The serpents and devouring beasts come to the arena from druh (Panic) cross-purpose, evil purpose; cruv (Vede), a serpent-like evil, druhk, evil spirit, (Vede), druj, evil destroyer (Poit), druja, sign of death (Channic), cross-bones; danger from unseen spirits, an X, ex or drux.
He should be proved on the cross, the druh, and he die not.
False prophets' bones hang on the druh, the cross.
Sa, the cross-bones.
The evil cross, the English letter X.
The true cross within Eloih.
Uhk'sa, the evil cross (Panic).
1 See pronunciation, page 604.2 ORIGIN OF THE SIGN OF THE CROSS.
The origin of the jaugernacht; also the origin of the cross-bones; the sign of those who perished as false prophets, being unable to be released by spirit power.3 The measuring instrument, Gau, is a triangle with a plumb-line suspended from the upper angle.
On the plumb-line proper is a cross-bar, on which there are sights for the observer.
On his forehead should be the sign of cross-bones.
A sign of a wheel or of a cross.
Save you* be tried on the cross you* are unworthy to be exalted (Anra'mainyus).
A man bound on a cross.
Anra'mainyus sent the symbol of a circle with four cross-corners and a point, over all the earth.
In the midst stood the cross of Eolin, studded with pearls and diamonds.
M.: Thus end your initiation, and may the cross of the Wheel of the Great Spirit be the center of your action, and the angle of your behavior toward all men.
Variena, a circle divided by cross-lines into four quarters; made for Thraetaono, a holy name, which had power over the Dahaka, serpent, i.e., evil.
She will cross thy etherean fields, the Takuspe, and Opel, and Wedojain, dripping with the odor and dross of the ji'ay'an swamps.
Wan Tu'y said: Erst your*** return, O Lika, the Hapsa-ogan vortex will cross the south fields of Vetta'puissa.
Ching Huen said: Behold the star-world, Esatas, in her se'muan age will cross the Roads of Veh-yuis in three years hence!
Lika answered Ching Huen, saying: To cross these roads of light in her se'muan age would blight her power to bring forth animal life sufficient unto her wide continents.
I created wide seas on the corporeal earth, that man should perceive that one man alone could not cross over; nor in a small boat, with any profit under the sun.
Their generals were: Hoin, Oo-da, Jah, Knowteth, June, Pluton-ya, Loo-Chiang, Wahka, Posee-ya-don, Dosh-to, Eurga-roth, Neuf, Apollo-ya, Suts, Karusa, Myion, Hefa-yistie, Petoris, Ban, Ho-jou-ya, Mung-jo, Ura-na, Oke-ya-nos, Egupt, Hi-ram, T'cro-no, Ares, Yube, Feh-tus, Don, Dan, Ali-jah, Sol, Sa-mern, Thu-wowtch, Hua-ya, Afro-dite, Han, Weel, Haing-le, Wang-le, Ar-ti-mis, Ga-song-ya, Lowtha, Pu, Tochin-woh-to-gow, Ben, Aa-ron, Nais-wiche, Gai-ya, Te-sin, Argo, Hadar, Atstsil, E-shong, Daridrat, Udan, Nadar, Bog-wi, She-ug-ga, Brihat, Zeman, Asrig, Oyeb, Chan-lwang, Sishi, Jegat, At-yena and Dyu.
For your efficient service, behold, I have given you these high-raised generals and captains: Jah, Pluton-ya, Apollo-ya, Petoris, Hi-ram, T'cro-no, Egupt, Ares, Yube, Ali-jah, Afro-dite, Ar-ti-mis, Ben, Aa-ron, Argo, Atstsil, Nadar and Oyeb, besides Peter, Yact-ta-roth, Haur, Abel, Said, Josh and Wab, who should be the conquering spirits to play on both sides in battles, urging stubborn mortals on to religious feud till both sides fall in death, or till one, to me and my Gods, bowe down in fear and reverence.
And next, to thee, Ashtaroth, the Goddess that never tire, or is without a stratagem, for your glorious success I bestow you* with the fete, the circle and the true cross, to be your forever.
For as the Faithists have been bound by their sign to marry not outside their own people, so should you teach the opposite; for by the cross of the breeds of men, they should be broken off from Jehovih.
She will cross the arc of Spe-ta, four years and thirty-two days' riding.
And in the center of the cross should your* marshal provide space sufficient for the hosts of Cpenta-armij to land her airavagna, and to disembark.
And then they overhauled the earth's history, these Gods and Goddesses; measured her course to learn just when she would pass; and they found five years and fifty days would be her dawn of dan, her time to cross the arc of Aza.
God said: In this, your*** symbol, you hast found the way of a true square (true cross) and the four quarters of the world.1
When the red star should cross the wing of Izaracha, we will go forth in power, and land on her troubled parts in a sea of golden light.
Ah'shong said: On the fourth day, O Jehovih, I will cross Chinvat; on the fifth, descend toward the earth.
Cross-Cultural Interactions:
This connection underscores the cross-cultural exchanges of ancient iconography.
Religious symbols such as the lamb and the cross reappear across cultures:
The Palenque Cross: Found in Central America, this artifact challenges traditional assumptions about the origins of Christian and Asiatic cross symbols.
As soon as the feet of the priests touched the water, the waters of the Jordan stopped flowing, allowing the people to cross on dry ground (Joshua 3:14-17).
