Happy Good Frigg's Day

[s~Z]

>>>Those that associate its smugness in GR with Christ
will have to explain why Pynchon associates the cross the Egyptian sign
for Life, the Tree of Life in the Herero religion, the swastica--which
was a sign of life and an astrological symbol,  sign of blessing long
before Jesus of Nazareth was born....and so on....<<<

And a word denoting a cross occurs
nowhere in the New Testament. The
Greek word translated as 'cross' is
'stauros' which is a vertical stake or pole.
As with many things, the church changed
the original meaning centuries after the
original text was written.