"Cod [with a C] is love": note that in this unretouched image from
The Quiver, 1875, it's a large marine fish with a small barbel on the chin that is love.
David Watmough explains: "COD IS LOVE seemed more germane ... as a source to pray to than obeisance to some remote and distinctly unfishy deity" (
The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon, 2002).