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History behind the Jesus fish symbol:



The fish symbol has been used for millennia worldwide as a religious symbol associated with the Pagan Great Mother Goddess. It is the outline of her vulva. The fish symbol was often drawn by overlapping two very thin crescent moons. One represented the crescent shortly before the new moon; the other shortly after, when the moon is just visible. The Moon is the heavenly body that has long been associated with the Goddess, just as the sun is a symbol of the God.

The link between the Goddess and fish was found in various areas of the ancient world:






In China, Great Mother Kwan-yin often portrayed in the shape of a fish


In India, the Goddess Kali was called the "fish-eyed one"


In Egypt, Isis was called the Great Fish of the Abyss


In Greece the Greek word "delphos" meant both fish and womb. The word is derived from the location of the ancient Oracle at Delphi who worshipped the original fish goddess, Themis. The later fish Goddess, Aphrodite Salacia, was worshipped by her followers on her sacred day, Friday. They ate fish and engaging in orgies. From her name comes the English word "salacious" which means lustful or obscene. Also from her name comes the name of our fourth month, April. In later centuries, the Christian church adsorbed this tradition by requiring the faithful to eat fish on Friday - a tradition that was only recently abandoned.


In ancient Rome Friday is called "dies veneris" or Day of Venus, the Pagan Goddess of Love.


Throughout the Mediterranean, mystery religions used fish, wine and bread for their sacramental meal.


In Scandinavia, the Great Goddess was named Freya; fish were eaten in her honor. The 6th day of the week was named "Friday" after her.


In the Middle East, the Great Goddess of Ephesus was portrayed as a woman with a fish amulet over her genitals.

The fish symbol "was so revered throughout the Roman empire that Christian authorities insisted on taking it over, with extensive revision of myths to deny its earlier female-genital meanings...Sometimes the Christ child was portrayed inside the vesica, which was superimposed on Mary's belly and obviously represented her womb, just as in the ancient symbolism of the Goddess." Another author writes: "The fish headdress of the priests of Ea [a Sumero-Semitic God] later became the miter of the Christian bishops."

The symbol itself, the eating of fish on Friday and the association of the symbol with deity were all taken over by the early Church from Pagan sources. Only the sexual component was deleted.

Here we see a depiction of a Dagon priest. Notice that he is sprinkling 'holy water' just like the priests of the pagan christian catholic cult and few of her daughter protestant churches:


Here you see a stone laver from Assyria which is now in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin. Carved on its sides are depictions of pagan priest that appear to be half sun-fish and half man, that are sprinkling holy water:


Again, here is a similar depiction of a pagan priest wearing a sun-fish, the head with open mouth worn as a mitre and the rest
of the fish forming a cloak. These are both illustrations of Dagon, which was the God of Babylon and Philistia and is mentioned several times in scripture in Judges 16:23, 1 Samuyl 5: 2-7, and 1 Chronicles 1: 10. In Strong's Hebrew Dictionary,
this is the definition of Dagon: #1712. Dagown, daw-gohn'; from H#1709; the fish-god; Dagon, a Philistine deity: --Dagon.


The mitre on the head of this drawing of the goddess Cybele and the striking similarity to the fish head of Dagon. Cybele was worshipped in Rome and was also called the "Magna Mater", or the great queen mother goddess, which evolved into Catholic Mariology. The priesthood of Cybele was composed of casterated males, which parallels the celibate priesthood of Catholicism. The basilica of Saint Peter's, according to some, stands upon the former site of Cybele's main temple in Rome. The ruins of another temple to Cybele/Magna Mater can still be seen at this very time in Rome on Palatine hill:


So, now, here is the fish-head mitre worn by the ranking clergy of the Catholic Church, in this case Pope John Paul II. As can be seen, it is directly derived from the mitres of the ancient pagan fish-god Dagon, and the goddess Cybele. The papal mitre represents the head of Dagon with an open mouth, which is the reason for the pointed shape and split top:


More fish symbolism in the gospels:
* Matthew 12:40: "...Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
* Matthew 14:17: "And they said to Him, 'We have here only five loaves and two fish.'"
* Luke 5:6: "And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking."
* Luke 24:42: "So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb."
* John 21:6: "And He said to them, 'Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.' So they cast, and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish."
* 1 Corinthians 15:39: "All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fish, and another of birds."

