The twin sister of Cain was the oldest daughter of
Adam and Eve—the first woman to be born naturally. Different traditions give her different names, such as
Aclima,
Kalmana,
Lusia,
Cainan,
Luluwa, or
Âwân. , 1583). 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. In another Muslim tradition, Cain's twin sister was named Lusia, while Aclima was Abel's twin sister. In different sources, this name appears as
Aclimah,
Aclimia,
Aclimiah,
Klimia. In the
Cave of Treasures she is called Qelima. Some sources in the Eastern Orthodox traditions give Cain's twin sister the name
Calmana,
Calmanna,
Azrun, or Luluwa
Azura. Cain's sister is named
Kalmana in the
Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (first Greek redaction) II.1., 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 Historia Scholastica. Comestor's Biblical narrative text then served as the standard textbook for Biblical education for centuries. In an Armenian work republished in 1966, Cain's twin sister was named Cainan. In the 6th-century apocryphal work
Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, Cain's wife and twin is named Luluwa. 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. ==Twin sister of Abel==