Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/280/en

In the Old Testament, a primal polarity in the becoming of humanity is pointed to in mythological image: Cain and Abel. The one, Abel, is the shepherd, who tends his flock and offers his animal sacrifices to the gods. In the care and keeping of the animal world entrusted to him, he follows the will of the creator-powers; his offering is received by the gods. His half-brother Cain is another matter — he works the field and cultivates plants that he himself breeds out of his own intelligence and his sense of his own capacities. His plant-offering is not received by the gods. Here, archetypally, the moment of origin of the two polar streams is pointed to —