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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2413152, member: 19463"]I have read this before but this link clears up a question I had never seen addressed. 'Gram' means drawing. OK. The combined letters are Tau T and Rho P so why is it not taurhogram or just Tau-Rho like we do with Chi-Rho? The answer from the link is that the Rho P here is not a letter but a simple drawing of a body on the Tau cross and the added S turns what looked like tauro into the root for crucify stauro. On the Chi-Rho, we are to take the P to be a letter but on the staurogram we are to take the P to be a stick figure with hanging down head. We learn something here every day. Thanks, Z.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2413152, member: 19463"]I have read this before but this link clears up a question I had never seen addressed. 'Gram' means drawing. OK. The combined letters are Tau T and Rho P so why is it not taurhogram or just Tau-Rho like we do with Chi-Rho? The answer from the link is that the Rho P here is not a letter but a simple drawing of a body on the Tau cross and the added S turns what looked like tauro into the root for crucify stauro. On the Chi-Rho, we are to take the P to be a letter but on the staurogram we are to take the P to be a stick figure with hanging down head. We learn something here every day. Thanks, Z.[/QUOTE]
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