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358 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

at Aberdeen, now usually called “St. Machay’’ or St. Macker,’ was also known as Tochanna,: especially as we have seen that Michael's name was sometimes anciently spelt by the Hittites and Egyptians as “ Makhar, Makhiar, and Mekir.” This St. Machar or Macker or “ Tochanna ” is a more or less legendary missionary personage, said to have been sent to the Picts of the Don Valley by Columba in the sixth century A.p. But in view of what we have seen of the quality of the other legend regarding St. Andrew from the same source,* and the fact that this St. Machar legend is also discredited in essentials,* it seems possible that this “Machar’”’ was an old locally current name attached to the pagan cult of St. Michael or ““ Makhiar,’” and was erected into a Christian saint in proselytizing the local votaries of the Michael Corn cult there, just as Indara’s shrine a little further south was converted into ‘ St. Andrews,’ where significantly the first Christian Church was dedicated to Michael,*1.e., ““ The First-begotten Son of Indara or Andrew.”

The introduction of the Gentile St. Michael® into Christianity dates probably to the very commencement of the latter. The angel who imparted healing virtues to the pool at the old Hittite city of Jerusalem at the time of Christ® is generally considered to have been Michael, as that was his special function in the numerous St. Michael Wells in later Christianity, and also, as we have seen, in the Sumerian litanies. St. John, in his Apocalypse, gives

1 B.L.S., Novr., 315-6. He is also called variously Mocumma, Tochanna, and Dochonna; but‘‘ Machar’”’ is the common form.

? The Aberdeen Breviary is the chief source of both the St. Andrew and St. Machar legends, ib.

SHE SS, Sts): 4S.P.S., 185, etc.

5 Michael, we have seen, was entirely a Gentile creation in origin and name. That name nowhere occurs as the name of an angel in the Old Testament except in Daniel (10, 21, and in 12, 1, where called “ prince ") ; and then it is in Greek script, and not Hebyew. And the account of Daniel and the lions therein is seen to be a post-exilic borrowing from the famous Hitto-Sumerian and Babylonian representations of Indara or TaS taming the Lions, so frequently figured on Hitte-Sumerian seals (see Fig. 59), and on pre-Christian Briton monuments (Fig. 60). The name “ Dan” is Sumerian for “supreme ruler’’ and Bel (Br., 6191); and the Akkad ‘* Danu,"' Judge,’ seems to be derived from it, as it is an especial title of the Sun-god as ‘‘ The Judge’’ (M.D., 258). And Pan isa title of Thor in the Gothic Eddas.

S$) John; v, 4.