Oannes - He Who Emerged From The Sea

Beneath the waves of the ocean Giver of wisdom slumbered An animal endowed with human reason Now rising from the abyss One of the seven Apkallu Oannes He who emerged from the sea He bore the weight of waters Yet surfaced to greet the first rays of the dawn And hidden within His flesh and deeds To unlock the Arcana He had a key To architecture and literacy science, laws, math and masonry Oannes, at sundown he was gone For he was amphibian one One of the seven Apkallu Oannes He who emerged from the sea