Although we are all here now in 2011 we are living very different lives, in vastly different places, circumstances and culture. My life has nothing in common with a fisherman in Cuba or an Eskimo or a miner in China. Some of us have long leisurely lives, others live in terror. So would it not be possible to consider that each have their own worlds, spirits and dreams and gods. We are all similar in some ways. They are the local Gods. When we get to the One God, a united force, HE?She?it must include all of them. Our universe includes all the galaxies does it not, past present and future. Genesis is a mixture. It starts with the one god creating a universe, but moves to a local and more relevant level with Adam. Not the first men and women created, but the first ones who are relevant to the readers (ie Middle Eastern persons with that particular culture). We all follow our teams and support by rubbishing all the others, but it is only a game. We must carefully note what name or title is given to each God mentioned in Genesis. El is certainly not Jehovah anymore than Saturn (El's Greek equivalent) is his son Jove - or Jupiter, Ptah, Diouspater Father of the Gods (not all of them though eg Saturn is his father ands Uranaus is his grandfather). With Jove you see Jehovah, Communion wine and power. El is the castrated god, who castrated his father and his symbol is the sickle which did it, the crescent moon. Pan (Greek for 'all') may also be Allah, he is the composite Nature God who is all of them, now considered the Christian Devil with his hooves etc. So the God who does not accept the sacrifice of Cain is just a local god, probably Jove the one who has taken over control here. Uranus is the universal creator god whose name means the heavens. Completely ignored now of course but still out there. Man has fallen a long way but notice how he fights for his own little religion. If you are a follower of the one god, the creator then you would rise above this pettiness. Children squabble in the other room (outside Eden/Ouranos).