Fishygods
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Visigoths: one of the two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. Together these tribes were one of the loosely-termed "Germanic tribes" that disturbed the late Roman Empire. After the "fall" of the western Roman Empire, the Visigoths continued to play a major role in western European affairs for another 250 years. The Ostrogoths (who fought together with Attila) were defeated in 451 A.D. by Aetius and the Visigoths (king Theodorid ) in the battle of the Catalaunian Fields
- fishgods → Spirits of the Water
- Ulysses 013.04: "the fishgods of Dundrum"
- Dagon: a fishgod worshipped by the ancient Philistines
- Adapa: a fishgod associated with the Seven Sages of ancient Mesopotamian mythology
- ichthys (ιχθυς): (Greek) fish → acronym used by early Christians to denote their god Jesus Christ, from the Greek Ιησους Χριστος Θεου Υιος Σωτηρ ("Jesus Christ, Son of God [and] Saviour")
- Fintan Mac Bóchra: one of several deities in Irish mythology who could assume the form of a fish (typically a salmon); Fintan was the sole survivor of the Flood; see T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology (Dublin 1946) for a fuller treatment of the subject
