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SUN-WISE DIRECTION IN EARLY BRITAIN — 283
Buddha, and in which Buddhists and Hindus still pass their sacred monuments, as opposed to the disrespectful and unlucky way of the devil-worshippers in the contrary direction. This Sun-wise direction and its solar meaning as ‘‘ The Right Way” were commonly practised and wellrecognized formerly in England, as evidenced by Spenser in his Faery Queen, when he makes the false Duessa in her enmity to the Red Cross Knight and Fairy Queen emphasize her curse by walking round in the opposite direction :—
“ That say’d, her round about she from her turn’d, She turn’'d her contrary to the Sunne, Thrice she her turn’d contrary, and return’d, All contrary: for she the Right did shunne.”
It is still practised in Britain in masonic ritual and by superstitious country folk in walking round sacred stones and sacred walls supposed to possess lucky or curative magical virtues. It is the “lucky way” of passing wine at table. And it is the direction adopted by the Sumerians and all Aryans and Aryanized people for their writing, as opposed to the Semitic or Lunar style, in the reversed or retrograde left-handed direction.
This Sun-wise or ‘“ Right Way” was the direction in which the Fire was carried and the circumambulation made in the Bel-Fire ceremonies.
_Thus, in recording the practice of this “ Dessil” in the Hebrides, Martin states “‘ there was an antient custom to make a fiery circle about the houses, corn, cattle, etc., belonging to each particular family. A man carried fire in his right hand, and went round, and it was called Dessil from the right hand, which is called Dess.”” And he adds that Dessil is ‘‘ proceeding sun-ways from East to West.’’!|
Solar symbols in Ancient Britain are also especially profuse and widespread on the pre-Roman Briton coins, pre-Christian monuments and caves, although they have not hitherto been recognized as of solar import. On Early Briton coins the very numerous circles (often arranged in
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