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curiosity chain: what does it mean to be kind? let's follow the etymology of "kindness" → kin → hm it sure wasn't very cash money of cain when he murdered his kinsman abel → how exactly did he do it? apparently it was with the jawbone of an ass. what is an ass's jawbone like, https://t.co/SwMvv4Q725
@visakanv A strong relatively flat surface that can be sharpened.https://t.co/jAcQgvHSVk
@visakanv Supernatural had a fun subplot about the mark of cain, they had a go at making a blade from an ass.https://t.co/KBmZlLGI4p
@visakanv My best guess it was fashioned from a sickle or some other farm instrument made from bone. https://t.co/dlG8QjgqTi
@visakanv IMHO It makes more sense if you frame story as meant to teach about invention of agricultural practices.This goes into some detail on the speculation https://t.co/TVADWDFX5f which is also mirrored in https://t.co/rYnhfRz1Fi on the nature of weapon.https://t.co/clFsm5jTwm
apparently Samson subsequently went on to slaughter a thousand motherfuckers with a single ass's jawbone https://t.co/aYbnF5ZW1Q
the ass's jawbone is also used even today as a percussive musical instrument https://t.co/9xGxolYQ6V
is he brushing the teeth?? burros got strong teeth even in death https://t.co/c2eILXB0J1
now curious about ancient bone weapons something extra brutal about smashing someone's skull with someone else's skull https://t.co/lDHIdTGBKu
these are bone daggers from New Guinea, made from human femurs imagining murdering a mf with your father's thigh https://t.co/IWLMhT5PG3
additional detail: there are also cassowaries in guinea – these big boys – and their bones can also be used to make bone daggers of similar/equivalent strength the human femur daggers tend to be better made, because they're made much more carefully https://t.co/a9ex3ygJ8G
hm seems plausible that cain was originally equipped with a rock, and that the story evolved retroactively to use Jawbone of Ass some interesting things to get into re: the timeline of agriculture, pastoral nomads, sheperds, etc https://t.co/FMHXi94CvL
@visakanv There was a paper on a find of a bone tool that may have been made "40,000 years before the Neanderthals"!https://t.co/v7YYiU0jU1