I have a project for english class and we're supposed to find metaphors on each page of the book "All I Can See". One page states: "As she looked around, a fish came to the surface". I need to figure out why the fish is a fish and not a sponge or some other sea animal. I was wondering what fish symbolised in different cultures.
2007-03-04 08:08:31 · 6 answers · asked by squahy_mochte_diene_hosse_essen 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Have you ever seen the movie Soul Food? The family says that when somebody dreams of fishes, somebody's pregnant. I think it was the mother who dreamed of fishes and one of the sisters was pregnant.
You might want to look up dream symbolism--fishes seem to mean pregnancy or a wish coming true. Water usually means emotions, and a fish would be a creature of emotions, an animal that moves through emotions freely. They're slippy-slidy, free-moving, unencumbered by, say, roots like a plant or getting blown around by the wind like a bird.
As far as a fish coming to the surface--sponges don't move. The only way it would come to the surface is if it got pulled loose, like in a storm or something.
And as far as fish meaning Christ--it was a Pagan symbol first. The Vesica Pisca. Two circles coming together make a fish symbol--vertically, it looks kinda like a woman's genitals. The ocean has connotations with women, like salt water being the primordial water, water gushing out at birth, stuff like that. The "fish" is much more womanly than manly, if you think about it.
The Christians just picked up a symbol that was already in use. They didn't come up with it themselves.
Oh, and as far as the Iesous Xristos Theos Uios Soter...that's just revisionist 20/20 hindsight trying to put a meaning to IXTHYS. I doubt that the early Christians made up that acronym. A lot of them didn't even read! How would they have come up with acronyms? Puh-leeze.
2007-03-04 09:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To understand the meaning of the fish in Christianity, you must look at astrology
Each age lasts about 2100 years.
Aries -ram, represented sacrifice, how the Hebrews believed they should relate to God
Pisces - (the fish,) age started at about the time of Jesus- new understanding that God is like the ocean all around and through and we are even made of the ocean
Aquarius- we are going into now, the waterbearer, we have the ability to dispense the water or spirit to each and the earth. We will only see what that will mean in the next 2100 years
2007-03-04 16:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fish was the first Christian symbol. The acronym in The Greek spelling would be ." Jesus Christ Son Of God Savior." He would make us fishers of men.
2007-03-04 16:19:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it symbolizes christianity. in biblical times, when you were a christain and somebody found out then you were crucified. to talk to people about christianity, and you werent sure if they were christains, you would draw the head and body of a fish. if they drew the tail, they were a christain and you can talk to them about christianity. if they just looked at you funny, they werent christains.
just a little tip
-lovely lauren-
2007-03-04 16:19:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i also have found in my travels that a fish symbolizes christianity...
2007-03-04 16:28:59 · answer #5 · answered by Trisha G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i always though that a fish sybolised christianity
2007-03-04 16:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by kel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