posted on Apr, 13 2013 @ 08:19 AM
Originally posted by XsweetNspiceyX
In mythology it is believed there is a god of the sky and god of the underworld. In Babylonian mythology it is believed that Oannes came out of the
sea and taught mankind civilization. He went back to the sea(underworld) after promising to return.
Berosus, from whom we know Oannes, had the story wrong. We know this now, while he did not, because we have access to older writings that Berosus
never saw.
Oannes was the Greek word form for the Babylonian name Uanna, or Uan. Berosus wrote in Greek. He was quite recent, compared to the story he tried to
convey.
Uanna was
Adapa, who was
the first of the
mythological Apkallu (Akkadian) or Abgal (Sumerian), the Sumerian conceptual equivalent of the idea of the "Seven Sages" of Ancient Greece.
Adapa was a human being, a fisherman, that missed an opportunity at immortality, but was granted Apkallu status.
The Apkallu are the figures you see bandied about on forums like this, where the ignorant refer to them as "Anunnaki." They are not the Babylonian
Annunaki, nor the Sumerian Anunna.
They are mythological beings that Sumerians believed were the source of their knowledge concerning many things, like agriculture, writing, etc.
They were not fish-man monsters, as Berosus describes Oannes.
In fact, the Abgal myth evolved into that of both the angels and the Jinn (Genies.)
Harte