[166] I had come to the above conclusion upon the perusal of Rawlinson, and before I had read Bryant, who, I find, had already come to this identical conclusion. ("Mythology," iii. 109.) Speaking of Berosus' account of Oannes and Xisuthrus, he says, "The latter was undoubtedly taken from the archives of the Chaldæans. The former is allegorical and obscure, and was copied from _hieroglyphical representations_ which could not be precisely deciphered.... In consequence of his borrowing from records so very different, we find him, without his being apprized of it, giving _two histories of the same person_. Under the character of _the man of the sea_, whose _name was Oannes_, we have _an allegorical representation of the great patriarch_; whom _in his other history he calls Sisuthrus_." I shall pursue this inquiry into the classical mythology in the next chapter, and then recapitulate the results as regards this inquiry. CHAPTER X. _THE TRADITION OF NOAH AND THE DELUGE._ I now come to a different set of illustrations still more germane to my subject. Calmet says:--"Plusieurs scavans out remarqué que les pagans ont confondu Saturne, Deucalion, Ogyges, le Dieu Coelus ou Ouranus, Janus, Prothée, Prométhée, Virtumnus, Bacchus, Osiris, Vadimon, Nisuthrus avec Noë." I must add that this enumeration by no means exhausts the list. It is not my purpose, however, to pursue the subject in all its ramifications. I shall limit myself to the examination of one or two of these counterparts of Noah. * * * * *