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Cross as the sacred Tree (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
12 Assyrian Identity




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cross
Period
7th century CE 		Channel
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Text
Soghita on the Finding of the Cross 25.33-34:
From the ground there wafted of a sudden the scent of sweet incense, and the Cross revealed its power, whereupon the People and the Peoples received strength. … Tidings of the discovery flew to the four corners of creation; kings did obeisance in its honour, honouring it with praise and glory. Fitting was the praise at its manifestation, as it came up from out of the ground; and through the nails fixed in it the Evil One’s bitterness, too, was dissipated.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Soghita on the Finding of the Cross 25.33-34

Bibliography

Brock 1999, XI 67-68Brock, Sebastian. From Ephrem to Romanos. Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity. London: Variorum Reprints 1999.

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