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282 317 The cross -- When the Spaniards arrived in America, they found statues cut in the figure of the cross, which were revered by the Mexicans. The cross was a symbol of matter venerated amongst the Egyptians from the remotest antiquity. In India the temples are sometimes built in this form. It was amongst the Irish, who descended from the unclear, the symbolist knowledge (McCullough 137.) The cross in the breast of the skeleton near Chillicothe, & that in the pottery on the small graves near Sparta, shows their Hindoo origin. --

    The mounds are numerous & lofty in the South & explicit proof of a common origin. Arab & American.

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    "It seems to be a well established fact, that the bodies of nearly all those buried in mounds, were partially, if not entirely, consumed by fire before the mounds were built, says one writer.  This says he, is made to appear by quantities of charcoal being found in the center & base of the mounds, stones burnt & blackened, & marks of fire in the metallic substances buried with them. Arch. Am. 113.
    The worship of the longhorn, or phallus, once prevailed over Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome & amongst the