Bad Bungle
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Is that image a photo or a drawing?
It very strongly resembles the Dagon priest figures on a laver (large water basin) in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
http://historical.benabraham.com/html/pagan_priests_dressed_half_fish.html
I gave my FT collection away a couple of years ago and I really want to check a reader's letter in a back issue. He said he saw an incongruous relief of Dagon Priests in fish Rainments on a large Library or Municipal building (UK) and I wondered if some-one could tell me where ?
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Could this be in Cromer? They worship Dagon there and have long interbred with The Deep Ones.
I gave my FT collection away a couple of years ago and I really want to check a reader's letter in a back issue. He said he saw an incongruous relief of Dagon Priests in fish Rainments on a large Library or Municipal building (UK) and I wondered if some-one could tell me where ?
The image is of the Sumerian culture hero Oannes, who was a fish person who came from the sea and taught humanity all about agriculture and early technologies. He may well have been a visiting fisherman. This isn't Dagon, who is a Phonecian deity of agriculture and fertility. The whole fish thing is likely a mis-translation. Sorry Lovecraft Fans, you'll have to be satisfied with Oannes, who is deep one enough for all of us.
The image I posted and the Assyrian relief from the Pergamon Museum (thanks EnolaGaia) shows two men in fish-suits (carrying a handbag). With absolutely no reflection on you Spookdaddy, some-one always points out the internet fact of a Bishop's mitre being modelled on a cod's head due to cultural appropriation by the Vatican...
Oannes? He'll do. Obviously an amphibious alien.
I remember that! Used to drive past it frequently.Oannes depicted on a wall frieze of the former Headquarters of the world renowned Mitchell Construction Company, now a Peterborough City Council building. No idea if this is the building I was looking for.
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At least you can be sure it is well kept.Oh that's just marvellous - Google finally coughs up a picture of Oannes on a wall (Minerva too) but it's 10 years old and the wall doesn't exist anymore, because Peterborough Council want to build a new 'Eco Village'. They did promise in 2012 that the Bridge House mural would be dismantled and stored until a building could be found big enough to display it (not everyone believed them).
Many thanks for the updated pics Myth, the posters for Fletton Quays was the clue - last year the scaffolding at the Fletton Quays re-development was removed for a short while to allow photos of the newly installed frieze, and then covered up again.
Live in hope of seeing it one day.
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