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
286 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
on the Ancient Briton coins. The interchangeability of the Sun’s vehicle seen in the British coins, etc., as Horse (Asvin ), Deer (or Goat), Goose, and Hawk or Falcon is voiced in the Vedas, and often in dual form :“ O Asvin (Horse) like a pair of Deer Fly hither like Geese unto the mead we offer With the fleetness of the Falcon.’-—R_Y. 5,-78, 2-4.
The Deer, Goat and Goose, symbols associated with the Sun by Hitto-Sumerians and Phcenicians, and on Briton coins, etc., are seen in next chapter.
This solar character of these devices on the Early Briton coms is still further seen in the specimens in Fig. 67. p. 349. The Sun is borne on the shoulders of the Eagle or Hawk, which in the third transfixes with its claws the Serpent of the Waters or Death. In the second the winged horse is tied to the Sun and is passing over the 3 ‘‘ cup-marks”’ of “Earth” (or Death). And on its obverse is the legend Tascia, the name of the Hitto-Sumerian archangel of the Sun, as we found in the cup-mark inscriptions in Britain and in the Hitto-Sumerian seals and amulets from Troy; and in the name of the Sun-temple in Jerusalem. It is a very common name on the Briton coins, as we shall see. This name “‘ Tascia’’ thus connects the Briton coins and Cup-marks directly with the Hitto-Sumerian seals and the amulets of Troy.
The Sun-Horse, figured so freely on the Briton coins, does not appear on Early Sumerian or Hittite seals, where its place is taken by the Sun-Hawk or Eagle. But it appears later and on Phoenician coins! and on the Greco-Phcenician coins of Cilicia from about 500 B.c. (see Figs. later), and on archaic seals from: Hittite Cappadocia.2 This horse is presumably the basis of Thor’s horse (or Odinn’s) of the Goths and Ancient Britons—on which Father Thor himself as Jupiter Tonans, The Thunderer, with his bolts, latterly rode, and he is so figured riding on early Briton monuments.
*For the galloping horse on Phcenician coins of Carthage and Sicily, sometimes with Angel and Ear of Barley, see Duruy, Hist. Romaine,
I, 142, etc., and PVASP. 1 374. > C.M.G., Figs. ryr, 148: