单词 | sun cross |
释义 | > as lemmassun cross sun cross n. chiefly Archaeology a figure consisting of an equilateral cross inside a circle, thought to be an ancient religious or occult symbol for the sun; cf. sun circle n. (b), sun wheel n. 3. ΚΠ 1886 Lady Alford Needlework as Art x. 337 Probably the first motive of this pattern, which seems to be the same as the Egyptian sun-cross. 1897 Y Cymmrodor 12 94 An Ogam stone with a sun-cross and svastika. 1912 Irish Church Q. 5 45 This Reask cross..is such an excellent illustration of the sun cross of a very early type. 2013 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 May (Human Interest section) The sun cross is a cross within a circle, common not only in Neolithic Europe..but also in North America where it symbolised ‘the great medicine wheel of life’. < as lemmas |
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