Myth Likes Story .

1. A Further Christianconnection to Oannes has
been identified in t
which seems to echo this much older,
pagan story of Oannes, the initiator god.
Nightly Oannes would rise from the sea and
teach arts, languageand sciences. Whilst In the
Christian story, it is Jesus who plays the
‘communicatorGod’these two figures,Oannes
and John the Baptist, share not only a name, but
a job description…initiationby water.
(Source, The Wild Hunt).
Clearly the
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Despite the physiologicaland mythological
similarities however, Lovecraft’s cthonic Cthulhu
differs significantlyfrom its inspirational origins
in that the latter is apparently benevolent while
the former is attestedly malevolent.
Although in a Lovecraftian view, the broader
cosmological and psychologicalcontexts of these
perspectives could reveal unknownmotives

2. behind both, was Oannes ‘goodness’to help us
for ourselves or serve other ends, was Cthulhu’s
malevolence‘againstus’, or merely to keep us
away from Alien geometries beyond our mortal
comprehension…