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
284 PHGZNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
groups like cup-marks) sometimes concentric and rayed, along with wheels and crosses, spirals, single -horse sometimes with horseman, hawk or eagle, goose, winged disc, etc. (see Fig. 44), now disclosed to be purely solar symbols, have not hitherto been recognized as such, but are described by numismatists merely as “ ring ornaments, annules, pellets or rosettes of pellets ’’ and the rayed discs as “ stars,’ and regarded apparently as being merely decorative devices, and without symbolic meaning.» And the horse and horseman type, although invariably represented single, and not in competition nor with chariots, are fancied to be horse and chariot racing in Olympian games borrowed from Macedonian coinage, notwithstanding that the latter is devoid of the Briton associated solar symbols.
The circle symbol for the Sun’s disc was early used by the Sumerians, as we have seen, in their cup-mark script, and it is one of the common ways of representing the Sun im the Sumerian and Hitto-Phcenician seals. In these seals the Sun is also represented by the dual and concentric circle, rayed circle, petalled and rosetted circles, spirals and swastikas, precisely as we find it figured in all these conventional ways in the Early British coins.*
The equivalence and interchange of these various conventional ways of representing the Sun are well seen in the series of Briton coins here figured (Fig. 44).
It will be noticed that the Sun above the Sun-horse is figured as a simple disc or the dual Sun-dise (corresponding to “cups ’’) in 8, rayed in a, rosetted as circles around a central one in c, as a wheel with 2 concentric circles and spirals in d, as circled disc with reversed or returning swastika feet and concentric circle with spirals in e, and as Sun-hawk with the dual Sun-disc inf, In g and i the upper Sun symbol is 8-petalled, rayed, and the horse tied to one of the Sun-discs and in 7 the horse is reversed with the “returning” Sun; whilst in /# the single Sun-disc is berne by the Sun Eagle or Hawk with head duplicated to picture the “ returning’ Sun. In c, moreover, is seen the legend Aeszv,
‘E.B.C., 46 and 58, etc., passim ; and numismatic works generally. *See Sumerian and Hitto-Phoenician originals in D.C.O.; W.S.C., etc,