Wallis examines the origins of the Christian cross, noting that it predates Christianity and was associated with symbols of power and the sun in ancient cultures.
Constantine, the Roman emperor, adopted the cross as a Christian symbol, blending it with pre-existing religious imagery.
Some traditions suggest that Jesus did not physically die on the cross, but entered a deep meditative state, allowing him to transcend physical pain.
The worship of Incal
To assert that we, despite our enlightenment, adored the orb of day, would be as absurd as to say that the Christians adore the cross of the crucifixion for itself; in both cases, it is the attached significance that caused the cross, and causes the sun, to be held in any sort of regard.
The Exoteric Church hath closed the ends of His Cross.
Native Poseid, the Suerni and Necropanic languages
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity: The narrator mentions studying various languages and cultures, including those of other nations, indicating a society that values linguistic ability and cross-cultural knowledge.
Caiphul
These rails served as cross streets, there being in comparatively few instances any paved street underneath the rails on any but the great radiate avenues.
On the maps of the City Department of Transit these main and cross rails looked like the web of a garden spider.
The presence of these shared characteristics suggests the possibility of cross-cultural influences or archetypal elements being passed down through different mythological traditions.
The Deluge of the Chaldeans
The sea which a sailing-vessel required fifteen days to cross must have been a very large body of water; in fact, an ocean.
Islands mentioned in the Bible
Text: "Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island."
The Island Tarshish
Cross the Indian Ocean to reach Goa, a major Portuguese colony and trading center in India.
Depart from Acapulco, cross the Pacific Ocean to Manila.
Mount Mashu
He must cross this tunnel to reach the world beyond, where the sun rises.
The vailx, powered by currents derived from the Night-Side of Nature
The Argonauts and Mount Pelion
She appeared to him as an old woman attempting to cross a swollen river.
Abuna Yemata Guh
Yang ley lines represent potent Earth energy and are especially powerful when they cross through mountainous or rocky terrain.
Not only was it the first temple built by the saint who popularized Christianity in Ethiopia, but it is also the one closest to the cross point between two ley lines.
When Yin and Yang ley lines cross, the surrounding area is believed to be filled with immense energy.
It is said that where two Yang lines cross, the Earth's power is very easy to absorb, and if three lines cross, it is extremely rare.
The Abuna Yemata Guh Temple was built as close as possible to where three Yang lines cross, and the Bayata Giorgis lies directly on one of them.
When Africa ‘Colonised’ China
The presence of pyramids and ancient structures in China, such as those in the Shaanxi province, is often cited as evidence of cross-cultural influence.
Are we from the stars?
These groups were among the first navigators, possibly constructing rafts to cross seas near Indonesia.
Jesus – Pleiadian consciousness
I kind of like to cross-reference the stories when I do this because there's a lot of good visuals and references in that Bible as well.
Where are the camels in ancient Egyptian drawings?
The idea that these could be the remains of an ancient, now-extinct polar camel didn’t even cross her mind.
Seven sisters
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the eagle-hawk chases the seven sisters up into the sky, where they become the star cluster and he becomes the Southern Cross.
Zeus
Examples of Cross-Cultural Influence:
Cross-Cultural Echoes:
Tekthah – The sacred symbol of Atlantis
In "Atlantis: The Book of the Angels," the four-armed Cross is a sacred symbol that holds significant religious and cultural importance for the Atlanteans.
The four-armed Cross, also known as Tekthah's standard, symbolizes the national prowess and the victorious empire of Atlantis.
The four-armed Cross is not only a national emblem but also holds religious connotations.
Despite its sacred origin, the four-armed Cross becomes part of the idolatrous practices of the Atlanteans.
During times of crisis, the four-armed Cross is used in sacrificial rituals to appeal to a divinity that the people do not fully comprehend.
The four-armed Cross's transformation from a symbol of national pride to an object of idolatrous sacrifice illustrates the broader theme of moral and spiritual decline in Atlantis.
The cross symbolizes victory and national greatness.
