What Happened to Cain?
by Pastor Bertrand L. Comparet
Clairfied by Pastor Willie Martin
"What
happened to Cain?" is a question in the minds of many believers and
non-believers as well. The Bible does not trace Cain very far, and yet the fact
is that Cain is a definite historical character of whom you can learn as much
outside the Bible as you can from the Bible itself.
Do not
let anyone tell you that these Old Testament people are myths. They are not.
They are definitely a part of history. The Bible states that Adam and Eve were
expelled from the Garden of Eden; EASTWARD, evidenced by the Cherubim being
placed at the east of the Garden to guard it against their possible return.
If they
had gone to the south or to the west, guards at the east side would not have
meant a thing. Obviously, they went to the east; and, as we learned when we
were studying Noah's flood,
Adam's
migration actually took him and Eve into the Tarim Basin, in what is today
called Sinkiang, in the extreme southwestern part of China. The migration
undoubtedly took a considerable period of time; as it was a very long way to
walk, but they had time in those days, for Adam lived over 900 years.
In the
area where they settled, Eve gave birth to two children: Cain and Abel. Much is
lost in the mistranslations in your King James Version. Genesis 3:15
establishes the theme of the entire Bible, and all the rest of it is a
development of that theme.
It is
also a history of our Israel people. Eventually, God called before Him, Adam,
Eve and Satan to give an accounting of their misdeeds. Please do not get the
idea, as your King James version and all the traditional translations tell you,
that Satan was a snake; a long scaly thing, wriggling along the ground, because
that is not what the Hebrew says. The word they mistranslated snake is
"nachash" (naw-khawsh) whose root meaning is "enchanter" or
"magician."
Aryan Ancestors on the Silk Road
Political
correctness has gotten a slap in the face recently from a number of
archaeological discoveries in the Orient which indicate that the founders
of many Eastern civilizations, which are so revered by trendy New Age types who
despise anything White and European, were in fact racial Aryans. One famous
example is the country of Iran, which takes its name from its original
conquerors; until 1978 one of the many formal titles of the Shah was "Lord
of the Aryans."
It has
long been known that around the first century A.D. the northwestern part of
China was inhabited by a Caucasian people who spoke a language called by
scholars Tocharian.
In the
early part of this century, French and German archaeologists excavating
in the northwest provinces discovered extensive written manuscripts in this
language, and when they cracked the code, so to speak, they were astonished at
the similarities between this supposedly isolated Oriental tongue and ancient
Germanic and Celtic languages.
Now the
PC academic and scientific establishment who want to rewrite history to make it
"Afrocentric" and get rid of "dead White European males"
have gotten another kick in the pants from the truth. Recent excavations in the
Tarim Basin in Xinjiang province have uncovered more than 100 naturally
mummified corpses of people who lived there between 4,000 and 2,400 years ago,
INDICATING THAT THE ARYAN INCURSION INTO ASIA WAS IN FACT FAR EARLIER AND FAR
MORE EXTENSIVE THAN ANYONE PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.
The
bodies were amazingly well preserved by the arid climate, and according
to the New York Times "...archaeologists could hardly believe what
they saw." The mummies had long noses and skulls, blond or red
hair, thin lips, deep-set eyes, and other unmistakably Aryan features.
Dr.
Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania said, "Because the Tarim
Basin Caucasoid corpses are almost certainly representatives of the
Indo-European family, and because they date from a time period early enough to
have a bearing on the expansion of the Indo- European people from their
homeland, it is thought that they will play a crucial role in determining just
where that might have been." [Our own understanding is that the
ancient homeland of Cain's people was by the shores of Lake Baikal in what is
now Russia, from whence Cain began his migrations untold millennia ago when his
people were all one nation known as "The Children of the Sun". As to
where he came from before he was hanging around the lake; We believe that these
people were descendants of Cain who was the son of Adam, who was also a white
man]
One
such mummy of a teenaged girl with blond hair and blue eyes, found in a cave,
has become quite a tourist attraction in Beijing. She has been nicknamed
"The Lady of Tarim" and she is on display to throngs of museum
visitors in the Chinese capital.
