Today's clue:
Keeper, not his brother's keeper, has doubts, kills first brother violently (9)
Its solution: CUSTODIAN
CAIN + DOUBTS - B
In a biblical story Cain killed his brother Abel and when God asked about Abel responded "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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Keeper, not his brother's keeper, has doubts, kills first brother violently (9)
Its solution: CUSTODIAN
CAIN + DOUBTS - B
In a biblical story Cain killed his brother Abel and when God asked about Abel responded "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Here is the list of answers received today.
Comments
Very nice clue.
Both uthirivedi and krypton had fratricide!
The earliest form of Cain and Abel story is in Egyptian mythology. Same story, both the farmer (Cain) and the herder (Abel) made sacrifices. God accepted the herder's sacrifice. The farmer killed the herder. The earliest reference is 5000 years ago. Oral tradition for 3000 years is quite possible.
The most intriguing reference I found in Mahabaratham is "In the King Dushyandan's time there were no farmers, there were no miners". Traditional interpretation is bhoomi devi gave everything to everyone without having to work. My personal interpretation, is Dushyandan was the last herding king. His son/descendant Bharatan founded the farming kingdom. Farming produces a population explosion and expands rapidly by population expansion and settlement. Thus all the local chiefs of the settlements claim descent from Bharatan to legitimatize their right to rule that settlements. Thus the entire sub continent became bharatam.
I read somewhere that "agriculture" is an artificial activity. AT least to grow rice/paddy one has to make lot of unnatural activity. Keeping the field waterlogged always, and weeding out. Forgot the name of a Japanese farming method which is natural, Fukoka or something like that.