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

354 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Tash-ub (or “‘ Tash of Plough’), Teisbas or Dhuspuas in Van inscriptions, and Su-Tax or Su-Takh (or “‘ Tax the Sower ”) ; and he is the ‘‘ Dagon” of the Philistines. In Indian Vedas Tvashtr (or “‘ Taks ’’) and Daxa or Daksha for solar Creative gods of food and animals, of whom the first fashions the bolt of Indra, creates the Horse, so frequently associated with Tas in the later period, has the food and wine of the gods, and bowl of wealth and confers blessings. On the Phoenician and GrecoPheenician coins of Cilicia the name is spelt Dioc, Dzs, Dek and Theoys ;} and in coins of Phcenicia Dioc, Dks, Thios, Tes, Theas and Theac.

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And significantly the name “ Tasc”’ still survives in the Scottish Task for ““ Angel or Spirit.’’* And he is presumably the “ Thiaz”’ or Ty giant warrior assistant of Thor in the Gothic Eddas, the Twisco of Saxons and Germans, who gave his name to Tues-day, the “ Tys-day ’ of the Scots—for which the corresponding French name “ J/ar-di’’ seems to preserve his Sumerian synonym of “ Maru’ (or Mar-duk),. The Greek title of “‘ Dionysos” (or properly, Dionusou or Dionusos of Homer) hitherto inexplicable, now seems to be possibly the Sumerian synonym for Tas as ‘“‘Ama-su’’ or “The Descending God,’* presumably to denote his angelic messenger function, with divine prefix Dr (the Sumerian Di, “ to shine’) and hellenized into ‘* Di-onysos.’’>

As the patron saint of Agriculture, Corn Spirit and Heavenly Husbandman or “ Spirit of the Plough,” Ta$ or Taxi, who, we have found, figured with the Plough in the Early Hittite rock-sculptures (Fig. 62, p. 340), bore in the Early Sumerian (or Phoenician) inscriptions the title of “ Dasi of the Spear of Ploughshare Produce ’’*—wherem the word for ‘‘ Spear’’ (Giv, the old English Gar) is poetic for “ Plough’’; and the word for “ Fruit sprout produce ” is pictured by a ploughshare, Lam,* which ispresumably the Sumerian source of the name of the Scottish Early Harvest festival ““ Lam-mas.”’ Thus, at this early period, the Aryan

1See Figs. 64, ete., and H.C.C., Ixxxix, exiv, ete.

*H.C.P., 214-6; 259, 261, etc.; 164, etc.; 53, etc.

$J.S.D., 5409. 4 Br., 10834.

5** Tasc-onus’’ was the name of a celebrated “° Roman’ potter of Samian ware.

§ Da-Si lam-gir, hitherto rendered with signs transposed as “‘ Nin-gir-su.” 7 Br., 309 and cp. B.B.W., 2, p. §.