Still breaking a habit

[butterflydreaming]

This weekend, it's extra hard.

But some of that is because I still have an illusion that I can scream about my NaNoWriMo and anyone would care. I'm having trouble getting words in, but I am super excited about Cain in this story! He's so menacing.

Side note: Cain's sisters were never part of the religious folklore of my childhood. I mean, obvs the creation story wasn't history, so I never asked who Cain and Abel made babies with. Well, it turns out that some versions say that Adam & Eve's kids were born in twin sets (the twin sisters being their intended wives). This reminds me of Aristophane's concept that humans were split in half to become male and female. Well, and Hedwig and the Angry Itch's "Origin of Love."

Cain's wife, the oldest sister, has several names, too, though I like "Awan," which has an epic fantasy sound. And according to Wikipedia (ahem), some stories say Enoch & his line are the sons of Cain, some say Seth.

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[igenlode]

I had a vague idea that the wives of Cain and Abel (and subsequent marriages) were handwaved away as being descendants of Lilith, the apocryphal nonhuman first wife of Adam. Not that that would help much in the inbreeding stakes, of course...

Having them born with accompanying sister-wives certainly has a ring of Greek mythology to it.