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Oannes was the name given by the Babylonian writer Berossus in the 3rd century BC to a mythical being who taught mankind wisdom. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Babylon (in Arabic: بابل; in Syriac: ܒܒܙܠ in Hebrew:בבל) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq), the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, about 80km south of Baghdad. ... This article cites its sources but does not provide page references. ... The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. ...

Berossus describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man. He is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf, and rising out of the waters in the daytime and furnishing mankind instruction in writing, the arts and the various sciences. Map of the Persian Gulf. ...

Once thought to be based on the ancient Babylonian god Ea, it is now known that Oannes is in fact based on Uan (Adapa) - the first of the seven antediluvian sages or Abgallu (in Sumerian Ab=water, Gal=Great, Lu=man), who were sent by Ea to deliver the arts of civilization to mankind in ancient Sumerian mythology, at Eridu, the oldest city of Sumer. Enki ( DEN.KI lord of the earth) was a deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu. ... Adapa was an Ancient Sumerian king. ... According to the Bible, the only survivors from the antediluvian period were Noah and his family. ... Abgal, or (Apkallu) is the name of a groups of spirits from Sumerian mythology. ... Sumerian ( native tongue) was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BCE. It was gradually replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language in the beginning of the 2nd millenium BCE, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific... Chaldean mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian mythologies, although Chaldea did not comprehend the whole territory inhabited by those peoples. ... Eridu (or Eridug) was an ancient city seven miles southwest of Ur . ... Sumer (or Å umer) was the earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iran) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC. The term Sumerian applies...

Some scholars suggest the Abgallu were seafarers aboard a ship from the Indus River Valley/Mohenjo Daro civilization^{[citation needed]} that long predates Sumeria and has some identified parallels to the Sumerian knowledge base (like Base-6 mathematics, irrigation systems/water management engineering and mud-brick cities). Traders often organized trading ports in distant places to easily find both markets with goods accumulated and a safe place to resupply/refit their ships (i.e. the Vikings' development of Dublin and Moscow, the Conquistadors in the Americas, Portuguese Macao, Dutch New Amsterdam, British Hong Kong, Spanish Manila). An interesting theory on the fish scale appearance would be some sort of chain mail or sewn discs (wood, metal, bone, seashell?) worn as armor in most cultures. The Indus is a river; the Indus River. ... Mohenjo-daro ( Urdu: موئن جودڑو, Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو English: Mound of the dead) was a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 BC and is located in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. ...

Trivia

In the television show Stargate SG-1, the Oannes were an aquatic alien race who came to earth thousands of years ago to help overthrow the Goa'uld. Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

References

• Jean Bottero, Everyday Life In Ancient Mesopotamia
• Donald A. Mackenzie, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

External links

oannes.com