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r the north-south antithesis see fabre d'olivet's "hermeneutic interpretation of the origin of the social state in man. note "sax" also as a rock, or stone, whence the symbol of the cubical stone, the mountain abiegnus, and so forth. nu is also reflected in naus, ship, etc, and that whole symbolism of hollow space which is familiar to all. there is also a question of identifying nu with on, noah, oannes, jonah, john, dianus, diana, and so on. but these identifications are all partial only, different facets of the diamond truth. we may neglect all these questions, and remain in the simplicity of this her own book. al i,2 "the unveiling of the company of heaven" the old comment 2. this book is a new revelation, or unveiling of the hold ones. the new comment this explains the general theme of

of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, oannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon the earth, were originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuith and hadith, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for lvoe's sake, for the

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ods imprisoned or incarnated" these gods were: the god zi; the god ziku (noble life, director of purity; the god mirku (noble crown "saviour from death of the gods (later on) imprisoned, and the creator of "the dark race which his hand has made" the god libzu "wise among the gods; the god nissi. and the god suhhab; and hea or sa, their synthesis, the god of wisdom and of the deep, identified with oannes-dagon, at the time of the fall, and called (collectively) the demiurge, or creator (see chaldean account genesis, p. 82) there are two "creations" so called, in the babylonian fragments, and genesis having adhered to this, one finds its first two chapters distinguished as the elohite and the jehovite creations. their proper order, however, is not preserved in these or in any other exoteric

on the cuneiform inscriptions, and elsewhere, show two distinct creations of animals and men, the first being destroyed, as it was a failure. the cosmogonical tablets prove that this our actual creation was preceded by others (see "hibbert lectures" p. 390; and as shown by the author of "the qabbalah" in the zohar, siphrah dzeniouta, in jovah rabbah, 128a, etc, etc. the kabala states the same (b) oannes (or dagon, the chaldean "man-fish) divides his cosmogony and genesis into two portions. first the abyss of waters and darkness, wherein resided most hideous beings- men with wings, four and two-faced men, human beings with two heads, with the legs and horns of a goat (our "goat-men* hippocentaurs, bulls with the heads of men, and dogs with tails of fishes. in short, combinations of various

earths; in which case chaos and the great deep stand for the "flood" and the moon for the "mother" from whom proceed all the life-germs* but the terrestrial deluge and[[footnote(s* we must remember that at the head of all the babylonian gods were ea, anu, and the primeval bel; and that ea, the first, was the god of wisdom, the great "god of light" and of the deep, and that he was identified with oannes, or the biblical dagon- the man-fish who rose out of the persian gulf* see part. ii "the holy of holies* it is far later on that the moon became a male god; with the hindus it was soma, with the chaldeans nannak or nannar, and sin, the son of mulil, the older bel. the "akkadians" called him the "lord of ghosts; and he was the god of nipoor (niffer) in northern babylonia. it is mulil who cau

rding to professor huxley's exposition. we may believe the man (of the third round) evolved 'by gradual modification of an (astral) mammal of ape-like organization' still easier when we remember that (though in a more condensed and less elegant, but still as comprehensible, phraseology) the same theory was said by berosus to have been taught many thousands of years before his time by the man-fish oannes or dagon, the semi-demon of babylonia (though on somewhat modified lines "but what lies back of the darwinian line of descent? so far as he is concerned nothing but 'unverifiable hypotheses' for, as he puts it, he views all beings 'as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the silurian system was deposited* he does not attempt to show us who these

of vishnu (spirit) with a daitya, as men, may seem meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates of rama and krishna but even to a certain psychological mystery[[vol. 2, page] 226 the secret doctrine. lecture (1887) professor sayce of oxford, speaking of newly-discovered assyrian and babylonian cylinders, referred at length to ea, the god of wisdom, now identified with the oannes, of berosus, the half-man, half-fish, who taught the babylonians culture and the art of writing. this oannes, to whom, thanks only to the biblical deluge, an antiquity of hardly 1,500 b.c. had been hitherto allowed, is now spoken of in these terms "his city was eridu, which stood 6,000 years ago on the shores of the persian gulf. the name means 'the good city' a particularly holy spot, sinc

