A Meditation on Genesis Chapter 4

And the human knew Eve his woman and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said, I have got me a man with the Lord, Yahweh (The Hebrew verb “knew” implies intimate or sexual knowledge, along with possession.  The name “Cain” which means “Smith” resembles the verb translated as “gotten” but also possibly meaning “to make”)     And she bore as well as his brethren Abel, and Abel became a herder of sheep while Cain was a tiller of soil (Abel’s name could be associated with “vapor” or “puff of air”)     And it happened in the course of time that Cain brought from the fruit of the soil an offering to the Lord.  And Abel too had brought from the choice firstlings of his flock, and the Lord regarded Abel and his offering but did not regard Cain and his offering.  And Cain was very incensed and his face fell.  And the Lord said to Cain:
	And why is your face fallen?
	For whether you offer well,
	Or Whether you do not,
	At the tent flap sin crouches
	And for you is its longing
	But you will rule over it
And Cain said to Abel his brother, let us go out to the field, and when they were in the field Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him (“Let Us go out into the Field” does not appear in the Masoretic Text, but is found in other versions including the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch)     And the Lord said to Cain, where is Abel your brother?  And he said, I do not know: am I my brother’s keeper? (The phrase traditionally translated “am I my brother’s keeper” is Hebrew “Ha-somer ahi anoki?”  “Keeper” is from the verb shamar, “guard, keep, watch, preserve”)     And He said, what have you done?  Listen!  Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the soil.  And so, cursed shall be by the soil that gaped with its mouth to take your brother’s blood from your hand.  If you till the soil, it will no longer give strength.  A restless wanderer shall be on Earth (Cain is cured min-ha-adamah, from the Earth, being the same root as “man” and Adam)     And Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is too great to bear.  Now that you have driven me this day from the soil I must hide from your presence, I shall be a restless wanderer on the Earth and whoever finds me will kill me.  And the Lord said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance.  And the Lord set a mark upon Cain so that whoever found him would not slay him.  And Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and dwelled in the Land of Nod East of Eden.  And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch.  Then he became the builder of a city like his son’s name, Enoch

Robert Alter translated this passage (Alter, Robert, transl 2008.  “Genesis 4”.  In the Five Books of Moses, pg. 29)     Robert Alter’s translation has a similar literary quality to the King James Version, and the Bible speaks prayer poetry     The Documentary Hypothesis and the Q Document influences the way I assemble (or redact) my writing     I meditate on the narrative of Cain and Abel, the story of Cain and Abel, the myth of Cain and Abel, and Cain births Benjamin and Benjamin rebirths Cain and I sometimes slay Asia or Christina and the ground gapes girl bodies     I slay Asia or Christina and the soil ransacks bodies decal decay but the Woman always-already resurrected     The resurrection of Abel equals the resurrection of Cain, and Asia retrieves Benjamin bodies and then the Book Body bible slow slink serpentine

Abel (hbl) is thought to derive from a reconstructed word meaning ‘herdsman” with the modern Arabic cognate ibil now specifically only referring to “camels”.  Cain (qyn) is thought to be cognate to the mid-1st century millenium BCE South Arabic word qyn, meaning metalsmith.  This theory would make the names descriptive of their roles, where Abel works with livestock and the Cain agriculture – and would parallel the names Adam (‘dm, Man) and Eve (hwh, life-giver)

I write metalsmith and the writing metalsmiths     I write Cain Crystal and Cave Cavern and Cain contacts the touch improvisation or improvising in body     I write metalsmith different steels and the steels used for cutlery interest me most (I have a significant pocket knife collection)     I strike steel as a Word or as Abel Hevel Camel and in the Hevel, camp heretic     I hvl heresy and I herd heresy and the blue camel bone steels seal at the cracks     Heresy hacks Targum Taryn and the interpretation strops the second hand when the crown extends heresy hacks the tower jawbone of the boar and I listen to Taku Sugimoto’s Sonata for Violin and Piano / the violin plays the same pitch during its entire 29 minute duration – maybe the piano too     If only I had the courage to use the same sentence, the same word, the same letter, page after page…     Wait I just heard the violin play a different pitch a half-step down, and then slide up the same pitch that anchored the entire work     I repeat the names Cain and Abel and I return to the names Cain and Abel as a fire branding or my own work from Yahweh and I miss Asia and I miss Yahweh

Yahweh fires Silence, the First Flame
Yahweh metalsmiths silence, a frozen flame that fucks up circuits, chronologies, dimensions and the Modern Prometheus
Yahweh oil dips O1 steel silence, and the tool steel stabs straight through a body

