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 sea which a sailing-vessel required fifteen days to cross must have been a very large body of water; in fact, an ocean.
Text: "Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island."
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.
He must cross this tunnel to reach the world beyond, where the sun rises.
She appeared to him as an old woman attempting to cross a swollen river.
I keep that as a labeled cross-cultural parallel.
Later earth-mysteries readings treat them as earth-energy paths, with strong sites at nodes where lines cross.
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.
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.
I use this page as a cross-culture map.
As a cross-culture map beside Atlantis and paleo-contact trails.
How does this help Atlantis research?I use Plato’s dynasty as the named spine, then Matias’s twelve-family / portal trail as paleo-contact, then the Adityas as a labeled cross-myth parallel.
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.
Yam or Mot), suggesting cross-cultural influences.
Cross-species attempts involve mammals, reptiles, and birds.
The idea that these could be the remains of an ancient, now-extinct polar camel didn’t even cross her mind.
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.
In one major Atlantis narrative, the nation’s sacred emblem is not a sun disk alone and not a simple Christian cross.
It is a four-armed Cross kept as a victory standard.
Bridgman-Metchim’s 1900 book Atlantis: The Book of the Angels, it is that four-armed Cross: the victorious standard of Emperor Tekthah, later feared and venerated in every Temple of the Sun.
After that I mark Donnelly’s New World cross claims, and any OAHSPE or tree-of-life asides, as labeled secondary layers.
Mixing those layers into one flat “Atlantis had this cross” claim is how a symbol page loses the visitor who only asked what the sacred symbol was.
The Cross is the nation’s victorious standard.
Within this tower was the drum and also within it was kept the victorious standard of the nation, the sacred symbol of victory — a Cross with four arms stretching horizontally, signifying the national prowess North, South, East and West — the old, rough rally-signal carried by the Emperor Tekthah from the North.
The sacred symbol of victory is a Cross with four arms stretching horizontally.
The Cross began as Tekthah’s rough rally-signal from the North.
A short related detail in the same book pairs the cross with the sun.
On this site the temple context also sits at Temple of Zul, where Bridgman-Metchim’s Temple of Zul / Lord of Light houses the national four-armed cross.
In Bridgman-Metchim, the sacred symbol of Atlantis is Tekthah’s four-armed Cross.
Amaziel brings the Cross out of the central tower and lifts it toward the sky.
Amaziel brought out from the central tower the sacred symbol of Atlantis, the four-armed Cross, that had led the nation under great Tekthah to its victorious empire, and with a shout lifted it towards the sky.
It is not archaeological proof that historical Atlanteans sacrificed a four-armed cross.
After Bridgman-Metchim, nineteenth-century diffusion writers placed cross signs in the New World beside Atlantis claims.
Ignatius Donnelly, in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), Part V, Chapter I, reports Toltec religion and cross use through Dêsirè Charnay’s Tula notes:
The Toltecs possessed a pure and simple religion, like that of Atlantis, as described by Plato, with the same sacrifices of fruits and flowers; they were farmers; they raised and wove cotton; they cultivated fruits; they used the sign of the Cross extensively; …
Toltec religion is “like that of Atlantis, as described by Plato,” and the Toltecs used the sign of the Cross extensively.
There he ties the four rivers of paradise, running North, South, East, and West, to the origin of the cross sign among Atlantis-descended or Atlantis-influenced peoples.
That directional reading soft-parallels Tekthah’s N/S/E/W prowess Cross.
I keep it short and labeled on the pyramid, the cross, and the Garden of Eden.
OAHSPE and Selestor passages that describe cross-like or star-cross emblems are modern esoteric and channeling sources.
The sacred symbol in that 1900 Atlantis narrative is Tekthah’s four-armed Cross, the victory standard later kept in each Temple of the Sun.
Donnelly’s Tula and paradise-river cross claims are the diffusion research layer.
They do not prove that Tekthah’s Cross was dug at Tula.
In Bridgman-Metchim, Atlantis’s sacred symbol is the four-armed Tekthah Cross.
What was the sacred symbol of Atlantis?In Bridgman-Metchim’s Atlantis: The Book of the Angels (1900), it is the four-armed Cross, Tekthah’s victorious standard.
What did Tekthah’s cross mean?It signified national prowess to the North, South, East, and West.
Is the four-armed cross of Atlantis historical?No dig proves it.
Bridgman-Metchim’s Cross is a 1900 novel’s Atlantis symbol.
How does this help Atlantis research?The four-armed Cross plus Temple of the Sun placement gives a clear literary symbol trail.
Donnelly’s New World cross claims give labeled diffusion hooks.
I use all three as source-critical research, not as dug proof of one Atlantis cross.
Temple of Zul: Bridgman-Metchim temple context that houses the national four-armed cross.
The pyramid, the cross, and the Garden of Eden: Donnelly’s four rivers N/S/E/W as a directional parallel to Tekthah’s Cross.
