Mesopotamia - The Cross Signifies the Center

In Mesopotamian societies the emperor you know who was more or less an absolute monarch he lived inside what was essentially a walled city. The god of the Mesopotamians was Mardic and Mardic was the figure who had eyes all the way around his head and he spoke magic words so he was very attentive and very articulate. They would ritually reenact the battle of Mardic against Piamat the chaos monster using statues in their New Year's celebrations. We still have echoes of that in our New Year's celebration right it's the same idea that's echoed down all those all those centuries thousands of years.