I can find no authorative version that shows this Tubal Cain as a God like creature cloven hoof or otherwise.
I like to read beyond Freemasonry and KJV.
For example:
"The development of weapons began the downward spiral. This art was blamed on the Fallen Angel Tubal-Cain the Kenite Goat God who in legend taught man how to fashion the first sword from a plow share. "
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/code_matrix/codematrix051-075.htmWe have to be careful about confusion between Cain and Able and Tubal Cain.
Schaff wrote:
The Cainites boasted of the descent from Cain the fratricide, and made him their leader. They regarded the God of the Jews and Creator of the world as a positively evil being, whom to resist is virtue. Hence they turned the history of salvation upside down, and honored all the infamous characters of the Old and New Testaments from Cain to Judas as spiritual men and martyrs to truth.
OK again there is or can be an adoption of a name for legend purposes.
The Descendants of Cain
17Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 18To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech. 19Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe. 22Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
Well , this is belief and will travel depending on who and when. We remember from Exodus the curfuffle about Golden Ox. So no one is saying there is only one answer to one question. But we are here refering the the Tubal Cain as depicted by Freemasonry not the Cananites of 2,000 BC. You can not just dip into the writings of bygone days to prove a point that is not relevant to what is happening today.
It seems to be in the words of Manley Hall this view of TB begins.
He must follow in the footsteps of his
forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god
hammered his sword into a plowshare. Incessant vigilance over
thought, action, and desire is indispensable to those who wish to
make progress in the unfolding of their own being, and the Fellow
And in 'Freemasonic Symbolism' the only reference is
The Third Brother [Tubal-cain] found out Smith's craft to work Iron and steel, and their sister Naamah found out the art of Weaving. These children did know thatt God would take Vengeance for Sinne, either by fire or water, wherefor they wrote these Sciences which they had found in Two Pillars of stone, thatt they might be found after the Flood. The one stone was called Marbell--cannott burn with Fire, and the other was called Laturus [brass?], thatt cannott drown in the Water." The author of this Constitution there upon declares that one of these pillars was later discovered by Hermes, who communicated to mankind the secrets thereon inscribed.
Here is the general view of the Masonic Symbol refered to as tubal Cain
From the NSW Freemason Dec. 1992 (Australia)
The Art of Tubal-cain
Masonry and Metallurgy
We, as Masons, know Tubal-cain is depicted as a
blacksmith. We do not know when he lived, but
probably in the days when primitive man used tools
of stone or flint to work naturally-occurring
pieces of gold, silver, copper and meteoric iron
into weapons, tools and ornaments for use in war or
peace. At some stage, man utilized fire to
liberate metals from their ores, and there came
that magic moment, some thousands of years ago in
Mesopotamia, when copper ores bearing tin were
smelted; this first alloying of metals launched
the Bronze Age, a great step forward in this
ascent of man. This early metallurgy promoted the
first explosion in international trade, as bronze
coinage formed a novel means of exchange, and
the cradle of civilization in the Eastern
Mediterranean area thus spread to Europe.
There is a definite metallic streak running
through our Masonry. We were divested of money and
metallic substances even before we entered the
Lodge. In the Sectional Lectures, there is a
strong allusion to extractive metallurgy with the
mention of chalk, charcoal and clay as the emblems
of freedom, fervency and zeal. Clay is our 'Mother
Earth', providing both the metals and the
refractories to contain them at high temperatures;
from charcoal, we derive the heat energy to smelt
and refine them; and from chalk, the flux to alloy
with the gangue and separate it from the ore.
What of metals today? My career as a
metallurgist has embraced the casting, working and
fabrication of metals. and today's readers may be
interested in a short description of the five
principal methods of shaping metals.
1. Casting involves making a mould, a cavity
of the shape required, in a plastic material,
usually sand, and filling it with liquid molten
metal; it constitutes the foundry industry,
2, Working includes forging, rolling,
extrusion, rod and wire drawing, and
pressing in many ways. Both casting and
forging to shape date from the days of
Tubal-cain.
3. Machining is only about 200 years old;
generally, it includes turning, boring, milling,
shaping and grinding, and is a finishing process
for work-pieces first cast or wrought to a rough
shape.
4. Fabricating by assembly and joining, such as
bolting and riveting (the Sydney Harbour Bridge
is a good example), welding and brazing, and
soldering.
5. Powder Metallurgy is a spectacular
development of the last 50 years, and involves the
compacting of metal powders in a die, followed by
sintering at a high temperature to crystallize
them into union; many parts can be produced by
mass production methods, ready for use without
machining.
If Tubal-cain were the first artificer in
metals, his disciples today are known as tool
engineers, who provide the expertise to design and
devise the machines, methods and tools to be used.
It is not surprising that nearly all the Working
Tools presented to us in our Craft Degrees are
essential tools in the fabrication of metals; one
cannot imagine a tool engineer without the benefit
of the pencil and the rule, and the square and the
compasses.
Metals run like shining threads through the
whole tapestry of human history; besides the
invention of coin age, they have played a critical
role in the invention of printing, the harnessing
of steam and the internal combustion engine, the
discovery and use of electricity, the achievement
of powered flight, and the advent of nuclear
energy.
The art of Tubal-cain, now called metallurgy, is
unfolding the secrets of nature and science. The
GAOTU provided the materials in the firmament, and
man's inspired fashioning of them by tools, is, I
hope, stamping our work divine.