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

360 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

is the Devil; and he delivers from Hell (Amenti) when called upon in the hour of need. And his healing through Water and sacred springs and wells is widespread. And he had a devil-banishing Cross made of Wood.*}

St. Patrick, the Scot of Dun-Barton in the fourth and fifth centuries, was traditionally a votary of Michael, who is credited with having commanded Patrick to cross the sea to convert “‘ his brither Scots’ in Scotia or Ireland,* where many of the oldest churches are dedicated to Michael. The vast number of early churches dedicated to St. Michael in Britain is indicated by there being no less than forty-five in the Welsh or Cymric diocese of St. David's alone ;* and they are also especially numerous in the old Pheenician settlements in Cornwall and Devon. And the “ Healing Waters” of the Wells and springs of St. Michael—“ the House of Pure Sprinkling”’ and “ the pure healing waters of TaS(-Mikal) " of the Sumerian litanies—in the British Isles, the Continent and Asia Minor are innumerable.

In the Early English Church the pre-eminence of Michael is evidenced by the fact that the Michael Epistle and Collect in the English Prayer-book formerly came before the Gospels as the first Lection.» It was St Michael, and not St. George, slaying the Dragon, which first appears on English coins. And the mintage of the Michael-Dragon gold coins by Edward IV., called “‘ Angels,” was for centuries in popular demand for ‘‘ touching ’’ in the miraculous cure of “ King’s Evil; and its motto significantly was ‘‘ By the Cvoss do Thou save me !’’—as on the Hitto-Sumerian seals, Trojan amulets and Early Briton monuments.

Indeed, ‘so essentially ‘‘ prehistoric” is the name and significance of “Saint Michael” that the most recent clerical authority on his cult says: “ Given an ancient dedication to St. Michael and a site associated with a headland, hill-top or spring, on a road or track of early origin, it is reasonable to look for a pre-Christian sanctuary—a prehistoric centre of religious worship.’ °

1]. Budge, St. Michael, 40. 27h., 80.

3 Gear Pairaice, 4 and Gloss., and H.E.R., 8, 622,

4H.E.R., 8, 622. = H.E.R., 8, 623. 6 Rev. T. Barns in H.E.R., 8, 621-2.