Ancient_Religious_Symbols_And_Their_Relevance_Today

Ancient Religious Symbols And Their Relevance Today Ancient Religious Symbols and Their Relevance Today Since the dawn of mankind humans have used symbols to reflect their spiritual beliefs and many of these symbols still survive today in various different forms. We will look at several of these symbols, discover their ancient meanings, how they are viewed by modern day civilization, and why. The cross is one of the most common symbols of religious significance. For Christians it represents the suffering and death of Jesus in order for man to be saved from sin, but was not adopted as an official symbol of Christianity until the 4th Century (Walker, Steven). However, cross symbols have been found in many cultures dating to well before the advent of Christianity. A cross symbol was used to depict the solar eclipse by many different people. These usually showed a central disk with four arms radiating from the center, usually representing a god or goddess of the sun. What is interesting is how universal and similar in appearance this symbol was. It has been found on pottery and drawings from ancient Assyria, Mesopotamia, Hawaii, Peru, Mexico, and Egypt, just to name a few. To the ancients the symbol, pentacle, ancient, symbols, cross, one, found, five, been, today, order, goddess, god, four, walker, upside, similar, first, each, death, christians, christianity, world, wheel, various, until, universal, swastika, represents, represented, people, part, number, mesopotamia, however