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RESURRECTING SUN AS TWO “CUPS” 247
and Sanskrit Ra-vi (or “ Rover’’) name for that luminary and its presiding “deity.” Whilst Zal discloses the Sumerian source of the Gothic, Latin and Old English “‘ Sol.’
Fic, 36—Two-headed Resurrecting Sun-god designated by Two Circles. From Hitto-Sumer seal of about 2400 B.c. (After Delaporte* Enlarged 2 diameters.)
This dual phase of the Sun's apparent progress westwards and back again eastwards was familiar to the Ancient Britons and Scots, as seen in the numerous prehistoric rock and other sculptures, and in Early Briton coins, where the Night or “ returning’ Sun is figured as a second disc, joined by bars to the Day Sun (as the so-called “ Spectacles ”’ of Scottish archzologists, Figs. in next chapter), or as a double Spiral, with the Night Sun figured as a Spiral in the reversed or “returning ’”’ direction (see Figs. 38 &c.). It is also similarly figured in Hittite seals and on Phcenician sacred vases from the Levant, Crete and the Aigean, both as the conjoined double disc (see Fig. 37 &c.), and as the double Spiral with the second reversed or “‘ returning” ; and this latter is sometimes shown in both the Hittite and Ancient Briton and Scot representations, as entering the Gates of Night (see Figs. 37 and 38), wherein the gates have the same latticed pattern, and it is also to be noted that, im these Tvish Scot prehistoric sculptures, the Sun is represented by two cup-marks, as in the Hitto-Siumerian. This again evidences
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