Although the period in which this work was written in Greek is a controversial issue, it is very likely that it was written between 290 and 278 BC. However, the work of Berossus did not reach the present day, and it was Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor (100 - 36 BC) who helped transfer Oannes narrative. (Ercüment Yıldırım)

The culture-myth on which the account of Berossus rests has not yet been found in Babylonian literature, but there are numerous indications in hymns and incantations that confirm the indentification with Ea, and also prove the substantial correctness of the conceptions regarding Oannes-Ea as given by Berossus. (theodora.com)

While on a subsequent archeological expedition to Nineveh in Iraq, George Smith found on May 7, 1873 a portion of a tablet containing the missing part of the flood story, describing the provisioning of the ark: "Into the midst of it thy grain, thy furniture, and thy goods, thy wealth, thy woman servants, thy female slaves...the animals of the field all, I will gather and I will send to thee, and they shall be enclosed in thy door. (Wikipedia)

The dropping of individual lines between others which are preserved, but are not synonymous with them, appears to be a more deliberate editorial act. These lines share a common theme, the hunger and thirst of the gods during the flood. (Wikipedia)

Where are the seven sages of the primeval ocean? The sacred carp who like their master Ea. With sublime wisdom have been endowed?
(From a poem belonging to the Middle Assyrian period 1392-1056 BC)

Later on referred to as Oannes/Hovannes who was known as Haya in Sumerian epic. Armenians still use both names - Hay and Hovannes, Ovannes for example in Russian. In Grabar Hovhannes was with Y- Yovannes. (Ararat - Place Of Creation)

Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. (Proverbs 9:1)

Apkallu reliefs appear prominently in Neo-Assyrian palaces, notably the constructions of Ashurnasirpal II of the 9th century BC. They appear in one of three forms, bird-headed, human-headed or dressed in fish-skin cloaks. (Wikipedia)

In several contexts the Apkallu are seven demigods, sometimes described as part man and part fish or bird, associated with human wisdom; these creatures are often referred to in scholarly literature as the Seven Sages. (Wikipedia)

Many figures of Oannes, resembling that of a Triton, having the upper part of a man and the lower of a fish, or as a man covered with a fish's body, have been found in the sculptures of Kuyunjik and Khorsabad, as well as on many cylinders and gems. (biblicalcyclopedia.com)

Sumerian civilization is depicted by the descendants of the Sumerians themselves to be of non-human origin. (Vicky Verma)

The god Marduk, the sage among gods, offered me as a present vast understanding and profound intelligence. The god Nabu, scribe of the universe, gave me as a gift the precepts of wisdom. The gods Ninurta and Nergal endowed my body with heroic power and physical strength without equal. I studied the art of the sage Adapa, the hidden knowledge of the entire art of the scribe. I know the ominous signs of heaven and earth. I can discuss them in the assembly of scholars. I am able to debate the series “If the liver is the reflection of heaven” with the expert diviners. I can solve the complicated divisions and multiplications that have no solution. I have read complex texts, the Sumerian version of which is encrypted, and the Akkadian version, difficult to clarify. I have examined inscriptions on stone from before the flood, whose meaning is hidden, obscure, and murky. (Ashurbanipal)

Mesopotamian laws mainly consisted a list of potential punishments for crimes which had not been committed yet. In this respect, their main goal was to turn the society into a civilization. (Ercüment Yıldırım)

Another intriguing detail in Oannes narrative is the existence of a law sent by gods. All laws were given kings by gods in Mesopotamian societies. Thus, it is not surprising that Oannes made a law with the order of gods in order to regulate humans' lives. (Ercüment Yıldırım)

Sit down and shut up. (Gov. Chris Christie)

Knowledge in Mesopotamia was given as a favor of god for humans, whereas, in Ancient Greece, Prometheus created humankind to take revenge from Zeus and gave them knowledge for their lives as a society. Therefore, unlike Ancient Greece, the battle of gods was not intervened by humans in Mesopotamia. Nevertheless, knowledge aimed to explain humans how to survive in their daily lives in both societies. Wisdom, on the other hand, reached clergy and kings, who were considered as special people chosen by gods. (Ercüment Yıldırım)

Oannes did not necessarily look like how we might picture a merman. Some artwork shows him to have a human torso and fish tail, but other materials (including carvings) show a human body with arms, legs and feet surrounded by the form of a fish. You could almost say it looked like a giant fish ‘costume.’ (mermaidsofearth.com)

At first they led a somewhat wretched existence and lived without rule after the manner of beasts. But, in the first year after the flood appeared an animal endowed with human reason, named Oannes, who rose from out of the Erythian Sea, at the point where it borders Babylonia. (I.P. Cory, Ancient Fragments)

These beings were described as repulsive and considered an abomination due to their half-man, half-fish appearance. (curioustuff.com)

He had a human voice, and an image of him is preserved unto this day. He passed the day in the midst of men without taking food; he taught them the use of letters, sciences and arts of all kinds. He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. (I.P. Cory, Ancient Fragments)

The head of the fish formed a mitre above that of the man, while it's scaly, fan-like tail fell as a cloak behind, leaving the human limbs and feet exposed. (Austen Henry Layard)

From that time nothing material has been added by way of improvement to his instructions. And when the sun set, this being Oannes, retired again into the sea, for he was amphibious. (I.P. Cory, Ancient Fragments)

Emphatically not-Greek, by nature not-man, Oannes’ animal qualities connect him to the very waters from which we come, powerfully authenticating his authority in a way that is at odds with the clear separation of titanic, primordial forces and Olympian divinity in the traditional (Hesiodic) pantheon. Berossus goes further: his culture hero, whose deeds are described in Greek, is presented as responsible for the sum total of all human culture. All subsequent developments are presented as exegesis on the founder heroic deeds. (Jeremy McInerney)