No fact is better established than the reverence shown to the sign of the Cross in all the ages prior to Christianity.
"From the dawn of organized Paganism in the Eastern world to the final establishment of Christianity in the Western, the Cross was undoubtedly one of the commonest and most sacred of symbolical monuments; and, to a remarkable extent, it is so still in almost every land where that of Calvary is unrecognized or unknown.
"Of the several varieties of the Cross still in vogue, as national or ecclesiastical emblems, in this and other European states, and distinguished by the familiar appellations of St.
When the Spanish missionaries first set foot upon the soil of America, in the fifteenth century, they were amazed to find the Cross was as devoutly worshipped by the red Indians as by themselves, and were in doubt whether to ascribe the fact to the pious labors of St.
When we ask the question how it comes that the sign of the Cross has thus been reverenced.
ANCIENT IRISH CROSS--PRE-CHRISTIAN--KILNABOY.
"The Buddhists and Brahmans, who together constitute nearly half the population of the world, tell us that the decussated figure (the cross), whether in a simple or a complex form, symbolizes the traditional happy abode of their primeval ancestors--that 'Paradise of Eden toward the East,' as we find expressed in the Hebrew.
And, let us ask, what better picture, or more significant characters, in the complicated alphabet of symbolism, could have been selected for the purpose than a circle and a cross: the one to denote a region of absolute purity and perpetual felicity; the other, those four perennial streams that divided and watered the several quarters of it?" (Edinburgh Review, January, 1870.)
41), "Now the garden (of Eden) was watered by one river, which ran round about the whole earth, and was parted into four parts." Here in the four parts we see the origin of the Cross, while in the river running around the whole earth we have the wonderful canal of Atlantis, described by Plato, which was "carried around the whole of the plain," and received the streams which came down from the mountains.
And these four rivers, flowing to the north, south, east, and west, constitute the origin of that sign of the Cross which we have seen meeting us at every point among the races who were either descended from the people of Atlantis, or who, by commerce and colonization, received their opinions and civilization from them.
The Pyramid.--Not only are the Cross and the Garden of Eden identified with Atlantis, but in Atlantis, the habitation of the gods, we find the original model of all those pyramids which extend from India to Peru.
Are they in this, too, a reminiscence of the Cross, and of the four rivers of Atlantis that ran to the north, south, east, and west?
Accordingly, we find, among these and other vestiges of antiquity that indissolubly connected those long-since extinct populations in the New with the races of the Old World, the well-defined symbol of the Maltese Cross.
On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well.
Those accompaniments, however, are disposed without any particular regard to order, but the four arms of the cross, nevertheless, severally and accurately point to the cardinal quarters, The same regularity is observable on a much smaller but not less curious monument, which was discovered some time since in an ancient Peruvian huaca or catacomb--namely, a syrinx or pandean pipe, cut out of a solid mass of lapis ollaris, the sides of which are profusely ornamented, not only with Maltese crosses, but also with other symbols very similar in style to those inscribed on the obelisks of Egypt and on the monoliths of this country.
But by far the most remarkable example of this form of the Cross in the New World is that which appears on a second type of the Mexican feroher, engraved on a tablet of gypsum, and which is described at length by its discoverer, Captain du Paix, and depicted by his friend, M.
"No country in the world can compare with India for the exposition of the pyramidal cross.
The body of the temple was constructed in the figure of a colossal cross (i.
Andrew's Cross), with a lofty dome at the centre, above which rose a massive structure of a pyramidal form.
At the four extremities of the cross there were four other pyramids of proportionate dimensions, and which were ascended from the outside by steps, with balconies at stated distances for places of rest, reminding us of the temple of Belus, as described in the pages of Herodotus.
At the famous temple of Chillambrum, on the Coromandel coast, there were seven lofty walls, one within the other, round the central quadrangle, and as many pyramidal gate-ways in the midst of each side which forms the limbs of a vast cross."
533), that "the gallery is one hundred and fifty-seven feet long, increasing in height to over six feet and a half as it penetrates the pyramid; that the well is over six feet square, extending (apparently) down to the base and up to the summit; and that other cross-galleries are blocked up by débris." In the Pyramid of Cheops there is a similar opening or passage-way forty-nine feet above the base; it is three feet eleven inches high, and three feet five and a half inches wide; it leads down a slope to a sepulchral chamber or well, and connects with other passage-ways leading up into the body of the pyramid.
We find the emblem of the Cross in pre-Christian times venerated as a holy symbol on both sides of the Atlantic; and we find it explained as a type of the four rivers of the happy island where the civilization of the race originated.
We find the pyramid on both sides of the Atlantic, with its four sides pointing, like the arms of the Cross, to the four cardinal points-a reminiscence of Olympus; and in the Aztec representation of Olympos (Aztlan) we find the pyramid as the central and typical figure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How I use the parallel: as cross-cultural flood memory, not as a name-equation.