Oannes

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• Third, there are myths of wise, oracular gods associated with fish and the sea, such as the Sumerian Oannes and the Greek Proteus.

  Academic text (1995)

• The same holds true for the ancient Sumerians, whose legend of Oannes, the bringer of writing and many other inventions, has been cited as an example of possible extraterrestrial intervention.

  Academic text (1992)

• Ah, the Oannes Society.

  Hellboy (2019)

• Oannes was part human, part fish: sometimes portrayed in bas-reliefs as a man with a fish mask hanging over his head and down the whole length of his body, the fish tail near the human feet.

  Academic text (1995)

• In Greek mythology, it is Proteus, whose name means "First Man," who most closely resembles Oannes, Enki, and Vishnu-Matsya.

  Academic text (1995)

• The Proteus story, as well as that of the Sumerian Enki-Oannes, has definite shamanistic and totemic elements.

  Academic text (1995)

• A merman representing the Babylonian water god Oannes was sculpted on an eighth-century B.C. relief at Khorsabad in modern Iraq.

  Academic text (1996)

• In his history, Berossos wrote of the Seven Sages, divine benefactors of mankind, of whom the first was the water god Oannes (Black and Green 1992).

  Academic text (1995)

• 7 3 line 4 the people of Barcelona, the Saillinons, and those of Marseilles; the robber of gold, (Anu) the anvil enclosed in the ball, (Nibiru) the people of On (Oannes) plot -- will be party to the fraud.

  Blog text (11)

• According to ancient texts, Oannes emerged from the sea to teach the Sumerians important skills and knowledge.

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