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Cluster · 1 line of comparison · 1 without an established route · 1 motif family · 2 registered objects

Mesopotamian accounts

Pohnpei · story untraced

1 separate line of comparison join these two traditions in this collection. 1 of them has no established route.

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Motif families: Teachers & travellers

Cultural context

Mesopotamian accounts

Literary traditions with multiple periods and surviving witnesses; their recording dates do not date the narrated events.

Registered dated episodes: 300 BCE to 399 CE.

  • Oannes3rd century BCE · composition · composition, 4th century CE · compilation · witness
Cultural context

Pohnpei · story untraced

An unverified narrative lead, not an authenticated catalogue of Pohnpeian tradition.

No numerical episode date is yet registered here.

  • Pohnpei navigator · story untracedDate unresolved · unresolved
Line 01 · Research lead

The navigator in the collage

An intriguing caption, still looking for its source.

Account · editorial paraphrase

A being from the sea teaches people, then returns to the water at night.

OannesMesopotamia
Supplied social-media collage linking a wooden figure with Nan Madol
Pohnpei navigator · story untracedPohnpei, as captioned
What appears to correspond
  • The post proposes a knowledge-bearing visitor.
What differs or remains uncertain
  • The wooden figure is not yet identified.
  • The collage does not establish an archaeological relationship between the figure and Nan Madol.
Transmission check

Transmission not yet assessed

The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect.

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Keep in the frame

What would move this cluster forward?

Collected comparisons accumulate; they do not compound into proof. Each line still needs its own dated sequence.

  • Identify the statue and the earliest recorded account.
  • Keep the architecture, image and tradition as separate records.
Follow the evidence

Sources & scope

Provisional editorial records with no independent specialist sign-off. Review stages describe how far sources were checked, not the probability of a historical connection.

  1. project · Deep Memory

    Supplied-image identity register

    Preserves captions, uncertainties and supplied images. A social caption is not an independent archaeological identification.

  2. primary-text · Berossus / Eusebius

    Berossus through Eusebius, Chronicle I

    Oannes appears from the sea, teaches and returns to it at night. Berossus’s work survives through later witnesses and translation.