nds are six- if ormazd, their chief and logos, is excluded. but in the secret doctrine he is the seventh and highest, just as phtah is the seventh kabir among the kabiri[[vol. 2, page] 366 the secret doctrine. ten and seven sephiroth, etc, etc. one and all have been derived from the primitive dhyan-chohans of the esoteric doctrine, or the "builders" of the stanzas (book i. from manu, thot-hermes, oannes-dagon, and edris-enoch, down to plato and panadores, all tell us of seven divine dynasties, of seven lemurian, and seven atlantean divisions of the earth; of the seven primitive and dual gods who descend from their celestial abode* and reign on earth, teaching mankind astronomy, architecture, and all the other sciences that have come down to us. these beings appear first as "gods" and creat

tion of nara, the "spirit of god" or rather paramatman, the "supreme soul" says kulluka bhatta, narayana, meaning "he who abides in the deep" or plunged in the waters of wisdom "water being the body of nara (vayu. hence arises the statement that for 10,000 years they remained in austerity "in the vast ocean; and are shown emerging from it. ea, the god of wisdom, is the "sublime fish" and dagon or oannes is the chaldean man-fish, who emerges from the waters to teach wisdom[[vol. 2, page] 496 the secret doctrine. lower descends into, and listens to the voice of its animal soul full of selfish and sensual desires; and herein is contained the mystery of an adept's as of a profane man's life, as also that of the post-mortem separation of the divine from the animal man. the ramayana- every line

ed the present great desolate desert, left only a certain oasis, with a lake and one island in the midst of it, as a relic of the zodiacal ring on earth. for ages the watery abyss- which, with the nations that preceded the later babylonians, was the abode of the "great mother (the terrestrial post-type of the "great mother chaos" in heaven, the parent of ea (wisdom, himself the early prototype of oannes, the man-fish of the babylonians- for ages, then, the "abyss" or chaos was the abode of wisdom and not of evil. the struggle of bel and then of merodach, the sun-god, with tiamat, the sea and its dragon, a "war" which ended in the defeat of the latter, has a purely cosmic and geological meaning, as well as an historical one. it is a page torn out of the history of the secret and sacred scie

aughter of the ocean, so was amphitrite the mother of neptune's mystic "ministers" now the reader is reminded that these "five ministers" are symbolized both in the dolphin, who had overcome the chaste amphitrite's unwillingness to wed poseidon, and in triton their son. the latter, whose body above the waist is that of a man and below a dolphin, a fish, is, again, most mysteriously connected with oannes, the babylonian dag, and further also with the (fish) avatar of vishnu, matsya, both teaching mortals wisdom. the dolphin, as every mythologist knows, was placed for his service by poseidon among the constellations, and became with the greeks, capricornus, the goat, whose hind part is that of a dolphin, thus shown identical with makara, whose head is also that of an antelope and the body an

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themselves, adapt themselves to that condition and form ferments, which, by absorbing oxygen from substances coming in contact with them, ruin the latter. thus the process is commenced by one cell robbing its neighbour of the source of its vitality when the supply is insufficient; and the ruin so commenced steadily progresses[[vol. 1, page] 264 the secret doctrine. avatar of vishnu, the chaldean oannes- the man-fish, recorded in the imperishable sign of the zodiac, pisces, and running throughout the two testaments in the personages of joshua "son of the fish (nun" and jesus; the allegorical "sin" or fall of spirit into matter, and the moon- in so far as it relates to the "lunar" ancestors, the pitris. for the present it may be as well to remind the reader that while the moon-goddesses wer

s, falls during the hours of night, when the atmosphere is impregnated with humidity; and in the northern mythologies, as the passive principle of creation, it typifies the[[vol. 1, page] 345 the birth of mind. creation of the universe out of water; this dew is the astral light in one of its combinations, and possesses creative as well as destructive properties. in the chaldean legend of berosus, oannes or dagon, the man-fish, instructing the people, shows the infant world created out of water, and all beings originating from this prima materia. moses teaches that only earth and water can bring a living soul: and we read in the scriptures that herbs could not grow until the eternal caused it to rain upon earth. in the mexican popol-vuh, man is created out of mud or clay (terre glaise, take

