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280 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Tt is also noteworthy that the traditional place to which the infant Christ was carried in the Flight to Egypt was the great Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis, or ‘‘ The House of the Phcenix ’’—the resurrecting Sun-bird of the Phcenicians and the Ancient Egyptians, to the north of Cairo.1 And there, to the present day, is “ The Virgin’s Tree ’’ and “ The Virgin’s Well,” where, by the tradition of the Copts, one of the oldest sects of the Early Christians, the Virgin and Child with Joseph rested in Egypt.* This, again, appears to connect Christ with the Aryan Sun-cult.

Racially, also, we are informed that the Virgin Mary was “the cousin of Elisabeth,* the mother of John-the-Baptist, ’ and that Elisabeth was “of the daughters of Aaron.’’4 Now “Aaron,” latterly used as a generic term for the priesthood in Jerusalem, is shown by leading biblical authorities to have been “a name extremely probably absent altogether from the earliest document of the Hextateuch in its original form, and apparently introduced by the editor’’® scribes later. This raises the possibility that the name AHRN, as “ Aaron”’ is spelt in the old Hebrew, is really derived from the name of “‘ Araunah,”’ the Jebusite king and evidently priest-king of the Sun-temple at Jerusalem ; for the Hittite kings were usually priest-kings, and the title /bws or “‘ Jebus-ite,’”’ we have seen, implied priesthood. That name, commonly rendered ‘“‘ Araunah,”’ is spelt in the old Hebrew variously as ARUNH, AURNH, ARNIH, and ARNN. The statement, therefore, that Elisabeth was “of the daughters of Aaron,’’ might mean that she was a descendant of Araunah, the Hittite or Jebusite priest-king of Jerusalem, and that her cousin Mary, the mother of Christ, was also in the royal line of descent from the pre-Israelitic Aryan king of Jerusalem. Such a descent would account for the repeated references to the

1 Herodotus i, 73.

* Baedeker’s Lower Egypt, 333; Lunn, Mediterranean, 1896, 251. The ancient sycamore is about 250 years old, and replaced a former old sacred tree, and was railed in by the late Empress Eugénie at the opening of the Suez Canal. The Phcenix Sun-bird was supposed to appear every morning to the faithful on the top of the sacred Persea tree there (B.G.E. ii, O7; 371)

3 Luke 1, 36. 4 Luke ij, 5. 5 Enc. Bibl, 2.