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
298 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
the “ Revolving Cross.”’ This discloses for the first time the real origin and meaning of the Swastika Cross and its feet,1 and its talismanic usage for good luck. This Swastika form of the Sun Cross occurs on early Hittite and Sumerian seals and sculptures and is very frequent in the ruins of Troy (see Fig. J J)—where it is very frequent on whorls, used especially as amulets for the dead, with the feet reversed as the Resurrecting Cross. It is found widely in India of the Barats and in most places to which the Phcenicians penetrated. Thus it is found with other solar Phoenician symbolism in Peru amidst the massive ruins of the dead Inca civilization which the Phcenicians had established there, and of which vestiges survive in the solar cult of the modern Indians there. What is of immediate importance is that it occurs on the Brito-Phcenician Part-olon’s monument to the Sun-god at Newton, and on many other pre-Christian monuments in Britain (see Figs. 5 A and 47) and on early Briton coins (Figs. later).
The simple equal-limbed cross was also sometimes figured inside the circle of the Sun’s disc (Fig. 7, , etc.), and sometimes intermediate rays were added between the arms to form a halo of glory (Fig. h-l, etc.). This now discloses the Catti or “ Hittite’ origin of the “ Wheeled” Crosses of pre-Christian Britain known as the “ Runic Cross,’ or more commonly called “ The Celtic Cross.’ This name of “ Celtic” has been lately given to it because it was largely adopted by Columba and Kentigern in their missions to the Picts and “ Celts” of Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, and is supposed to have been invented by “ Celts.’ On the contrary, it is now seen to have been imported by the Catti Phcenician Barats or Britons as part of their Sun-cult ; and the scenes sculptured on these ancient “‘ wheeled,’ as well as freelimbed, prehistoric Crosses in Britain are non-Christian, and essentially identical, I find, with those graven on the ancient Hittite and Sumerian seals and other monuments of the Sun-cult from about 4000 to Too0o B.c., and were erected on pedestals for adoration as high crosses (Fig. 46, 7, 7, 1, 2).
1 See the current theories summarized by D’Alviella Wizvation of Symbols, 1894, 32, etc. And compare my Buddhism of Tibet, 1895, 30, 287, 359.