Re: Annedoti, Anon (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Lukas Pietsch (lukas.pietsch_at_invalid-uni-hamburg.de)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:04:27 +0100

Jacques Guy wrote:

>>>Annedoti cannot be Greek and Musarus cannot be Greek
>>>either. Those two terms appear only on the Net in
>>>loony fringe sites. There is a long article on Oannes
>>>in my 7-volume Larousse encyclopaedia, but no "Annedoti",
>>>and no "Musarus" in that garb, nor any of the other spellings
>>>that could make it "more Greek" e.g. "Mousarys" and so on.
[...]

> I was curious as to the origin of those bogus Greek
> words. Bogus because not only "Musarus" cannot be
> Greek, but it is given as meaning "abomination",
> and "Annedoti" as "the repulsive ones". In Greek!
> "Abomination", "repulsive", terms typical of the
> Cthulhu Mythos (with "mephitic" IIRC, and that's
> about how not very fresh fish smells, isn't it).
> Anyway, that took me there, a non-loony site:
>
> "http://www.annomundi.co.uk/history/berosus.htm"
>
> where:
>
>
>>[Berosus] wrote his three books, about 290BC, and although
>>they are lost, their contents are known, from the
>>authentic fragments, to have been as follows:
>
>
>> * Book 1: The description of Babylonia, the story
>>of creation and the appearance of a "fish-man" called
>>Oannes, who taught arts and sciences.
>

For what it's worth: The text can be found in TLG, quoted from:
K. Müller, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (FHG) 2. Paris: Didot,
1841‐1870: 496‐510.

It seems to contain a list of mythical kings of Babylonia, and does
mention the appearance of fish-men. The terms and names used are
"mysaròs", "Oánnês", "Annêdôtos", "Ôdákôn"

"φησι φανῆναι τὸν μυσαρὸν (δεύτερον?) Ὠάννην, τὸν Ἀννήδωτον," ...
"Κατὰ τοῦτον πάλιν φησὶ φανῆναι ἐκ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς Ἀννήδωτον τέταρτον τὴν
αὐτὴν τοῖς ἄνω ἔχοντα διάθεσιν καὶ τὴν ἰχθύος πρὸς ἀνθρώπους μίξιν." ...
"φησὶν ἄλλον φανῆναι ἐκ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης ὅμοιον κατὰ τὴν ἰχθύος πρὸς
ἄνθρωπον μίξιν, ᾧ ὄνομα Ὠδάκων" ...

Lukas

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