The third of the Hebrew-letter decodings, alongside Qoph for a hundred (M1078) and Tau for four hundred (M1077), and it runs on names as well as numbers. The first use of the word Jesus in the Bible is Joshua, and Moses could not enter what was promised - it took Joshua. Joshua is Joshua Ben Nun, Joshua the son of Nun, and Nun is a fish; he comes into the world to transform us into fishers of men, and he was called the great fish. Then the number: Sarah was ninety years old, and ninety is Tzaddi, whose symbol is a fishhook. So the pair is an apparatus - a fish and the hook that brings it out - and the question Neville asks of it is what is he fishing for, what is he bringing out of himself. The answer is Blake's: all that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your own wonderful human Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. So Sarah, or Mary, is the back of your own skull and the fishing is the bringing out.

COUNTS, corrected 2026-09-20 from the attach lane. The two halves do not travel together. The Nun half - Joshua ben Nun, Nun is a fish - is in 1276, 1807, 1818 and 1948; 1276 reads Psalm 107 as bracketed with the letter and notes that the bracket is inverted. The fishhook half - ninety is Tzaddi - is in 1807 only. Christ as the great fish is its own motif and is held separately.