A number of orthodox scholars claim that the reason that Abel's name means vain, illusory and leading astray is lost in antiquity, and therefore will remain a mystery.

    Not at all.  Just as the ab in abnormal negates the meaning of normal, so too was ab (or uwb) used as a prefix of negation in ancient Hebrew.  Those studying ancient Hebrew, or Sanskrit, for that matter, know that El means the Almighty, or Almighty God. To the original vegetarian Jews following the vegetarian covenant of Genesis 1: 29-30, one who sacrificed animals was evil.  Abel's name means one who negates or contradicts God, or El. It is a perfectly logical explanation, given the fact that the original deitary covenant of the Jews was the vegetarian covenant of Genesis 1: 29.

And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.

 

Abel is the First Killer in the Old Testament.

     Those who are familiar with the "Book of Genesis" in the Old Testament know that there is a radical shift in "Genesis" moving from a first chapter in which we see a God who is presented as decidedly compassionate and vegetarian in the eulogy to creation that begins the book of Genesis and in verses 1: 29-30, which affirm a vegetarian diet not only for humans but all creatures, to a God who suddenly changes his mind in the story of Cain and Abel and prefers that humans slaughter animals and eat them instead.

 And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."

So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.  And God saw that it was good.

And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

...And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.

And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." Genesis 1: 20-25.

  And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.

   And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.'" l: 29-30.  Emphasis mine.

     The fact that Genesis 1: 30 commands even other creatures to eat vegetation alone proves that the earliest Jews were like the Hindus and Jains who see all creatures as conscious beings with free will who have the capability to come closer to the divine will or to remove themselves even further from that will. And Genesis 1: 30 fits in perfectly with those parts of the Old Testament that say God after the Fall had a controversy with "all flesh," as well as with the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, which a growing number of scholars are asserting was once a part of the Old Testament. The teachings of Enoch say that God has come to convict all flesh with the deluge; in other words, that other creatures as well as humans were involved in a fall from innocence, have sinned, and therefore deserve the destruction that was brought about  by the Deluge.  Implicitly, Enoch and Moses in "Genesis" are saying that all creatures are involved in the drama of facing good and evil choices to make in their lives, and that if the other creatures did not adhere to the divine will, they would face divine wrath just as humans do.

     The acceptance of the fact that other creatures have consciousness and will makes logical Deity's destruction of the earth, whether by flood or fire, because it renders invalid the notion that the flood destroyed the innocent as well as the guilty. The other creatures are not, as the orthodoxies of Judaism, Christianity and Sunni Islam would portray them, instinctual automatons, or creatures of instinct, meant to be subjected or dominated, or to be caught and destroyed. Genesis 1: 30 is conveniently overlooked because it is not pleasant for the orthodox to consider that the flesh and blood creatures they kill and eat are considered sentient being with free will.
 

     Ge 4:1  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said,
     I have gotten a man from the LORD.

     Ge 4:2  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but
     Cain was a tiller of the ground.

     Ge 4:3  And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the
     ground an offering unto the LORD.

     Ge 4:4 while Abel brought several choice lambs from the best of his flock. The
     LORD accepted Abel and his offering,

     Ge 4:5  But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

   In the account of Cain and Abel in the original vegetarian Old Testament, God accepted Cain's offerings of vegetation, and Cain was God's favored avenging priest killing Abel, the killer of God's creatures.  Cain's name should be seen as related with Chana, El Kana, and kanna im, the name given to zealots and avenging priests in the Talmud.  Names relalted to the name of Cain, the names Chana, Chanon, Elchanon, El Quanna (various spellings) most often mean "favored of God." And in the apocryphal accounts of Cain, such as "Vita et Adae," Cain has a shining birth and is an avatar promoting vegetarianism.  Those familiar with the Book of Enoch know that Noah also had a shining birth, a quality of some avatars.

   Theologians through the centuries have had to deal with the contradiction of the portrayal of God moving from vegetarianism to carnivorism in the Old Testament. The most consistent argument is that humans were too weak to follow God's original dietary covenant, and that God therefore changed His all-perfect mind. The argument is not only specious, but speciesist, human centered. In contrast, God in most of the scriptures of the first chapter of Genesis is creation centered, as we see in the eulogy and the vegetarian covenant.

