Penelope
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He was running from God, to avoid preaching to the pagans in Nineveh , (we all know the story) so he was swallowed by a big fish and went to the bottom of the mountains , hearth of the earth , for 3 days and 3 nights, and was vomited out on land and went and preached and saved 120,000 people.
Why a fish? What is the significance? I always wondered why the fish, of course like Jesus and Jonah both were asleep in the bough of the boat during the storm, they got rid of Jonah and the storm stopped and Jesus also calmed the storm, both among the fearful men.
Moses, Sargon and Romulus and Remus also drawn out of the water. (of course these are all myths)
Now a Greek philosopher
Anaximander of Miletus considered that from warmed up water and earth emerged either fish or entirely fishlike animals. Inside these animals, men took form and embryos were held prisoners until puberty; only then, after these animals burst open, could men and women come out, now able to feed themselves.[47]
Anaximander put forward the idea that humans had to spend part of this transition inside the mouths of big fish to protect themselves from the Earth's climate until they could come out in open air and lose their scales.[48] He thought that, considering humans' extended infancy, we could not have survived in the primeval world in the same manner we do presently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander
Lived 610-546 BC
Jonah was said to of been wrote in the 4th to 3rd century BC.
Jesus compares himself to Jonah, and stresses rebirth. Jesus had around 120 disciples and also went to the hearth of the earth, 3 days and nights.
The sign of Christianity is the fish sign, with is called Vesica Piscis (fish bladder)
Origins[edit]
Greeks, Romans, and many other pagans used the fish symbol before Christians. In pagan beliefs, Ichthys was the offspring of the ancient sea goddess Atargatis, and was known in various mythic systems as Tirgata, Aphrodite, Pelagia, or Delphine. The word also meant "womb" and "dolphin" in some tongues. Before Christianity adopted the fish symbol, it was known by pagans as "the Great Mother", and "womb". Its link to fertility, birth, and the natural force of women was acknowledged also by the Celts, as well as pagan cultures throughout northern Europe. In certain non-Christian beliefs the fish also has been identified with reincarnation and the life force.[4]
Why a fish? What is the significance? I always wondered why the fish, of course like Jesus and Jonah both were asleep in the bough of the boat during the storm, they got rid of Jonah and the storm stopped and Jesus also calmed the storm, both among the fearful men.
Moses, Sargon and Romulus and Remus also drawn out of the water. (of course these are all myths)
Now a Greek philosopher
Anaximander of Miletus considered that from warmed up water and earth emerged either fish or entirely fishlike animals. Inside these animals, men took form and embryos were held prisoners until puberty; only then, after these animals burst open, could men and women come out, now able to feed themselves.[47]
Anaximander put forward the idea that humans had to spend part of this transition inside the mouths of big fish to protect themselves from the Earth's climate until they could come out in open air and lose their scales.[48] He thought that, considering humans' extended infancy, we could not have survived in the primeval world in the same manner we do presently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander
Lived 610-546 BC
Jonah was said to of been wrote in the 4th to 3rd century BC.
Jesus compares himself to Jonah, and stresses rebirth. Jesus had around 120 disciples and also went to the hearth of the earth, 3 days and nights.
The sign of Christianity is the fish sign, with is called Vesica Piscis (fish bladder)
Origins[edit]
Greeks, Romans, and many other pagans used the fish symbol before Christians. In pagan beliefs, Ichthys was the offspring of the ancient sea goddess Atargatis, and was known in various mythic systems as Tirgata, Aphrodite, Pelagia, or Delphine. The word also meant "womb" and "dolphin" in some tongues. Before Christianity adopted the fish symbol, it was known by pagans as "the Great Mother", and "womb". Its link to fertility, birth, and the natural force of women was acknowledged also by the Celts, as well as pagan cultures throughout northern Europe. In certain non-Christian beliefs the fish also has been identified with reincarnation and the life force.[4]