s to walk and carry such a heavy load' he answered 'the letter[[diagram (yod, which= 10, and is the symbolical letter of kether and the essence and germ of the holy name[[diagram] yhvh. they said to him 'if thou wilt tell us the name of thy father, we will kiss the dust of thy feet' he replied 'as to my father, he had his dwelling in the great sea, and was a fish therein (like vishnu and dagon or oannes 'which (first) destroyed the great sea. and he was great and mighty and 'ancient of days' until he swallowed all the other fishes in the (great) sea. r. el'azar listened and said to him 'thou art the son of the holy flame, thou art the son of rab ham 'nun-ah sabah [the old: the fish in aramaic or chaldee is nun (noon] thou art the son of the light of the thorah (dharma) etc. then the author

'sign from heaven' jesus said 'there shall no sign be given but the sign of jonas (mat. xvi. 4. the sign of jonas is that of the oan or fishman of nineveh. assuredly there was no other sign than that of the sun reborn in pisces. the[[vol. 1, page] 654 the secret doctrine. voice of the secret wisdom says those who are looking for signs can have no other than that of the returning fish-man ichthys, oannes, or jonas- who could not be made flesh" it would appear that kepler maintained it as a positive fact that, at the moment of the "incarnation" all the planets were in conjunction in the sign of pisces, called by the jews (the kabalists) the "constellation of the messiah "it is in this constellation" he averred "that was placed the star of the magi" this statement, quoted by dr. sepp (vie de

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of life. they were "the immortals" and returned to "the gods" in a ship, taking with them examples of the earth's fauna. interestingly, the dogon call sirius "the land of the fish" and "the pure earth, and the day the nommo landed on our earth is known as the "day of the fish".31 the babylonian priest berossus wrote that the origin of humans in babylonian belief could be traced to the "fish god" oannes, who was known as dagon to the philistines. what they said about oannes, the sumerians said about "enki, one of the key leaders of their reptilian anunnaki. enki was symbolised as closely connected with water and it was said that he rode in a ship that could go under the water or fly in the sky. he was described as a giant who had scales like a fish or reptile. in the babylonian legend, oan

eason for the obsessive interbreeding of the ruling families over thousands of years. the sumerian texts call these anunnaki "royal" bloodlines the ab-gal, the "masters of knowledge" and the "seven elders, and they apparently go back to ten priest-kings before the deluge. atlantis and lemuria in other words. they were depicted with fish-like bodies, as was enki himself under another of his names, oannes. the fish symbolises the amphibious nature of the gods and that is right in line with the apparently amphibious extraterrestrials from sirius. these "royal" bloodlines have worked to maintain their anunnaki genetics through interbreeding and others have continued to be seeded for this purpose ever since, hence the stories of humans forced to have sex with, or being artificially impregnated

ks settled and this region has long been connected to the bloodlines and their interbreeding. from the time of their king called meroveus or merovee, who became guardian of the franks in 488, they became known as the merovingians. legend says that merovee was the offspring of a human mother and a sea creature called quinotaur, who sounds very much like the reptilian anunnaki known as enki, ea, or oannes, the "fish god. merovee, who was brought up by chodio, the first king of the franks, was known as the "son of the sea" and this is the symbolic foundation of the merovingian bloodline so crucial to the illuminati. the merovingians founded the city of paris in the sixth century, which they named after prince paris, the son of king priam of troy. prince paris was one of the figures in the tro

