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MICHAEL’S MOUNT OR CASTLE OF THE SUN 281

Jewish fears that Christ claimed a temporal kingship as “ King of the Jews” (? Jebus) in Jerusalem.!

The location of the holy family in Nazareth of ‘“‘ Galilee of the Gentiles” is also suggestive of Gentile and Hittite relationship. Nazareth is near and almost overlooked by the mount, the scene of ‘‘ The Sermon on the Mount,” which is still called, from its double peak, ‘“‘ The Horns of the Hittites.’ Gentilic Galilee was the scene of most of Christ’s preaching. Here he selected his disciples, most of whom, besides Bartholomew, we shall find bear Aryan Gentile names, as did John-the-Baptist, and his father Zacharias, the Bel-Fire priest.

Resuming now our survey of the Bel-Fire rites in ancient Dritain, we find that one of the earliest or earliest of all centres in Britain for these ancient Bel-Fire rites was at the ancient Phoenician tin-port itself in Cornwall, or “‘ Belerviwm,” as the Romans called it. That tin-port, St. Michael’s Mount, rising as a spiry islet, and natural temple, off Marasion with its Stone Circle, and connected with that town at low tide, was formerly called ‘ Din-Sol” or ‘‘ Castle of the Sun.”? Its old sacred character is also reflected in its Roman title of ‘‘ Forum Jovis”’ or ‘‘ Market of Jove,’ as Bel we have seen was Ja or “ Jahveh,’’ and he was usually called “ Jove ” (or Jupiter) by the Romans in their eastern provinces and elsewhere, where the Bel cult was prevalent; and the thunderbolts which they put in the hands of Jove were of crackling tin, possibly with reference to that Phoenician metal. The Fire festivals surviving, or till recently surviving here and in Cornwall generally, are held on the eve of St. John the Baptist’s Day, and are significantly

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+ The references to Jewish rites of circumcision, etc., in regard to Christ are not necessarily historical but possibly additions of later Jewish convert copyists for proselytizing purposes. They do not appear in Mark, the earliest and most authentic of the gospels. The Davidic genealogy also, which differs widely in its two versions in Matthew and Luke, refers only to Joseph, who is represented as not being the father of Our Lord.

* It is called ** Din Sol’ in the Book of Landaff (C.B., 1, 4; and L.H.P., g1). Din is Cornish for the Cymric and Scottish Dun, “‘ a fort or town ”’ (as in ““ Dun-Barton”’), and is the Gothic Eddic Tu, ‘‘ an enclosure or dwelling,” and thus the Gothic source of the English “‘ Town,” from Sumer Du (Du-na) “ dwelling, mound "’ (Br. 9579, 9591). Sol is the Cornishand Gothic Eddic for “ Sun” (also in Latin), which is now disclosed to he derived from the Sumerian Zal, *' The Sun.”