Oannes

In the pictographic and cuneiform fragments from ancient Sumer, which represent the world's oldest extant examples of writing, the half-man, half-fish is referred to as Oannes, and to Oannes is ascribed many of the deeds and functions that the Hebrews later appropriated for their heroes-Noah, for example-in the Old Testament.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

While in a radically sensitized state (among Africans, the state produced by iboga is referred to as -open-heartedness-) imbibers, singularly or in groups, may have been able to pick up mental transmissions from the extraterrestrial amphibians whom they were to know as Oannes, or Nommo, and who were never to physically travel to our planet.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

Be that as it may, both John "Oannes" McCain and Barack "Blessed" Obama were at Ground Zero for the seventh anniversary of that horrible day.

Red Ice Creations 2008

Berosus tells us, speaking of the ancient days of Chaldea, "In the first year there appeared, from that part of the Erythræan Sea which borders upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, by name Oannes, whose whole body (according to the account of Apollodorus) was that of a fish; that under the fish's head he had another head, with feet also below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

Description: The SG-1 team returns from the planet Oannes in a panic -- and without Dr. Daniel Jackson, who was last seen being consumed by a column of flames.

Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Fire and Water' 2009

There were Anedoti who came after him; but Musarus Oannes was “the first to appear, and this he did in the reign of Ammenon, the third of the ten antediluvian Kings whose (divine) Dynasty ended with Xisuthrus, the Chaldean Noah.”

Think Progress » Defending ‘Tea Party Profiteers,’ Odom Tells Activists ‘We Should Reward Them With Our Pocketbooks’ 2010

There were Anedoti who came after him; but Musarus Oannes was “the first to appear, and this he did in the reign of Ammenon, the third of the ten antediluvian Kings whose (divine) Dynasty ended with Xisuthrus, the Chaldean Noah.”

Think Progress » Defending ‘Tea Party Profiteers,’ Odom Tells Activists ‘We Should Reward Them With Our Pocketbooks’ 2010

Be it known to you, my dear reader, that this same Berosus is the writer who informs us that the fish Oannes came out to the river Euphrates every day, to go and preach to the Chaldæans; and that the same fish wrote with one of its bones a capital book about the origin of things.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The fish Oannes, in former times, came every day out of the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The Sumerian Oannes myth maintains that civilization itself was a gift from beings who hailed from underwater.

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