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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Oannes

The Chaldean sea-god. It had a fish's head and body, and also a human head; a fish's tail, and also feet under the tail and fish's head. In the day-time he lived with men to instruct them in the arts and sciences, but at night retired to the ocean. Anedotes or Idotion was a similar deity, so was the Dagon [dag-On, fish On] of the Philistines.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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