Fish and Caves

Lee Berman · 22 Dec 2010, 17:39 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:39:10 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fish and Caves
Message-ID: <SNT123-W5232EBFA3D2A723C998710CF1B0 at phx.gbl>

>David Stockhoff: Just briefly, I don't see that the Fish "symbol" is entirely ruled out. 
>I'd say it's twisted into unrecognizability, for very good reasons: some having to do with 
>avoiding a Sunday school lesson, and some having to do with the fact that everything in Briah 
>is a twisted shadow.of something in our universe.

I agree, especially in the light of paired opposites I'm viewing things in. We've got evil fish
symbols and good ones. Maybe comparable to the Long Sun's simple Sign of Addition paired with the
gammadion (swastika) to represent "good" vs. "evil", light vs. dark, spiritual vs. mechanical aspects 
of the Whorl.

In my growing view, it is combining the paired opposites which is seen (by wolfe?) as the expression
of the One True God. Good fish + evil fish, Severian + Apheta, Silk + Hyacinth, Apollo + Dionysus.
Maybe something like that. Since RttW gives us Quadrafons rather than Janus, it may be that the
process is more complicated than simple dyads.

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