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of a man. this wasinherited from the babylonians when the brotherhood expanded across europe. indeedit may well be that the reptilians had once based themselves in what is now the unitedkingdom and ireland before they moved their main focus to the near east and africa.the feast of tammuz was on june 23rd and celebrated his ascension from theunderworld. when he was resurrected, tammuz was known as oannes, the fish god,and oannes is a version of the name, john.14 for this reason, john has been used as asymbol for tammuz-nimrod in symbolic characters like john the baptist. june 23rd, thefeast of tammuz, became the christian day called st johns eve! the nimrod-semiramis combination has been depicted under countless names in the civilisationsand cultures which have followed. these deities throu

dly from its obscure beginningsamong the templars and other mystery initiates. the grand lodge of england- thecentre of the network- was officially formed on june 24th 1717. this is st john thebaptists day, a sacred day for the knights templar and an obvious connection to theknights of st john of jerusalem (malta. john the baptist is the patron saint of boththe freemasons and the templars because oannes was another form of john inbabylon and oannes was a another name for nimrod. the irish grand lodge followedsome six or seven years later. most of the field lodges which emerged among theregiments in the british army were warranted by the irish and not the english grandlodge. the scottish clans introduced freemasonry to their blood brethren in franceand i should mention one man in this regar

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h constantly near him, she cannot speak. when the prince marries a human princess, the mermaid s heart is broken. there is a similar haunting pathos in matthew arnold s poem the forsaken merman. in curious myths of the middle ages (1884) folklorist s. baring- gould suggests that mermaid and merman stories originated from the half-fish half-human gods and goddesses of early religions. the chaldean oannes and the philistine dagon are typical deities of this kind, and a representation of oannes with a human body down to the waist and a fish tail has been found on sculpture at khorsabad. such goddesses as derceto (atergatis) and semiramis have been represented in mermaid form. the classic venus, goddess of love, was born out of the sea foam, it is told, and was propitiated by barren couples wh

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matter. it was very ancient and spoke of gods of the lake, with fish tails, called chullua and umantua .9 in this, and in the fish-garbed figures, it seemed that there was a curious out-of-place echo of mesopotamian myths, which spoke strangely, and at length, about amphibious beings, endowed with reason who had visited the land of sumer in remote prehistory. the leader of these beings was named oannes (or uan).10 according to the chaldean scribe, berosus: the whole body of [oannes] was like that of a fish; and had under a fish s head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish s tail. his voice too, and language, was articulate and human; and a representation of him is preserved even to this day. when the sun set, it was the custom of this being to

s head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish s tail. his voice too, and language, was articulate and human; and a representation of him is preserved even to this day. when the sun set, it was the custom of this being to plunge again into the sea, and abide all night in the deep; for he was amphibious.11 according to the traditions reported by berosus, oannes was, above all, a civilizer: in the day-time he used to converse with men; but took no food at that season; 8 ibid, i, p. 119. 9 ibid, ii, p. 183. 10 myths from mesopotamia (trans, and ed. stephanie dalley, oxford university press, 1990, p. 326. 11 fragments of berossus, from alexander polyhistor, reprinted as appendix 2 in robert k. g. temple, the sirius mystery, destiny books, rochester

le laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. he made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect fruits; in short, he instructed them in every thing which could tend to soften manners and to humanise mankind. from that time, so universal were his instructions, nothing has been added materially by way of improvement..12 surviving images of the oannes creatures i had seen on babylonian and assyrian reliefs clearly portrayed fish-garbed men. fish-scales formed the dominant motif on their garments, just as they did on those worn by el fraile. another similarity was that the babylonian figures held unidentified objects in both their hands. if my memory served me right (and i later confirmed that it did) these objects were by no means identi

nkfort, kingship and the gods, university of chicago press, 1978, p. 134. the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, e. g. utts. 20, 21. 22 robert bauval and adrian gilbert, the orion mystery, wm. heinemann, london, 1994, pp. 208-10, 270. 23 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, pp. 40, 177. 24 maya history and religion, p. 175. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 147 take the case of oannes, for example. oannes is the greek rendering of the sumerian uan, the name of the amphibious being, described in part ii, believed to have brought the arts and skills of civilization to mesopotamia.25 legends dating back at least 5000 years relate that uan lived under the sea, emerging from the waters of the persian gulf every morning to civilize and tutor mankind.26 is it a coincidence that

