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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 3034656" data-attributes="member: 36597">Sorry, but the fish symbol comes from early Christian history and is intertwined with the Greek language.  It does not have to do with the feeding the multitudes story from the Bible.  According to the all knowing Wikipedia:It is believed that societies of Christians in the early Roman Empire, prior to the Edict of Milan, protected their congregations by keeping their meetings secret. In order to point the way to ever-changing meeting places, they developed a symbol which adherents would readily recognize, and which they could scratch on rocks, walls and the like, in advance of a meeting. Another story suggests that the ichthys was used as a sort of secret handshake: one person would draw with a staff a single curve, (half of the ichthys) in the sand, and another person could confirm their identity as a Christian by completing the symbol. Alternatively, one would draw the symbol, and another person would confirm their faith by drawing an eye on it.Ichthys (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish) is an acronym, which is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. It compiles to "Jesus Christ God's Son is Saviour" or "Jesus Christ God's Son and Saviour", in ancient Greek "Ἰησοὺς Χριστὸς Θεoὺ ῾Υιὸς Σωτήρ" Link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys</a></blockquote>