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| - Cain and Abel ( Qayin, Hevel) were according to the Book of Genesis, two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain is described as a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel as a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first human to die. Cain committed the first murder by killing his brother. Exegeses of Genesis 4 by ancient and modern commentators have typically assumed that the motives were jealousy and anger. Although the Cain and Abel story is found in the Quran, the text refers to them simply as the sons of Adam (Arabic: ابني آدم), and neither of them is mentioned by name.
- Cain and Abel are twin pistols that both ate Devil Fruits and became Ancient Zoan type Dinosaur Pistols. They belong to Marine Vice Admiral Gaston D. Armand and were made by Dr.vegapunk.
- In the Hebrew Bible, Cain and Abel (Hebrew: קין ,הבל, Qayin, Hevel) are two sons of Adam and Eve. The Qur'an also contains this story, although Cain and Abel are not mentioned by name. In the Greek New Testament, Cain is referred to as εκ του πονηρου. In at least one translation this is rendered "from the evil one", while others have "of the evil one." Some interpreters take this to mean that Cain was literally the son of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. A parallel idea can be found in Jewish tradition, that the serpent (Hebrew nahash נחש) from the Garden of Eden was father to firstborn Cain.
- Cain frequently kills Abel in a macabre form of obsessive-compulsive disorder; whereupon Abel revives, with the frequent hope for a more harmonious relationship based upon the brotherly love he craves: "...two bothers and they love each other very much and they were always nice to each other. And the elder brother would never hurt the younger brother. Never." The brothers lived as neighbors in the Dreaming, Cain in the House of Mystery and Abel in the House of Secrets.
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| - Cain and Abel ( Qayin, Hevel) were according to the Book of Genesis, two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain is described as a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel as a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first human to die. Cain committed the first murder by killing his brother. Exegeses of Genesis 4 by ancient and modern commentators have typically assumed that the motives were jealousy and anger. Although the Cain and Abel story is found in the Quran, the text refers to them simply as the sons of Adam (Arabic: ابني آدم), and neither of them is mentioned by name.
- Cain and Abel are twin pistols that both ate Devil Fruits and became Ancient Zoan type Dinosaur Pistols. They belong to Marine Vice Admiral Gaston D. Armand and were made by Dr.vegapunk.
- In the Hebrew Bible, Cain and Abel (Hebrew: קין ,הבל, Qayin, Hevel) are two sons of Adam and Eve. The Qur'an also contains this story, although Cain and Abel are not mentioned by name. In the Greek New Testament, Cain is referred to as εκ του πονηρου. In at least one translation this is rendered "from the evil one", while others have "of the evil one." Some interpreters take this to mean that Cain was literally the son of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. A parallel idea can be found in Jewish tradition, that the serpent (Hebrew nahash נחש) from the Garden of Eden was father to firstborn Cain. In all versions, Cain is a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel is a shepherd. Cain is portrayed as sinful, committing the first murder by killing his brother, after God has rejected his offerings of produce but accepted the animal sacrifices brought by Abel. The oldest known copy of the Biblical narration is from the 1st century Dead Sea Scrolls. Cain and Abel also appear in a number of other texts, and the story is the subject of various interpretations. Abel, the first murder victim, is sometimes seen as the first martyr; while Cain, the first murderer, is sometimes seen as an ancestor of evil. A few scholars suggest the pericope may have been based on a Sumerian story representing the conflict between nomadic shepherds and settled farmers. Others think that it may refer to the days in which agriculture began to replace the ways of the hunter-gatherer. Allusions to Cain and Abel as an archetype of fratricide persist in numerous references and retellings, through medieval art and Shakespearean works up to present day fiction.
- Cain frequently kills Abel in a macabre form of obsessive-compulsive disorder; whereupon Abel revives, with the frequent hope for a more harmonious relationship based upon the brotherly love he craves: "...two bothers and they love each other very much and they were always nice to each other. And the elder brother would never hurt the younger brother. Never." Cain owned a large green gargoyle named Gregory, and in Sandman, issue #2, Cain gave Abel an egg that soon hatched into a golden gargoyle. Abel named the gargoyle Irving, but Cain insisted - with violence - that the names of gargoyles must always begin with a G. Abel, after another death and resurrection, prudently renamed the gargoyle Goldie, after an invisible/imaginary friend to whom Abel told his early House of Secrets stories, "but I will think of you as Irving really." The brothers lived as neighbors in the Dreaming, Cain in the House of Mystery and Abel in the House of Secrets. Though the pair often function as comic relief in a dark way, it is they who shelter Dream upon his return to the Dreaming until his strength is restored, following his imprisonment in the waking world. In Season of Mists, Cain was chosen as Dream's emissary to Hell, as he was the only denizen of the dreaming who could return without being destroyed by Lucifer: "You may not hurt him. We may not give you our permission. Cain is under the protection of One far greater than the Lord of Dreams." While Cain is easily infuriated by Abel, dialogue between the two suggests that Cain does genuinely care about his brother, but is unable to stop killing him. After Abel was murdered by the Furies who were laying waste to the Dreaming, in The Wake, Cain pleads to the new Dream to revive his brother, which he does.
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