The First Division: Sons of Adam

The First Division: Sons of Adam

Recorded by Brother Wyn of Caermynach, Anno Domini 918

Known As: The Division of the Sons of Adam

Status: Secret Annex

Primary Source: The Book of Genesis

The Stones of the Pre-World

It is necessary to state what is so often misunderstood in the late records. The sanctuary mound at Göbekli Tepe was not raised by the hands of Adam, nor did his sons cut the first shapes into the stone.

The T-shaped pillars stood in the earth long before Adam came out of Eden. The Clayborn raised the megaliths in the final years of the Dragon Wars, carving animal forms into the rock faces before scattering to all corners of the veil. Upon leaving Eden, Adam and Eve arrived near Göbekli Tepe, choosing the region as their home. The stone ring remained on the ridge above the river, and reports from the Cwmni’r Llwybrau state that they remain even today. If my legs could manage the journey, I would have liked to visit the lands where our ancestors first stepped into the vineyard.

The Division of Labour

In this sanctuary, where the work of the Clayborn met the arrival of God’s heirs, the first true division of human labour took root between the two eldest sons.

Genesis names Cain a keeper of crops, mistaking a father’s failed demand for the son’s true calling. Cain was never a creature of the furrow; his hands were made to shape timber, square stone, and build.

Cain carried his father’s broad frame, but possessed none of Adam’s patience for the soil. Tasks grounded in the dirt brought him only frustration, for he could not reconcile himself to the slow yield of the earth. He turned his strength to construction instead, constantly hauling timber from the woods to alter the homestead, then turning his hands to the creation of tools. Cain worked by measurement and craft, intent on building structures that would stand permanently against the weather.

Abel took to the domestication of the livestock, building on the ideas of the Clayborn. He kept to the lower pens beneath the mound, running the pastures and watching the animals through every change of season. His mind was given to the preservation of the flock, learning the instincts of the beasts and keeping them free from disease. He was content to tend what lived in the pens, taking what the Lord provided without trying to alter the ground.

The Bitter Household

Friction arose within the first household. Adam often sought his eldest son’s strength in the fields, from clearing bracken to working the first plough or preparing the crops. He would call across the pasture, only to find Cain absent. The boy would busy himself with timber, or be found collecting loose stones near the sanctuary ring. Adam viewed Cain’s refusal to farm as a neglect of duty, while his son grew resentful that heavy construction was weighed as lesser than the turning of the soil.

The bad blood between the brothers grew worse with time. Cain held Abel's work with the flock in small regard, seeing it as soft labour that asked for no heavy tool and no real sweat. He saw only a younger brother walking the green grass while he hauled oak through the mud. Abel looked on Cain’s building with a quiet distrust, having no use for a mind always trying to compel the earth instead of waiting on the seasons. They could not agree on how a man ought to live upon the ground.

The Taboo of the Flock

After the loss of the stockman, no hand would tend the sheep. Adam and Eve drove the flock from the home pastures, leaving them to wander the lower grounds. For generations after, the keeping of sheep remained taboo among the ancestral lines, yet the untended herd never ran wild beyond the stones.

Final Entry

The later scribes recorded only the blood in the field and the fruit of the soil. They set down the account as a moral story of envy and grain. This is understandable, yet the older leaves tell a more complete truth. Cain was never a keeper of crops, and he carried a different craft south, into the land of Nod to lay the foundation of the first city of Eridu.

Abel’s sheep were left to wander the lower slopes, a forgotten stock that no hands would claim until after the Great Flood.