Aclima
{{Short description|Oldest daughter of Adam and Eve}}
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| other_names = Kalmana, Calmana, Cainan, Luluwa, Awan
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|relatives=Azura (sister)
Cain (brother)
Abel (brother)
Seth (brother)
|spouse= Cain (after Abel's death)
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Aclima (also Kalmana, Lusia, Cainan, Luluwa, Âwân{{efn|Aclima was considered Cain's twin in some traditions, and the Book of Jubilees tells us that Cain was born 64–70 A.M., while Âwân was born 78–84 A.M. This may indicate Aclima and Âwân were two separate figures.}}) according to some religious traditions was the oldest daughter of Adam and Eve and the sister (in many sources, the twin sister) of Cain. This would make her the first woman to be born naturally.
File:Cain_and_his_family_wandering.jpg, 1583).]]
{{bibleverse||Genesis|4:17|NKJV}} states that after he had killed Abel, "Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch". In an effort to explain where Cain and Abel acquired wives, some traditional sources stated that each child of Adam and Eve was born with a twin who became their mate.
Aclima and Lusia
In Muslim tradition, Cain was born with a twin sister named Aclima, and Abel with a twin sister named Azura. Adam wished Cain to marry Abel's twin sister (Azura) and Abel to marry Cain's (Aclima). Cain did not consent to this arrangement, and Adam proposed to refer the question to God by means of a sacrifice. God rejected Cain's sacrifice to signify his disapproval of his marriage to his twin sister Aclima, and Cain slew his brother in a fit of jealousy.Brewer, E. Cobham. "Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable." (1894).{{cite book|last1=Brewer|first1=Cobham|title=Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable|date=2001|page=197}}"[https://archive.org/stream/dictionnairedes01coll#page/n151/mode/2up Cain]", Dictionnaire des sciences occultes (Encycloedie Theologique Vol. 48), ed. Jacques Paul Migne, cols. 297–298.
In another Muslim tradition, Cain's twin sister was named Lusia, while Aclima was Abel's twin sister.{{cite book|last1=Gibson|first1=Margaret|title=Apocrypha Arabica|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=11}}
In different sources, this name appears as Aclimah, Aclimia, Aclimiah, Klimia.Burrington, Gilbert. An Arrangement of the Genealogies in the Old Testament and Apocrypha: To which are Added, from the Same Authorities, a Selection of Single Names, and Chronological Tables of the Kings of Egypt, Syria, and Assyria: with Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory; and Copious Indexes, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1. Rivington, 1836. In the Cave of Treasures she is called Qelima.
Kalmana or Calmana
Some sources in the Eastern Orthodox traditions give Cain's twin sister the name Calmana, Calmanna, Azrun, or Azura.
In the Jewish work Seder Hadorot, Cain's twin sister is called Kalmana, and Abel's twin sister called Balbira.[https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=24645&st=&pgnum=41&hilite= Seder Hadorot 8a][https://books.google.com/books?id=6uK5pa3R4d8C&pg=PA51&dq=Balbira+Abel Abarbanel Gen. 4,1 as cited by Codex Judaica]
Cain's sister is named Kalmana in the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (first Greek redaction) II.1.,A.C. Lolos, Die Apokalypse des Ps.-Methodios. Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 83. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1976. and Calmana in the Golden Legend. The poet Petrus Riga (1140–1209) included Calmana in his famous poem Aurora, and this could have been a source for her appearance in Peter Comestor's [http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Historia_Scholastica Historia Scholastica]. Comestor's Biblical narrative text then served as the standard textbook for Biblical education for centuries.
Cainan
In an Armenian work republished in 1966, Cain's twin sister was named Cainan. This short work does not mention Cain's marriage.Stone, Michael. "The Death of Adam—An Armenian Adam Book." Harvard Theological Review 59.3 (1966): 283-291
Luluwa
In the 6th-century apocryphal work Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, Cain's wife and twin is named Luluwa.[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/398/398-h/398-h.htm "First Book of Adam and Eve"] and "Second Book of Adam and Eve", printed in Platt, Rutherford H. The Forgotten Books of Eden (annotated edition). Jazzybee, 2012.
Âwân
According to the Book of Jubilees, Âwân (also Awan, Avan or Aven, from Hebrew אָוֶן aven "vice", "iniquity", "potency") was the wife and sister of Cain and the daughter of Adam and Eve.The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees - Page 17, Betsy Halpern Amaru - 1999
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