The alien Fish men who visited Earth?

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The Times Literary Supplement’s 6000 anniversary issue, March 30, 2018, had a review of a new book by William Poole [Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost, Harvard University Press, 2018].

The reviewer Neil Forsyth notes that Milton, as scholar-poet, used Georgius Syncellus book Chronographia, [circa 809 A.D.] and, before that, John Selden’s De diis Syris for references to the Babylonian creative myths.

Looking up, Syncellus’ work, from Google, which was provided in a Latin version, I sought material about the Babylonian myth referred to.

It turns out that the myth involved “fish men” who were seen as Gods by the Babylonians, a belief that was also a tenet of Mesopotamia and is referred to in the 1966 book Intelligent Life In the Universe by I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan [PB, Page 457 ff.]

(Shklovskii and Sagan intimated, in their book, that Earth was visited by extraterrestrials about 10,000 years ago, in the vicinity of the Middle East.)

Many of you know the story of Oannes (Adapa), the creature (God?) that came from the sea to help the early inhabitants of Babylon and Mesopotamia. (See http://oannes.com/)

You know that I eschew the AA “theory” of ETs visiting the Earth to help (or use) humans in ancient times.

But the idea that divine fish entities appeared on Earth intrigues, as it is so seemingly bizarre, as was the view of early Mediterranean scholars who read/studied the texts of their precursors.

The Fish-men-gods disappeared from religious texts after the cuneiform references noted and have never appeared as disembarked UFO entities in the flying saucer literature, although the Rosales humanoid books contain dozens of mermaid/merman accounts, none associated with UFOs, and all appearing to be misinterpretations of persons or sea creatures.

While the Greeks had Poseidon, their God from the sea, that God was human-like in configuration, not a being with a fish body or fish appurtenances.

My point, if there is one, is that, for some odd reason, the fish-gods seem to have been unique to rather sophisticated early cultures, but why?

That creatures came from the sea, rather than the sky is open to mythological speculation.

And does that early Babylonian/Mesopotamian theological belief have any standing worthy of further scrutiny.

Yes, if one is interested in the mind-set(s) of ancient civilizations, civilizations being the operative word. These aren’t Neolithic cultures, but somewhat refined societies that would seem unlikely to imagine gods coming from the sea.

RR