Some Christians believe that a second link between their religion and the fish symbol is seen in the Greek word for fish (ichthus, spelled: Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma). That is an acrostic for "Jesus Christ, of God, the Son, the Savior" [Iesous (Jesus) CHristos (Christ) THeou (of God) Uiou (the Son) Soter (the Savior)]. An acrostic is an "arrangement of words in which the first letter of each line ordinarily combines with others to form a word or words or the alphabet."

The Apostles were often referred to as "fishers of men". Followers of Christianity were called Pisciculi; the root of this Latin word is "fish". The symbols of "sacremental fish, with wine and a basket of bread represents the Eucharist and the Last Supper in Christian art." The symbol was simple to draw and was often used among Christians as a type of password during times of persecution by the Roman government. If two strangers met and were unsure whether each other was a Christian, one would draw an arc in the earth like. If the other were a Christian, they would complete the symbol with a reverse arc: (), forming the outline of a fish.

The fish symbol has been used for millennia worldwide as a religious symbol associated with the Pagan Great Mother Goddess. It is the outline of her vulva. The fish symbol was often drawn by overlapping two very thin crescent moons. One represented the crescent shortly before the new moon; the other shortly after, when the moon is just visible. The Moon is the heavenly body that has long been associated with the Goddess, just as the sun is a symbol of the God.

In modern times, the fish outline symbol is experiencing a comeback. It is commonly seen in the form of a bumper sticker or casting mounted on the trunk lids of cars. The body of the symbol may be empty, or may contain a name ("Jesus" or "IXΘYΣ").

Astronomical and Astrological Symbolism of the Fish:
The Sumerian Tablets (amongst other ancient text), in which the Bible is a summary of, give an illustration of our planetary cycle. The Sumerians knew about the cycle of what is called precession. This is the effect of the Earth's wobble which slowly moves the planet on its axis; so that it faces different star systems or astrological houses. As the records show, the Sumerians knew that it takes the Earth 2,160 years to move through each of the 12 astrological houses; and that it takes 25,920 years for it to make a complete revolution. We are completing one of these cycles now. Ancient temples all around the world reflect these cycles of precession in their geometry and mathematics. The ancients knew of the Earth's energy grid and its potential to affect human conciousness. Being that we live in the Earth's magnetic field, when it changes we change. As we now know, the symbol of the fish is a theme throughout the Gospel stories, and that the first symbol of the Christian faith was the fish, not the cross. Jesus was often depicted as a fish. This is because around the time Jesus was supposedly born, the Earth had just entered the astrological house of Pisces. We are now entering another age, the age of Aquarius, according to the laws of the Earth wobble precession. When the Bible talks of the end of the world, that's a mistranslation. They translate world for the Greek aeon; but aeon doesn't mean world it means age. According to the Maya calendar the critical changeover point is December 12th 2012. The ancients knew of these great cycles of change and all the ancient calendars end in the period we are living through now. The Maya said that there would be a transition period between the old world and the new; as one version of time was replaced by another. They called this period no time; and they said this would begin July 1982 and lead to the shift on December 12th 2012. The affect this is having on the masses is becoming more and more visible. Not yet the majority, but the numbers are increasing by the day as this spiritual alarm clock awakens people from their slumber.

Recommended reading:
*D.T. Kauffman, Ed., "Baker's Concise Dictionary of Religion", Baker Book House, Grand Rapids MI, (1985).
*J.C. Cooper, "An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols", Thames & Hudson, London, UK, (1979).
*B.G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper & Row, San Francisco CA (1983).
*B.G. Walker, "The Woman's dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects", Harper Collins, San Francisco (1988).
*Bible Myths by T. W. Doane, copywrighted in 1882
*The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
*The Dead Sea Scrolls In English by Geza Vermes
*The Sumerian Tablets, translated by Zacharia Sitchin which includes:
The Earth Chronicles, The 12th Planet, The Stairway To Heaven, The Wars of Gods And Men, The Lost Realms, When Time Began, and Genesis Revisited.

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