Needlework as art . Typical Crosses. Swastika. 2. From a Greek Vase, 765 3. Indian Sectarian Mark of Soktirace. 4. Buddhist and Jainies mark. 5. Early Rhodian Pottery. 6. Egyptianprehistoric Cross. 7. Tau Cross. S. Mark of land, Egyptian and Ditto. 10. Clavus. II, 12, 13. Scandinavian Sun and Moon , 15. If>- Celtic. 17. Chrysoclavus. 18, 19. Stauracin patterns. 20. Scan-dinavian, from Norway. 21. Runic Cross. 22. Cross at Palenque, in Templeof the Sun. 23. Scotch Celtic Cross. 24. Cross from Iono. 25, 26. RunicCrosses. 27. Cross on the Dalmatic of Charlemagne. 2S.
Needlework as art . Typical Crosses. Swastika. 2. From a Greek Vase, 765 3. Indian Sectarian Mark of Soktirace. 4. Buddhist and Jainies mark. 5. Early Rhodian Pottery. 6. Egyptianprehistoric Cross. 7. Tau Cross. S. Mark of land, Egyptian and Ditto. 10. Clavus. II, 12, 13. Scandinavian Sun and Moon , 15. If>- Celtic. 17. Chrysoclavus. 18, 19. Stauracin patterns. 20. Scan-dinavian, from Norway. 21. Runic Cross. 22. Cross at Palenque, in Templeof the Sun. 23. Scotch Celtic Cross. 24. Cross from Iono. 25, 26. RunicCrosses. 27. Cross on the Dalmatic of Charlemagne. 2S. From the Mantleof Henry II., Emperor of Germany. Page 103. PI. m^jfij&^Sfij^ r=- --- V- ? ~W iSS ?.-. i«^i^k - ~ ^ ^W W^SSkA lM^ Mill- ^mf- vsSGm^u,^ .. mat mm. J-jaf 1. Pallas Athene, from a vase in Lord Northamptons Ajax in a cloak embroidered with zwastika, sun cross, andprehistoric water patterns. Etruscan Museum. Vatican. Paye 103, Patterns. 103 Chinese ancestors are ennobled by the deeds of theirdescendants. The cross (PI. 25), was a sign and a pattern in pre-historic art. It was the double of the Tau, the Egyptianemblem of life; and while the Jews reject the Christiancross, they still claim to have warned off the destroyingangel by this sign in blood over the lintels of theirdoors in the first Passover. But the most ancient and universal form of the crossis that of the Swastika, or Fylfote. This prehistoriccross is said to be formed of two fire-sticks, belonging tothe ancient worship of the sun, laid across each otherready for friction ; but losing that meaning, from anemblem they fell into a pattern, and this you wi
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