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
206 PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
princesses—the “ Mitani ” being a branch of the Hittitesand his “ propagation "’ of Aten-worship began when he was only 16 years old, two years after his marriage to a “ Syrian”’ princess, and the Aten symbol was previously used by his mother, also a Syrian, when she was regent of Egypt. All the circumstances lead Sir F. Petrie and other authorities to believe that this “‘ Aten” Sun-worship, as well as Akhenaten’s new art, which adorns Tut-ankh-amen’s tomb, was derived from “ Syria,”? 7.¢., Syria-Phoenicia; and that “new” art is seen to be patently Phcenician.
The later representation of God in human form by the Sumerians and some of the later Aryans was presumably led down to by their long habit of invoking him as “ Father ’’ and “ King,’ and thus conjuring up a mental picture of a father and king in human form. Such “ graven images ’’ we have seen in the Sumerian seals (Fig. 33, etc.) ; and amongst some of the later Phoenicians (see Fig. 1, p. 2), and on Pheenician coins, (Fig. 64, etc.), Babylonian seals, in MedoPersian and later Mithra cult (see Fig. 10, p. 46), and among the classic Greeks and Romans. But the purer “ Sunworshippers’ appear to have religiously abstained from making graven images of God, as in the Ancient Briton coins and pre-Christian monuments, as in our Newton Stone ; nor is there any reference to such images in the Gothic Eddas. Thus the purer Sumerians sing in their psalms :
“Of Induru [Ia or “ Jove], can anyone comprehend thy Form 2 Of the Sun-god, can anyone comprehend thy Form? ”?
On the other hand, the Pheenicians frequently made statues of Hercules, who, Herodotus tells us, was merely a canonized human Phcenician hero, and thus analogous to St. George. They carved the image of their marine eponymic tutelary Barati or Britannia on their coins (see Fig. 5, p. 9), and elsewhere, as a protecting angel and not God. They also carved grotesque little images of misshapen “ pygmies,’’ which, Herodotus states, they carried on the
‘PE. 2, 210-214. *S. Langdon, Siwnerian Psalms, 77, where the name Is spelt Ea.