ullangoo wrote today at 4:57 AM
Oh, I see - a little misunderstanding. Yes, the word meant fish ever since Greek became Greek, of course. I simply meant that it didn't symbolize anything in Greek culture. I don't know what it meant in other tongues, but a shift in meaning from or to "dolphin" is rather likely. "womb" sounds more like a coincidence.Atargatis is not a Greek goddess, but of course not all the first Christians were Greeks or Greek-speaking.