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A diagonal cross (decussate cross, saltire, St. Andrew's Cross) A saltire , also called Saint Andrew's Cross or the crux decussata , [ 1 ] is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross . The word comes from the Middle French sautoir , Medieval Latin saltatoria (" stirrup ").
The carved Saint Andrew's cross in the left-hand wooden post was to prevent witches from flying down the chimney, in Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole. Several legends claim that the relics of Andrew were brought by divine guidance from Constantinople to the place where the modern Scottish town of St Andrews stands today (Gaelic, Cill Rìmhinn).
The heraldic term for an X-shaped cross is a 'saltire', from the old French word saultoir or salteur (itself derived from the Latin saltatorium), a word for both a type of stile constructed from two cross pieces and a type of cross-shaped stirrup-cord. [7] In heraldic language, the Scottish flag may be blazoned azure, a saltire argent.
St. Andrew's Cross may refer to: Saltire, a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross St. Andrew's cross (philately), a saltire that occurs on some philatelic items; Saint Andrew's Cross (BDSM), a common piece of equipment in BDSM dungeons; St Andrew's Cross, Glasgow, a road junction in Glasgow, Scotland
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
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