Oannes (Uanna in Sumerian) , in Mesopotamian mythology, was an amphibious being (apkallu) who taught mankind wisdom. Oannes, as
An Apkallu Fish-Man. Oannes was the Greek name for the first of them.
described by the Babylonian priest Berosus, had the form of a fish but with the head of a man under his fish’s head and under his fish’s tail the feet of a man. In the daytime he came up to the seashore of the Persian Gulf and instructed mankind in writing, the arts, and the sciences. Oannes was probably the emissary of Ea (Enki), god of the freshwater deep and of wisdom.