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

242 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS circles are found in the prehistoric ‘ British Isles.

This early method of numerical notation by circles was especially used by the Sumerians in their religion to designate God, and different aspects of the godhead and Heaven, Earth and Death, and in the later polytheistic phase to distinguish a few different divinities, as we have seen in the sacred seal in Fig.33. Thus, whilst the single circle, or numeral for one, was, like the sign of the rayed Sun itself, used to designate “God” (as First Cause), the Sun and Sun-god and latterly gods in general and Heaven, the higher numbers in definite groups of small circles designated different members of the godhead, &c., as recorded in the bilingual Sumero-Akkadian glossaries.

With the aid of these circle marks we are able to identify the Hitto-Sumerian god-names on the seals and tablets with the names of the leading Aryan gods of classic Greece and Rome, of the Indian Vedas, of the Gothic Eddas, and of the Ancient Britons, as inscribed on their pre-Roman coins and monuments, and not infrequently accompanied in the latter by the same groups of circle marks. In this table, for convenience of printing, an ordinary O type is used to represent the perfect circle of the originals.

“cup-marks ’’ in the

O=1 or ro (A, Ana, As, U, Un, etc.). God! as Monad, Ana, “ The One,’’? Lord, Fathergod JI-a (or Bel), or In-duru,* Sun-god Mas or Mashtu (“ Hor-Mazd”).* Earth, Heaven

and Sun. OO=z or 20 (Lab, Tap, Dab, Man, Min® Nis). or O Sun-god as “Companion of God,” also called O Buzur,’ Ra? or Zal’ (= Sol’), also Nas-atya in

Hittite and Sanskrit. Is dual—or 2-faced—the visible Day Sun and Night or “ returning ”’ Sun,

1 Br., 8688. * Br. 8654. 2 See later. 4See later.

5 Min was possibly used in Britain as synonym, in view of the nursery counting out rhyme, “ Eeny, Meeny, Mainy Mo,” etc.

*Br. 9944. Buz is described as the “ Gid’’ or Serpent Cad-uceus holder, which accounts for the 2 serpents figured on rod of Sun-god and below the Sun on some Sumerian seals and on Egyptian figures of the Sun and on rod of Mercury.

7 B.B.W., No. 337, 6, 8, 56 ; and Langdon, J.R.A.S,, 1921, 573.

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