Koi carpere

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CARP.Slavs.Carp the Bulgarians and dedicated to St. Nicholas and was a ritual meal in his day (6.XII). According to the legend, when during a storm the waves struck the bottom of the boat St. Nicholas, he grabbed the carp out of the water and tucked them in the hole. Since it is customary to donate to Saint Nicholas carp to St. Nicholas day: the head and the right side of the baked carp distributed in front of the Church bearing the Saint’s name. Cross-shaped bone from the head of carp was protecting children from the evil eye, relieved from insomnia, tumors spoke. The Croats claimed that the head of the carp is depicted the virgin Mary with the infant Jesus. In Eastern Serbia and Western Bulgaria believed that forty or hundred years the carp turns into a flying serpent.
China. Symbolizes: great literary ability, perseverance in the struggle with difficulties, courage. About carp saying that it is his perseverance “jumped over the Dragon Gate” and became the dragon. So a scientist, successful in the literary competitions called “carp prepregnancy Dragon Gate.” Carp-twin means the Union of lovers Carp is revered in China and Japan for red (cf. the motif of a goldfish) and symbolizes strength and courage and perseverance in the struggle.
Japan. The carp is the emblem of the samurai as a sign of courage, dignity, desires to give himself into the hands of fate, endurance and good luck. Also symbolizes love, as with her homophonical.
FISH.The animal associated with the water element and giving the chthonic symbolism. In General the three (vertical) mythological schemes of the universe R. are the main zoomorphic classifier lower outer zones and contrasted with the birds as the classifier of the upper zone, and (less clearly) large animals (often ungulates), representing the average space area. On the basis of image R. from the gorges d Enfer (Dordogne) you can conclude that the desire to put such images at the bottom (over R. the image is sometimes interpreted as the head of the bird). In the works of the so-called mobile art of the Paleolithic the most frequent subject (on the rods with the holes) is represented by R. in the form of a phallus. A continuation of this aspect of the “fish” theme are the so-called stone fish from Neolithic settlements and burials of Siberia (they correspond to the later figures R. used as bait and fishing magic means in magic; cf. also Siberian petroglyphs R. that, for example, Khanty, and indicate the direction of movement R. The biblical symbolism of the “fish” images in medieval Western sculpture — to a certain extent only a transformation of archaic stone R. R. Demiurgic function is manifested in two variants — active, when R. brings from the bottom of the primordial ocean ooze, from which the earth is created, and passive, when R. (the whale, three whale, Dolphin, etc.) is the backbone of the earth. More or less similar versions are recorded in Buryatia, Altai inhabitants, the Ainu, the Japanese and other peoples of Eurasia. Perhaps the motive R. as the pillar of the earth in the ocean is associated primarily with Indian beliefs about the mountain world in the middle of the ocean, affecting, in particular, on the Central Asian tradition. In those cosmogonic versions, where the ocean embraces the whole universe, the sun circles the earth at the top of the solar boat at the bottom on the river, serving as mount solar deity. Reduced variant’s influence on R. the function is found in the legends and myths of the deluge, in which R. is the Savior of life, for example in the Indian tradition. In the area of distribution of myths and legends about the flood and particularly on its periphery (Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Iran, etc.) are well preserved traces of “fish” mythology and worship of R. In local versions of Japanese creation myth of the moon God Tsukuyomi, by the command of Amaterasu descended to earth to serve the goddess of food, Okamoto: welcoming the God of the moon, she turns her head to sea, and from her mouth popping variety of R. acting here only as a means of sustaining life. The motif of the hero, swallow R. (the story of Jonah, in the Melanesian tale of Kanakadasa, in the Russian tale of Ivan also swallows the pike River, which it and spews). In all these cases R. acts as the equivalent of the lower world, the realm of the dead (to be resurrected to a new life, you need to visit it). Sometimes R. actualizes the image of a water monster that steals woman and makes her his wife. Among the other fantastic hybrid of ancient Indian R. Makar, most directly associated with fertility, or the whangdoodle (miracle sea) of Russian fairy tales, often possessing the features and properties R.; in the mythological representations of the monster fish as nature is usually a whale. There is a popular belief about p. different species as the ancestors of the people and therefore a “Fish” (… ??? …) (compare this image in the catacomb art), and Christians are the “fishermen”; cf. the image of the apostles the fishermen Peter and Andrew, whom Jesus Christ promised to make “fishers of men” (Matt. 4, 19); hence an allegorical painting of scenes of fishing and fishing network R. in medieval European art (cf also the image of Buddha as a fisherman). R. can not only symbolize fertility, fecundity, abundance (mifopoeticheskoe is marked and the way fish eggs), sexual strength, wisdom, but also poverty, greed, indifference, sexual indifference (due to the nature of reproduction R.), stupidity. R. — a frequent character in fairy folklore. Some species of fish like (salmon, carp, shark, Dolphin).Fish meat is not really meat, so eat and fast days. As the element of water is associated with all aspects of the Mother Goddess as the Genetrix and with all lunar deities. Fish with bread and wine was a sacred food of the mystical religions. Fish dishes, as well as the sacrifice of the fish was presented in the ritualistic worship all the gods of the underworld and lunar goddesses of the waters, and of love and fertility, such as Atargatis, whose son, Ichthys, was the sacred fish, and the goddess Ishtar, NIN, ISIS, and Venus. Their day was a Friday, and this day had fish in their honour, and at the same time — trying to join the fertility of the fish. This symbolism is observed in Egypt, in Celtic, Indian, Mesopotamian, Burmese, Persian, and French iconography and is found almost everywhere from ancient times to the present. Sexual symbolism in many cultures, and is associated with abundant caviar, with water — an emblem of fertility, comparison of fish with a penis. Associated with the goddesses of the moon, motherhood and childbirth. Fish also serve as food for all the festivities dedicated to the great Mother and was eaten in its day — Friday. The symbolism of Pisces is inseparable from the symbolism of water and means universal renewal of nature. Fish — the attribute of sexual life. For men — through the similarity of certain species to the phallus. A symbol of women were considered in ancient times the frog, because this animal, according to the myth, came from the drops of sea foam, from which came Aphrodite. Like an iceberg in the ocean, so every mythical creature — fish hides in the depths of time the roots of its origin — “fish tail”. So, still not received full and accurate explanation of the myth about the relationship of fish with the Moon — goddess of the moon was depicted with a fish tail… Maybe because of the influence of the moon on the sea tides? (approx. translator). In some mythologies the disk of the sun, hiding over the horizon in the West, returned East and then to ascend, in the belly of giant fish, sea monsters, and even boats, carrying fish. Fish is associated with immortality and resurrection from the dead, with people who were once in his justice saved the gods from the Flood. After all, marine animals, too, all remained unharmed. According to legend the image of the fish has always been associated with images of tritons, sirens… you know the ROE, fish-spawned females are made up of millions of larvae. Therefore, this fertility bequeathed by the Creator-the Demiurge. Fish dishes are also gradually become symbolic, they are served on holidays, at weddings, which should ensure future spouses good offspring. Fish one time considered being unclean. Fish as Passetto, was considered by many peoples of God — first of all, because of its environment. And the symbol of water in all its randomness. Fish became for many centuries the most extensive and versatile symbols.