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Gone fishing.
Nietzsche said, "From this moment forward all my writings are fish hooks: perhaps I know how to fish as well as anyone? – If nothing was caught, I am not to blame. There were no fish."
Squalidae - Dogfish.
Shrouded in cold mist, a desolate figure in a wasteland of his own making was sat next to his fishing rod. Hunched, frozen and lost in silence, he caught nothing except his own reflection
in the dead water.
The Fisher King.
Fish on a dish.
According to the basic legend, the Grail is in the keeping of a man called the Fisher King who lives in the Grail Castle, surrounded by warrior monks. He has a mysterious wound on his upper thigh, or even in his genitals, which never heals. Lucy was curious about the use of the title Fisher King. The symbol of the fish was known from antiquity to represent divine life. Only one person can offer divine life, and so Lucy argued that the Fisher King must be another name for God. The worthy – the Cathars – would be caught in his fishing nets while the unworthy – the Catholics – would swim right through. It saddened God that so many fish in the sea couldn’t be saved. They were his metaphorical wound that never healed. Only when all of humanity returned to him would his wound vanish. ‘The Fisher King’s Grail Castle, hidden from the unworthy, was heaven; the Wasteland outside, hell. The Wasteland would disappear only when the Fisher King was cured, and that would happen only when Catharism triumphed.
The Armageddon Conspiracy. Mike Hockney.
Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days
by J. R. Hartley.
Reading the water.
You begin to be able to appraise a stretch of water, to sense where the fish will be. On wet fly water this is essential, because, unlike on dry fly water, the fish is not normally giving his position away.
Angling - to fish with a hook.
Angle - etymology.
"To fish with a hook," mid-15c.
From Old English angel (n.) "angle, hook, fish-hook," related to anga "hook," from Proto-Germanic *angul-, from PIE *ankulo-, suffixed form of root *ang-/*ank- "to bend"
Compare Old English angul, Old Norse öngull, Old High German angul, German Angel "fishhook."
"Space or difference in direction between intersecting lines," late 14c.
From Old French angle "an angle, a corner" (12c.) and directly from Latin angulus "an angle, a corner," a diminutive form from PIE root *ang-/*ank- "to bend" (source also of Greek ankylos "bent, crooked," Latin ang(u)ere "to compress in a bend, fold, strangle;" Old Church Slavonic aglu "corner;" Lithuanian anka "loop;" Sanskrit ankah "hook, bent," angam "limb;" Old English ancleo "ankle;" Old High German ango "hook").
Member of a Teutonic tribe, Old English, from Latin Angli "the Angles," literally "people of Angul" (Old Norse Öngull), a region in what is now Holstein, said to be so-called for its hook-like shape. Or the name might refer to fishing (with hooks) as a main activity of the people, and Proto-Germanic anguz is said also to have meant "narrow," so it might refer to shallow coastal waters.
People from the tribe there founded the kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbia, and East Anglia in 5c. Britain. Their name, rather than that of the Saxons or Jutes, may have become the common one for the whole group of Germanic tribes because their dialect was the first committed to writing.
From Middle High German engel, from Old High German engil from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Cognate with English angel.
Sources:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Engel
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Angle
Angle Theta θ.
In Geometry and Trigonometry, an angle is a two - dimensional geometric figure that consists of two rays with a common starting point. The symbol Theta is used to denote the unknown measure of an angle.
Theta (UK: /ˈθiːtə/, US: /ˈθeɪtə/; uppercase: 𝚯, Θ or ϴ; lowercase: θ or ϑ; Ancient Greek: θῆτα thē̂ta [tʰɛ̂ːta]; Modern: θήτα thī́ta [ˈθita]) is the eighth letter of the Greek Alphabet, derived from the Phoenician Letter Teth. In the system of Greek Numerals, it has a value of 9.
In its archaic form, theta θ, was written as a cross within a circle and later, as a line or point in circle. Archaic crossed forms of theta are seen in the wheel letters of Linear A and Linear B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta
Hook, Line and Sinker.
The idiom is used to emphasize that someone has been completely tricked or deceived.
This phrase is a fishing metaphor: all three are items attached to a fishing line and likely to be gulped down by a greedy fish. The phrase has been in use since the mid 19th century.
Hook, Line and Sinker.
The gullible and ill-informed are easy to catch with clever sales talk, glossy advertising as well as carefully crafted propaganda and lies. History is replete with such misinformation and the masses just gulp it down and never question the validity of the information. Consumerism, global pandemics and convincing people to go to war, all rely on standard techniques that are tried and tested; and the 'fish' all eagerly grab and swallow the bait.
Musical hooks.
In music, a hook is the part of the song that catches the attention of the listener; it literately hooks you in!
Musical hooks can get stuck in your mind for ages.
Sales hooks.
A sales hook is the same thing as a sales pitch. Essentially, a sales hook (or pitch) is a condensed sales presentation that gets the conversation started regarding what your business is, as well as your product or services' main benefits.
