
Oannes Power Ritual
He Who Rose from the Waters · The First Teacher · Sage of the Abyss
Learn more…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
and stood upon the shore, and 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 the first morning.
We, the Initiates of Zeus, invoke you with reverence and with thirst for wisdom.
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 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.
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.
SAT (सत्): 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.