The Open court . oss of Callernish Cross inGreat Britain. Margaret^ the figures of an Astarte, the patron-goddess of Sidon, 1 After Dr. Phenes report in the proceedings of the Victoria Institute, Vol. VIII., p. 338, Pre-historic Monuments. Reproduced from Mourant Brock, op. cit., p. 170. 2 Three Sidonian coins showing Astarte on the prow of a ship with a Latin cross in her leftarm, were published in The Open Court, Vol. XIII., p. 15S. 234 THE OPEN COURT. and St. Margaret who figures in certain legends as the fiatic^e ofJesus. A remarkable instance of a Pagan Latin cross is mapp
The Open court . oss of Callernish Cross inGreat Britain. Margaret^ the figures of an Astarte, the patron-goddess of Sidon, 1 After Dr. Phenes report in the proceedings of the Victoria Institute, Vol. VIII., p. 338, Pre-historic Monuments. Reproduced from Mourant Brock, op. cit., p. 170. 2 Three Sidonian coins showing Astarte on the prow of a ship with a Latin cross in her leftarm, were published in The Open Court, Vol. XIII., p. 15S. 234 THE OPEN COURT. and St. Margaret who figures in certain legends as the fiatic^e ofJesus. A remarkable instance of a Pagan Latin cross is mapped outon the ground in big menhirs near Callernish on the Lewis Islandof the Hebrides. Dr. Ph^ne in a short notice on this megalithicmonument says that it measures in length 380 feet, and the centralpillar standing in the middle of a small circle is not less than 60feet high. Its significance is unknown, but Dr. Phenes statementcan scarcely be doubted that Pagan crosses are found both in GreatBritain and
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