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Notes on the fish I

Reconfiguration of Romanesque bestiary

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The fish is linked to water and therefore its symbolism: life, death, rebirth, fertility. Because everything that has life, comes from the moist element, prince of which also feeds.

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corbels In the church of San Pedro Arrojo, a fish is shown from which hang two snakes seized.

own reading of the scene, might suggest that both reptiles hunt in order to devour their prey.

It would then of corbels which ornamentation shows a daily scene of nature, with the peculiarity that the attack is not executed by a single snake as usual, but in parallel, here are two.


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If we look at reading symbolic rather than literal, find those snakes symmetrical relationship with other commonly encountered very often in the Romanesque.
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But first we must understand that expropriating and accommodating work since its inception Christianity effected a word Ictis (fish) to make her his secret identifying marks, with investment a negative value in the field of religion that is attributed to the serpent, "reduced to Mal image from the first book of the Bible, would eventually obscure the true signifier of this symbol in sacred art.
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say this because in the constant relationship types and theological attributed to the anagram "Jesus Christ the Son of God and Savior" - (Iesous Theou uios Christos Soter), or the Jesus fish as food distributed to the crowds, it would eventually monopolize symbolic reading his reference to the Eucharist or logo representation its name, and therefore almost always forgotten or unknown, that the fish symbol was known in religions that preceded Christianity and whose cult was directly related to sex and fertility.
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According to the "Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects of Women" (Barbara G. Walker), Ichthys was the son of the sea goddess Atargatis, who was known in other mythologies as Aphrodite, Pelagia or Delphine. .. In ancient Greece the word also meant "womb" and "Dolphin".
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-fish deity Examples are the Babylonian Ea , similar to that of the Philistines Dag or Dagon, who became known to the Greeks as Oannes , an image that is reborn from the sea to make known to humans the arts of civilization, or in the Egyptian tradition, the fish that swallowed the phallus of the dismembered Osiris, restoring the regenerative drive to deep waters -fish, which was considered a symbol of the vulva of Isis.
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Egypt, 600 BC fish divinity
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As for the snake, like the great rivers of the earth wind of the mountain to the sea, with its shape and fluid motion and fast, came to symbolize, in the pagan culture, the powers dynamic, creative or generative source of the universe transmits life energy, to move from one dimension to another, or even in the Bronze Age, obvious sense of phallic consort was the same the goddess that attaches to fertilize the soil .



understand, then, that we have a vision on anything lewd or station of the eternal message of the struggle between Good and Evil, but reminiscent of some of the rituals of most concern to all peoples, from the Babylonians to the Romans, through the Celts, who testify to the fertility cult.
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This is the Nutrix Dea, compendium from the Syrian Atargatis, Tigarta or Delphina, Aphrodite to the Roman Venus, goddess nurturing as a concrete manifestation of the Great Mother, the promise of renewal and rebirth.
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"Mater Nutrix" Römische Kaiserzeit (Photo: BDA).
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Transmitter of knowledge and wisdom, it would take multiple representations art, from celtaromana women breastfeeding children, women and / or siren snakes breastfeeding Romanesque to the alchemical iconography, Renaissance and Baroque sacred, where "the baptism of milk" fitting in, definitely, with the exaltation Knowledge transmission .
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Nutrix Dea. Toulouse-Sur-Allier
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Alchemy. Wisdom feeding philosophers
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Alonso Cano. Virgin feeding the San Bernardo
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the crossroads of several symbols associated for centuries breastfeeding scene transports us in their cultural migration from the Great Mother, life-giving nutrients, to stormy vision for the perpetrators or inducement to sin by using these attributes female .
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Unfortunately, the concept of that image was gradually moving away from some values \u200b\u200bthat could not compete from the repeated interpretation of religious morality, I saw and still see in this representation lustful symbol of sin.
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