    Orthodox theologians do not deal well with the problem of a divine mind with unchanging eternal purpose contradicting itself, for the contradiction favors the profit making of meat and animal foods industries. And the industrialists involved in these industries are often major contributors to religious establishments and educational curriculums promoting the notion that God made other creatures for the benefit of humans. Numerous Jews, however, such as Moses and David, Baruch, the author of Job, the late Jewish prophets, and Jewish Christians such as Jesus, Peter, and John of Patmos refer to the scriptures of Enoch, and in so doing, portray the final times as a time when there finally will be no sorrow or death for any creature in creation. So do a number of passages in the Quran see all creatures as a family, and causing the bloodshed of stock as mischief or evil.

   For though it is traditional among people sacrificing animals in order to eat them to regard Cain as a murderer and Abel as an innocent victim, the original Jews were zealously following the vegetarian covenant and regarded Abel's slaughter of God's creatures as an evil sacrilege against the creature as well as against the Creator of that creature.  Abel was the first human to slaughter a living being, and that crime perpetuated the name of the first killer, the first shedder of blood as the one who negates El, the creator of living beings.
 
 

   Orthodox scholars have puzzled over the meanings associated with the name of Abel, namely, vain, illusory, unsatifactory, lamentation and mourning, and have rationalized these meanings as incomprehensible because they were given to Abel in the mists of antiquity.  Not at all.  These significances are perfectly logical and were associated with Abel with utter deliberation and craftsmanship. Abel's name, we shall see, is also associated with "leading astray," and with the word Evil itself, forms of which in ancient Hebrew are associated with the yoking and sacrificing of animals.

 In the Hebrew Dictionary of James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance to the Old and New Testament,

Entry 1893 is the name of the person Abel, and is the same, according to Strong, to

Entry 1892, Hebel, which means emptiness or vanity, something transitory or unsatisfactory.

And entry 1892 is from

Entry 1891 habal, which means to be vain in act, word, or expectation; to lead astray.

  Ab is also the root of entrees 56 and 57. Once we accept the fact that Abel is a combination of Ab and El, a variation of which is Al, then the following definitions are variations on the Ab+El theme, and indicate that those who becloud divinity will experience and/or cause mourning and lamentation.

Entry 56, abal, means to bewail lament, mourn, and

Entry 57, abel, means lamenting, mourner, mourning.
 
 

    Lamentation and mourning referred not only to the sufferings of the animals, but those suffering from animal fat related diseases. Our modern medical research determining the disease-producing effects of eating cholesterol, which leads to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other forms of sickness and suffering, perfectly confirms the validity of the ancient meanings of Abel's name.
 
 

Entry 5645 in the Hebrew Dictionary of James Strong's Concordance is Ab, pronounced awb meaning an envelope, a cloud, which James Strong himself says is from

Entry 5743, Uwb, a primitive root meaning to be dense or dark; to becloud, to cover with a
cloud.

El, entry 410, means the Almighty, God, Divinity.

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  The prefix Ab is used in English in an identical way to signify the negation of the root in words like abnormal, abaxial, abdicae, abjure, abolish, abrogate, absense, and abstriction.

  The word Abnormal speaks for itself:

Ab + normal means the denial of the norm, just as Ab + El means the denial of God, to deviate from the divine.

Abaxial,= Ab+axial, means not in the axis.

Abdicate = ab + dicate: to renounce, to withdraw from in a public, voluntary or formal manner. The dicate part is from the Latin dico, dictatum, meaning to say, to declare publicly.

Abjure = ab + jure.  To renounce, to recant, deny.  Jure is from the Latin meaning to swear, and Jury.

Abolish = ab + olish, from the French oleo, meaning to grow. Abolish means to obliterate, to destroy, to put an end to; to efface, to make void, to annul.

Abrogate =  ab + rogate: rogate is from the Latin rogo, to ask, propose as a law.  Abrogate means to repeal, to make void or null.

Absence = ab + sence.  Sence is from the Latin sum or esse, meaning to be (present or in
existence.  Absence means to not be (present).

Abstriction = ab + striction,  from the Latin
strictum, meaning binding. Abstriction means unbinding.
 
 

  The author of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch (which should be read thoroughly, over and over again, by every real student of scriptures) understood perfectly the meaning of obscuring God's way, for he describes the actions of God's fallen angels.  They copulated with earth's women, sacrificed animals and even humans and ate them both, disturbed the earth and its creatures through mining, and used cosmetics to disguise their true selves.

