Oannès: I, the First Consciousness of Chaos, Arose from the Abyss That I Might Harden Matter, and Give Law Unto Forms - Odilon Redon Art Print
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Oannes surfaces with his eyes shut. In Odilon Redon's 1896 lithograph, the Babylonian fish god wears a human face inside a finned hood, and a pearl-gray disc swells behind his head. He has no shoulders. A ribbed tail takes over and loops around a hole of tar-black.
Europe had met this Chaldean sea deity in stone. By 1850, Austen Henry Layard's diggers were hauling carved sages in fish-skin cloaks from Nimrud's mounds. Gustave Flaubert borrowed one for an 1874 fever dream about a desert monk. Redon's Symbolism answered with a face nobody had carved.
Flaubert gave him the caption. In The Temptation of Saint Anthony, old gods parade past a starving hermit, and this one brags that he was the first consciousness in Chaos. He rose from the abyss to harden matter and determine forms. Berossus, a priest of Babylon, told it first. A fish-man walked out of the sea and taught people to write.
Redon drew that boast as sleep. Two milk-white spots blink from the fins, stray eyes left over from a world still unsorted. Ambroise Vollard published the portfolio in Paris, and plate 14 holds the quietest monster of the third series. This French Symbolist art print stops a creation myth mid-sentence. The coil tightens, and the dark waits to be told what shape to take.
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