id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39414 Anonymous The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices .txt text/plain 42955 1725 65 well-known great antiquity, amongst whose symbols or ornaments the cross The fact is, there is great similarity between the cross worship, or that it was known and had a symbolical meaning among ancient nations long Charged with worshipping a cross, he says:--"As for him who affirms that Christian memorials by being formed in the figure of a cross or marked different attributes, the cross was common as an object of worship and the following chief forms of the cross common in all parts of the world. Perhaps, originally, the cross had but one meaning, whatever its form; it god of the winds, bore as his sign of office a mace like the cross of a some ancient Etruscan remains, a cross formed of four phalli of equal writer, "that the ancient cross was an emblem of the belief in a male god is represented like all the solar deities with four hands, and ./cache/39414.txt ./txt/39414.txt