The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps, str. 378

342 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

of God in the image of man as “ The Father-god,’ and after they had given him a host of angels to counteract the swarms of malignant demons with which primeval man and the Chaldean Mother-Son cult had infested the earth, air and “ the waters under the earth.” The process by which the archangel was invented and his functions arranged and developed now seems to become evident. The Father-god or “‘ Bel’ was early given by the Aryans the title of “ Zagg “

r “ Sagg’"* (or “‘ Zeus’), as it exists on the earliest known historical document, Udug’s trophy Stone-Bowl from the oldest Sun-temple in Mesopotamia at Nippur. This “Zage’’ has the meaning, “ The Shining Stone+ Being, Maker or Creator,” thus giving the sense of “‘ Rock of Ages ” to the God as the Creator.

This early Aryan name for God, about two millenniums before the birth of Abraham, with its sense of fixity, is soon afterwards found spelt by the Early Sumerians in their still-existing inscriptions as Zax or Zakh, in the form “ The Enthroned Zax or Zakh”’ (En-Za x), 2 with the meaning ‘The Enthroned Breath or Wind.”’* This presumably was to denote God as The Breath of Life, and perhaps also his invisibility as a Spirit. This ancient Aryan idea of God as “The Breath of Life’’ is preserved in the reference in Genesis to the creation of man: ‘‘ God breathed into his nostrils the Breath of Life and man became a living soul.’’* And in the Old Testament, God “ flies on the wings of the Wind,’’* and in the New Testament the working of God's Spirit is compared to the Wind.* Such slight alterations in the spelling of divine and other proper names in order to denote a different though correlated sense, were often made by the Sumerians, and are parallel to their spelling of “ TInduru’’ as “ Indara,’’ with a different shade of meaning.

This idea of the ‘‘enthronement’ and fixity of The Father-god in human form in heaven, with its sense of vast remoteness and aloofness from the earth, was presumably

1 Spelt alpha bencallys Za-ga-ga, see before.

2 Br., 5928. Hitherto disguised by Assyriologists reading Zay by its semitic synonym of Lil.

*Br., 5932. 4 Genesis, 2, 7- 5 Psalm xviil, 10, etc. § John ii, 8.