Many profess we’re in a “postmodern” or “post-truth” era. Simply put, this would mean that we are a culture without regard to ‘belief’ in facts, only ‘results’.

The libation bowl, known in Greek as phiale (φιάλη), emerges in the archaeological recordaround 2500–2200 BC during the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age in the Aegean. The earliest examples—clay, stone, and occasionally metal—come from Minoan Crete and the Cyclades islands. These were shallow, wide-mouthed vessels, often featuring a central omphalos (a raised boss) for thumb-grip during pouring.

The key meaning of evil is that ‘something that doesn’t *fit* into an expected boundary line and/ or a specific arena’. That is, evil can be defined as a violation within a specific field where rules apply and violations warrant penalties. Penalty boxes, prisons, slums, vagrancies, outcasts, wanderings, ….whatever is ‘outside’ the ‘legal box’ of comfiture is ‘evil’ by definition–especially, in the sense of derogation from which they are called ‘places of penalty’.

Everywhere the ensign of Yahweh went so did the secret art of the cauldron and its smithy go. Kennites (the Canaanite smelters) are the Cainites are the Khanites. Cain never stopped believing in Yahweh.