"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.
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.
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: 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.
He gave his host a small fish in a vessel and said he would reward the host if he did not eat the fish but returned it then.
The wife thought the fish must be exceptionally good to eat, but the husband said he had promised the old man to keep it and made the woman swear not to eat it.
After two days of thinking about it, though, the wife yielded to temptation and threw the fish on the hot coals.
The flood brought many relatives, including fish and sea beasts.
But all plants and animals had perished, even the fish.
Hindu:Manu, the first human, found a small fish in his washwater.
The fish begged protection from the larger fishes, in return for which it would save Manu.
Manu kept the fish safe, transferring it to larger and larger reservoirs as it grew, eventually taking it to the ocean.
The fish warned Manu of a coming deluge and told him to build a ship.
When the flood rose, the fish came, and Manu tied the craft to its horn.
The fish led him to a northern mountain and told Manu to tie the ship's rope to a tree to prevent it from drifting.
While so engaged on the banks of the Chirini, a fish came to him and asked to be saved from larger fish.
Manu took the fish to a jar and, as the fish grew, from thence to a large pond, then to the river Ganga, then to the ocean.
Though large, the fish was pleasant and easy to carry.
Upon being released into the ocean, the fish told Manu that soon all terrestrial objects would be dissolved in the time of the purification.
It told him to build a strong ship with a cable attached and to embark with the seven sages (rishis) and certain seeds, and to then watch for the fish, since the waters could not be crossed without it.
Manu embarked as enjoined and thought on the fish.
The fish, knowing his desire, came, and Manu fastened the ship's cable to its horn.
The fish dragged the ship through roiling waters for many years, at last bringing it to the highest peak of Himavat, which is still known as Naubandhana ("the Binding of the Ship").
The fish then revealed itself as Parjapati Brahma and said Manu shall create all living things and all things moving and fixed.
The fish grew and cried to Manu to preserve it, and Manu moved it to progressively larger vessels, eventually moving it to the river Ganga and then to the ocean.
Manu's ship alone will remain, fastened by a rope to the great fish's horn.
The deluge occurred as stated; Janardana appeared in the form of a horned fish, and the serpent Ananta came in the form of a rope.
Manu, by contemplation, drew all creatures towards him and stowed them in the ship and, after making obeisance to Janardana, attached the ship to the fish's horn with the serpent-rope.
One day when he was bathing in a river, he was visited by a fish which craved protection and which he transferred to successively larger vessels as it grew.
During the deluge, Vishnu preserved the ark by again taking the form of a giant fish and tying the ark to himself with a huge sea serpent.
Bhil (central India):Out of gratitude for the dhobi feeding it, a fish told a dhobi (a pious man) that a great deluge was coming.
Told that the fish gave the warning, Rama had the fish's tongue removed, and fish have been tongueless since.
This raised such a racket that the dragon king sent his servants (various fish) to investigate.
The children grabbed the fish with the tongs and threw them on the bank.
Rice grains, when they matured, flew into homes on their own, and fish jumped from the water onto the grill.
They did, and they grew younger and stronger from eating the fish of the pool.
But an evil man wasted fish, polluted the pond, and finally poisoned all the fish.
One dying fish told Xiang to make it a corn-flour body, feed it for 81 days on dew, and make a wooden house for himself.
The fish shook itself and turned into a girl and then into the red snake, which flew off to join the golden dragon Xiang had seen in his dreams.
The others floated peacefully down the mountain and carved a giant stone fish where they settled.
They went to Thanh Nua to fish.
But days would pass without them seeing a fish.
With them, he sent eight brass pillars and eight gourds containing 330 Xa and 500 Thai lines of descent, 330 species of rice, 330 species of fish, books of prayer and fortune telling, and calendars.
One went straight down and became the ancestor of fish, and the other swam across and gave rise to crabs.
Next morning, the brother asked the moon why their offspring should be fish and crabs.
