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| Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:39AM | | | | Cain and the Raven | Tags: Raven, Cain, Koran, Death, Ray Kurzweil, Reincarnation
| | | The Koran tells that after Cain had killed Abel, he did not know what to do with the body (Do not forget that before that no human being had ever died). The murderer carried his brother around on his shoulders until he came across a raven, which scratched the ground with its claw. Cain understood that this was a message from God, buried the body, and repented. There are also Jewish and Christian versions of this tale.
W. B. Yeats wrote that, "Man has created Death," and that is a profound truth but only a partial one. The story of Cain and the Raven illustrates how our ideas of death are socially constructed through observation of the natural world. Even today, although our contact... | | | | | |
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