Four or five lectures (1137, 1261, 1321, 1412, and inside the Nun reading at 1807), and it is a title rather than a parable. In all the books it is the great fish, and Neville reads the last scene of John as the proof: when he comes onto the shore and they are cooking fish, it is a symbol - he offers himself as the big fish to feed the whole vast world. He is the fish. At 1261 the name is placed in a series with two others for the same thing, which is the most useful passage for the motif: I am not denying the serpentine force - that great serpent that fell. He's called the serpent. He's called the Great Fish. He's called the Elephant. These are the names given to this creative power. So fish, serpent and elephant are three names for one creative force rather than three symbols, and the eating of the fish on the shore is that force being taken in. It connects to M1090 through the letter Nun, which is a fish and gives Joshua his patronymic, and to the fishers of men. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.