Apparently
she was a princess or a priestess of some kind over 3,000 years ago, for she
was buried in fine embroidered garments of wool and leather, along with
beautiful jewelry, jars and ornaments of gold, silver, jade and onyx. Her
remains are in such a remarkable state of preservation that the dead girl looks
as if she were just sleeping.
"Diffusionism
can now be taken seriously again," chortled one historian, Michael Puett
of Harvard. Diffusionism is the theory that the ostensibly advanced Middle
Eastern and Oriental civilizations of the ancient world all benefitted from
contact with Aryan migrants, merchants, wandering tribes, etc. and acquired
much of their knowledge and attributes from these contacts; this theory can
actually explain quite a lot about history, from the Indo-European roots of the
Hindustani language to the Quetzalcoatl legend of the Aztecs to the mysterious
ruins of Zimbabwe which were so clearly never built by blacks.
Diffusionism
has been replaced over the past twenty years by the new, Politically Correct dogma
of "independent invention," which holds that there was no contact at
all between White people and any Asian or pre-Columbian civilization, or if
there was it was bad because all White males are "imperialist
exploiters".
The PC
theory teaches that EVERYTHING in ancient non-White societies was invented by
the indigenes, EVERYTHING WITHOUT EXCEPTION, no ideas or influence from
European contact, nothing good or beneficial at all even if there was any White
contact, which there wasn't because White males are not the world-exploring
hotshots they are supposed to be, so there! I guess we made up Leif Ericson and
Magellan was really a monkoid. Don't laugh; We have heard both of those
idiocies advanced seriously by "Afrocentric historians."
According
to the independent invention theory, the list of things non-Whites have
independently invented includes the dozens of Asiatic dialects from Hindu to
Punjabi to Uighur, all clearly based on a common Aryan root language; pure
coincidence, say the PC profs! The agricultural techniques of the Aztecs and
Incas such as crop rotation and terrace farming, so similar to ancient Roman
and medieval European practices; bah, say the intellectual gangsters of
liberalism, the Indians made it up themselves!
The
Mayan pyramids and calendar and astronomy, almost duplicates of Greek and
Egyptian knowledge (Egyptians who were NOT in any way, shape or form Negroes!)
those are all products of the brilliant Maya civilization alone, according to
the official line. The same Mayas' predilections for cannibalism and
sacrificing young children by drowning them in sacred wells is ignored.
The
blue eyes and broken Welsh language of Missouri's Mandan Indians; the
Celtic-style megaliths and stone round towers of New England; the Viking ruins
of L'Anse Aux Meadow in Newfoundland; the runic inscriptions on Connecticut's
Dighton Rock and the Minnesota Kensington stone; Shaka the Zulu's organization
of his impis based on Napoleon's system which he got from a French hunter and
trader who was a Napoleonic veteran; the stone ruins of Zimbabwe so utterly
unlike anything ever found anywhere else in black Africa and resembling nothing
so much as a Bronze Age Celtic fort; the long Aryan features of the Easter
Island statues---nyet, no, nada, nein, no way! According to the left-wing
academic establishment, NOTHING was ever learned by non- Whites from contact
between Third World cultures and Aryan man. How PC academia will explain
away those hundred blond-haired, blue-eyed mummies from China I don't know, but
I'm sure it will be good. Looks like us Children of the Sun got around in the
old days.
The Mummies of Xinjiang
In the
dry hills of this central Asian province, archeologist have unearthed
more than 100 corpses that are as much as 4,000 years old. Astonishingly
well preserved - and Caucasian. One glimpse of the corpses was enough to
shock Victor Mair profoundly. In 1987, Mair, a professor of Chinese
at the University of Pennsylvania, was leading a tour group through
a museum in the Chinese city of Urumqi, in the central Asian
province of Xinjiang, when he accidentally strayed into gloomy, newly
opened room.
There,
under glass, lay the recently discovered corpses of a family - a man, a
woman, and a child of two or three - each clad in long, dark purple
woolen garments and felt boots. "Even today I get chills thinking
about that first encounter," says Mair. "The Chinese said they
were 3,000 years old, yet the bodies looked as if they were buried
yesterday."
