Something almost odd……
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Two seemingly unrelated bits of information intersected with my brain causing a kind of thought disruption.
A few notes from pals on Facebook concentrated on UFOs entering and exiting waters which is one of the sub-sets of the phenomenon, written about by Ivan Sanderson as far back as 1970 and brought up again by Commander Fravor in the 2004 Tic-Tac sighting.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a29417939/
unidentified-submarine-objects/
An account I neglected to nab from Facebook – now lost to the great maw of that social site – told of some servicemen in the 80s watching four UFOs dipping in and out of a body of water, a scenario more often reported than acknowledged by the UFO crowd.
In my search of material about the primitive existence of God, I came across a linkage between early Israelite God Yahweh and Oannes, a fish-man (god) mentioned in Sumerian records and discussed in Carl Sagan’s and I.S. Shklovskii’s Intelligent Life in the Universe [Dell, 1966]:
“In the first year [of mankind] there made its appearance, from a part of the Persian Gulf which bordered upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who was called Oannes (according to the account of Apollodorus) the whole body of the animal was like that of a fish; and had under a fish’s head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish’s tail. His voice, too, and language was articulate and human …” [Page 457]
The text goes on to describe the interactions of this creature (Oannes) with humans and what the creature provided to enhance human progression.
A few PDFs I gathered from Google Scholar about the beginning of Israelite religion allow that Yahweh had a connection with the Oannes creature (some going further to state that Yahweh and Oannes was one and the same).
In a paper about Dagon and El, El the god from whom Yahweh derives according to some scholars:
“[Dagon] became an important god … [and] In discussing the Babylonian fish-god [H] Schmökel deals only with Oannes, and has failed to consider Berossos’ Odakon, part man and part fish, who rose from the Erythraean Sea, and whose name may be a garbled form of Dagon … For representations of a fish-god (Oannes, i.e., Ea?) with human arms and legs are found on Mesopotamian cylinders and other monuments. [Pages 278/279 of Dagon and El, Joseph Fontenrose, Oriens Volume 10, No.2, December 31, 1957]
[Footnote: For representations of the Babylonian fish-god, see Katharine Shepard, The Fish-Tailed Monster in Greek and Etruscan Art (New York: p.p, Bryn Mawr thesis, 1940]
This tenuous connection brings to mind the possibility [sic] that a water existence was extant at the time of the formation of civilization (per Sagan and Shklovskii) and a fish-man masquerading (or accepted) as a god or God [Septuagint versions of 1 Samuel 5-4] became integral to human societies on the rise in the Mesopotamian regions at the beginning of the Neolithic era.
For this blog – and I hope you forgive me the side-step to my obsession with the God birth – one might consider that UFOs might come from Earth seas, not an extraterrestrial civilization, and that Mac Tonnies’ cryptoterrestrials may not be as obtuse as most of us think.
(The problem for me is how could an underwater advanced form of humankind “manufacture” vehicles of the nature implicit by what we know about UFOs, the processes difficult beyond imagination.)
((And while the idea that God or god came from the sea is less of a barrier to acceptance, it still raises questions that are far from addressed by academia or scholars.))
N.B. Note the “handbag” pictured with Oannes in the cylinder picture above
RR
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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