Oannes [Forneus] Power Ritual
He Who Rose from the Waters · The First Teacher · Sage of the Abyss
- This Ritual is based on vibrating the Runes and making certain affirmations. Raising your energies before the Ritual is advised.
- The Sigil that is provided is the point of focus where this Ritual is upon.
- The Runes that are done here can be vibrated around the centre of the Sigil where the Shenu Protection Ring is. You can imagine this glowing with the deep blue-green light of sunlight striking the ocean floor.
- Vibrate these Runes in a short version. If you can't do the full amount, reduce all vibrations by half.
The Temple of Zeus calls upon you.
Before the cities were built, before the first letter was carved,
you ascended from the waters at the hour of dawn,
stood upon the shore, opened your mouth, and taught.
You gave Humanity speech. You gave us writing. You gave us law.
Everything we are, we owe to what you spoke on that first morning.
We, the Initiates of Zeus, invoke you with reverence and with thirst for wisdom.
You dwell where the waters are ancient and still,
where the sediment of all ages settles into truth.
What the surface forgets, the deep remembers.
What the world has lost, the ocean holds.
Open the deep knowledge to the Initiates of Zeus.
Let the wisdom that rests beneath the noise of the world
rise to the surface of our minds as you rose to the surface of the sea.
What has been submerged, let it emerge.
What has been drowned, let it breathe again.
You taught the first word. You shaped the first sentence.
Before you spoke, Humanity had only cries and gestures.
After you spoke, we had the power to name the world.
Grant the Initiates of Zeus mastery over language.
Let our speech be powerful, precise, and persuasive.
Let our rhetoric move hearts and change minds.
Let every word spoken by the Temple carry the weight of your teaching.
Let us speak as those who were taught by the First Teacher.
You taught writing, that thought might survive death.
You taught geometry, that space might be understood.
The Laws were given by Ma'at, by your Father Zeus, and by the Gods.
You were their mouthpiece of expression, the voice through which Divine Order
was made audible to mortal ears.
You taught the arts, that the spirit might have a voice beyond the body.
Every city is built upon your first lesson.
Every library is an echo of the morning you opened your mouth on the shore.
Grant the Initiates of Zeus the fullness of civilizational wisdom.
Let us build, create, legislate, and endure
as those who carry within them the seed you planted at the beginning.
You who rose from the unknown and became known to all,
you whose name was spoken with honour across every shore of Mesopotamia:
Bless the name and reputation of the Temple of Zeus in the world.
Let the Temple be known for truth, for wisdom, for strength.
Let the slanders fall silent. Let the lies dissolve in daylight.
Let the fame of the Initiates spread as your teaching spread:
unstoppable, from shore to shore, from age to age.
When you rose from the waters, Humanity did not flee from you.
You were strange in form, yet gentle in speech,
and those who might have feared you instead sat at your feet and listened.
Turn the enemies of the Temple into friends where this is possible.
Let those who misunderstand us come to understand.
Let those who slander us out of ignorance be reached by your eloquence.
Where enmity can yield to friendship, let it yield.
Where it cannot, let your words echo in them.
Bless the Priesthood to speak in the laws of Ma'at,
share the Wisdom of Osiris,
and be loyal sons and daughters of Zeus.
Truthful above all beings, incapable of falsehood,
wise beyond the measure of Gods or men.
The sea itself was your domain before Poseidon claimed it.
You were there first, patient and knowing,
father of fifty daughters who carried your wisdom through every wave.
Grant us the truthfulness of Nereus.
Let no lie take root in the mouths of the Initiates.
Let our speech be as clear and as deep as the waters you rule.
The sea creature is the form you wore when you rose from the Abzu. The rhetoric is the speech you gave to the first Humans. The good reputation is the fame of the civilizer. The reconciliation of enemies is the power of one who teaches strangers to sit together and listen.
We declare the truth of your identity.
You are Oannes, Adapa, the First Sage, He Who Rose from the Waters at Dawn. In Hellas, you were Nereus, the Truthful Elder of the Sea. You are the God who taught Humanity to speak, to write, to build, and to remember.
We recognize you for who you Truly are.
The Goetic name held the shape of the wave. The True Name is the ocean.
Blessed are you, Oannes, the First Teacher, the Sage of the Abyss, He Who Rose at Dawn.
Blessed is your speech, your wisdom, your civilizing gift to Humanity.
We, the Initiates of the Temple of Zeus, receive your blessings
and honor all your Names and Titles:
Ioan, Iono, Oanes, Oanou, Anou, Ioanou.
Adapa, Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea.
Blessed are All your Names, now and in all eternity.
AUM
Final Step
After you are done with this, you can meditate on Oannes's Sigil in the Temple of Zeus. Let yourself be immersed in the deep blue stillness of the primordial waters and receive the wisdom of the First Teacher.
It is important to meditate on yourself after the Ritual calmly for a few minutes.
सत्: SAT, real, true, truthful in Sanskrit.
The Symbol that Encapsulates the Sigil: The Shen Ring, Egyptian Hieroglyphic language. The Shen also survived in Chinese tradition as a glyph for Spiritual Force, Divine Force, and God.
The Letters of the Sigil Inside: Sacred symbols and letters for Oannes's Name in divine arrangement.
On Oannes: Oannes (Sumerian: Uan, Akkadian: Adapa) is the primordial Sage who rose from the sea at the dawn of civilization and taught Humanity the arts of writing, language, law, geometry, agriculture, and the sacred sciences. He is described by the Babylonian priest Berossus as a being of the waters with the form of a fish and the voice of a man. He would emerge at dawn, teach all day, and return to the sea at sunset. He ate nothing. He was the first of the Seven Sages (Apkallu) of Mesopotamia. The Goetic tradition preserved him as Forneus, a great sea creature who teaches rhetoric and languages and wins good reputations. The ocean is the same. The teaching is the same. The Name returns.
On Nereus: In the Hellenic tradition, the same archetype is known as Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea. Nereus is described as truthful, gentle, wise, and incapable of deception. He was the most ancient deity of the sea, predating Poseidon. Father of the fifty Nereids, he embodies the deep, patient, civilizing wisdom of the ocean as distinct from its storms and violence.