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Thor's Hammer is said to have been the Tau. As Thor was a sky god, a thunder god, his hammer was a symbol of rain and fertility, hence power. It has been likened also to the fylfot cross (swastika), and the Chinese Y. Like the thunderbolt in the hands of the Assyrian storm gods it was a weapon of divine power.

The Cross has been associated with the crossed fire sticks of the Chinese, it has been likened to a bird with outstretched wings, to two human figures crossed, and to man himself standing with outstretched arms. Interpreted in the latter sense as symbolising the divine potential Man-we can understand why criminals were nailed to the cross, the symbol which they had profaned; and why a man who cannot write still signs his name with a cross.

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