Radar2007 wrote:

steelmaker, whether or not Jesus died on Friday or another day is about as important as whether Jesus was born on December 25 or another day. The point is, there was a day on which He died. We go with Friday through tradition, and we do penance in remembrance of Christ making the ultimate sacrifice for us.

Was Friday a day of worship for the followers of Dagon? Please give your source if you have an answer. If it comes from an anti-Catholic site, I'll just consider that the man-made teaching you keep warning me about.

Radar

Let's look at several things-first, FISH in pagan worship.

Dagon was first worshipped C. 2500 BC as a god of fertility, & became a fish god when its worshippers could feed themselves with fish even if their crops failed & hunting on land was unsuccessful. Also, the fish symbol originally was a representation of the "private parts" of "Mother Earth".

The main original name for Dagon is "Derceto" & was sometimes male, sometimes female, depending upon the time & place of worship. THE NAME DAGON IS A HEBREW NAME FOR THIS GOD, & MEANS 'LITTLE FISH'!

The Greex assimilated Derceto into their oracle at Delphi, along with the fish symbol, as the early inhabitants of Delphi worshipped the original fish goddess Themis.. Seems those Greex extended Derceto's family to include Cybele, one of the several "mother earth" goddesses, which also used the fish symbol.(From this comes the legends of mermaids.) Eventually all this this became the goddess Aphrodite Salacia, who was also associated with sex and the moon.(Our name for our 4th month, "April" & our word "salacious" come from this name!) And Friday was Aphrodite's day, often observed by eating fish only on that day.

This carried over to the Romans, whose goddess for all this was Venus, which also became the goddess of love. The Roman name for Friday was "dies veneris" , or 'day of Venus'.

As time passed, the Romans wanted to remove the association of Venus' symbol from female private parts, so they began to make illustrations of two thin crescent moons overlapping to resemble a fish body. By the time of Jesus, the fish symbol had lost that association. But Friday remained 'dies veneris', with abstention from meat, eating fish only still observed by many Romans, & prolly by many jews as well who didn't wanna offend their Roman masters.

The fish symbol was deeply embedded into Roman society, as well as Jewish culture, & even Jesus said He'd make His disciples "fishers of men".

This, then, seemsta be the clear source for the RCC "Fish Friday" custom.

This is a very brief summary, of course, but you can verify the info through any university with a large world-history dept.


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