It led the nation under Tekthah to its victorious empire and was a rallying symbol during times of war and conflict.During a pivotal moment in the story, the cross is brought out from the central tower and lifted towards the sky, symbolizing a nation's surrender to a divine power.
The Colonies of Atlantis
They extensively used the sign of the Cross and depicted animals like the elephant and the lion, which were not native to America.
Geographical Spread: Their settlements spread up the Mississippi River and over its tributaries but did not cross the Alleghany Mountains.
The Pyramid, the cross and the Garden of Eden
The reverence for the Cross predates Christianity by millennia, as documented in various cultures across the globe.
The July 1870 issue of the Edinburgh Review details the ubiquity and sanctity of the Cross in ancient societies:
The Cross was a sacred symbol across disparate civilizations, often associated with fundamental doctrines or mysteries.
Varieties of the Cross include the crux ansata or "the key of the Nile," a T-shaped cross with a loop or oval above it.
The Cross was integrated into various cultural practices and religious rites, symbolizing creative power, heaven, immortality, rejuvenescence, and divine unity.
The pervasive reverence for the Cross, the myth of the Garden of Eden, and the construction of pyramids across ancient civilizations point to a shared cultural memory and religious symbolism.
The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
The orbicular wheel-like plates of these statues may be linked to the wheel symbol of Kronos and Saturn, or the cross of Atlantis surrounded by a ring.
Beginning of the 5th Root Race
However, they had to cross open water only as far as the mouth of the Sahara Sea (which was a crooked sort of bight opening into the Atlantic), and then to sail along its almost land-locked waters.
The voyage was performed three times, and the little nation, made up to nine thousand men, women and children by the additional few from elsewhere, set forth eastwards on foot.1 They had with them a number of animals also, looking like a cross between a buffalo and an elephant with something of the pig, reminding one rather of a tapir, a half-anahalf sort of beast.
He had passed through Mesopotamia and Babylonia, slanting north, and the mountains He had to cross were not of great height ; the Turanian Confederation gave permission for His passage, partly because His people were not numerous enough to cause apprehension, and partly because He stated that He was carrying out a mission imposed upon Him by the Most High.
Turanian, in Ancient Chaldaea.
On the contrary, they constitute a totally distinct series of cross-divisions, each containing matter in all these different conditions, so that if we denote the various types by numbers, we should have solid, liquid, and gaseous matter of the first type, solid, liquid and gaseous matter
Similarly in every astral body there is matter of each of these types or cross-divisions, and in this case the proportion between them shows the disposition of the man — whether he is excitable or serene, sanguine or phlegmatic, patient or irritable, and so on.
Its main plan was cruciform, with a vast circular space (covered by the hemispherical dome) where the arms of the cross met.
We shall gain a more correct image if, instead of thinking of the ordinary cruciform church with nave, chancel and transepts, we picture to ourselves a great circular domed chamber like the reading-room of the British Museum, and then imagine four huge naves opening out of it towards the four quarters of the compass; for all the arms of its cross were of equal length.
Having fixed that part of the picture firmly, we must then add four other great openings between the arms of the cross, leading into vast halls whose walls curved round and met at the extremity, so as to give their floors the shape of an immense leaf or the petal of a flower.
In fact, the ground-plan of the temple might be described as an equal-armed cross laid upon a simple four-petalled flower, so that the arms lay between the petals.
The whole structure was carefully oriented, so that the arms of the cross were accurately directed to the cardinal points.
Along the centre of the roof of this huge northern arm of the cross there ran a narrow slit open to the sky, so that the light of whatever star happened to be exactly upon the meridian shone straight into the temple and fell upon the great mirror.
Jesus a reincarnation of the Buddha?
Father Seán aspires to be what Carl Jung called a "gnostic intermediary"—someone well-versed in different spiritual traditions who can cross-fertilize them to mutual benefit.
King David
Biblical scholars have worked to correlate these accounts with historical timelines by cross-referencing events and reigns of other known historical figures and kingdoms.
The people of Southern America suppose it was the banana, whose fibres form the cross, and they say that thus, in it, Adam discovered the mystery of the Redemption.
Placed in a coffin or bound to something like a cross