208 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



Helladice quotes the same story, and calls the com- 

 posite being Oes ; while another writer, Hyginus, calls 

 him Euahanes. M. Lenormant thinks that it is evident 

 that this latter name is more correct than Cannes, for it 

 points to one of the Akkadian names of Hea " Hea- 

 Khan," Hea, the fish and must be identified with the 

 fish-God in the illustration. 



Alexander Polyhistor, who mainly copied from Bero- 

 sus, says that Cannes wrote concerning the generation 

 of Mankind, of. their different ways of life, and of their 

 civil polity ; and the following is the purport of what 

 he wrote : 



" There was a time in which there existed nothing 

 but darkness, and an abyss of waters, wherein resided 

 most hideous beings, which were produced on a twofold 

 principle. There appeared men, sonic of whom were 

 furnished with two wings, others with four, and two 

 faces. They had one body, but two heads ; the one 

 that of a man, the other of a woman ; they were likewise 

 in their several organs both male and female. Other 

 human beings were to be seen with the legs and horns 

 of a goat ; some had horse's feet, while others united 

 the hind-quarters of a horse with the body of a man, 

 resembling in shape the hippocentaurs. Bulls likewise 

 were bred then with the heads of men, and dogs with 

 fourfold bodies, terminated in their extremities with the 

 tails of fishes ; horses also with the heads of dogs ; men, 

 too, and other animals, with the heads and bodies of 

 horses, and the tails of fishes. In short, there were 

 creatures in which were combined the limbs of every 

 species of animals. In addition to these, fishes, reptiles, 

 serpents, with other monstrous animals, which assumed 

 each other's shape and countenance. Of all which were 



