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Re: Stauros/Crux
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To: B-GREEK@virginia.edu
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Subject: Re: Stauros/Crux
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From: David.Wigtil@hq.doe.gov
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Date: 27 Jul 94 08:41:00 -0400
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Steve Schaper wrote:
The Tau cross comes from the forced 'conversion' of the Norse by King Olaf.
Since many remanied devotees of Thor, and since Thor's Hammer, a T shape,
was
their symbol, the Tau Cross came into being as a subterfuge by Thor-
worshipping pagan remnants, for a few generations anyway.
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Please read your early Christian literature!
You m_u_s_t look at documents like the "Epistle of Barnabas"
from the early second century. It clearly and unequivocally equates
the symbol named "tau", which we recognize from the epigraphy of the
time as virtually idendical to our capital "T", with the cross on which
Jesus was killed. It goes even further and makes various theological
and numerological arguments based on the equation of T (tau) with the
cross. Barnabas is in (easy) Greek and easily procurable...hardly an
obscure text.
King Olaf died in the 11th century; I have seen his gravesite. I
have a great deal of concern about your omission of some basic
historical evidence. Please be more cautious in your proclamations,
and heed the warning of Euripides shown below.
--David N. Wigtil. Technical Assessment. U. S. Department of Energy.
Sophronos d' apistias
ouk estin ouden khresimoteron brotois. (Euripides, "Helen" 1617-1618)
(There's nothing more helpful for mortals than sensible disbelief.)
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