  Relevant to our discussion of Vegetarianism, all sacrificing--whether of animals or of humans--is condemned by God, Noah and Enoch in the Book of Enoch, in chapters 7, 19, and 21, and in what is sometimes called the "Book of Noah" as well, which is part of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.  Here in Chapter 13 of the Book of Enoch, he, Enoch, describes the place where the fallen angels are contained, that is, imprisoned, as Abelsjail, that is, the jail of evil, the jail of those who obscure and deny God.
 

And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell 8 asleep. And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding (me) I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and reprimand them. 9 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in 10 'Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered.  Book of Enoch, Chapter 13, Charles (emphasis is mine).

  The following discussion of the ancient Hebrew variations of the word evil is based on James Strong's "Hebrew-Chaldee Dictionary" section of his Exhaustive Concordance to the Old and New Testament, which has been a source referred to for years by the Judaeo-Christian orthodoxy.

   To the contrary, what has historically occurred is this: carnivorous orthodoxies have either intentionally withheld the truth from their followers, or they have been in such a
narrow-minded state of consciousness that they have been unable to discern a truth that stares the objective scholar in the eyes.

  Though there is a difference in sounds or phonetics,  perhaps due to moving from one part of Canaan or Palestine to another, one may see the pronunciation change in the following words as similar to the different pronunciations of the same word in the southern and northern U.S. Though pronounced in a slightly different manner, the meaning is essentially the same.

5765: aval, aw-val'; a primitive root; to distort (morally): --deal unjustly, unrighteous.

Strong in his Exhaustive Concordance couples the definition of aval, which is obviously a form of the word Evil, with the word ol.

5923 ol, ole; or owl, ole; a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively: yoke. This is from

5953 alal, aw-lal; a primitive root; to effect thoroughly.... by implication (in a bad sense) to
overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also lit.) : abuse, affect... defile... mock.

All of these definitions apply to the maltreatment of animals.

5767: avval, av-vawl; from 5765; evil (morally):--unjust, unrighteous, wicked.

Coupled with the above definition of Evil is the word owlah, #5930

5930: olah, or owlah, usually means a holocaust (as going up in smoke): ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice)....

And #5930, olah, is related to 5766, evel, avel, avlah, owlah, or olah, which mean evil
(morally):--unjust, unrighteous, wicked.

   In other words, the word Evil itself--and evel and avel are both close to the English evil--is originally connected both with animal slavery, with yoking animals, as well as with animal holocausts, the animal sacrifices. The moral allegory of Cain and Abel loomed large in the minds of the earliest Jews following the vegetarian covenant.

  To see Abel's name, Ab + El, to be unrelated to evel and avel, and the other variations of the word that mean perversity or moral evil, is either to be naive, or to be in denial.

   Discovering that the prison of Evil, the place where the fallen angels are kept by God in the Book of Enoch, is named Abelsjail, is simply reiteration of the truth.  To the original Jews, the original followers of Jehu, the Divine He, Evil consisted in enslaving and sacrificing God's creatures, in yoking them (5923) and in sacrificing them (5930).  Why are most of the fallen angels in the Book of Enoch imprisoned? Because they have maltreated other creatures and eaten them, and because they introduced the "sorceries" of civilization, such as mining, which oppresses, kills, and displaces creatures of the earth, and cosmetics, which paints and disguises the real person, and not simply because they copulated with the women of earth.

             To the Original Jews, Who were Vegetarian, the Name of Abel,
                 The cattleman who slaughtered animals and ate their flesh
                 Was itself a symbol of what was fallen, foolish, and wicked.

    Abel's name was used as the root of a number of words signifying what was foolish, wicked and disgraceful, and the name Abel was in fact a symbol of the fallen person, one who had strayed from the true path, who had failed, was foolish, and despised.

                                                      The Na + Abel Root

Entry 4995 Na is a word denoting a harsh refusal.  It is from

Entry 5106 Nuw, meaning to refuse, forbid, dissuade...break, disallow, discourage, make of
none effect.

Our English Na or Nah, meaning no, or a negation of what has been presented, is derived from the ancient Hebrew Na.

Na + Abel provided the root significance of numerous words conveying negative qualities:

Entry 5034 Nabel, means to wilt, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or wicked; to despise, disgrace...do foolishly, come to nought, make vile, wither.

Entry 5036 Nebel, means stupid, wicked, fool, foolish man, foolish woman, vile person.

Entry 5037 Nabal means dolt.

Entry 5038 Nebelah means a flabby thing, that is, a carcass or carrion, human or animal;
figuratively, an idol, a dead body, dead of itself. From 5034.
 
