That sets the worship of Jehovah against the worship of the Fish-god.
The Fish-god is an important religious figure, above all for the fishermen and the people of the harbor.
The Fish-god is a monstrous image, part man and part fish.
People often decorate the Fish-god, above all at big events like the Jubilee of Zul.
The Fish-god holds a model of the Tacoatlanta in its hands.
This sets the worship of Jehovah against the worship of the Fish-god.
The followers of the Fish-god stand for corruption and rejection of true worship.
In this place there is a great mountain in the middle of the water which is called Culhuacan, because it has the point somewhat turned over toward the bottom; and for this cause it is called Culhuacan, which means 'crooked mountain.'" He then proceeds to describe the charms of this favored land, abounding in birds, game, fish, trees, "fountains enclosed with elders and junipers, and alder-trees both large and beautiful." The people planted "maize, red peppers, tomatoes, beans, and all kinds of plants, in furrows."
Rig-Veda: Manu is warned by a fish about a deluge.
He builds a vessel and is guided to safety by the fish, which is an incarnation of a god.
Purânas: King Satyravata is saved by a fish-god, who warns him of the deluge.
His other points, in short: Ea, the god of the tablets, was a half-man, half-fish god of "the abyss" who brought civilization and letters, so he stands in Donnelly's view for a maritime nation.
The common people ate meat, fish and even reptiles.
The "Erya" describes it this way: the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish.
In art they appear as figures with the body of a fish and the head and limbs of a human, or as men wearing fish cloaks, a sign of their link with Ea.
Some are shown as part human and part fish, a sign of their origin in the watery domain of Enki, the Apsu.
It describes them as pure carp-fish of the sea.
4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
The godless Sammael had made an alliance with all the chiefs of his host against the Lord, because the holy and ever-blessed Lord had said to Adam and Eve, "Have dominion over the fish of the sea," and he said, "How can I make man to sin and drive him out?" Then he went down to earth with all his host, and he sought for a companion like to himself; he chose the serpent, which was in size like a camel, and he seated himself on its back and rode up to the woman, and said to her, "Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" And he thought, "I will ask more presently." Then she answered, "He has only forbidden me the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge which is in the midst of the garden.
Raphael is often depicted in art as holding a staff or a fish, referencing his narrative in the Book of Tobit where a fish's gall was used to heal Tobit's blindness.
I start with the Vedic and Puranic trail: his name, his role as Manu of the present age, and the fish that warns him to build a ship.
In this early account, a fish comes into Manu’s hands while he washes.
The fish asks to be reared.
Manu ties the ship to the fish’s horn and is carried to the northern mountain.
Critical nuance: in Satapatha, the fish is not named Vishnu or Matsya-avatar.
The fish then gives the timing and the ship instruction:
When the flood rises, Manu ties the rope to the fish’s horn:
The fish then swam up to him, and to its horn he tied the rope of the ship, and by that means he passed swiftly up to yonder northern mountain.
Manu is warned, builds a ship, is towed by the fish to a northern mountain, and alone survives the sweep of creatures.
In the Matsya Purana trail, the fish is identified as Vishnu as Matsya.
The early Vedic story is Manu alone with an unnamed fish and a northern mountain.
Manu’s warning comes from a fish (later Vishnu-Matsya).
First, Satapatha Brahmana gives me the earliest clear Manu flood narrative: unnamed fish, ship, northern mountain, Manu alone remaining.
In Satapatha Brahmana he alone survives the flood after a fish warns him to prepare a ship.
What did Matsya do?In later Puranic tradition, Matsya is Vishnu as a fish who warns Manu and guides the boat.
In Satapatha Brahmana, an unnamed fish saves Manu.
The rats she had made had changed into bats; there were giant lizards and fish with blue tongues and feet.
Their feeding keeps the numbers of small fish and plankton in check.
Depiction of Jonah in a champlevé enamel (1181) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, AustriaIn Turkish, "Jonah's fish" (yunus balığı) is the term used for dolphins.
Update: the belly of the Fish likely refers to the chambre of the great pyramid
And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood.
Despite the chaos, several species survived: fish (such as sharks), birds, small mammals (your ancestors), various reptiles such as crocodiles… and there were the giant dinosaurs you call tyrannosaurs.
The presence of the hematoid pigment in the rivers caused the death of fish followed by decomposition and smell.