But the
real shock came when Mair looked closely at their faces. In contrast to
most central Asian peoples, these corpses had obvious Caucasian, or
European, features - blond hair, long noses, deep-set eyes, and long
skulls."I was thunderstruck," Mair recalls. "Even though I was
supposed to be leading a tour group, I just couldn't leave that room.
The
questions kept nagging at me: Who were these people? How did they get out
here at such an early date?" The corpses Mair saw that day were just
a few of more than 100 dug up by Chinese archeologists over the past 16
years. All of them are astonishingly well preserved. They come from four
major burial sites scattered between the arid foothills of the Tian Shan
("Celestial Mountains") in northwest China and the fringes of
The Taklimakan Desert, some 150 miles due south.
All
together, these bodies, dating from about 2000 B.C. to 300 B.C.,
constitute significant addition to the world's catalog of
prehistoric mummies.
Unlike
the roughly contemporaneous mummies of ancient Egypt, the Xinjiang
mummies were not ruler or nobles; they were not interred in
pyramids or other such monuments, nor were they subjected to
deliberate mummification procedures. They were preserved merely by
being buried in the parched, stony desert, where daytime
temperatures often soar over 100 degrees.
In the
heat the bodies were quickly dried, with facial hair, skin, and other
tissues remaining largely intact. Where exactly did these apparent
Caucasians come from? And what were they doing at remote desert oases in
central Asia?
Any
answers to these questions will most likely fuel a wide-ranging debate
about the role outsiders played in the rise of Chinese civilization. As
far back as the second century B.C., Chinese texts refer to alien peoples
called the Yuezhi and the Wusun, who lived on China's far western
borders; the texts make it clear that these people were regarded as
troublesome "barbarians."
Until
recently, scholars have tended to downplay evidence of any early trade or
contact between China and the West, regarding the development of Chinese
civilization as an essentially homegrown affair scaled off from outside
influences; indeed, this view is still extremely congenial to the present
Chinese regime. Yet some archeologists have begun to argue that these
supposed barbarians might have been responsible for introducing into
China such basic items as the wheel and the first metal objects.
Exactly
who these central Asian outsiders might have been, however - what language
they spoke and where they came from - is a puzzle. No wonder, then, that
scholars see the discovery of the blond mummies as a sensational new
clue.
Although
Mair was intrigued by the mummies, the political climate of the late
1980s (the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred in 1989) guaranteed that
any approach to Chinese archeological authorities would be fraught
with difficulties. So he laid the riddle to one side as he returned to
his main area of study, the translation and analysis of ancient Chinese
texts.
Then,
in September 1991, the discovery of the 5,000 feet. Photos of the Ice
Man's corpse, dried by the wind and then buried by a glacier,
reminded Mair of the desiccated mummies in the Urumqi museum. And
he couldn't help wondering whether some of the scientific detective methods now
being applied to the Ice Man, including DNA analysis of the preserved issue,
could help solve the riddle of Xinjiang.
With
China having become more receptive to outside scholars, Mair decided to
launch a collaborative investigation with Chinese scientists. He
contacted Xinjiang's leading archeologist, Wang Binghua, who had found
the first of the mummies in 1978. Before Wang's work in the region,
evidence of early settlements was virtually unknown.
In the
late 1970s, though, Wang had begun a systematic search for ancient cites
in the northeast corner of Xinjiang Province. "He knew that ancient
peoples would have located their settlements along a stream to have a reliable
source of water," says Mair.
As he
followed one such stream from its source in the Tian Shan, says Mair,
"Wang would ask the local inhabitants whether hey had ever found any
broken bowls, wooden artifacts, or the like. Finally one older man told
him of a place locals called Qizilchoqa, or ~Red Hillock.'"
It was
here that the first mummies were unearthed. This was also the first site
visited last summer by Mair and his collaborator, Paolo Francalacci,
an anthropological geneticist at the University of Sassari in
Italy.