Unlearn and Re-think EVERYTHING you were taught! (Kathleen Neuen)

One of the Genii of the Egyptian Pantheon appears under a human form, with the head of this fish (Siluris). (Wilkinson)

In his groundbreaking book, The Sirius Mystery, Robert Temple presents convincing arguments for his thesis that the inexplicable understanding of the invisible star Sirius B (and its 50-year orbit) and other astronomical truths by the Dogon people of Mali may have originated from extraterrestrial amphibious beings who imparted their knowledge to the Sumerians and Egyptians, or their predecessors. (starmythworld.com)

Oannes is supposed to have symbolized the conquest of Babylonia by a more civilized nation coming in ships to the mouth of the Euphrates; but he is apparently a water-god, resembling in character the Phoenician Dagon and the Greek Proteus and Triton. (biblicalcyclopedia.com)

And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. (Zephaniah 1:8)

666 is the length of a vesica, whose width is 384, or the sun’s radius measured by the tone. If the Greek numerals from one to ten be arranged so as to correspond to the cabalistic steps and their numerical values computed, we find that EIS 215, DUO, 474. TREIS, 615, yield 1,304, which is one less than the length of a vesica which will contain a circle having a circumference of 2,368, and this triad represents the three steps of the Macrocosm. (William Stirling, The Canonan Exposition of the Pagan Mystery in the Cabala)

The purpose of life is experience, expression and evolution. (Karen Bell)

I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way— a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' (Mark 1-3)

A water-god and a sun-god. (Occidental Mythology)

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." (Mark 1:17)

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. (Luke 2:24-31)

Despite these mythic associations, the scholarly consensus is that both Jesus and John were historical figures. (Lugh Dubthach)

According to Egyptian mythology, when the judges in power found Osiris (originally Nimrod) guilty of corrupting the religion of Adam (“Atum,” who was Egypt’s sky-god), they cut up his body, then threw the parts into the Nile. It was said that a fish ate his reproductive organ and became transformed into Dagon. (Kathleen Neuen)

Enki is just another form of Nimrod, son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "a mighty one on the earth" and "a mighty hunter before God". This is repeated in First Book of Chronicles and the "Land of Nimrod", used as a synonym for Assyria, is mentioned in the Book of Micah. (mysterybabylon-watch)

According to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions refers to Nimrod as one of the founders of Masonry. Thus in the York MS., No. 1, we read: "At ye making of ye toure of Babell there was a Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt called Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons." However, he does not figure in the current rituals. (mysterybabylon-watch)

If we look closely we can see how "masonry conceals her secrets from those not yet ready to receive them" for by reversing the order of the letters we find the name of the Supreme Architect of the Universe. (ks-mason.org/wsb.htm)

In the West, at a later period, we have evidence that the Pagans had detached the fish-head mitre from the body of the fish, and used that mitre alone to adorn the head of the great Mediatorial god; for on several Maltese Pagan coins that god, with the well-known attributes of Osiris, is represented with nothing of the fish save the mitre on his head; very nearly in the same form as the mitre of the Pope, or of a Papal bishop at this day. (Kathleen Neuen)

About the very time when the Bishop of Rome was invested with the pagan title of Pontifex, the Saviour began to be called ICHTHUS, of 'THE FISH', thereby identifying him with DAGON." (Hislop, p. 215)

As the god of transitions and dualities, Janus is portrayed with two faces—one facing the past, and one facing the future. He also holds a key in his right hand, which symbolizes his protection of doors, gates, thresholds, and other separations or openings between spatial boundaries. (Anderson Lock)

According to Cicero and Macrobius, Janus is the twin brother of Jana (Diana). Janus is the Sun while Diana is the Moon. Janus and Diana are equivalent to Apollo and Artemis in Greece. In myths the Sun-god is usually a twin. Consider twins Utu & Innana, Apollo & Artemis, Sol & Mani, Freyr & Freyja. There’s also triplets Helios & Eos & Selene and Amaterasu & Tsukuyomi & Susanoo. The Sun-god’s twin is generally a female and might be associated with either the Dawn or the Moon. (Giuseppe P. Grieco)

Janus represents a de-gendering, one that fits with Rome. The she-wolf suckled two boys. The myth could have been a male and a female and thus been a creation myth, but it isolates Remus and replaces the female with later myths about how the Romans obtained women (like the Sabine women which becomes sobbing women in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers). So the connection to Greek mythology is more in hermaphroditic images and other conceptions where male and female come together, except isolated into the male side because all these myths tell stories from the dominant male perspective. (Jonathan Kurtzman)

That larger story entangles and all we see is one ‘hand’, when you think of hands as sides or views. Perhaps my favorite example is Ariadne and Theseus: she largely disappears from the story, and is disposed of in not nice ways in later versions, but she guides Theseus not only by a thread but by such a deep connection that he gives himself to her complete control so he can act in the moment to highest possible extent he as a man can because nothing less can survive against the Minotaur. But if you entangle them, you share the heroic acts across this mixture, which you can see if you think of Janus as male and female but which disappears if Janus is male. (Jonathan Kurtzman)

Exploring these concepts in terms of gender identity generally: you can see in the ancient conceptions the varieties of attractions and identifications that people have without labeling them abnormal. (Jonathan Kurtzman)

The Temple of Janus in Rome was known for its large, ornate doors called the 'Gates of Janus.' These doors would be open while Rome was at war and would be closed whenever Rome was at peace. This has to do with Janus presiding over beginnings and endings, especially the beginning and end of conflicts. For a leader, it was a significant achievement to say that he was able to close the gates, and Augustus claimed to have done it an unprecedented three times. (Tom McMahon)

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.” (2 Peter 2:21)

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” (John 2:1-5)