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In Germanic countries this structure
is called St. Hans' cross or the cross of St John. In Scandinavia it is a
magic ideogram from the Viking era, or even older. It seems also to
have been used in Cabbalistic mysticism. Today, it is used as a
cartographic and traffic sign to denote ancient remains or an ancient
monument. On
maps
and
are sometimes used as
its synonyms.
As a traffic sign it is inserted in a square denoting the ground:
.
Compare with
for prehistoric site, and
with
in Group 27.
also appears in pre-Columbian America, where it is
associated with
.



