Religious symbol question?

Question

At two of our local cemetaries I have seen headstones with an engraved tilted cross. It is not completely on its side. Any idea what this means?

Answer 1

writing on a Cross means are all different...Religion back ground Orthodox.....Papal cross..which had writings of what the Person may have died from.....INRI. represents Christ that was on his cross....

Answer 2

The symbolism represents the interweaving cycles of cause and effect, in other words, what we know as time, but what they understood as just change.

Time was not linear to our ancestors as it is to us today.

They considered memory to be an illusion and that everything that ever was and ever would be was here and now, not in the past.

The tilted cross is a representative of the tilted earth which affects the seasons bringing death and rebirth for all life on a cyclical basis

As the planet earth orbits the sun, the annual seasons change. The reason they change is because the earth is tilted.

The tilt is caused by precession, which is an anti clockwise rotation similar to a top slowing down.

It takes 25,960 years to complete one turn

The tilt is around 23.4 degrees from the perpendicular and causes different aspects of the planet to be exposed to the sun.

These aspects change the amount of sunlight reaching higher latitudes thus affecting the weather and creating the four seasons.

The calendar was measured from the spring equinoxes with three months to each season.

Each month was matched to a sign of the zodiac of which there were 12 in any year.

The change in precession was measured by dividing 25,960 years into ages of the zodiac and each of these was approximately 2,160 years long.

We are currently in the age of Pisces and this sign is adopted by the Christian sign of the fish.

The last one was Aries (Amen) and was the symbol of Egypt until the time of Christ.

Answer 3

Just a guess....but...

Could it be a ST ANDREWS CROSS - Andrew asked to be crucified on a tilted cross. This is the cross on the flag of Scotland.

Answer 4

these answers are all wrong.
the sideways cross is a secret message of the Masons as a reference to their adjusted way to make money offf of the Catholic Church's cathedral projects. (The forst workers union)

Answer 5

If the cross is in a crown it may be a knight templar. Otherwise it may just be a stylized cross.

Answer 6

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