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of life and death for civilization. that other, irregular events were noted as well can be defined as the beginning of ufology. no doubt to some extent we can explain such events in terms of comets and supernov. however, these celestial occurrences leave unexplained such events as the mythos surrounding the star sirius and the knowledge of its dark star neighbor, or semi-aquatic beings called the oannes (oannes were considered visitors from the sirius region who taught on earth and left behind a divine mythos and a priesthood awaiting their return. they are known to the sumerians and their babylonian successors, and to the egyptians, and held as legends to the present day by remote african tribal priesthoods) nor do comets and supernov explain the ascent of elijah alive into heaven, nor th

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says the sacred book "who taught men, aft the diluvi- um, all that was necessary for their hippinesa "one day he plunged into the water and returned no more, for the earth had covered itself again with vegetation, fruit, and cattle "but he had taught the brahmanas the secret of all things (bari- put&na. so far, we see in this narrative the double of the story ^ven by the babylonian berosus about oannes, the fish-man, who is no other than ^sluiu unless, indeed, we have to believe that it was chaldaea which civilized india! we say again, we desire to give nothing on our sole authority. there- fore we cite jacolliot who, however criticized and contradicted on other points, and however loose he may be in the matter of chronology (though even in this he is nearer right than those scientists wh

e authority. there- fore we cite jacolliot who, however criticized and contradicted on other points, and however loose he may be in the matter of chronology (though even in this he is nearer right than those scientists who would have au hindfi books written since the council of nice, at least cannot be denied the reputation of a good sanskrit scholar. and he says, while analysing the word oan, or oannes, that in sanskrit is an interjection expressing an invocation, as o svayambhfi! o grod! etc; and ana is a radical, signifying in sanskrit a spirit, a being, and we presume what the greeks meant by the word dainum, a semi-god "what an extraordinary antiquity" he remarks "this fable of vishnu, disguised as a fish, gives to ibe sacred books of the hindfls; especially in presence of the fact th

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ur love [a chime of bells without. astarte. i.ll tire my hair. the banquet waits. girls, follow me [they go out, leaving esarhaddon. esarhaddon. how fair and full she sweeps, the buoyant barge upon the gilded curves of tigris. she fs the swan that drew the gods to gaze, the fawn that called their passion to his glades of emerald, the maid that maddened mithras, the quick quiver of reeds that drew oannes from the river. she is gone. the garden is a wilderness. oh for the banquet of the lioness, the rich astounding wines, the kindling meats, the music and the dancers! fiery seats of empire of the archangels, let your wings ramp through the empyrean! lords and kings of the gods, descend and serve us, as we spurn and trample life, fill death fs sardonyx urn with loves immortal.how shall i endu

at explains the tongue. now let me listen! liber cccxxxv 20 sound in heart and lung (and i should think so .twas a sage that sung .whom the gods love, love lobsters; they die young. and yet greater sage sublimely said .look not upon the lobster when it fs red. esarhaddon. a babylonish bard has said the same of wine. hermes. ah, wine now? out with it! die game! esarhaddon. by fin and tail of great oannes, i am the mere model of sobriety. hermes. what did you drink for dinner? esarhaddon. scarce a drop at any time.four flagons, there i stop. with just a flask of barley-wine to top. hermes. just so becomes a nobleman of sense whose moderation errs toward abstinence. esarhaddon. abstinence! that.s the word i couldn.t think of! i.m an abstainer. everything i drink of is consecrated by a melanch

bed to sleep upon, saw the crowd of cringing knaves that have made their masters slaves, saw astarte.diagnosed what had made him see a ghost! psyche. can you cure him? hermes. in my hurry (and a not unnatural worry at the name of lobster curry) adonis 25 i so far forgot my duty as to mention to the beauty what. well! here.s the long and short of it! just exactly what i thought of it. tempests, by oannes. fin! psyche. sorry that he.d called you in? hermes. so much so that i.d a doubt if he wouldn ft call me out! psyche. then he will not hear your counsel? hermes. no; i bade him live on groundsel; but the little social friction interfered with the prescription. psyche. there fs no hope, then? hermes. lend an ear! we may rule him by his fear! somehow we may yet contrive that he see the king

