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It’s Friday Again, So Have Some More Fish

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

There’s a lot of interesting information on the symbolism of fish on this link, so read and enjoy some of the fishy symbols I hadn’t known of.   I was particularly taken with this one –Pagan traditions recognized the fish as a feminine symbol of fertility and an attribute of the Goddess. Water is a natural emblem of the flow of the Divine Mother principal, and as such, all creatures of the water (including fish) are aspects of the fertility and power of the female deity.”

fish brooch

I’m listening to lectures in a recorded course from Audible.com  entitled “Human Prehistory and The First Civilisations” presented by Prof. Brian Fagan.  It is sooo absorbing and started way back at the very earliest fossil record, very few, of the earliest man-like hominids we have so far, and moved forward from there – so paganism’s been right, left and centre front of developments in Europe, though I’m pretty sure fish weren’t mentioned anywhere in his lectures.

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