The Legend of Lamek Seventy Sevenfold

The story of Lamek is based on different pseudographic texts both in the Christian sources and in the Jewish sources as well you see it in Rashi. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold then I will be avenged 77 fold says Lamek. So what's interesting is that you see both the increase in violence you also see the circular causality where LameK is killing both his ancestor and his son right we talked about the problem of revolutionary revolutionary myth which tends to self devour and self and break apart.

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