Reaching
Qizilchoqa involved a long, arduous drive east from Urumqi. For a day and
a half Mair, Wang, and their colleagues bounced inside four-
wheel-drive Land Cruisers cross rock-strewn dirt roads from one
oasis to the next. Part of their journey eastward followed China's
Silk Road, the ancient trade route that evolved in the second
century B.C. and connected China to the West.
Finally
they reached the village of Wupu; goats scattered as the vehicles edged
their way through the back streets. Next to the village as a broad green
ravine, and after the researches had maneuvered their way into it, the
sandy slope of the Red Hillock suddenly became visible. "It
wasn't much to look at," Mair recalls, "about 20 acres on a gentle
hill ringed by barbed wire. There's a brick work shed where tools are stored
and the visiting archeologists sleep. But you could spot the
shallow depressions in the sand where the graves were."
As Mair
watched, Wang's team began digging up several previously excavated
corpses that had been reburied for lack of adequate storage facilities at
the Urumqi museum.
Mair
didn't have to, wait long, just a couple of feet below the sand,
the archeologists came across rush matting and wooden logs covering
a burial dumber chamber with mud bricks. Mair was surprised by the appearance
of the logs: they looked as if they had just been chopped down. Then the
first mummy emerged from the roughly six-foot-deep pit. For Mair the
moment was nearly as charged with emotion as that first encounter in the
museum. "When you're standing right next to these bodies, as well
preserved as they are, you feel a sense of personal closeness to
them," he says. "It's almost supernatural - you feel that
somehow life persists even though you're looking at a dried- out corpse."
Mair
and Francalacci spent the day examining the corpses, with Francalacci
taking tissue samples to identify the genetic origins of the corpses.
"He took small samples from unexposed areas of the bodies,' says
Mair, "usually from the inner thighs or underarms. We also took a
few bones, usually pieces of rib that were easy to break off, since bone
tends to preserve the DNA better than muscle tissue or skin."
Francalacci
wore a face mask and rubber gloves to avoid contaminating the samples
with any skin flakes that would contain his own DNA. The samples were
placed in collection jars, sealed, and labeled; Mair made a photographic
and written record of the collection.
So far
113 graves have been excavated at Qizilchoqa; probably an equal number
remain to be explored. Based on carbon-14 dating by the Chinese and on
the style of painted pots found with the corpses, all the mummies here
appear to date to around 1200 B.C.
Most
were found on their backs with their knees drawn up - a position that
allowed the bodies to fit into the small burial chambers. They are fully
clothed in brightly colored woolen fabrics, felt and leather boots, and
sometimes leather coats.
The men
generally have light brown or blond hair, while the women have long
braids; one girl has blue tattoo marks on her wrist. Besides pottery,
resting alongside them are simple items from everyday life: combs made of
wood, needles of bone, spindle whorls for spinning thread, hooks,
bells, loaves of bread, and other food offerings. The artifacts
provide further proof that these were not the burial sites of the
wealthy: had the graves been those of aristocrats, laden with
precious bronzes, they probably would have been robbed long ago.
However,
Wang and his colleagues have found some strange if not aristocratic, objects in
the course of their investigations in Xinjiang. At a site near the town of
Subashi 310 miles west of Qizilchoqa, that dates to about the fifth
century B.C., they unearthed a woman wearing a two-foot- long black felt
peaked hat with a flat brim.
Though
modern Westerners may find it tempting to identify the hat as the headgear of a
witch, there is evidence that pointed hats were widely worn by both women and
men in some central Asian tribes. For instance, around 520 B.C., the
Persian king Darius recorded a victory over the "Sakas of the
pointed hats"; also, in 1970 in Kazakhstan, just over China's
western border, the grave of a man from around the same period
yielded a two-foot-tall conical hat studded with magnificent
gold-leaf decorations.
The
Subashi woman's formidable headgear, then, might be an ethnic badge or a
symbol of prestige and influence. Subashi lies a good distance from Qizilchoqa,
and its site is at least seven centuries younger, yet the bodies and
their clothing are strikingly similar.
In
addition to the "witch's hat," clothing found there included fur
coats and leather mittens; the Subashi women also held bags
containing small knives and herbs, probably for use as medicines.
