@TheDevil
given your history, perhaps you know this already.
"in the hermeneutic writings of the Church Fathers,
Christ has a number of symbols or "allegories" in common with the devil. Of these I would mention the lion, snake (colluder, 'viper'), bird (devil = nocturna avis), raven (Christ = nycticorax, 'night-heron'), eagle, and fish.
Lucifer, the Morning Star, means Christ as well as the devil. Apart from the snake, the fish is one of the oldest allegories."
"the fish symbol, in the Near and Middle East especially, has a long and colourful prehistory,
from the Babylonian fish-god Oannes and his priests who clothed themselves in fish-skins,
to the sacred fish-meals in the cult of the Phoenician goddess Derceto-Atargatis and the obscurities of the Abercius inscription.
T h e symbol ranges from the redeemer- fish of Manu in farthest India to the Eucharistie fish-feast celebrated by the "Thracian riders" in the Roman Empire."
"The Sabbath is Saturday, Saturn's Day. Al- bumasar 1 testifies that Saturn is the star of Israel.
In medieval astrology Saturn was believed to be the abode of the devil.
Both Saturn and Ialdabaoth, the demiurge and highest archon, have lion's faces.
Origen elicits from the diagram of Celsus that Michael, the first angel of the Creator, has "the shape of a lion."
