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Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Started conversation Dec 14, 2005
An informative article which I enjoyed reading. I had never realised that 153 was a special number. Have just looked in John Ch. 21 and yes, there it is in v.11: "It was full of large fish, 153..."
Reading your article I recalled two other instances of fish being important symbols.
The Rainbow Fish I believe is very ancient and worshiped by the Australian aborigines (there are some cave paintings or aboriginal drawings of it I seem to remember).
Then there was a documentary I saw, or a book I read, many years ago about a tribe, possibly in Africa, where young men were expected to ejaculate into the mouth of a fish on reaching manhood i.e. puberty.
Fascinating subject worthy of further study.
Well done! 
lucky,
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Dec 14, 2005
Thanks!
I didn't know about the Aboriginal and African connections. Rock paintings are such good sources about these things. Thanks much. More research is clearly needed.
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John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted Dec 14, 2005
I'll add my 'well done'.
I've seen the symbol, of course, but I didn't realize there was so much behind it - very interesting. The Darwin fish is great; I've got to get one of those! 
JTG 
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