What is 'human?'

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi bar-Khale,

Remember how we discussed that the Kyana is an abstract type for "nature?"

Well, in this sense every type of creature has its own Kyana. There is the Kyana of reptiles, another one for fish....for birds, and even angels and humans.

The Kyana can be thought of as the "blueprint." In the human Kyana is contained all the characteristics of being human. All creatures fashioned from this Kyana are similiar in the ways in which humans are similiar (two eyes, stand upright, intellect, etc.)

This is the way that the Aramaic writers have approached the topic in the past.