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, It was used as an ideogram. xxv William Butler Yeats, xxiv Traditionally, the fish is a Christian symbol because the Greek word for fish, 'iktus', stood in primitive church for Iesu Kristos Theou Uios Soter, pp.2-13, 1970.

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