Introduction

"We have waited centuries for this moment. The rivers will flow with the blood of those who oppose us."

This quote from Kane refers to a Global Net Interpol file #GEN 4:16. This reference however, is also biblical and leads us to the early days of the creation of Earth and mankind. It leads us to the 4th chapter of Genesis.

"Now the man lay with Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain; and she said, "I have created a man with the Lord!" Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel was a shepherd of the flocks, while Cain was a tiller of the ground.

The Hebrew text is taken from Genesis 4:4 of the Bible. The Hebrew on the coffin says Abel.

At the end of the season Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord. But as for Abel - he also brought from the firstborn of his flock, the fattest of them. And the Lord had respect for Abel and for his offering; but for Cain and his offering he did not have respect. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast? Is it not so that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door, and its desire is to have you, but you can have the mastery over it." And Cain said to Abel his brother...and when they were in the field, Cain attacked Abel his brother and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I don't know! Am I the keeper of my brother?"

But the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground! So now, cursed are you from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a ceaseless wanderer in the earth."

And Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is too great to bear!" Since you are driving me out from the land today and I must hide from your presence, I will be a ceaseless wanderer in the earth; anyone finding me will kill me."

But the Lord said to him, "Therefore, if anyone kills Cain he will be avenged seven times." Then the Lord put a sign on Cain so that anyone finding him would not strike him. So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord; and he lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden."

This, however, is not an accurate translation of the original Hebrew text. 'Nod', in Hebrew, is the root of the verb "To Wander":

So by saying "Banished to the land of Nod" one does not mean to a land called Nod. It is meant to say that he, Cain, was banished to wander (nod) the earth for eternity. Eternity being for Cain, not for all time. Hence Cain was cursed to become a "ceaseless wanderer in the earth".