[…] We may assume that the doctrine of God as Creator was only assimilated by the religion of Israel from the time of Egyptian captivity. Before this the concept of Elochim (lit. ‘of God’) as the ‘Lord of the Wind’ prevailed. Let us recall the beginning of the Creation: ‘...And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters’. The spirit of ruah – ‘wind’, ‘breath of wind’. The perception of God as a great immortal Spirit is a persistent prerogative of shamanism, a tradition that embraced a third of the Earth’s surface and probably dated from the same antediluvian era. The biblical Book supposedly written by Enoch and included in the Great Menology of the Kingdom of Muscovy is a classic of shamanic ‘journeys’ to the heavens, to hell, the past, future and main areas of our planet… What was the starting point for this father of shamanism?

Most importantly, we should go on to the bitter end, without undue haste. Without brute force, without fear. Coincidence No. 1: according to toledot genealogy, there were two Enochs in existence before the Flood. Cain’s son (moreover, he was born at an earlier date) and Seth’s great-great-great grandson. Coincidence No. 2: Cain called a town built in the land of Nod to the east of Eden by the name of his first-born.

Nod, the hypothetical homeland of shamanism, actually means ‘wandering, path, journey’. The more perspicacious interpreters agree that this refers not to a specific location, but to the symbolic name for a land of exile where the tiller Cain was doomed to roam after killing his brother, the cattleman Abel. The fact that by the logic of a nomadic existence, as opposed to a settled way of life, the reverse should have happened, has been ignored by every hallowed exegete. Hence the conclusion that they were party to a secret they refused to reveal.

On the threshold of the great geographical discoveries, an eastern region far from Eden was identified with Nod – China. Bearing in mind that the tradition of shamanism was recognised from the Palaeolithic Age and the celebrated animism of Neanderthal hunters, and also that the isthmus on the Bering Strait constituted dry land, Cain’s journey continued to include both Americas.

Aside from cassettes of performances by Chukchi DJs, another coincidence is problematical. The majority of interpreters have decided that the ‘mark of Cain’ inflicted by God for slaughtering his brother was manifest in a nervous quaking of his head and right hand. Music, conversely, was contrived as an offspring of Cain. But we should not get carried away. The obscurantism the exegetes imposed on the Cainites was based on the peculiar idea that modern humanity bears no blood relationship to them. After all, the holy fathers taught that ‘opinion is the second Fall’. With the passing years belief in the hypothesis of the Cainophobes weakened. The heat of accusation laid at the feet of Cain’s descendants cooled.

After the retreat of the glaciers there was nothing to prevent Enoch’s teaching from spreading across Central and Southeast Asia, not to speak of the Pacific Ocean, where all trace of him is lost in the area belonging to Baiame, the Supreme Being, according to the myths of the Australian virajurs. The shaman decides the task of preparation for self-discovery, for spiritual departure to the heavens. Enoch constantly opened his soul to what he considered a higher power, va-kon-da, as the Osage Indians call it. This constituted his pilgrimage before the face of God. The roots of animism and attribution of a soul to all elements of reality exist in ancient cultures in which everyday life was regulated by shamans: prophets and magic warriors. The sons of Cain invented the instrument.

Having discovered the commonality of the life flow, Enoch made no effort to change, rather he attuned himself and made himself a medium of the will of ruah?. Spiritual radiation does not enrich the human material of the shaman, which is freely emitted to his family, tribe, nature and the world, forming the parameters of Nod’s journey. Radiant aureoles surround Enochites on the Balcamonica stele (Brescia, Italy), as in the visions of the Jivaro Indians. ‘American Indians call God a universal spirit – invisible and all-encompassing. This is a very lofty concept and left to itself the spirit cannot progress further,’ wrote the sainted hierarch Theophanes the Hermit. […]