{The Wisdom of the Undine}[26th November 1990]

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‘Berosus’* first book dealt with the beginings of the World and with a myth of a composite being, Oannes, half fish, half man, who came ashore in Babylonia at a time when men still lived like wild beasts. Oannes taught them the essentials of civilisation: writing, the arts, law, agriculture, surveying, and architecture.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 21:908 (‘Iraq’)

*A Babylonian,** born c340bce, writing in Greek, on Cos in the Aegean.

**[Initially misread from the ms as ‘A Baby Ionian’, giving rise to several minutes of puzzled researching]

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