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

184 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

founding of London by Brutus, to find that on the site of St. Paul’s Cathedral there is a tradition of a once-famous temple to Diana. The old buildings in its neighbourhood are called, in the church records, “Camere Diane’ or “ Rooms of Diana,” and in the reign of Edward I. numerous ox-heads were dug up in the churchyard which were ascribed to the sacrifices to Diana performed there.*

The maintenance of the higher religion was an essential part of the Aryan State system, and the kings were for long the high priests and priest-kings. Czsar mentions that students from Gaul and other parts of the continent flocked to the colleges in Early Britain for religious imstruction.? And the fact that the ruling Aryan Briton kings and their ‘Britons’ properly so-called (as distinguished from the aborigines) adhered to the higher ancestral religion of the Sun-cult, and not the blood-thirsty Druidism of their subjects, is evidenced by the Early Briton coins and the numerous stone monuments of the pre-Christian period in Britain, which are purely Solar in their symbolism. So purely solar was the higher religion in Ancient Britain that Pliny reports that the ancient Persians—the most famed of the later Eastern Sun-Fire worshippers—seemed to have derived their rites from Britain.*

The character of these Early Britons is reflected to some extent in their Chronicles. The Phcenician admiral Himilco of Carthage who visited Britain about the sixth century B.c. to explore ‘‘ the outer parts of Europe ’’* records that the Britons were ‘‘a powerful race, proud-spirited, effectively skilful in art, and constantly busy with the cares of trade.”

Their patriotism and independence is strikingly reflected in the magnificent oration of the Briton chief Galgacus as recorded by Tacitus,” and displays high proficiency in literary composition and rhetoric. The character of King Caractacus was highly extolled by the Romans. The high

1C.B., 2, 81. ? D.B.G., 6,8; 6, 13 (11) and f. 2 Nat. Hist., 30.

‘Pliny states that he sailed via Gades (Nat. Hist., 2, 67, 109).

5 Multa vis hic gentis est. Superbus animus, efficax sollertia. Negotiandi cura jugis omnibus.” [Fragment preserved by Festus Avienus, Ova Maritima, v, 98-100.

6 Agricola, 30.