 

  The fact that Nebelah comes from Nabel, signifying a falling away, and also conveys a dead body and idol within the same word shows the earliest Jews' awareness that slaughtering animals is the action of those who have fallen away from the vegetarian covenant and who have become devoted to idols, and not to the true divinity of Judaism, Shiva, Lord of Creatures and Protector of Cattle.

Entry 5039 Nebalah is the feminine form of 5036 and means foolishness, wickedness, a crime; by extension, punishment, folly, vile, villainy.

Entry 5040 Nabluwth means disgrace and comes from Nabal meaning a foolish woman or man, a vile person.
 
 

                                                            Beyth-Maakah

         A HEBREW NAME FOR A SLAUGHTERHOUSE OR PLACE OF SLAUGHTER.

Entry 1004 Beyth means house in the greatest variety of applications, such as a palace, a
prison, or a temple.

Entry 4601 Maakah or Maakath means depression.  It is related to 4600.

Entry 4600 Maak means to pierce, emasculate, be pressed, bruised, stuck.

Entry 1038 Beyth Maakah, Beyth meaning a house or prison (or even temple) of Maakah, the place where animals are pierced, emasculated, pressed. Maakah is related to Entry 4347.

Entry 4347 makkah, makkeh and its feminine form makkah , means a blow, a wound, carnage, to be beaten, slaughter. It is from entry 5221.

Entry 5221 nakah means to strike, beat, cast forth, kill, make [slaughter], murderer, punish, slaughter, slay, be stricken, wound.

Maakath, # 4601, means depression. And, Strong states, it is related to #4600, maak, meaning to pierce, emasculate, handle, to be bruised, stuck, or be pressed.

   Whether we take depression to mean an emotional depression, which relates to lamentation and mourning, or a physical depression in the ground where the blood flowed from the animals who were pierced, emasculated, bruised, that is slaughtered or sacrificed, the negativity of the term is clear.

Entry 4347 makkah, makkeh, meaning carnage is close to the Hawaiian makeh meaning death.

Let us remember that Kana aka Krishna was known in Polynesia and Hawaii as well.

Entry 4252 Machalaph means a (sacrificial) knife (as gliding through the flesh); a knife.

Entry 4245 Machalah (and its feminine form Machalah) mean sickness, disease and infirmity.

Entry 4244 Machlah means sickness.

Both of the above words stem from the root 2470.

Entry 2470 Chalah means to be weak, sick, afflicted, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be (become) weak, be wounded.
 
 

   Realizing that Abel means "to obscure divinity," the word Abel means that which is the antithesis of divinity; dvinity is good and its antithesis is evil. Thus, the word Abel, which easily transliterates into Ebel, is a logical choice for the source of the word Evil itself in the English language, which belongs to the Teutonic family of languages.  Webster sees the word Evil as being related to the Anglo-Saxon efel and yfel, the Danish euvel, Old Frisian evel, German ubel, and the Gothic ubils. Remembering that Hebrew is an ancient ancestor of the Germanic and Teutonic language family, to which English belongs, and that Ab-el means to obscure or cloud over divinity, the word abel or ebel can very well be seen as the origin of the term Evil itself.  From the point of view of the compassion-based Way of Hinduism (specifically the mainstream Hindus following the vegetarian way of Shiva and Krishna) and Buddhism, the choosing of vegetarianism over carnivorism is considered to be a necessary moral option to the spirit seeking to be closer to an All-compassionate Deity. It is a choice between living harmoniously with other creatures in creation, or being a accomplice to the crime of brutally subduing them, and having dominion over them, which is the very business of the cattleman.

    When Moses told the Israelites choose thou this day between good and evil, and then told them that their choice would determine the length of their days, that is their longevity, he was simply reiterating what all good Hindus and Buddhists and what all genuine students of longevity know--including in our own time researchers from Harvard and Princeton and from medical research facilities throughout the world--that it is the vegetarian diet which is conducive to optimum health and longevity.

