The cross is the most common symbol in religious systems

the highest sacred values.

The visible center in the cross is an additional accent of the highest value of the system.

The cross is a model of the spiritual aspect, ascends to God, to eternity.

Cross - dates back to the Neolithic (4000 BC).

In many cultural and historical traditions, the cross symbolizes

life, fertility, immortality, spirit and matter in their unity.

The cross is associated with the idea of prosperity and good luck.

The cross is masculine, masculine, the exception is crux,

(Latin - feminine, although in some cases crux also belongs to the masculine gender).

The cross is an instrument of torture, passion, torment and horror.

Cross - a choice between happiness and unhappiness, life and death, prosperity

and decline.

Repeated reproduction of the cross was practiced with the aim of strengthening and

increasing well-being. Cross ornament or carving, sewing is used

in order to protect.

The cross is a crossroads, a fork in the path of life. Russian name for the cross

comes from Christ (chrest, "cross" - Christ - chres (t) yane).

The cross is the tree of life and death.

Cross and circle - union of male and female, unity and triad.

The cross and the ball are the supreme power, empire, the triumph of the spiritual.

Anchor cross, heart - faith, hope, mercy.

The cross and the dove - the overshadowing of the cross by the holy spirit.

Jerusalem Cross - Devotion.

Cross with equal rays - the connection between male and female, vertical and

horizontal, positive and negative principles, emblem

Hecate as the goddess of the crossroads.

The tree of knowledge is a symbol of origins: the unconscious is the roots,

realization of the conscious - trunk,

The "transconscious" target is crown and foliage.

The process of self-knowledge sets itself the goal of spiritual integration through

opening the sphere of the unconscious, on the one hand, and the direction

movement towards the spiritual ideal.

The World Tree - in its variety of options, includes such transformations

like: temple, columns, obelisk, throne, axis of the world, cross, etc.

The cross is like a geometrized version of the world tree.

It is the cross that both structurally and chronologically acts as a mediastinum

between the world tree (associated with zoomorphic images) and man.

Cross - life, happiness, luck, (in dreams, luck, gain, luck, happiness).

The cross is the emblem of productive force and eternity.

Myths of the peoples of the world, publishing house "Soviet encyclopedia", 1982