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Please pardon me if this topic is considered political. I tend to take anonymous interactions lightly. Blending separate ideas in my mind, I've created my profile picture while reading a T`ai Chi Ch`uan and meditation book and studying the Christian bible at my church. We were reading the book of Mark in the Gospel, and the pastor mentioned that the early Christian's used the fish symbol as a code. If two men met traveling, one would draw an arc in the sand, and the other would complete the arc so both men knew each other was Christian. In the T`ai Chi Ch`uan meditation book, it describes the diagram of the supreme ultimate or T`ai Chi Tu symbol as a double fish symbol which originated from observing the shadow of the sun from the main pillar of a home while the sun rose and set. 'The design [T`ai Chi Tu] is also described [as a] "pair of fishes nestling head to tail against each other".' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu#Modern_yin-yang_symbol I was not alive 2000 years ago, yet am able, through film, to imagine the struggles of early Christians; I am also of western descent. Yet, browsing, I find this particularly interesting: Read from the bottom right, up one over one. Shield pattern of the Western Roman infantry unit Armigeri Defensores Seniores (ca. AD 430).[6] Is this there some ancient connection here?