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Cain is credited with building the FIRST CITY called Enoch (Hebrew: Chanoch), in the Mesopotamian myths the FIRST CITY is built by the god Enki (Did the Hebrews transform via a puning or word play, Enki into Enoch?). Cain, Hebrew qayin, slays a man, Enki slays an Igigi god and makes man of his flesh and blood mixed into the clay. I thus understand that the Hebrew nwd meaning "wander" is an echo or allusion to the early Mesopotamian creation myths that had man originally a naked animal wandering seru/edin the plain, before the goddess Nintur took pity on him and had him build cities to house the gods (contra Enki's building a city). So, for me, _the land of Nod is edin the plain_. Enki's slaying of a god to create man at Nippur to be placed in the god Enlil's garden to relieve the Igigi gods, becomes Cain slaying Abel.

2007-03-07 09:07:39 · answer #1 · answered by MikeDot3s 5 · 0 0

It is in Mezopotamia; now a city in Turkey.

2007-03-09 04:25:08 · answer #2 · answered by cly 2 · 0 0

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