How is the prophecy of the carp in Bless Me, Ultima like the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

The legend of the golden carp is like the story of Sodom
and Gomorrah in the Bible because both have to do with obeying god and rejecting sin.
The legend of the carp was that the gods forbade the people to eat the carp. During a
terrible drought, however, the people disobeyed the rule. One of the gods pleaded for
mercy, so rather than destroy the people, the other gods turned them into carp instead
of killing them. The god who saved the people felt sorry for them, so he became a carp
as well. He is larger than the other carp and golden in color. The legend forbids men to
eat carp for this reason. Eating a carp is a sin. In Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and
Lot, his nephew, divided up their land because the land could not support both of them,
their families, livestock, etc. Lot chose to move to the city with his family, only the
city was the sinful Sodom and Gomorrah. God had already commanded Abraham NOT to mingle
with the pagan peoples, so Lot was disobeying the command by living right in the middle
of a sinful city. God decided to destroy the cities because of the sin, and Lot was
warned to escape with his wife. They were told not to look back, just like the people in
the carp legend were told not to eat the carp. Lot’s wife looked back, however, so she
was turned into a pillar of salt, just like the one god in the carp legend was turned
into a carp. Another similarity to Christianity is, though, that the golden carp felt
sorry for the people and became one of them. In this way, the carp is a Christ figure,
even though the carp legend represents pagan beliefs to
Anthony.

The golden carp is a religious symbol in this
novel, but it is not connected to Catholicism. The legend associated with it conflicts
with the beliefs of Anthony’s Catholic religion. Cico asks Anthony if he thinks the carp
is a god, and Anthony cannot reply that it IS a god without going against his Catholic
beliefs. The carp would be an example of paganism in the Catholic view, so the legend
associated with it illustrates Anthony’s conflict over what he believes. The carp offers
Anthony a glimpse of other religious viewpoints and while he rejects it outright at
first, he later finds that he can learn from it on his way to figuring out what it is
exactly that he does believe.