He is the true "fish-god" of Berosus, and is figured as such in the Scriptures. (I hope I may persuade some reader, who may be interested in this inquiry, to compare the figure of Nin, in Rawlinson, i. 167, with figure 23, Dupaix's "New Spain" in Lord Kingsborough's "Mexico," representing an emblematic figure with fish[160] (as in the representation of Nin) over a human head, which also has inverted tusks. Compare also with representations of Neph, associated with snake and ram's head, and also with "History of the Fish," _supra_, p. 197.) To continue--in this point of view he (Nin) is called the "god of the sea," "he who dwells in the deep;" and again, somewhat curiously, "the opener of the aqueducts." Now, as applied to Noah, this is not at all strange, and corresponds to the Scriptural phrase, "He opened the fountains of the deeps." Subsequently to deification we cannot be surprised to find all that was done by the Almighty attributed to the individual to whom it was done; as in Prometheus we have a double legend of the Creator, who created man with the vital spark, and of Prometheus, the man who was so created. "Besides these epithets he has many of a more general character, as 'the _powerful chief_,' 'the supreme,' 'the _favourite_ of the _gods_,' 'the chief of the spirits,' and the like." [160] This closely corresponds to the description of Oannes given by Sanchoniathon, "Ap. Euseb." (Bryant, ii. 301), _i.e._ with two heads (comp. _infra_, p. 220), the human head being placed below the head of a fish:--"[Greek: allên kephalên hypokatô tês tou ichthyos kephalês]." I must, moreover, request attention to the following from Rawlinson, i. 168,--"Nin's _emblem_ in _Assyria_ is the _man-bull_, the impersonation of strength and power. He guards the palaces of the Assyrian kings, who reckon him their tutelary god, and gives his name to their capital city. We may conjecture that _in Babylonia_ his _emblem_ was the _sacred fish_, which is often seen in different forms upon the cylinders."[161] [161] _Vide_ similar traditions of the man-bull in India and Japan. Bryant, iii. 589, who adds, "We shall find hereafter that in this (Parsee) mythology there were two ancient personages represented under the same character, and named L'Homme Taureau; _each_ of whom was looked upon as the _father_ of mankind." Compare pp. 158, 189, the two Menus and the two Osiris. I turn to Gainet, i. 198, and I find this legend concerning the man-bull from Bertrand's "Dict. des Religions," 38, i. ii.[162]