Silence scatters or scorches carbon carcasses and I enter silence in silence the canoe scaffolding skeleton cathedral

Cathedral is Contradiction
Cathedral composes Contradiction-Catalog
Cathedral cadillacs contradiction in camels

The Herd Yahweh plants bone-on-bone and the Abyss armies arthritis / Herd Yahweh splits open the head and the insects crawl outwards upwards Yahweh

I till soil soul music and I till Taryn Targums Tetragrammaton and that Vav Veronica impregnates Eva, and the spark enspaces space, the soil Khora     I till soil torn tatters or the tail of the room ratking rhizome     The soil rhizome locks coccidioidomycosis  / valley fever or valley forge fucks ferocious     the soil celluloid nitrate slims silver slivers fire and my writing burns the Passion of Saint Joan of Arc     Many saints burn and sometimes saints burn longer     Saints burn as witches and every witch woman blesses and sanctifies Benjamin / the ash oils relics     The ash oils the olive wood grain of the Cross     The Cross slices Cain vitrine glass and Christ presses Cain sections flat and superflat     The Cross both flattens and explodes body into the curvature of spacetime     The cross swords cores into the Body deep / torso lengthwise or torso along the duration     The torso is a tool     The torso is a tool hammering together crosses and the cross whooping cranes the canticle of automatic drawings     The cross calico chemas Cain and I charizard automatic writing, and my writing ropes a haze around the body, Cain in clouds or Cain by columns or Cain cot colonizes

I copy the Dead Sea Scrolls     I copy text damascus twist Dead Sea Scrolls and Cain and Abel appear apple orchard / modern scholars typically view the stories of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel to be about the development of civilization during the age of agriculture; not the beginning of man, but when people first learned agriculture, replacing the ways of the hunter-gatherer

I copy the first chapters of Genesis, that primeval history, and I immerse immediately wilderness different translations, texts tooth texts, and I sample everything     I watch a video essay on the Beastie Boy’s Paul’s Boutique and its sonic density dragons desert fire     I haven hunter-gatherer and the girls gatorade alligators, evertext everglades     I hop-hop hunter-gatherer and I bop to Paul’s Boutique and Blonde on Blonde     I cut and prune plants and mushrooms, and the mycological hunt herlas hauntological emmim entheogens, and I hallucinate John Allegro’s theory the Eucharist was Amantia muscaria and Christ castles hunter-gatherer hobo visions     I hallucinate Terrence McKenna’s Stoned Ape Theory in which he conjectures that entheogens help increase Hominin brain size and assisted in human evolution / Christ hides in the magic mushroom and preaches the Gospel and the Kingdom of Heaven through neuron chemical reactions and neurotransmitters

Agriculture hasts axe Ancient of Ancients     Agriculture cocaines kilos architecture, Holy Spirit skyscrapers scoring Holy Spirit skyscrapers

A prominent Mesopotamian parallel to Cain and Abel is in the Sumerian myth of the Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzid, in which the shepherd Dumuzid and the farmer Enkindu compete for the affection of the goddess Inanna, with Dumuzid (the Shepherd) winning out… Another parallel is Enlil Chooses The Farmer-God, in which the Shepherd-God Emesh and the Farmer-God Enten bring their dispute over which of them is better to the chief god Enlil, who rules in favor of Enten (the farmer)

Cain and Abel parallel Cain and Abel     Cain and Abel parallel Cain and Abel parallel Christ and Christ / Christina doubles     Christ doubles and Christ doubled / through the glass darkly and through the glass darkly doubles     Ghosts, I guess     Cain and Abel ghosts I guess and the ghosts glow garden     The ghosts gather garden gilligan’s island and Yahweh chats stand-up comedy     Yahweh hits my funny bone and nerve travels El Shaddai skin scone bone / I borrow bone the humorous humerus     Bone buzzes beetles and in my box, beetles bury body     In my box I burrow earth blanket and earth elkins led us go to the field     Earth erupts let us go to the field and field fantomas flutters feminine (ghosts I guess and these ghouls tending the garden castle lanin lignin)

The ghosts gallop ghosts near gnosis and I nock arrow aloe alone and El Roi rasters ringlets, faeries in fold

Ghosts sojourn gnosis near gnosis, and I nock stone in my slingshot shoulder, and El Shaddai sings Shelter From the Storm     El Shaddai sings Shelter From the Storm with silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair and the stone skips something surgical, my surrender to Star Wars arcade wire frame graphics, and El Roi rasters ringlets, faeries in fold faeries in field

