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171 hearts (Fig. 76)—the way devout Catholics wear the cross nowadays. Religiously and astronomically, it was a most sig- nificant gesture. That it was also a widespread manifestation is suggested by the fact that in Egypt, too, depictions were found of a king-god wearing, like his Assyrian counterparts, the sign of the cross on his chest (Fig. 77). The adoption of the Sign of the Cross as the emblem of Nib- iru, in Babylon, Assyria, and elsewhere, was not a surprising innovation. The sign had been used before—by the Sumerians and Akkadians. “Nibiru—let ‘Crossing’ be its name!” the Epic of Creation stated; and accordingly its symbol, the cross, had been employed in Sumerian glyptic to denote Nibiru, but The Cross on the Horizon FIGURE 76