Wenebojo had a dream that the manidog, evil underwater spirits who were jealous of him, would kill his nephew, so he told his nephew not to cross any streams.
He drew a cross and placed magic parcels at the east and west points, and his song brought forth from them two women, Utset, the mother of all Indians, and Nowutset, the mother of all other races.
According to legend, the Eight Immortals were once traveling to a meeting of the Immortals and decided to cross the East Sea (also called the Bohai Sea).
There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us.' I then asked, 'Do the people cross this river in boats?' 'No; they have no boats; and even if they had, the people could not land, as the sides are too steep: they pass underneath the river by a natural tunnel, or subway.' He and all his party went through it on their way from Loowemba to Ooroongoo, and returned by it.
The second knife represented above has upon its handle a wheel, or cross surrounded by a ring, which, we shall see here after, was pre-eminently the symbol of Atlantis.
Now, if we turn to the ancient hieroglyphics upon the monuments of Central America, we will find the human face appearing in a great many of them, as in the following, which we copy from the Tablet of the Cross at Palenque.
And we find that in the whole inscription of the Tablet of the Cross there are 33 figures out of 108 that are made up in part of the human countenance.
It is the cross composed of two curved lines, thus, .
[paragraph continues]Maya sign the cross is united at the bottom, like a figure 8.
Now suppose a busy people compelled to make this mark every day for a thousand years, and generally in a hurry, and the cross would soon be made without curving the lines; it would become X.
In time the curved line would be made straight, and the figure would assume this form, ; the next step would be to make the cross on the straight line, thus, .
Nay, it should teach us to regard the Book of Genesis with increased veneration, as a relic dating from the most ancient days of man's history on earth; its roots cross the great ocean; every line is valuable; a word, a letter, an accent may throw light upon the gravest problems of the birth of civilization.
and Saturn; and, in turn, it may be supposed that the wheel of Kronos was simply the cross of Atlantis, surrounded by its encircling ring.
called pachisi, is played upon a cross-shaped board or cloth; it is a combination of checkers and draughts, with the throwing of dice, the dice determining the number of moves; when the Spaniards entered Mexico they found the Aztecs playing a game called patolli, identical with the Hindoo pachisi, on a similar cross-shaped board.
Once their mission was completed, they evolved into Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnons).
Neanderthals did cross paths with other species, such as Cro-Magnons.
Nay, not of theirs but of Atlantian origin the cross.
A symbol sacred; near the Throne it brought man's consciousness, so, when the cross shone brightest all were joyous; peace and plenty it bespake.
Yea, thus it was and is unto this day; a cross betokens God's great power and man's adaptation of material given for his uses by that One who set the stars on high in form of cross.
And so the line was taken, when three thousand years of government flew by, by king a rover bold, a son of him who wore the cross of promise; one who stemmed the flood of bitter opposition to a war which nearly wrecked the navy—in that day a feeble line of galleys, later great and striking awe to every heart where sailed the wondrous fleet in southern sea.
Streets which cross and wind were but the fancy of the crafty one who held the keys which locked the nation's useless horde, for many years but useless—useless, as they sought no more their ancient home where gold in grains were held for merchandise.
"And I forebode the doom that doth befall, for hither cometh on the 'wings of Ram' the water's mighty sledge of Death," and folding calmly to his breast the cross—prophetic symbol of his age and mind—he knelt and sought to pray.
The Spanish priests regarded this similarity as the work of the devil.[10] The worship of the cross by the natives, and its constant presence in all religious buildings and ceremonies, was the principal subject of their amazement; and indeed nowhere—not even in India and Egypt—was this symbol held in more profound veneration than amongst the primitive tribes of the American continents, while the meaning underlying its worship was identical.
In the west, as in the east, the cross was the symbol of life—sometimes of life physical, more often of life eternal.
Tertullian in his De Baptismo says that they were promised in consequence "regeneration and the pardon of all their perjuries." The Scandinavian nations practised baptism of new-born children; and when we turn to Mexico and Peru we find infant baptism there as a solemn ceremonial, consisting of water sprinkling, the sign of the cross, and prayers for the washing away of sin (see Humboldt's Mexican Researches and Prescott's Mexico).
They had even a ceremony resembling the Eucharist, in which cakes marked with the Tau (an Egyptian[11] form of cross) were eaten, the people calling them the flesh of their God.
Remains of this race, as of the Rmoahals, have been found in the quaternary strata of Central Europe, and the dolichocephalous "Cro-Magnon man"[1] may be taken as an average specimen of the race in its decadence, while the "Lake-Dwellers" of Switzerland formed an even earlier and not quite pure offshoot.
Constant experiments were made in breeding and cross-breeding different kinds of animals, and, curious though it may seem to us, artificial heat was largely used to force their development, so that the results of crossing and interbreeding might be more quickly apparent.
Hills of about one thousand feet were the highest they could cross.
The book’s dedication is brief:"From my son on the cross, it has been said that I offered the world a love affair—not so, my promised marriage.
The beings in charge of his abductions appeared to be a cross between insects and humans, hovering in the air, and they allowed smaller doctors to perform painful procedures on him.
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.
To assert that we, despite our enlightenment, adored the orb of day, would he 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 sun, and causes the cross, to be held in any sort of regard.
The Exoteric Church hath closed the ends of His Cross.
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.