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pagodas are built in the form of crosses. In a description of 
an ancient city of Mexico, published in 1822, it is stated 
that there are many examples of the cross among other 
hieroglyphics. One is very remarkable, and on the top is 
placed an idol, in the likeness of a hen — the hen of Ceres, 
to which the devotee is offering an infant. The cross was 
sacred to the Druids. Schedius de Mor. Germ. 24, as quoted 
by Godfrey Higgins, states "that the Druids seek carefully 
for an oak, with two principal arms, growing horizontally, 
in form of a cross." If they cannot find this, they fasten a 
cross beam to it, and they cut the name of God, " Tan," upon 
this. Now Maximus Tyrius says that the Celta 1 adored 
Jupitef, and the Celtic statue of Jupiter is a lofty oak, thus 
connecting Tau and the cross with God. 
It is necessary to keep in mind how remarkably the 
customs and relio-ious belief of Britain and Ireland agree 
with those of countries mentioned in Scripture and in other 
records, as it is hy these means that we can form any con- 
ception of the origin and use of the menhirs, or pillar stones. 
There can be no doubt of the worship of Baal and the sun 
among Israel and the nations around them, and there is 
sufficient evidence that such was also the early worship of 
the Celtae. 
The custom of observing the course of the sun is still very 
prevalent. When going out to fish, the sailors in many 
places will not proceed, unless they first turn their boat 
round with the sun; if it should go against the sun, they 
will not go out that day. A clergyman in Appin has 
informed me, that even to this day, when the coffin has left 
the church, the bearers and mourners march round the grave 
"sunwise" before they will deposit it in the grave. A 
similar custom exists also among the Esquimaux. 
This custom has given rise to a saying, though the origin 
of it is not always known, viz. : — 
