gate stood Antigone, Cain’s eldest daughter,the twin’s sister, who had—upon the news—rushed up to separate the brothers. Antigone would not remove herself from the entrance way, and was being threatened by King Creon, the executive king, of being removed by force.

To put King Creon in his place, Cain, led by his pet Namean lions, took Antigone’s placel. Because Creon favored prince Eteokles, who was from Corinth and, thus, felt less threatened by him than Polynices who was of Teves, Creon ordered his bodyguards to throw their spears at the lions. One of the spears struck King Cain and killed him.

The Sacred King’s death changed everyone’s plans. With King Cain dead  Creon no longer believed he needed allies to become the sole ruler of Teves. To foreclose any opposition he immediately surrounded and killed Polynices, whose dead body he threw out on the potter’s field for the dogs to devour.

When some Tevan city-zens wished to find blame with him, Creon married  King Cain’s widow, who was also his sister, and was known to have been King Cain’s mother. The royal wedding was attended by as many Egyptian royals as Creon could discover on the Greek islands. Indeed, there was talk that Teves (or Tebes) of Greece was a sibling city of Teves in Egypt.

30 POSTSCRIPT 1

Conventional or Calendar Christianity puts emphasis on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which factor while preserving Jesus’s crucial role as Sacred King in the life of a community, nevertheless has Christianity join Judaism and Islam in erasing the ions of years of sacrifice that defined the lives of the Sacred Kings Who preceded Him.

The moment that separates the Past and Nature from Calendar time is defined by two literary events:

The First (maybe) occurs when the Bible tells us that God* Himself prevents Abraham from exposing Isaac** (Genesis 22) to the elements and forces of Nature on the altar on Mt. Moriah. The exposure is not a sacrifice as most theologians of today insist, but a test to discover if Isaac is an offering pleasing to the community, and whether his service will be pleasing to the Gods when he has grown to adulthood.

But instead of asserting Himself, God exhibits (through the agency of his mother) an existential fear of death and permits Himself to be replaced* with a bleating goat.

*Of course, this is but a literary device employed by some priestly class to undo an earlier tradition. In so far as God cannot be undone, but exists in the ever-present, hence forward He waits for the ‘new’ order to wear down and prove itself a failure.

Similar betrayals of the community occur throughout the Bible, for example, when Isaac’s wife Rebecca asks her aged husband (some say it was her father-in-law Abraham) to betray her son Esau in the same manner as Sarah had betrayed Isaac in favot of Jacob. And how can we forget the story of Adam’s son Cain being dismissed in favor of  Abel;  or St. John being dismissed in favor of Jesus? (See Ch 13)

*See Ch 23. “Why did God come into Being?” Note that before God was called ‘God’, He was known as the Great Spirit. It is the Great Spirit Who by sacrificing Himself becomes known as God. When God prevents (through the agency of some new school of priests) Abraham from planning for his son Isaac the life of a Sacred King, He effectively cancels and replaces Himself with a mere human.

**Isaac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac . Unlike the link, which claims that ‘Isaac’ means “he will laugh”, the name actually stands for  goat*, whose maying does in fact resemble a laugh. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Lz4-Tswdc

The Second (but for all we know, it could have been the first) literary mention occurs when the Greek playwright Sophocles tells us the story of “King Oedipus”. Queen Iocaste, similarly to the Biblical Sarah, refuses to let her husband King Laius test, expose, and discover whether the Gods Who reside on Mt. Cithaeron favor their son Oedipus for the role of the Sacred King of the Sacred City of Teves.

Both of the above literary recollections implicitly blame women for the failure of the Sacred King in fulfilling his self-assigned and God given function. Except for the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible does not mention that Sarah and Rebecca are (likely) women of the city. Indeed Lot’s wife, too, remains deliberately anonymous.