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RESURRECTING SUN TWO CUPS IN IRELAND 249

as Maia of the Greeks, Mahi and Maya of the Vedas and Indian epics, and the “‘ goddess Queen May ”’ of the Britons, and the source of our English ‘‘ Ma"’ for ‘‘ Mother,” whilst she was also called ‘‘ Mfa-dur,’’ now disclosed as the Sumerian source of our English “‘ Mother.’ Her name also reads “ Gq-a,’ the Sumerian source of her alternative Greek title of “ Gaia.”

Fic. 38.—‘ Returning”’ or “ Resurrecting’’ Sun, in prehistoric Irish Scot rock graving two cup-marks; as with Reversed Spiral entering the Gates of Night.

(After Coffey.)

Note the dual cup-marks in both, and that it is the Returning Spiral on extreme right (or West) which enters the latticed Gates in a, while in b, the 7 wedges in the opening in the Gates=Heaven, the direction of Resurrecting Sun, Compare with Briton Coins in Fic. 44, showing Sun-Horse leaping over the Gates of Night.

The pentad group of circles designated the archangel of God, Tas-ia, TaSup of the Hittites and Da up Mikal of the later Pheenicians (who, we shall find, is the Archangel Michael of the Gentiles). His name TaSia, we shall find also, occurs freely in the Aryan titles of archangels in the Gothic Eddas (Thiazi),in the Vedas (Daxa, etc.) ,on Greco-Phcenician coins (as Tkz, Dzs, etc.), feminized by the later polytheistic Greeks into Tyche, and on the coins and monuments of the Ancient Britons (as Tasc, Tascio, etc.), and also usually associated in the Briton coins with the pentad group of circle marks, as we shall see later on.

He is represented sometimes by the pentad of circles (see Fig. 39), but usually in human form (as we shall see), and sometimes winged (see Fig. 40, etc., and numerous specimens

1C.N,G., Fig. 24, from tumulus at Tara.