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

268 PHGZNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

pantheon. And it was clearly through this Semitic form of Bil that the Israelites admittedly appropriated his attributes for their later tribal God ‘“ Jehovah,’’! who is so often described as encompassed by Fire, and as appearing in Fire to the Hebrew prophets, and as a Pillar of Fire leading the Israelites in the desert ; and as ‘“‘a consuming Fire.’’

Now it is of great British and Scandinavian significance that this word Bil or “ Blaze’’ or “ Flame” gives us still another of those radical words that have occurred incidentally and disclose the Sumerian origin of a series of words in the English and kindred modern Aryan languages. It discloses the Sumerian origin of the Old English “ Bale”’ for Blaze, Flame and Fire, the Scottish Bail, and the corresponding words in the Norse, Swedish, etc., as seen in this equation :—

Sumerian Origin of “ Bil’’ or “ Bel” Blaze and Fiame Words im English and N, European Aryan Languages.

Norse

Sumer Faas eee Sagon Scot! Badish English Bil = Baela =Bal, Blis =Bael=Bail=Bele=—Bl-aze Bil Belyse Bele Fl-ash =“ Blaze | Blus Fl-ame «Flame }=,, = » =, =» Blase

« Fire” | & pyre. ,,

We now see the significance of the name “ St. Blaze”’ for the taper-carrying saint introduced into Early Christianity as patron of the intermediate solar festival of Candlemas Day; and probably also of the name ‘“‘ Bleezes ”’ or “ Blazes ”’ for the old house on the hillock at the foot of Bennachie,

1 Thus one of the latest Semitic authorities writes : “ Jahweh [Jehovah] assumes the attributes of the Baals.’’ (J.R.B., 74). And “The Baals of the Canaanites [i.e., pre-Israelite people of Phoenicia Palestine] we know were fersonifications of the Sun”’

(1b. 75). * Exodus, 3,2; 19, 18; Isaiah, 6,4; Ezek., 1, 4; Deut., 4, 24. NID Sth, ORE ‘eb 235

* This and the corresponding Scandinavian forms seem to be a bilingual Sumerian compound Ji/-izi—IJzi, being another dialectic name for the word with the same meaning “ Fire,’ and appears cognate with Sanskrit Vilas=“ Flash "’ and the Greek Phalos “* bright.”’