Foregone - Teachers from the Tide

The Foregone: Teachers From the Water opens with a dying carver sealing a warning into stone above a rising sea, and spends eight chapters chasing the same figure across the ancient world — a teacher who arrives after catastrophe, gives a people the arts of civilization, and departs without ever taking a throne. The book names him case by case: Oannes rising from the Persian Gulf to teach Sumer wr...