Re: equinox

Nik Taylor wrote:

>  That's what the
> astrological "Age of Acquarius" is all about - and MAYBE what the
> Christian Fish is!  There's a theory that it represented the change that
> occured in the 1st century from the age of Aries to the age of Pisces.
I have always read that the Christian fish was a method of avoiding
letting it be known that they were Christians during the persecutions
of the Roman Empire.  The Greek word for fish is <ichthys>, which was
used by the Christians as an acronym for "Iesous Christos Theou Souter
Soter" or something like that (I always seem to forget the last words),
meaning "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior".  The story is that when two
people would meet in the marketplace, or something like that, if one person
were Christian, they would very casually just kinda diddle around in
the sand with their foot, making a crescent shape.  Then if the other
person were also Christian, the other would respond by making the other
crescent, thus making the form of the body of the fish.  Thus they would
know the other was a Christian too, and so they knew it was safe to
share their faith with the other. None of this was spoken, of course.


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