A
typical Subashi man, said by the Chinese team to be at least 55 years old, was
found lying next to the corpse of a woman in a shallow burial chamber. He
wore a sheepskin coat, felt hat, and long sheepskin boots fastened at the
crotch with a belt. Another Subashi man has traces of a surgical operation on
his neck; the incision is sewn up with sutures made of horsehair.
Mair
was particularly struck by this discovery because he knew of a Chinese text
from the third century A.D. describing the life of Huatuo, a doctor whose
exceptional skills were said to have included the extraction and repair of
diseased organs.
The
text also claims that before surgery, patients drank a mixture of wine
and an anesthetizing powder that was possibly derived from opium.
Huatuo's story is all the more remarkable in that the notion of surgery
was heretical to ancient Chinese medical tradition, which taught that
good health depended on the balance and flow of natural forces throughout
the body Mair wonders if the Huatuo legend might relate to some lost
Asian medical tradition practiced by the Xinjiang people. One clue is
that the name Huatuo is uncommon in China and seems close to the Sanskrit
word for medicine.
THE
WOOLEN GARMENTS WORN BY THE MUMMIES MAY provide some clue to where
exactly the Xinjiang people came from. A sample of cloth brought back by
Mair was examined by University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Irene Good,
a specialist in early Eurasian textiles. Examining the cloth under a
low-power microscope, she saw that the material was not, strictly
speaking, wool at all.
Wool
comes from the undercoat of a sheep; this material appeared to have been
spun from the coarse outer hair (called kemp) of a sheep or goat. Despite the
crudeness of the fibers, they were carefully dyed green, blue, and brown
to make a plaid design.
They
were also woven in a diagonal twill pattern that indicated the use of a
rather sophisticated loom. The overall technique, Good believes, is
"characteristically European" and, she says, the textile is
"the easternmost known example of this kind of weaving technique."
Similar textile fragments, she notes, have been recovered from roughly
the same time period at sites in Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia.
Another
hint of outside connections struck Mair as he roamed across Qizilchoqa.
Crossing an unexcavated grave, he stumbled upon an exposed piece of wood,
which he quickly realized had once belonged to a wagon wheel.
The
wheel was made in a simple but distinctive way, by doweling together
three carved, parallel wooden planks. This style of wheel is
significant: wagons with nearly identical wheels are known from the
grassy plains of the Ukraine from as far back as 3000 B.C.
Most
researchers now think the birthplace of horse drawn vehicles and horse
riding was in the steppes east and west of the Urals rather than in China
or the Near East. As archeologist David Anthony and his colleagues have
shown through microscopic study of ancient horse teeth, horses were
already being harnessed in the Ukraine 6,000 years ago. The Ukraine
horses, Anthony found, show a particular kind of tooth wear identical to
that of modern horses that "fight the bit."
The
world's earliest high-status vehicles also seem to have originated in the
steppes; recent discoveries of wooden chariots with elaborate spoked wheels
were reported by Anthony to date to around 2000 B.C. Chariots do not seem
to have appeared in China until some 800 years later. A number of
artifacts recovered from the Xinjiang burials provide important evidence
for early horse riding.
Qizilchoqa
yielded a wooden bit and leather reins, a horse whip consisting of a
single strip of leather attached to a wooden handle, and a wooden cheek
piece with leather straps. This last object was decorated with an image
of the sun that was probably religious in nature and that was also found
tattooed on some of the mummies.
And at
Subashi, archeologists discovered a padded leather saddle of exquisite
workmanship. Could the Xinjiang people have belonged to a mobile,
horse-riding culture that spread from the plains of eastern Europe? Does this
explain their European appearance? If so, could they have been speaking an
ancient forerunner of modern European, Indian, and Iranian languages?
Though
the idea is highly speculative, a number of archeologists and linguists
think the spread of Indo-European languages may be linked to the
gradual spread of horse-riding and horse-drawn- vehicle technology
from its origins in Europe 6,000 years ago. The Xinjiang mummies
may help confirm these speculations. Intriguingly, evidence of a long-extinct
language belonging to the Indo- European family does exist m central
Asia.
