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PICTS ARRIVE IN ALBION IN STONE AGE 125

In Cornwall, the prehistoric whorls of pierced stone, called “ Pixies’ grindstones,’ and presumably amulets, are also called ‘‘ Snake stones.’”’1 This Serpent-cult character of the Picts would explain the prevalence of human sacrifice amongst the Druid priests of the aborigines who were of this lunar matriarchist cult, and also the historical notices of the existence of cannibalism amongst the barbarian tribes of Caledonia as late as the time of St. Jerome (fourth century A.D.),?. as well as the traditional immolation of a victim by St. Columba in founding his first church at Jona for the ‘‘ Culdees”’ or Picts.

It thus transpires by the new evidence that the “ Picts” were the primitive small-statured prehistoric aborigines of Albion or Britain with the “ River-bed”’ type of skulls. They were presumably a branch of the primitive smallstatured, narrow-browed and long-headed dark race of matriarchist Serpent-worshipping cave-dwellers of the Van Lake region, the Van, Biani, Fen, or Khal-dis or primitive “ Chaldees,’ Caleds or Caledons, who, in early prehistoric times in the Old Stone Age, sent off from this central hive swarm after swarm of “ hunger-marchers ”’ under matriarchs, westwards across Asia Minor to Europe, as far as Iberia and the Biscay region, after the retreating ice. The hordes, which ultimately reached Albion overland, formed there the “ aborigines ’ of Albion. They appear to have entered Southern Albion by the old land-bridge at Kent, after the latter end of the last glacial period, when the reindeer, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros still roamed over what is now called England. And then, long ages afterwards, in the late Stone Age, presumably before 2000 B.c., they gave offa branch to Erin under a Van, Ban or Fian matriarch, forming the aborigines of Ireland.

Having thus elicited the apparent solution to the long oustanding problem of ‘‘ Who are the Picts '—the primitive non-Aryan race over which the Aryan Part-olon and his successors, the “ Brude,”’ ‘‘ Bret,’ or Briton kings ruled in Scotland,—and found that they were the aborigines of Albion, we are now in our search for the first advent of the

4 Cf. L.H.C., {O- 2 Ib. 30.