"Hiero of Syracuse built, under the superintendence of Archimedes, a vessel which consumed in its construction the material for fifty galleys; it contained galleries, gardens, stables, fish-ponds, mills, baths, a temple of Venus, and an engine to throw stones three hundred pounds in weight, and arrows thirty-six feet long.
We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the Melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic." The Egyptians also cultivated wheat, barley, oats, flax, hemp, etc.
like the sons of the fishes fill the sea.'118.
From this sea, Oannes the fish god is supposed to have arisen, and the composite monsters who followed him in the antediluvian period came from the same region.
Neither will we, now, nor forever, eat fish nor flesh of any creature You didst create alive.
Man said: I imagine a horse with a fish's head and fins.
But if you wilt be ferocious, like a carnivorous beast, then you should feed upon flesh and fish, and your*** blood should be hot, and your*** spirit should be stirred with passion and anger and contention and tattling and war and jealousy and love of vengeance.
Because you can not feed on fish nor flesh but through destruction unto death, even so, destruction unto death should come upon your*** soul.
Woman said: Behold, I kill not any lamb, nor bird, nor fish.
And man should understand, that, even as plants and trees and fish and serpents can be wielded by My angels, so also can virus and pestilence be carried by angels of darkness to cast mortals in death.
And to all men that feed on fish or flesh, suffer you vampires to inhabit them.
They should not eat fish nor flesh of any creature that breathed the breath of life.
But, straightway, he feast''' on fish and flesh.
During which time, none of his forefathers ate fish or flesh, or of anything that breathed the breath of life.
You**** should not eat the flesh of any creature that breathed the breath of life; nor of fish that lived in the water nor under the water.
But in marriage, they were monogamic; neither would they have more than one suit of clothes each; and they lived on fruit and herbs only; nor ate they fish nor flesh of anything that had ever breathed the breath of life.
You should eat no flesh of any animal, or fish, or bird, or fowl, or creeping thing which Jehovih created alive.
Save you**** refrain from fish and flesh you**** should not find the cows, i.e., receptivity.
Se'fiee, fish.
What is the sign of the men ascending the Orugh (the stairs), and lamp and the trees and the black fish?
First, there was an egg, and then a fish, and then trees, then man, and he saw the light and the sun.
Neither doth flesh31 food enter my mouth; nor strong drink, nor substance that come from an animal, or is part thereof; nor fish, nor worms, nor anything that breathes or hath breathed.
To live in the fields and forests, and study the action of unseen forces upon himself; to eat not fish, nor flesh, nor any food that come of animals; to bathe daily; to permit no passion to enter his mind; to abnegate self and to wed himself to the Creator for righteousness sake, and to do good; to discipline his mind, to remain in any given direction on any subject, for days if necessary; to become oblivious to pain.
Or why a man was not made to fly as a bird, or live in the water like a fish?
To rise with the sun; to bathe the body once every day; to eat no flesh nor fish; to pray to Ormazd at sunrise, at high noon, at sunset, and before laying down to sleep.
Certain philosophers, wise in vanity, said: To rise an hour after the sun is no sin; to bathe one day in seven is sufficient; to eat fish-flesh, which is of cold blood, is no sin.
Now, behold, it came to pass that they laid in bed two hours; they ceased to bathe altogether, and as to eating, they halted not with fish-flesh, but ate of all flesh.
The third virtue is to eat no fish nor flesh, nor other unclean thing; for of what profit is it to bathe the outer part if one put filth within?
Whether of beasts of the field, or fish in the waters, or man on the earth; all the living I created for you*, and you should possess them from everlasting to everlasting.
But there was no es'pa of flesh or fish present on the tables; but an abundance of the es'pa of wine, and this was called NECTAR (su-be).
And whether of fish, or worm, or stone, or ores, or iron, or silver, or gold, or copper, they had learned to read its worth and nature.
The brown people, though harmless, were naked, living mostly on fish and worms and bugs and roots; and they inhabited the regions of the great river, Tua.
And then De'yus said: And now, my Gods, let us make man in our own fashion;11 and in likeness of ourselves, let them have dominion also, but over the fish in the waters, and the fowl in the air, and over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every living creature upon the earth.
Be you**** fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the earth, and the fishes, and fowl, and every living creature on the earth, for they are yours forever!
Satan answered him, saying: Behold, in your** own revelation to mortals you saidst to them: Partake not of fish, nor flesh, nor blood, for food, nor of anything that breath''' the breath of life.
And now, behold what came to pass: Thy three Gods, whom you hadst elevated and trusted, fell to and made other revelations, wherein they said: Partake of fish and flesh; for they desired to please mortals.
Han said: Try them by the food they eat; and whoso refuse to eat fish or flesh should suffer death.
When Po was yet very young, the voice of God came to him, saying: Be steadfast in the doctrines of your*** forefathers, eating neither fish nor flesh; thy God will not only preserve thee alive, but you should gather together the scattered tribes of Zarathustrians, the Faithists, and re-establish them in this great land.
To make him a warrior, give thou him fish and flesh.
And the Vedans cultivated the lands, living on fruits, roots, and on bread made of wheat grown in the fields; but they ate neither fish nor flesh, nor anything that had breathed the breath of life.
