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
BRITON CUP-MARK PRAYERS DECIPHERED 259
Sweden), known as “ Rings,” which are clearly later than the cups, and carved with metal tools, and which appear to be conventional forms of the solar spiral, now seen to be a symbol of the dual Sun, as the circling ‘‘ Day ”’ and returning ‘Night ’ Sun, as we shall see in the next chapter.
These Early Briton cup-markings, as seen in their simpler and original forms (see Fig. 30, p. 237), are arranged generally in the same groupings as in the Hitto-Sumerian seals and Trojan amulets. They are found to be substantially identical with the Sumerian cup-marked solar amulets of Early Troy, and thus to be Litanies for the resurrection of the Dead by the Sun Cross, and couched in almost identical words, and thus confirming the Trojan origin for the Britons as preserved in the tradition of the Early British Chronicles.
Reading the prehistoric British cup-markings by these new keys, we find that the specimens illustrated in the Fig. pray in the same contracted Hitto-Sumerian and Trojan form, and are addressed to the same ‘“ Solar ’’ God and his archangel Tag, as follows :—
a. ‘‘ O Archangel Tas (5 cups) of the Sun Cross (the cups are arranged in form of Cross),t save me!”
b. ‘‘ O Archangel Tas of the Sun Cross (5 cups cross-wise), as the Setting Sun (2 cups) passes through the under-world region of Death (3 cups) and resurrects as the Rising Sun (2 cups), so resurrect me! ”
c. “O Thrice Infinite God Ia (Jove or Indra, 3 large circled cups), from Death (3 cups), from the Darkness of Death (3 cups with falling lines)? unto the Infinite (2 circled cups) O Infinite Ja (large double circled cup), deliver me, O God (x cup)!”
d. “‘ O Infinite Ja (large circled cup), by thy Archangel Tas (5 cups) pass me through Death (3 cups), the double Death (6 cups), as the Sun (2 cups) passes to Thee, Ja (large circled cup).” [The other 3 large circled cups and their associated small cups on the lower left-hand border have evidently been added at a later period ; but they repeat the same theme. The solitary cup in
‘This cross, formed also with circles, is figured upon the body of the Archangel Tas on Phoenician coins; see Figs. later on.
* The falling lines of these cup-marks resemble those of the Sumerian word-sign for Darkness; see D.R.C., 262; B.B.W., 380. And the Akkad name for that sign is Evebu, disclosing source of Greek Evebos, ‘‘ Darkness.”’