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d feather went forth, carrying the keys of universal wisdom to the uttermost parts of the earth. the mythologies of many nations contain accounts of gods who "came out of the sea" certain shamans among the american indians tell of holy men dressed in birds' feathers and wampum who rose out of the blue waters and instructed them in the arts and crafts. among the legends of the chaldeans is that of oannes, a partly amphibious creature who came out of the sea and taught the savage peoples along the shore to read and write, till the soil, cultivate herbs for healing, study the stars, establish rational forms of government, and become conversant with the sacred mysteries. among the mayas, quetzalcoatl, the savior-god (whom some christian scholars believe to have been st. thomas, issued from the

enlarge the first incarnation, or matsya avatar, of vishnu. from picart's religious ceremonials. the fish has often been associated with the world saviors. vishnu, the hindu redeemer, who takes upon himself ten forms for the redemption of the universe, was expelled from the mouth of a fish in his first incarnation. isis, while nursing the infant horus, is often shown with a fish on her headdress. oannes, the chaldean savior (borrowed from the brahmins, is depicted with the head and body of a fish, from which his human form protrudes at various points. jesus was often symbolized by a fish. he told his disciples that they should became "fishers of men" the sign of the fish was also the first monogram of the christians. the mysterious greek name of jesus, icqus, means "a fish" the fish was ac

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stial body in the direction of constellation orion, which possibly is as big as thegigantic jupiter and perhaps so close to the earth that it could belong to our solar systemwhen irasresearchers saw the mysterious celestial body and calculated that it was possibly eighty billion kilome-ters away from earth, they speculated that it is moving towards earth (p. 95)quetzalcoatlhe whose home is water .oannes (the original fisher king)in africa, known as the king of the dogons. the name means the dove. from oannes we derivejoannes or john, the same as the author of revelation, or worshipped by the knights templar. john wascalled the baptizer and connected to water and to the dove also.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation253 appendix b: book abstracts oannes was said to have a rem

e name means the dove. from oannes we derivejoannes or john, the same as the author of revelation, or worshipped by the knights templar. john wascalled the baptizer and connected to water and to the dove also.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation253 appendix b: book abstracts oannes was said to have a removable fish-skin, probably a wet-suit of some kind, and to live under theocean.oannes is similar to the philistine dagon, who like osiris, brought the secrets of agricultural science,etc. in celtic myth there is the dagda, the great or all-father of the gaels.oannes is closely linked with enki and osiris.homo erectus and sapiensmodern science now believes homo erectus evolved from the apes about six million years ago. thiscreature spent most of the next six million years spi

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to life by locating and recombining his scattered parts with sorcery. she failed to find the phallus (penis) of osiris, however, and was forced to substitute one made of gold. after this, osiris would not live long and was soon dead once more, but it is said that he periodically reappears among humans. the ancient mesopotamians, in present-day iraq, have a civilizer of their own whom they called oannes. this being was amphibious, but spoke human languages with ease. oannes would emerge out of the water, teaching and giving instruction to humans. he taught people writing, the sciences, the arts, architecture, and agriculture. he is often depicted as a man with the scales of a fish. and lets not forget lone man, the savior figure of the mandan people. lone man, like jesus, was born of a vir

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of the alluvial plains in their neighborhood who adored the dragon or fish, should themselves be symbolized under the form of dragons; and overcome by the superior might of the hebrew god, as monstrous leviathans maimed and destroyed by him. ophioneus, in the old greek theology, warred against kronos, and was overcome and cast into his proper element, the sea. there he is installed as the sea-god oannes or dragon, the leviathan of the watery, half of creation, the dragon who vomited a flood of water after the persecuted woman of the apocalypse, the monster who threatened to devour hesione and andromeda, and who for a time became the grave of hercules and jonah; and he corresponds with the obscure name of _rahab, whom jehovah is said in job to have transfixed and overcome. in the spring, th

