Tammuz's Cross Before Christianity

Long before it became a Christian emblem, the cross appeared in ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon as a solar symbol linked to gods like Tammuz and Mithra. These early versions represented the sun, life, and divinity, not crucifixion. When Emperor Constantine adopted the cross in the 4th century CE after his reported vision "of a cross before the sun," Christianity absorbed a symbol that had already carried deep pagan meaning for millennia.

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