We'd all be out of luck, as my childhood friend liked to say during her ichthyophobic stage. No reason to fear these guys though (apart from the fact that they are actually stone and so not fish at all barring a Gargoyles-type situation). No, these are decidedly Good Fish (...two fish, bad fish, blue fish)- the two golden fishes of Buddhist symbology. One of the eight auspicious symbols, they represent fearlessness in the face of the Ocean of Human Suffering (Samsara, or the continuous cycle of life). Also freedom, movement, fertility, abundance, and the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. Busy fishies!
Taken at Swayambhunath temple complex, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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