europa mounted on the bull; but in the opposite half of the zodiac he rides the emblem of the waters, the winged horse of nestor or poseidon: and the serpent, rising heliacally at the autumnal equinox, besetting with poisonous influence the cold constellation sagittarius, is explained as the reptile in the path who "bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward" the same serpent, the oannes aphrenos or musaros of syncellus, was the midgard serpent which odin sunk beneath the sea, but which grew to such a size as to encircle the whole earth. for these asiatic symbols of the contest of the sun-god with the dragon of darkness and winter were imported not only into the zodiac, but into the more homely circle of european legend; and both thor and odin fight with dragons, as apollo

y or real theocracy which governed the early world; and the men of the golden age, whose looks held commerce with the skies, and who watched the radiant rulers bringing winter and summer to mortals, might be said with poetic truth to live in immediate communication with heaven, and, like the hebrew patriarchs, to see god face to face. then the gods introduced their own worship among mankind: then oannes, oe or aquarius rose from the red sea to impart science to the babylonians; then the bright bull legislated for india and crete; and the lights of heaven, personified as liber and ceres, hung the b otian hills with vineyards, and gave the golden sheaf to eleusis. the children of men were, in a sense, allied or married, to those sons of god who sang the jubilee of creation; and the encirclin

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n hand soon became linked with the symbol for deity, thus communicating star god. michanowsky saw the deathblaze of vela x to have been such a dramatic sky show that it became a profound cultural organizing principle that forced human knowledge to take a giant leap forward. but was there something more that took place at that time? the babylonian priest-historian berossus chronicled the coming of oannes, an entity described as being half-man, half-fish, who surfaced from the persian gulf to instruct the early inhabitants of mesopotamia in the arts of civilization. before the advent of oannes, berossus stated, the sumerians lived like beasts in the field, with no order or rule. the sumerians lived exactly as their primitive forefathers had existed until oannes, the bizarre beast with reason

ts of civilization. before the advent of oannes, berossus stated, the sumerians lived like beasts in the field, with no order or rule. the sumerians lived exactly as their primitive forefathers had existed until oannes, the bizarre beast with reason appeared in their midst. the gifted alien entity was endowed with superior intelligence, it is written, but its appearance was frightening to behold. oannes had the body of a fish with humanlike feet and a head that combined the features of fish and human. berossus explained that the fishman walked about on land during the day, counsel- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 248 invaders from outer space petroglyph allegedly identified as an astronaut (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) so

ring the day, counsel- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 248 invaders from outer space petroglyph allegedly identified as an astronaut (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) some ufologists believed humankind s gods, angels, devils, and demons were nothing more than alien visitors. ing the sumerians, but returned to the ocean each evening. oannes gave the sumerians insight into letters and sciences and every kind of art. he taught them to construct houses, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. he made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect fruits. in short, he instructed them in everything that could tend to soften their manners and humanize

that copernicus and kepler postulated only 500 years ago. at the height of the greek civilization, the highest known number was 10,000. after that sum, the greek mathematicians could only fall back on infinity. a tablet found in the hills near ancient sumer some years back contained a 15-digit number:195,955,200,000,000. many ancient cultures have legends of amphibians or serpent people who, like oannes, the half-human, half-fish, instructed the early inhabitants of mesopotamia in the arts of civilization. there was quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of the aztecs, who descended from heaven in a silver egg, and there are the nagas, the handsome, semidivine serpent people with supernatural powers who figure in the hindu and buddhist traditions. throughout the dim corridors of history, ther

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ked into a pledge of secrecy. i ask you, brother master magician, if you clearly understand, and heartily agree, these principles? c (with sign) i do. e: it now becomes my duty to inform you that the ceremony through which you have just passed, is in every essential the lesser or infernal rite of the slain god, whose name is john, or some sound similar, as jonah, dionysus, janus, dianus, nu, anu, oannes, on, noah, and many others. this god of water is of the north, because the sun touches his northern limit as he enters the watery sign cancer, and turns towards the south, represented by the goat-gods, set, had, hades, adad, odin, adonis, adonii, atys, etc, who are of the earthly sign capricornus, the southern limit of the sun s journey. as the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign o

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