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

xa WHO WERE THE PIcTS?

Disclosing their Non-Aryan Racial Nature and Affinity with Matriarchist Van, Wan or Fian “ Dwarfs,” and as Aborigines of Britain in Stone Age.

‘The Picts, a mysterious race whose origin no man knows.”—Prof. R. S. Ratt, Hist. of Scotland, 1915, 11.

“No craft they knew With woven brick or jointed beam to Pre sunward porch ; but in the dark earth burrowed And housed, like tiny ants in sunless caves.” Prometheus Bound.'

The mysterious Picts, whose origin and affinities have hitherto baffled all enquiries, nevertheless require their racial relationship to the aborigines of Britain and to the Aryans to be elicited, if possible, as an essential preliminary to discovering the agency by which Civilization was first introduced into Britain and the date of that epoch-making event.

The ‘‘ Picts’ are not mentioned under that name by Czsar, Tacitus, Ptolemy or other early Roman or Greek writer on Ancient Britain. This is presumably because, as we shall find, that that was not their proper name, but a nickname.

The “ Picts’ first appear in history under that name at the latter end of the third century A.D. as the chief inhabitants of Caledonia.” They reappear in 360 A.P. as warlike barbarian

1 ZEschylus, Prometheus Bound MN. 456-459, translated by J. S. Blackie 195. * The name first appears in 296 A.D. in the oration of Eumenius to the

Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, which says: “‘ the Caledonians and other Picts "—‘ Non dico Caledonum aliorumque Pictorum silvas at paludes, etc.’’ (Latin panegyrics. Inc. Constantino Augusto, c.7.).

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