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

64 PHGAINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Diana. She sailed from Pheenicia to Argos in Southern Greece, with its cyclopean masonry buildings of HittoPhcenician type at its old capital Tiryns. Thence she sailed to the adjoining island of Crete, where, pursued by the unwelcome attention of her admirer, Minos, she escaped by retreating to the sea—that is to the element of Barati and Britannia and the Barats. She then sailed to Aegina, an island in the Aigean off Athens, and disappeared there at the spot where stands the temple of Artemis or Diana.

The British bearing of this identity of Barati and BritoMartis with Dianais, as we shall see later, that the first king of the Britons had Diana (who bore also the title of ‘‘ Perathen’’ or ‘ Britannia’) as bis tutelary, and on arrival in Britain is reported to have erected a temple to Diana on Ludgate Hill (on the site of the modern St. Paul’s), and vestiges of this pre-Christian Diana temple there have survived. Indeed this Brito-Martis myth of the martial Barati of the Phoenicians seems to have been imported also by the Pheenicians with their Sun-cult into Britain, and to be presumably the source of the old popular phrase, still floating about in provincial Britain, of ‘‘O my eye and Betty Martin !” This phrase now appears to preserve possibly an old traditional invocation to the martial tutelary of the Britons, Barati or Britannia, wherein her name is shortened into Betty like the Irish “ Biddy ’’ for Bridget and couched in the popular and once common dog-latin form of the invocations in the Romish Church liturgies: ‘“‘O mihi Brito-Martis ”’; if the first part of the sentence does not actually preserve an invocation to her under her old title of Mahi or ‘‘ The great Earth Mother,” the Maia of the Greeks and Romans, and the goddess ‘‘ May” of the British May-pole spring festival.

1“ Parth-enos "’ as a title for Diana and Athene appears to have been coined by the Greeks from that of Barati. It is used by Homer for a stately young wife (Iliad 2, 514), and fora maid or virgin (Iliad 22,127, ete.). A siren rock amid the sea near Sicily was called “ Parth-en-op”’ (S. 1, 2, 13) wherein of, we shall see, was a Hitto-Phcenician affix for a “‘ high” site. And the Parih-enios River in the Paphlagonian coast of the Euxine flowing from Midas city with Hittite remains, and inhabited by Trojan allies, Cauc-ones [Cassi ?] and Heneti or Veneti (S. 543) who accompanied 4=neas in his flight from Troy, and the significance of which for Britain history will appear later, was a traditional abode of Diana or Part)-enos.