Talk:Summit cross
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User:Bermicourt, the owner of this article, has done me the discourtesy of reverting my edit, mentioning Christianizing the site. Christianizing the site is the essential point of the erection of a summit cross, which has no other purpose.--Wetman (talk) 08:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- I apologise, I did not intend to be discourteous. As the creator of the article I removed the phrase simply because firstly it is unverified (no source is given and it was not part of the original article which I translated from German Wikipedia) and I am running it as a DYK, so would prefer not to have [any more!] unverified statements added. Secondly, it seems to be unclear. What does "christianising a site" mean? What is the "site"? The summit? The whole mountain? Is it the same as "consecrating the site" which I believe does have a specific meaning? In fact there seem to have been several reasons for erecting crosses: e.g. as boundary markers or to ward off storms, etc, which well have been the main reason. According to the article Christianised sites "christianising the site" was about turning a pagan site into a Christian one. But many of these crosses were not erected for that purpose - there was no pagan site - but there was another reason for setting a cross up, as mentioned. I am more than happy with adding any specific reasons behind crosses being put up, with citations from credible sources. Some are already given in the History section; perhaps we can elaborate that? So can we research and discuss this please? --Bermicourt (talk) 19:31, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Summit crosses in the USA and Canada
[edit]I wonder whether there are mountains in (northern) North America that have summit crosses. AFAIK Mount Rainier, Mount Katahdin and Mount Marcy don't have summit crosses, are there any mountains in the Appalachian range or the Western Cordillera that have one? If not, why would it be so uncommon in North America? 2001:4BC9:A48:F03:9DA3:27E:F3F0:80B8 (talk) 14:03, 19 February 2023 (UTC)