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
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“Sun-WorsHIp”’ & Bet-FrreE Rites In Earry BRITAIN DERIVED FROM THE PHCNICIANS
Disclosing Phenician Ovigin of Solar Emblems on pre-Christian Monuments in Britain, on pre-Roman Briton Coins, and of ‘‘ Deazil”’ or Sun-wise direction for Luck, etc., and John-the-Baptist as Aryan Sun-Fire Priest.
“The Days were ever divine as to the First Aryans.’’—EMERSON.?
“We must lay his head to the East !
My father [Cymbeline] hath a reason for it.."—Prince Guiderius in SHAKESPEARE'S Cymbeline.
“O Sun-God, thou liftest up thy head to the world, Thon settest thy ear to (the prayers) of mankind, Thou plantest the foot of mankind.”
“In the right hand of the king, the shepherd* of his country,
May the (symbol of the} Sun-God be carried.’’-—Sumerian Psalms.*
“The able Panch [Phoenic-ians], the Chedi [Ceti or Catti] are all highly blest, and know the Eternal Religion —the Eternal Truths of, Religion and Righteousness.’’—Maha-Barata.*
Tue “ Sun-worship”’ which we have just seen reflected in the prehistoric Stone Circles and Cup-marked script in Britain, that are now disclosed to be Phcenician in origin, leads us to discover still further evidence of the Phoenician origin of the “‘ Sun-worship”’ in Ancient Britain, which was formerly widespread over the land.
This former Sun-cult is attested by the turning of the face of the dead to the East in the Stone and Bronze Age tombs—the memory of which also in the Iron Age is
1 Society aud Solitude, 7, 137. *Siha, disclosing Sumerian origin of English word “* Shepherd.”
3$.H.L., 490-491. ‘*M.B., Karma Parva, 45, 14-15, cp. M.B-P., 1, 157.
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