So, @Christy
… you are going to be a stickler that you can’t pray in Sheol… but you CAN pray in a fish?
The “Sheol” reference is a challenge for either interpretation - - with one exception…
Tiamat: “Tiamat was later known as Thalattē (as a variant of thalassa, the Greek word for “sea”) in the Hellenistic Babylonian writer Berossus’ first volume of universal history.”
or … perhaps
Abzu: “The Abzu (Cuneiform: 𒍪 𒀊, ZU.AB; Sumerian: abzu; Akkadian: apsû) also called engur, literally, ab=‘ocean’ zu=‘deep’, was the name for the primeval sea below the void space of the underworld (Kur) and the earth (Ma) above.”
It’s a pretty clever veiled reference if you ask me…