Addendum to Kings Worthy, near Hampshire, Reported July 20, 2005

The image of the cross the way it looks in the formation is also found in a Salvador Dali painting which he entitles "Top Speed of Raphael's Virgin".  This seems to suggest some kind of cosmic/molecular aspect of Matter with which the Feminine Deity is always associated. 

The reading I have recently encountered sort of supports this in that the heretics, who were persecuted by the RC Church were forced to go underground after 1244 (fall of Monségur) and 1307 (destruction of the Order of the Knights Templar), continued their belief that Jesus and the Magdalene were espoused.  One of the many creative ways in which they promulgated their faith and supported its continuance was the use of the 'x' cross, the 'cross of St. Andrew', or the cross that is 'lying down' in paintings (e.g. Botticelli - 'St. Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross'; Fra Angelico - 'Noli Me Tangere', Carlo Crivelli - 'Madonna and Child', etc.)  Among other things such as watermarks, fairy tales (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, etc.), the Gothic cathedrals of France in particular, the artists, folklorists and artisans used secret code in images to tell the story the way they knew it.  (Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail  by Margaret Starbird) 

Essentially, the story includes the feminine aspect of the Divine in the story of Jesus Christ and continues that 'gospel' in hope of a time when both aspects of our humanity would be celebrated equally in the world, as in the symbolism of the Eastern Yin/Yang.  The findings of the Nag Hammadi documents supports this whole 'other' understanding of the spiritual movement which has captivated most of our Western civilization.