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Re: Geez, its hard to stomach all of this
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:47:23 GMT
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Tim Courtney writes:
Selçuk Göre writes:
What's this thing?..I mean " <>< "

Its an electronic symbol of the Ischtus (I think?) Fish, Christians put them
on their cars (at least in the US).  It was a symbol the apostles used in the
early church, etc.  You see then plain, with Jesus in the middle, and with
IX0YE too, its some acronym in ancient Greek.

For anyone interested, the Ichthus was a symbol of a fish with the Geek acronym
inside it that meant,
I=Jesus - in greek his first name starts with iota; latin has it as "Iesu"),
X=Christ - last name starts with chi for the hard sound in Christos),
O=God - the character theta for "theos" meaning God(1),
Y=Son - upsilon used for the first letter of the greek word for son "hyios"(1),
E=Saviour - sigma for "soter" meaning savior(1).

Hence, Xmas for Christmas too.

From Tom McDonald
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(1) A roman character equivalent is often used where visibly similar

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(...) ...<snip>... (...) Its an electronic symbol of the Ischtus (I think?) Fish, Christians put them on their cars (at least in the US). It was a symbol the apostles used in the early church, etc. You see then plain, with Jesus in the middle, and (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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