From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2007 - 06:24:11 CDT
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Hudson
> As an emblem of religious affiliation, perhaps the fish and cross have 'approximately the
> same meaning', but the fish symbol is actually a direct equivalent to the Chi-Rho
> monogram. Both are based on the the first letters of the Jesus Christ's name in Greek:
>
> Ἰ[ησοῦς] Χ[ριστός] -> ΙΧ[θυς] = fish
I have usually seen the fish described in terms of an anagram:
Ἰ[ησοῦς] Χ[ριστός] Θ[εοῦ] Ὑ[ιός] Σ[ωτήρ]
Peter
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