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

292 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

day (see Fig. 45), was in use in Early Britain down to the Middle Ages in the hands of St. Kentigern and others, as we have seen, for generating the sacred fire. The Vedic hymns of the ancient Indo-Aryans contain numerous references and directions for the production of the Sacred Fire in this way ; and significantly it is the Barats who are chiefly referred to as producing the Sacred Five with twin fire-sticks, and especially their ““ Able Panch”’ ov Pheenician clan of priest-kings, [Thus: “ The Bavats—Srava the divine (and) Vata the divine—

Have dextrously rubbed to Life effectual Fire :

O God of Fire, look forth with brimming riches,

Bear us each day our daily bread ! ’’}?

and it is these twin fire-sticks which, we have seen, were mystically used to form the sacred Ogam script of the Irish Scots and of the Newton Stone (Fig. 7, p. 30).

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Fic. 45.—Twin Fire-sticks crossed in Fire-production, as used in modern India. (After Hough).? Note the sticks are bamboo. The lower section shows how the heat of the sawing ignites the falling sawdust as tinder.

The Cross was thus freely used as the symbol of Divine Victory of the Sun on the earliest Sumerian (or Early Aryan) sacred seals from about 4000 B.c., and continued so to be used by the Hittites, Phoenicians, Kassis, Trojans, Goths and Ancient Britons, and worn as an amulet down through the ages into the Christian period. It was figured both in its simple form, and also decorated and ornamented in various

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*W. Hough, Merhods of Five-making, Rept. U.S. Nat. Museum, Boston, 1890-05.