   The Fall was interpreted by the late Jewish prophets to mean the institution of animal
sacrifices.  The Ebionite Jesus and James and their associates regarded the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament in which we see God and Moses as instituting the animal sacrifices, as false scriptures, as we are informed by St. Epiphanius in his fourth century Panarion, (a work which the Christian orthodoxy has successfully hidden from you).  The Nag Hammadi Gospel of Philip says bluntly that "this world eats corpses," that Jesus did not, and that the Fall of humanity was eating from the Tree of Animals.  The Cain and Abel narrative in the original vegetarian scriptures of Judaism showed Abel as evil, for he slew the creatures of the Creator, Sheba (a transliteration of Shiva), Lord of the Jewish Shabbath. Sheba is also seen as Saba (God of the Sabeans) whose name is closer to the English Sabbath. Shiva, Sheba, Saba--they're all the same Entity, was known as Lord of Creatures, Pasupati, and Protector of Cattle.

    Wise, Abegg, and Cook in their original hardback edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls call the original Jewish scriptures (before they were revised and became the orthodox Old Testament) the Vegetarian Bible.  Revised by whom?  By businessmen, cattlemen wanting profits and privilege, who by rewriting the scriptures sanctioned their bloody atrocities against other creatures and against the Creator, who had clearly commanded vegetarianism for humans in Gen. 1: 29. Notably, however, their soft-back edition omits mentioning the Vegetarian Bible.
 
 

   Students of etymology know that in the process of transliteration, b sounds move to v sounds and vice versa.  Therefore, we can understand the v sound in the words avert, avocate, evict, all of which have the same aspect of denial, as does the ab in Abel. The EV sound and the AB sound are transliterations of each other.  From Abel to ubil to evil is a totally logical transition and transliteration from one language system to another.

   We see such moves in moving from the German abend to the English evening,  from the German sieben to the English seven, and from the German ubel to English evil. The German ub is like the ancient Hebrew ab, and uwb, which is the source of ab, as asserted by James Strong.

   Moreover, in the Peshitta Aramaic Abel's name in the East is D'HaB,eYL and in the West is D'Hob,eYL [This is verifiable by going to http://www.peshitta.org/]. The D in the Peshitta Aramaic, like the De and D' of Latin languages such as Spanish and Italian, indicates the possessive form.  Both of these Aramaic sources use a combination of the possessive D with recognizable forms of the word Abel, and therefore we see that Devil is a personification of that which is Of-Abel, D-iablo. Thus we have the the source of the word Devil. To those knowing Spanish, it isn't hard to see the abel in diablo. To those who understand the principles of transliteration, the transfer of the b sound to a v sound is quite common. Abel = Avel = Evil.
 
 

  The Tibetans, the Mayans following Quetzalcoatl, the Hopis, the Hebrews, numerous Hindu sects and African sects, as well as the Greeks, have myths or legends affirming the existence of a perfect world which preceded the fall of human kind.  Before the fall, humanity and the other animals lived harmoniously together.  After the Fall, they were enemies.
 
 

    The close reader understands that the orthodox Jewish God who was fabricated by false scribes at the instigation of militant patriarchs who were cattlemen, is himself ironically portrayed as the initiator of evil, the source of the Fall in the Pentateuch, first by the command to subdue and have dominion over other creatures, and therefore creating disharmony for the subdued and dominated ones, and next in Chaper 4 of "Genesis" by reversing the original tale of Cain and Abel and having God accept animal sacrifices, thereby contradicting the vegetarian covenant in Genesis 1: 29, and then by giving Noah the covenant of carnivorism, and humans the right to instill terror and fear in other creatures in chapter 6, of view of God that totally contradicts the beautiful eulogies to the God and creation that also exist in the Old Testament. Frankly much of the Torah, except for these fairly rare passages which are remnants of the original Torah, such as "Numbers 11,  is hardly more than a grimoire for a demonic society.

     I suggest that the reader who has absorbed the essential material in this chapter look at the index and go to the discussion of William Harris' The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism.
 

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One of the main male deities worshiped by the original Jews was Sheba, the Lord of the Shabbath (the Sabbath), who is none other than Shiva of the Hindus, a deity who was called Pasupati, meaning Lord of the Creatures, as well as Protector of Cattle.  The Sabeans, those who followed Saba, God of our Sabbath, were the original Jews of the Old Testament. They were the worshippers of Shiva, also known as Sheba, Seba, and Saba. So the vegetarian covenant of Genesis 1: 29-30, which even orthodox Rabbis admit was the original dietary covenant, in fact perfectly manifested the Hindu teaching of compassion for all creatures, which Shiva represented.

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So, whenever I am confronted by people representing those faiths, I ask them the logical question: "If we will all be vegetarians at the end, when there is Paradise on Earth for all creatures, why aren't we practicing the purity of the final times now?!