Prehistoric Faith And Worship Glimpses of Ancient Irish Life
Prehistoric Faith And Worship Glimpses of Ancient Irish Life
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III. , the ordinary Chinese Cross, which from time im- memorial has been used by them to sym- bolise the universe (the ' Four Points, ' as it is called). It answers in form exactly to the crosses called Greek Crosses, so frequently 54 PREHISTORIC FAITH found in Ireland. Cross No. IV. Is of the type that we call a Latin Cross, and is copied from a rock that is decorated with cup markings and circles, at Mevagh, Rossquile, Co. Donegal. Cup markings are, undoubtedly, a pre-Christian type of decora...tion. A modern CUP MARKING.
CHINESE CROSS, OFTEN FOUND IN IRELAND.
IV.
CROSS IRISH MEVAGH INSCRIBED, CO. DONEGAL.
writer tells us that, long before the Romans and the Etruscans, there lived, in the plains of Northern Italy, a people to whom the cross was a religious symbol — the sign beneath which they laid their dead to rest. A people of whom history tells us nothing, knowing not their name, but of whom antiquarian re- search has learned that they lived in ignor- ance of the arts of civihsation, that they dwelt in villages built on platforms over SYMBOLISM OF THE CROSS 55 lakes (which we in Ireland call crannogs), and that they trusted in the cross to guard (and maybe to revive) their loved ones whom they 'Committed to the dust.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
III. , the ordinary Chinese Cross, which from time im- memorial has been used by them to sym- bolise the universe (the ' Four Points, ' as it is called). It answers in form exactly to the crosses called Greek Crosses, so frequently 54 PREHISTORIC FAITH found in Ireland. Cross No. IV. Is of the type that we call a Latin Cross, and is copied from a rock that is decorated with cup markings and circles, at Mevagh, Rossquile, Co. Donegal. Cup markings are, undoubtedly, a pre-Christian type of decora...tion. A modern CUP MARKING.
CHINESE CROSS, OFTEN FOUND IN IRELAND.
IV.
CROSS IRISH MEVAGH INSCRIBED, CO. DONEGAL.
writer tells us that, long before the Romans and the Etruscans, there lived, in the plains of Northern Italy, a people to whom the cross was a religious symbol — the sign beneath which they laid their dead to rest. A people of whom history tells us nothing, knowing not their name, but of whom antiquarian re- search has learned that they lived in ignor- ance of the arts of civihsation, that they dwelt in villages built on platforms over SYMBOLISM OF THE CROSS 55 lakes (which we in Ireland call crannogs), and that they trusted in the cross to guard (and maybe to revive) their loved ones whom they 'Committed to the dust.
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