A sales hook should be a quick, 1-2 minute rundown of how your product or service can help your prospect. A concise, persuasive sales hook opens the door to longer conversations down the line.
Bait.
From Middle English bayte, bait, beite, from Old Norse beta, (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic baito, (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo European beyd (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with German Beize (“mordant, corrosive fluid; marinade; hunting”), Old English bat (“that which can be bitten, food, bait”). Related to bite.
Noun
bait (countable and uncountable plural baits)
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap or net.
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something quotations.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. quotations.
- (Tyneside) A packed lunch.
- (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
Source: Wiktionary.
Click - bait.
Internet content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.
‘Sit down, Mr Vernon,’ Commander Harrington said. ‘We have a lot to get through.’ Putting down his coffee, Vernon took a seat opposite the others. Numerous documents were laid out on the table, all bearing ‘Classified: Eyes Only’ stamps. Next to the paperwork, sitting on a black cloth, was a translucent globe, emerald green in colour, the size of a tennis ball. A paperweight of some kind, Vernon thought.
Finally, there was a small microphone. ‘Why don’t you bring Mr Vernon up to speed, colonel?’ Harrington said. Gresnick nodded. ‘Four days ago, the thirty men of our top Delta Force unit went awol from their base at Fort Bragg. Within twenty-four hours, one of our analysts discovered an extraordinary and hitherto unknown connection between all of them. Without exception, they were grandchildren of members of Section 5, a military intelligence unit from World War Two.
In April and May of 1945, Section 5 interrogated Nazi officials responsible for part of the vast treasure hoard the Nazis looted from all over Europe. The treasures these particular Nazis looked after were of an esoteric, religious nature, and were stored in deep bunkers beneath Nuremberg Castle.’
‘That’s quite a story.’ Vernon realised he was going to have trouble avoiding the Nazis today. ‘All these Delta Force guys were single and childless,’ Gresnick said. ‘Before they deserted, they sold their homes and withdrew all of their money from their bank accounts.’ Vernon had no idea what any of this had to do with MI5. Intriguing for sure, but it seemed like an internal American Army issue, of trivial importance given world events.
‘You’re probably wondering what the punchline is,’ Gresnick said. ‘No doubt you’re aware of the recent thefts of religious artefacts from various sites around the world.’ Vernon nodded. Three of the seven sites were in the British Isles.
The Armageddon Conspiracy. Mike Hockney.
The Hill of Tara.
The British Israelites.
British Jewish leaders searched for the Ark of the Covenant at Tara and carried out excavations between the years 1899 and 1902 as part of the quest to recover the Ark of the Covenant.
Those who carried out the excavations believed that Tara was a royal site in the British Empire and the ‘resuscitated Jerusalem’ in a new Israel. They developed their theories from a study of ancient texts, the Bible, early Irish mythology and literature, concluding that the Ark was buried at Tara in the grave of Tea Tephi, an Egyptian princess.
According to legend she was the daughter of a Pharaoh and came to Ireland in the 6th century BC and married Éirimon, a King of Tara. British Israelites wanted to present the Ark to Queen Victoria as they believed that Tea Tephi was the ancestor of the English Kings and Queens. Victoria was interested in Tara herself and had in her possession two replica Tara brooches for her wardrobe (she wasn’t to know that the original brooch wasn’t found at Tara!)
The British-Israelite movement was a sect within the Church of England that emerged in the 1870s and formed a relatively powerful and influential voice in British middle-class Christianity until its rapid decline after 1945. Amongst its numerous bizarre and amusing beliefs there is a consistent obsession with antiquities and alternative archaeologies of various kinds, ranging from Celtic and Arthurian myths to Biblical archaeology and Egyptology. The present day pseudoscience of pyramidology is in many respects an after-effect of British-Israelite efforts in the 1870s and 1920s, as we shall see.
British-Israelism was primarily a movement of the upper middle classes, particularly within the military, the clergy and the colonial middle classes, although there were famous and prominent supporters including George VI, the poet Patience Strong and Princess Alice of Athlone.
The Hill of Tara (Irish: Teamhair or Cnoc na Teamhrach) is a hill and ancient ceremonial and burial site near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. Tradition identifies the hill as the inauguration place and seat of the High Kings of Ireland; it also appears in Irish mythology. Tara consists of numerous monuments and earthworks—dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age—including a passage tomb (the "Mound of the Hostages"), burial mounds, round enclosures, a standing stone (believed to be the Lia Fáil or "Stone of Destiny"), and a ceremonial avenue.
Sources:
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/british-jewish-leaders-sought-the-ark-of-the-covenant-at-tara
Angel
From Middle High German engel, from Old High German engil from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Cognate with English angel.
In Greek Mythology, Angelos (Ancient Greek: Ἄγγελος) or Angelia (Ἀγγελία) was a daughter of Zeus and Hera who became known as a chthonic deity.
Angarius
From Ancient Greek ἄγγαρος (ángaros, “Persian mounted courier”), from an uncertain non-Greek (probably Middle Eastern) source. Confer ἄγγελος (ángelos).
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