You should labor six days, but on the seventh day it is the moon's day, and you should not labor, nor hunt, nor fish, but go to the altar of your*** Creator and dance and sing before Me; and sit in silence to hear My words, which I speak into the souls of men, and of women and children.
And, being feeders on flesh and fish, fell under the dominion of angels of the lower heaven, and they rejected the Lord God.
Then came the angels of the lower heaven, teaching the Ongwees the secret of making eunuchs of their enemies, the I'huans with the long arms; teaching them how to make spears and bows with arrows, and darts and fishing-hooks and nets; teaching them how to make fire by striking flint stones; teaching them how to cook flesh and fish to make them more palatable.
But both the I'hins and the tribes of darkness ate neither flesh nor fish.
And they spread rapidly over the earth, in all the regions where the earth brought forth fruit and roots, and flesh, and fish, that were good to eat.
And their food was of every herb and root, and grain and seed, and fruit that come of the earth; but they ate not flesh nor fish, nor of anything that breathed the breath of life.
I will take up fish in the name of the Lord, for they suffer no pain.
Nevertheless there were ground people, with long arms, who were large; but they dwelt by themselves, and their food was of all manner of flesh, and fish, and creeping things.
Then inquired man of the Lord: Behold, you hast shown the ass what is good for him to eat, and the fish, and the serpent, and the lion; every living creature; but man only hast you not shown?
The Lord said: You should learn from the beasts, and birds, and fishes, that the female during gestation is in keeping of her Creator.
The Lord said: All the instinct that is in the bird, or beast, or fish, or insect, or creeping thing, was created with them, but man was created blank; and yet man should attain to more subtle senses than any other living creature.
Neither killed they man, nor beast, nor fish, nor bird, nor creeping thing that breathed the breath of life.
Behold, these es'yans, whilst in the corporeal form feasted on fish and worms.
Why, then, cannot you**** gather of the atmospherean part of fish and worms?
The asaphs said: Alas, this difference have we observed: The trees, and plants and fruits emit delightful atmospheres, most nutritious to the spirit, but that which is emitted from the living fish and living worm is foul-smelling, being but the sweat and dead substance evaporating.
God said: Go you**** to the place where mortals kill fish and worms; and in the same time that mortals tear these things with their teeth, snatch from their hands and mouths the atmospherean parts of the food and give it to these es'yans.
Thereupon Jehovih caused the jelly fish and the green scum of water to be permanently coming forth in all ages, that man might understand the age of se'mu, when the earth and the shores by the water, and the waters also, were covered over with commingled atmosphere and corporeal substance.
Not that se'mu is jellyfish or the green scum of water; for the earth in this day produce not se'mu abundantly; nevertheless the jelly-fish and the green scum of water are signs of that which was in that day of the earth.
She could hear a snake glide, and could smell a fish in the water.
Manu ties his ship to the horn of a fish.
In Julius Eggeling's translation: "When he was washing himself, a fish came into his hands." (Shatapatha Brahmana 1.8.1.1, trans.
The fish makes a bargain.
Manu keeps the fish in a jar, then a pond, then the sea, as it grows.
When the flood rises, the fish arrives, Manu ties the ship's rope to the fish's horn, and the fish tows him to a northern mountain.
In later texts, such as the Mahabharata and the Matsya Purana, the fish is revealed as a form of the god Vishnu, or of Brahma, and Manu brings seven sages and the seeds of all plants aboard.
The warning comes from a god, a father, a fish, a goddess or a voice through a wall.
Manu's fish, Yu's channels, the wooden people of the Maya and Ymir's blood are not versions of each other.
Goon giji of Cape Grafton, Queensland: They tell of a land that became the Great Barrier Reef, once dry and inhabited, until a flood was sent by gods when a man named Gona ate a forbidden fish.
For context, the Apkallu are known as a civilising people who bring knowledge of agriculture and irrigation to the Sumerians, they also wore fish outfits.
In the biblical account of this story Jonah arrives in Nineveh (spat out from a large fish).
Berosus tells us, speaking of the ancient days of Chaldea, "In the first year there appeared, from that part of the Erythræan Sea which borders upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, by name Oannes, whose whole body (according to the account of Apollodorus) was that of a fish; that under the fish's head he had another head, with feet also below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail.
We find not only, as before, during the Stone Age, axes, arrows, and knives, but, in addition, swords, lances, sickles, fish-hooks, ear-rings, bracelets, pins, rings, and a variety of other articles."
They stress the importance of self-sufficiency, encouraging people to learn how to "fish" for themselves rather than rely on external sources for spiritual sustenance.
Vishnu became a fish; and after the Deluge, when the waters had subsided, he recovered the holy books from the bottom of the ocean." Berosus, speaking of the time before the Deluge, says: "Oannes wrote concerning the generations of mankind and their civil polity." The Hebrew commentators on Genesis say, "Our rabbins assert that Adam, our father of blessed memory, composed a book of precepts, which were delivered to him by God in Paradise." (Smith's "Sacred Annals," p.
in the Deluge legends of the Hindoos (as given on page 87 ante), we have seen Manu saving a small fish, which subsequently grew to a great size, and warned him of the coming of the Flood.