I go out into the field with Ghosts and I sleep with Ghosts     I sleep with Ghosts Galvatron shell inside a shell / Fat Man blowing up Big Shell shenanigans

I go out into the Field with Ghosts and they front mission female     Ghosts glass slash feminine and the feminine faucets many fields, and this field tags Taryn Tetragrammaton / God grips graffiti and ghosts grip gridiron grapeshot grafting     Anyway, ghosts I guess and ghost spray paints stencils and I rip off Blek Le Rat

Yahweh Storms or Thunders

In the earliest Biblical literature, Yahweh is a storm-god typical of ancient Near Eastern myths, marching out from a region to the south or south-east of Israel with the heavenly host of stars and planets that make up his army to do battle with the enemies of his people Israel:
Yahweh when you went out of Seir
When you marched out of the field of Edom
The earth trembled     the sky also dropped
Yet the clouds dropped water
The mountains quaked at Yahweh’s presence
Even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel

Yahweh storms or thunders Seven Saturn and Seven Taryn, march to the South Stretch Music     Yahweh slams or tackles seven seals and seven trumpets Taryn, tent to the torrential Adonai awake agon Abel and bara Benjamin, and I connect to Cain clavicle and corner / on the corner calypso fremlio (During Iron I, Yahweh acquired characteristics of El, such a being bearded, commanding the Divine Council, and compassion       I acquire the characteristics of Cain, metalsmith and apocalyptic agrarian, and the Field fermatas flint and obsidian, the volcanic Origin Yahweh Vulcan or Ash Adonai     Origins organ orchards origins, boughs and branches breaking bicycles rhizomatically     Origins olivine obelisk Origins, not an outlier Yahweh but object connecting object a superflat ontology
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth / When in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was untamed and shapeless / When in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth – the earth being untamed and shapeless, God said, let there be Light     Origins tehom and tameth, the terror filament sloshing as a lizard     Origin pleroma and bythos banking Benjamin bewildered and astonished, the drink Adonai     Adonai drinks drops Cloud of Unknowing and Cloud of Forgetting foisting fumes Faust the scapegoat Azazel for the tabernacle     Origins Yahweh rushes ruach over Taryn tehom / a rainbow in curved air

