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352 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

inscriptions to Bei invoke “the blessings’’ of “ Resef Mikel ” or “‘ Mikel of the Food-Corn.”’

The foregoing Egyptian abbreviated forms of the name “Michael” as Makh and Makhu, etc.,1 are interesting as having parallels in the Sumerian, Syriac, Sanskrit and Gothic. Even the Hebrew form “ Micha-el,”’ which has been adopted as the English form of his name, has been generally regarded as having for its final syllable the Semitic e/ or “ god,” which thus gives the proper name as “ Micha.’’ In Syriac charms St. Michael, as the protector of the grain crops against damage, is invoked as ‘‘ Miki, Mki-ki.”? In the Gothic Eddas he is Miok, Moeg, Mag-na and Mikli, son of Thor.

[In the Vedas, ‘ Wagha-van”’ or“ Winner of Bounty (Magha),”’

- a title of the Sun-god Indra and of some of his devotees ; and

the Vedic month Magha is the chief Harvest month and the

month of great festival. He also seems to be the Mash divinity

of the Amorites and Babylonians, who was a ‘“‘ Son of the

Sun-god,”* and the bearer, as we have seen, of the “ Mash” or ‘ Mace” as the Red Cross }

This identity of Tas or TaS-Mikal, under these slightly variant spellings, in Egypt, Vedic India, Phoenicia, HittoSumer, and Ancient Britain is absolutely confirmed and established by the essential identity in the representations of this divinity along with the Cross and his Goat (or “Gothic” rebus). He is figured with the Cross and Goat, as we have seen on the Hitto-Sumer seals (Figs. 59) and on Pheenician coins (Figs. 64) and on ancient Briton coins (Figs. 65, etc.), and Early Briton monuments (Figs. 60, etc.). Similarly is he figured in Ancient Egypt (as Resef or Resaph) with the Cross and Goat (Fig. 69) and in India as Daxa (or “‘ the Dextrous Creator ’’) with the Goat's head and field of Food-crops (Fig. 70).

His Goat relationship is celebrated in the Sumerian

‘ Other Egyptian spellings of his name are Makhi, a seasonal god (B.E.D., 275") and Makhi, god of Fire altar (ib., 2868).

2H. Gollancz, Syviae Charms, 1xxxii.

%See Clay, Empire of Amorites, 179. “ Mash” is an interchangeable title of the reflex solar divinity whose name is usually conjecturaliy rendered “Ninib” and “ Uras’”’ (ib., 179), whose Hittite shrine in Palestine was at “ Uras-ilim ” or Jerusalem, as we have seen,