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
ARYAN FATHER-GOD IN SACRED SEALS = 245
Hittites, Phoenicians, and Kassi and other Babylonians, in order to understand aright the cup-mark inscriptions and symbols on the “‘ prehistoric ’’ Briton monuments and Briton coins and the deity who is therein invoked Many thousands of the actual original seals of the Early Aryan kings, highpriests, nobles and officials,and many of them inscribed, have fortunately been preserved to us down through the ages. They form a vast picture-gallery of authentic facts, vividly portraying, not only the religious beliefs and ideals of our Aryan ancestors, and their conception of God and the Future
Pic. 35.—Father-god Ja (Iahvh or ‘* Jove ’) or Indara bestowing the “‘ Life-giving Waters.’’
From Sumerian seal of King Gudea, about 2450 8.c. (After Delaporte* Enlarged 14 diameters.) Note the horned Gothic head-dress and costumes of that period, with long beard and clean shaven lips. The Sun, as angel, with his double-headed Serpent Caduceus, introduces the votarics. The flower-bud on top of yase is the Sumerian word-sign for “‘ Life.”
Life, but also preserve the contemporary portraits of early Aryan kings, queens, priests and people, the details of their dress and the high esthetic feeling and civilization of those early periods. And the very highly naturalistic art and technique displayed in the drawing is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that the drawing is on such a minute scale and delicately engraved on hard jewel stones,
These seals and their contemporary tablet-records disclose the important fact that the Aryan Father-god (Bel) was already imagined in human form, and on the model of a
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