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TAS RESURRECTING SUN-ANGEL IN “CUPS” 251

as is very usual, by the Sun-bird (Phoenix), Sun-fish, and, Goat (which latter we shall find is a rebus for “ Goth ”)his votaries.

Jpg OS 7S ; |ooe = STOTS) | Fic. 41.—Pheoenician Seal reading ‘‘ Tas ’’ (Archangel).

From grave in Cyprus of about 31d millennium 8.c. (After A. Cesnola.)!

The seven-circle or heptad group designated, as we have seen, ‘‘Heaven’’ (Imin), and occurs frequently in the Sumerian and Hitto-Phoenician seals and amulets (see Fig. 42), as well as in the cup-marked inscriptions in Britain.

Fic. 42.—Heptad Circles for ‘‘ Heaven” (Imin) on Babylonian amulet. (After Delaporte.)* Note the 8-rayed Sun is swimming eastwards with the Sun-fish (of 7 fins)* to Heaven (7 circles) above.

The nonad circle group designates the title of the Fathergod Bil or Indara as the ‘‘ He-Goat ’’ (Iilim), the totem or mascot of the Khatti or Getae Goths—the sacred Goat of the Cymri. And the He-Goat is a frequent associate of Thor or Indri-the-divine in the Gothic Eddas.

1 Cyprus, pl. 33, 24, and W.S.C., 1189, * D.C.O. (L), pl. 91, 1, No. 617, on a sapphire. Gp. SJE, 452.