Religions of the Past And Present
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Among other sacred objects discovered was a marble cross of equal limbs found in a repository of the Great 263 RELIGIONS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT Palace at Cnossus, which Dr. Evans believes may have been the central object of worship in the Cretan cult. This discovery shows that a cross of orthodox Greek form was an object of worship centuries before Christianity. It may also help to explain why the Greek Church has always preferred this to the Latin form of the cross. Similarly the Svastika, th...e cormnon emblem sculptured on Buddhist monuments of India and China and known in prehistoric Europe, w^as discovered in great numbers by Schliemann at Troy and elsewhere in Mycenaean strata. Like the cross, it never appears in classical Greece, but reappears in the Christian period in the catacombs of Rome and on funeral stelae of Asia Minor.
The bull was the emblem of Velchanos and was the chief victim of sacrifice. Like the elephant of Siam, he was both royal and sacred ; his actual horns or clay copies of them adorned altars and shrines, and almost every religious scene on gems and frescoes that has been dis- covered.
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Among other sacred objects discovered was a marble cross of equal limbs found in a repository of the Great 263 RELIGIONS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT Palace at Cnossus, which Dr. Evans believes may have been the central object of worship in the Cretan cult. This discovery shows that a cross of orthodox Greek form was an object of worship centuries before Christianity. It may also help to explain why the Greek Church has always preferred this to the Latin form of the cross. Similarly the Svastika, th...e cormnon emblem sculptured on Buddhist monuments of India and China and known in prehistoric Europe, w^as discovered in great numbers by Schliemann at Troy and elsewhere in Mycenaean strata. Like the cross, it never appears in classical Greece, but reappears in the Christian period in the catacombs of Rome and on funeral stelae of Asia Minor.
The bull was the emblem of Velchanos and was the chief victim of sacrifice. Like the elephant of Siam, he was both royal and sacred ; his actual horns or clay copies of them adorned altars and shrines, and almost every religious scene on gems and frescoes that has been dis- covered.
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