Les Accidens de l'Homme, Cain and Abel

Cain and Abel

Cain and Abel
Cayn comme mal entendu · frappa abel par inconstance · le sang du iuste respandu : Cria treshault a dieu vengeance ·
Cain with bad intention slew Abel out of disloyalty. The shed blood of the just one cried very loudly to God for vengeance.(1)

Les loups rauissans.

Vie de l'Homme.

The world's first case of death. To the left, Accident watches while Cain kills Abel with a jaw-bone of an ass.

In "La Vie de l'Homme" and "Accidens", Death actively participates in the killing with his big dart. Death explains that "their [Adam and Eve's] son Cain was the first to pay homage to me": »Leur fils Caïn me fit premier hommage«.

In Loups ravissans, Cain says that he killed one quarter of the world's population because of his envy: »Comment par cayn lenuieux / Le quart du monde fut martir«.

Footnotes: (1)

"And the LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!" (Genesis 4:10)