Word Worships Word

In 1959, out of his one-note improvisations, came the seminal Quattro pezzi chiascuno su una nota sola (Four pieces each one on a single note), the first unequivocal demonstration of Scelsi’s concern with what he called the ‘three-dimensional’ quality of sound     Each piece takes as its starting (and ending) point a single note – a radical paring down of musical subject matter which focuses attention inward, making the listener concentrate on what musical sound is, rather than what it does     Word worships Word: Woman worships Woman     Word improvises Word, the flat harmony in haste honing the edge of the blade     Word improvises Woman, the shaped sculpture moment marble jamming major and minor thirds over the twelve-bar blues bathing Benjamin     I worship Word and Woman one-note: the strong one-note knitted with knots unknot the cordon circle     I sew circles sow circles the king crop chrysalis co-mingling metamorphosis     Taryn transmigrates soul sparks, and Cain cloister colossal cooperates soul Messianic Adam     The Soul Sabbath Serpent equally Adam cursing Cain, and Cain crane caravan reconciles all souls to David     The soul signs scribe, copying Cain into the Messianic, Adam-David-Christ and David-Christ-Sabbatai     I too create the concrete from Cain, an interstitial improvisation, note meaning note in Adonai automorphisms     I too create the cryptogram and cryptozoology, mallard monstrosities marveling at Cain, this majestic murderer, simultaneous Son of Serpent and Son of Human     The improvisation of Ha-Satan on the script of Cain’s body tills Taryn soil, a sister soylent green     four pieces piccolo flesh, the flamboyant flamenco one note or one sound, the sonic soul and the soul slow streams quiet storm     Four pieces pluck as a peacock, the peak parlors and secret pubs in prohibition     Four pieces pierce as Abel’s dismembered body, torso plus limbs planted in the field farmed feminine, evening Eve in blood     Four pieces purge Abe’s massacred body, clean cuts from magic stone, the flinted hand axe in oak axons and axials     the fluted lance lowered into Abel’s loins, and the blood spurts ancient artery or artery archaic, ionic columns in his ionized blood radiating one note and one thought     The Thought tiers Vision: Vision Yahweh Violence and Vision War Woman El Shaddai / grand genocide     I write and witness: I bring from the fruit of the soil an offering to Yahweh      Each piece takes its starting (and ending) point in Woman Yahweh: Woman Eva, Yahweh Sophia, Yahweh the Zoe Zebra: three sonorities, three modes, three rhythms, but one note and one movement     the motion of woman and serpent in rattlesnake multiplicity     translations and rotations Yahweh-KRYSXTRYN     I eat Abel, the fruit fermented into Wine Woman     I consume Abel, the offering feral and wild, shapeshifting into Werewolf Little Red Riding Hood, a fairy tale as real as Abel, which is to say, absolutely real     A radical paring down of musical subject matter     The monothematic obsession with the human body, especially Christ’s body     Abel and Cain as one body precursors Christ’s body: a body for the broken and bereft, for the grieving sinner sinister to his secrets, and I pare down the body to anatomical layers skate scarred skeleton / the beat is the flesh and the sample is the skeleton     The beat is the Word and the sample is the Alphabet     Body is constantly inscribed with Word and Alphabet     Clothing skinned in blood clinging to my chassis, the erotic exoskeleton and insect incarnation     Scriabin’s inset sonata     a radical paring down of mythical subject matter     The myth Cain and Abel murdering narrative and the story stems strength resurrection     The myth Cain and Abel fuses horizons, heroes and heretics in exchange, and I embody Cain, a crypt keeper of the soil rainbow serpent soul     I embody Abel, the Allzone Zip Zebra hidden in sheep, and I herd myself to surrender, a steeple suicide slashing Yahweh     On what musical sound is, rather than what it does     Musical sound stands sand in primary colors     the musical blue     the musical red     the musical yellow     The musical sound primed on canvas in color fields     The color Field Body, Abel bright red and all red, soaking into soil, itself canvas     Canvas sound and music Vision, library magic and miracle, the hidden resurrection reviving Abel's body     Abel entered into exile with him     Abel herded life-into-death, the dirigible desert mask sound sonor masquerade     the firstling of the flock, Cain     the firstling of the flock, motor music, the moors messianic     Cain bayou Benjamin     Death’s Head Moth abstract algebra fields God’s galois theory, mapping groups of bodies to the Feminine Field     Field forms Female: Fields formants Feminine, and her sound and rhythm receives Abel’s blood, Vision Vinland Vapor     The sound alone and the body alone abhors a God     The sound aloft and the body aloft abyssos ballast a God

And The Human Knew Eve His Woman

And the Human knew Eve his Woman, and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said, I have got me a man with the Lord / Three sonorities, three modes, three superimposed tunes / The general motion of the vibrating system is given by a superposition of its proper vibrations     Cain Kana and Caneh, the reed that pierces Flesh     Can and the trine twines the Woman of Malchut, Twins, and the Human hangs androgynous     The Human hunter-gatherer hastens androgyny, Son and Daughter of Eve, in the image of Yahweh Elohim     The image Yahweh supines superposition Human: the image Yahweh spindles superimposed Woman     The Human hexen haps magic happenings: the happening occult and the happening witchcraft, women more powerful than Benjamin     The Human knew Wisdom, the Woman Sophia-Shekinah     the Woman Zoe-Eva     She plants humanity in humanity, the Root and Tree in Cain-Adam and Cain-Jesus     sugar cane and the cain cock copulating sun-earth and son-soil     I sing silt soil three sonorities Trinity tritones jazz improvisation incarnation     I chant tehillim Taryn and she conceived Christ or Cain or Benjamin in three rhythms     She conceived Cain from Adam or the Serpent, and I worship the Serpent Wheel and I pay homage to the Adam Body     I pray devotions to the Adam-Body-Fixed-In-Wheel, a parody of Four Creatures and Four Evangelists     Adam berzerker battles as the Serpent Beautiful, the Snake-Rod over Moses’ head     Adam dons dome darkly, droughts dragon divination (Nahas, Hebrew for snake, is also associated with divination, including the verb form meaning, to practice divination or fortune telling     The Human Flesh fortune-tells Cain and Christ fusion, the bathyscape Benjamin bent to devil’s fish and Hadron Hades     Adam’s dungeon pockets Black Iron Prison, the original Old Sparkly malfunctioning Malificent and Moloch     Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh Elohim had made     Serpent supercedes Old Sparky, the Soul Sophia in three sonorities / Taryn Trinity     Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell?     Yahweh damns me, but the Adam diverges the drawing drink Rebecca so bold of us to pray     Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves      Yahweh damns but the Serpent coils Christ and Cain into a single column, the Tree of Life one root one tree of Knowledge Good and Evil