{"id":3294,"date":"2015-10-02T09:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2015-09-07T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:09:30","slug":"its-friday-again-so-have-some-more-fish-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"It’s Friday Again, So Have Some More Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of interesting information on the symbolism of fish<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>on this link, so read and enjoy some of the fishy symbols I hadn’t known of. \u00a0 I was particularly taken with this one – “Pagan<\/b> traditions recognized the fish as a feminine symbol of fertility and an attribute of the Goddess<\/span>. 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.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m listening to lectures in a recorded course from Audible.com \u00a0entitled “Human Prehistory and The First Civilisations” presented by Prof. Brian Fagan. \u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of interesting information on the symbolism of fish\u00a0on this link, so read and enjoy some of the fishy symbols I hadn’t known of. \u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,282],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-pagan-symbol-of-fertility","tag-symbolism-of-fish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-R8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}