“the fish is a libido
symbol, and, indeed, as it seems
predominately for the
renewal of the libido.”
CGJung
"the old Babylonian
Oannes-Ea, who was represented in the form of a fish,
and daily came from the sea as a fish to teach the people
wisdom.
His name was brought into connection with
John’s.
With the rising of the renewed sun all that lived
in darkness, as water-animal or fish, surrounded by all
terrors of night and death,
became as the shining fiery
firmament of the day. Thus the words of John the Baptist
gain especial meaning”
CGJung
Excerpt From
Psychology of the Unconscious
“The Trinity, as three different states of the unity is also a
Christian thought."
sun symbol.
Macrobius:
“Now these differences in the seasons refer to the Sun, which seems at
the winter solstice an infant,
at the vernal equinox it is represented as a youth.
Later, at the summer solstice, its age is represented by a full growth of beard
while at the last, the god is represented by the gradually diminishing
form of an old man.”
CGJung on symbols of the libido.
“the gods are libido.
It is that part of us which is immortal,
since it represents that bond through which we feel that in the race we are never extinguished.
It is life from the life of mankind.
Its springs, which well
up from the depths of the unconscious, come, as does our
life in general,
from the root of the whole of humanity, since we are indeed only a twig broken off from the
mother and transplanted.”