HRG – ‘strong disorganizing physical force’

This verb comes from the two contracted roots הר–רג. The first, which is an intensifying of his primitive אר, designates in general, an exaltation, an height; it is literally, a mountain, and figuratively, that which is strong, robust, powerful; the second root רג, characterizes a disorganising movement. Thus, Kain displays against Habel, only the power of which he is possessor, that which results from physical force.

The same allegory is found in the Pouranas of the Hindus, under the names of Maha-dewa, in place of Kain, and of Daksha, in place of Habel. Maha-dewa is the same as Siwa, and Daksha is a surname of Brahma, which can be translated by Ethereal. The Egyptians gave to Kronos of the Greeks, whom we call Saturn, after the Latins, the name of Chivan, or Kiwan; this same Kiwan was, from the most ancient times, adored by the Arabs of mecca under the figure of a black stone. The Jews themselves gave to Saturn this same name of כירן; and one can read, in a Persian book cited in the English Asiatic Researches, that the Hindus had formerly many sacred places, dedicated to Kywan, who was no other than their Siwa or Siwan, of which I have spoken above. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 130-132)

Note: All the translators have believed that there existed before this word, a lacuna which they felt obliged to fill, by inserting…let us go out into the field, or outside.

But they have not noticed that the verb אמור [aomer] which signifies not simply to say, but to declare one’s thought, to express one’s will, has no need, in Hebrew, of this indifferent course. Kain and Habel, I repeat, are not men of blood, of flesh and bones; they are cosmological beings. Moses makes it felt here in an expressive manner, by saying, that at this epoch they existed together in nature. They existed thus no longer from the moment that the one rising in rebellion against the other, had conquered its forces. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 130)