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
KEY TO SUMER CUP-MARK SCRIPT 253
disc in Egyptian. The prisoner as a “ Bird-man ’—by his lower parts of the tail and feet of a chicken, and the young puppy which he holds—is designated by these Sumerian hieroglyphs as “‘ The Son Adamu (or Adam),”’! who gives his name to this famous Chaldean epic scene. His accuser, marked by 3 circles, is the Moon-god of Darkness and Death (see key-list) ; and the outer official is marked by a circle with a dot to its left top, which is the Sumerian word-sign for “ A Spirit of Heaven.’’*
Our key-list to this Circle script of the Sumerians thus discloses that the scene engraved on this sacred Sumerian seal is the famous trial scene in the Chaldean epic of ““ How Adam broke the Wing of the Stormy South Wind ’’—an epic of which several copies have been unearthed in Babylonia in cuneiform tablets.* This epic relates that ‘‘ Adam, the Son of God Ia”’ was overturned with his boat in the sea by the stormy South Wind, and that he retaliated by “ breaking the wing ”’ of the stormy South Wind, and was arraigned before his Father-God for trial for this audacity. It is, I find, a poetic version of the epoch-making invention of sails for sea-craft by the early Hittite historical king who is called in the still extant cuneiform documents of the third millennium B.c. ‘“‘ Adam(u) the Son of God,” and a version of the same story is preserved in our Gothic Eddas.
This key-list will now, moreover, be found to apply equally well to the many other Hitto-Babylonian seals‘ containing diagnostic circle-marks for divinities, as well as those in which the circles represent the divinities without figured representations. It also explains for the first time the cupmarkings on the numerous “‘ whorls’’ unearthed at Troy, the old capital of the Hittites, and now discovered to be amulets ; and it explains the corresponding circles on the ancient Briton coins (as figured later), and the cup-markings of prehistoric Britain.
The Trojan cup-marks on the amulets (see Fig. 31), now
1Br., 9075. *Ner., Akkad “ Anwu-Naki,'’’ Br., 10149.
*H. Winckler, Die Thon-tafeln v. El Amarna, 166, a and b, and E. T. Harper, Beit.z. Assvr.,2,418f.; and partly translated with text in L. King,
First Steps in Assyrian, 215, eo. ‘ Figured in W.S.C.