Hungry, she searched for food and finding none inland, went to the beach hoping to catch a fish.
She found a fish, but it hid in one of the corpses left by the flood.
She picked up stone and hit the corpse, but the fish escaped and headed inland.
Maung (Goulburn Islands, Arnhem Land):People dividing fish always gave the man Crow the poor quality ones.
Manger (Arnhem Land):Crow got into an argument with two other men because he accidentally let green ants contaminate their fish.
They took back their fish, and Crow took back the goose eggs he had brought.
Valman (northern New Guinea):The wife of a very good man saw a very big fish.
When he finally saw it, he was horribly afraid and forbade his wife, son, and two daughters to catch and eat the fish.
But other people caught the fish and, heedless of the man's warning, ate it.
As soon as the wicked men ate the fish, water violently burst from the ground and drowned everyone on it.
The land, though, remained without produce, and the fish in the rock crevices were putrid.
She warned him that her parents, Kahinalii and Hinakaalualumoana, would cause the ocean to flood the land so that her brothers, the pao'o fish, may search for her.
Kauhuhu told the man to build a special fence around his place and to collect 400 black pigs, 400 red fish, and 400 white chickens.
A few animals escaped to this mountain, and a few people survived in a boat, subsisting on fish.
The shells and bones of many shellfish, fish, seals, and whales were also left high above sea level, where they may be found today.
Uprooted trees, devil-fish, and other strange creatures washed past.
When Raven returned, he saw fish lying high on the land, and he commanded them to turn to stone.
The flood left lakes in the hollows of the mountains, streams flowing from them, and fish in them; none of these existed before the flood.
The villagers soon became alarmed at its unprecedented height, and having no canoes, they prepared rafts and provisioned them with fish and water.
(In variant versions, the woman was seized by a giant fish or water animal.
Nisqually (Washington):The people became so numerous that they ate all the fish and game and started to eat each other.
They lived on fish, which they cooked by placing them under their arms.
He sang a song which changed how everyone looks, and the Ice Giants became large fish and were washed to sea.
Those fish carry markings like the wampum collars of the magicians.
Those who looked at the flood turned into a fish or frog (as did some who were caught in the flood); if they looked at the sky, they turned into a bird.
Some people were drowned and turned into frogs and fish; the other men and women escaped together to a tall mountain.
When the flood subsided, the man got out and built a fire to cook some fish he found.
The people became fish.
The sun of 4 Water lasted 676 years; then the heavens came down in one day, and the people were inundated and transformed into fish.
They exited the log, found a fish, and made a fire to cook it.
A heron was sent next, fulfilled its mission, and was allowed to eat fish as a reward.
The survivors began to cook fish, which the rest of the former inhabitants of the world had been turned into.
Christ sent a buzzard to investigate, but the buzzard stayed to eat fish.
Christ repopulated the world by turning the dead fish back into people.
When the tree was felled, the animals discovered the hollow stump was filled with water containing all kinds of fresh-water fish.
The plants which had been planted sprang to life, but the fish were not distributed evenly.
The culture hero Makunaima and his four brothers cut down the tree, and water immediately poured from the stump, and with it came fish.
One of the brothers made a basket to stop the water, but Makunaima wanted a few more fish for the rivers.
People escaped into the tree, but there were only leaves and rotten fruit to eat, and when people sat with their bottoms towards the water, a big fish would come by and bite them.
The people, who had not then begun farming, nearly died of hunger, but they retreated to the banks of rivers and survived on fish.
There, they found fish to eat, but they had no way to cook it.
He gave the fire to the children, and they were able to roast their fish.
Chorote (Eastern Paraguay):The bottle tree (Chorisia insignis) once contained all the water and all the fish.
The waters rushed out, flooding the world and bringing all kinds of fish.
Anatiua called on the fish to drag the people into the water.
Some climbed onto ice floes and joined the penguins, playing and eating fish as the penguins did.
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.