<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may stray from the topic of the article . Please help improve this section or discuss this issue on the talk page . (July 2016) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may stray from the topic of the article . Please help improve this section or discuss this issue on the talk page . (July 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> The cross-shaped sign, represented in its simplest form by a crossing of two lines at right angles, greatly predates the introduction of Christianity, in both East and West . It goes back to a very remote period of human civilization . It is supposed to have been used not just for its ornamental value, but also with religious significance . It may have represented the apparatus used in kindling fire, and thus as the symbol of sacred fire or as a symbol of the sun, denoting its daily rotation . It has also been interpreted as the mystic representation of lightning or of the god of the tempest, or the emblem of the Aryan pantheon and the primitive Aryan civilization . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Where did the symbol of the cross originated
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