This
language, known as Tocharian, is recorded in manuscripts from the eighth
century A.D., and solid evidence for its existence can be found as far
back as the third century. Tocharian inscriptions from this period are
also found painted in caves in the foothills of the mountain west
of Urumqi, along with paintings of swash-buckling knights wielding
long swords. The knights are depicted with full red beards and European
faces.
Could
the Xinjiang people have been their ancestors, speaking an early version
of Tocharian? "My guess is that they would have been speaking some
form of Indo-European," comments Don Ringe, a historical linguist at
the University of Pennsylvania, "but whether it was an early form of
Tocharian or some other branch of the family, such as Indo-Iranian, we
may never know for sure."
Perhaps
a highly distinctive language would help explain why the Xinjiang
people's distinctive appearance and culture persisted over so many
centuries. Eventually they might well have assimilated with the local population
- the major ethnic group in the area today, the Uygur, includes people with
unusually fair hair and complexions.
That
possibility will soon be investigated when Mair, Francalacci, and their Chinese
colleagues compare DNA from ancient mummy tissue with blood and hair samples
from local people. Besides the riddle of their identity, there is also the
question of what these fair-haired people were doing in a remote
desert oasis. Probably never wealthy enough to own chariots, they nevertheless
had wagons and well-tailored clothes. Were they mere goat and sheep
farmers? Or did they profit from or even control prehistoric trade along
the route that later became the Silk Road? If so, they probably helped spread
the first wheels and certain metalworking skills into China.
"Ultimately
I think our project may end up having tremendous implications for the
origins of Chinese civilization," Mair reflects. "For all
their incredible inventiveness, the ancient Chinese weren't cut off
from the rest of the world, and influences didn't just flow one
way, from China westward."
Unfortunately,
economics dictates that answers will be slow in coming. The Chinese do
not have the money to spare for this work, and Wang and his team continue
to operate on a shoestring. Currently most of the corpses and artifacts
are stored in a damp, crowded basement room at the Institute of
Archeology in Urumqi, in conditions that threaten their continued
preservation. If Mair's plans for a museum can be financed with Western
help, perhaps the mummies can be moved. Then, finally, they'll receive
the study and attention that will ultimately unlock their secrets.
We find
the following from the Second College Edition, New World Dictionary of the
American Language, p. 1300: 1. A snake, esp. a large or poisonous one. 2. A
sly, sneaking, treacherous person. 3. Bible Satan, in the form he assumed to
tempt Eve. 4. Music an obsolete, coiled, brass wind instrument of wood covered
with leather. The American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster
1828, Facsimile First Edition, published by the Foundation For American
Christian Education relates that serpent means among others: a subtle or
malicious person.
Remember
that while Satan was expelled from heaven and his wings clipped considerably,
he nonetheless retained possession of a good deal of his angelic powers. We do
not doubt in the least that he could qualify as an enchanter or magician. He
could probably do card tricks, and the like of that, better than our stage
magicians of today. In the course of time, his children (And we do mean
children, just as the Bible says) came to adopt the serpent as a symbol, an
emblem of their father; and, over a period of centuries, the word was given a
secondary meaning of "serpent," which was not its basic meaning.
One can
be misled, if they do not know the correct meaning, should you read in American
history that in the latter 1870's a battalion of cavalry of the American Army
under the leadership of General Custer were all massacred by a male bovine
animal, a cow's husband, who remained in a seated position throughout the
battle. In other words, "Sitting Bull." On the contrary, you know he
was an Indian Chief, but you wouldn't guess it from the name. Similarly, you
can get mixed up in some of these things when inaccurately translated in the
Bible, unless you know their true meaning.
Cain
murdered Abel and was expelled from that region. Referring back to Genesis 3:15
(and this is before Comes on the scene) God said to Satan, "I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed..,"
Seed:
Srtrong's
Number:- 2233 zera` (zeh'-rah); from
2232; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, POSTERITY: KJV-- X
carnally, CHILD, fruitful, seed (-time), sowing time.
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