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394 PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Il ParT-OLON’S IDENTITY WITH “ CATH-LUAN,”’ First TRADITIONAL KING OF THE Picts iN SCOTLAND

“‘Cath-luan was Arya sovereign over all [the Cruithne in Erin], and he was the first king of them who acquired [North] Alban.”— Books cf Ballymote and Lecan

As 1 observed that certain versions of the Irish-Scot traditions—for example, that cited in the heading—represent King Cath-luan as taking the same position as the Catti king Part-olon, the first traditional ““ Briton”’ king of Ireland and North Britain, this suggested to me that “ Cath-luan was possibly a title of the Cassi king Part-olon, in which his tribal title of Catti is substituted for his “‘ Part’’ or ‘‘ Barat”’ title. And so it seems to prove.

The form of the name “‘ Cath-luan,”’ also spelt ‘‘ Cath-luain,”’ is obviously a dialectic contraction for Part-olon’s title of ‘‘ Kazzi (or Catti)-gyaolowonte (or Gioln) ’”’ in our inscription ; and in series with “ Cassi-vellaunus,”’ the title of the paramount king of the Cassi or Catti Britons in the pre-Roman period, who was the “ Cad-wallon’’ of the Welsh Cymri. This identity seems clearly evident from the latter name.

Still closer to “‘ Cath-luan ”’ is the dialectic form of the title of the early Scottish royal clan ‘‘ Cat-uallana,’’ which is recorded on the monument of the Barat of Cassi-vellaunus’ clan of Britons, called by Ptolemy, as we have seen, “‘ Catyeuchlani,’’ and by Dion Cassius, in recording their later invasion by Aulus Plautius, “ Catuellant.’’*

“ Cath-luan "is obviously the dialectic form of the title of the early Scottish royal clan “‘ Cat-uallauna,’’ which is recorded on the monument of the second or third century a.p. at South Shields by the Barat of Syria already referred to.

The literal equivalency of Cath-luan with the titles borne by the Catti Part-olon or ‘‘ Prat-(gya)olowonie ”’ in his Newton Stone inscription is fully established by the variants in the spelling of the name of his later namesake, the Briton king of 630 a.D. in the Saxon Chronicle additions to Nennius’ History of Britain, wherein the self-same name is variously spelt in the same MS. as follows :—

“ Cat-guollaun,”’ ‘‘ Cat-guollaan,’’ “‘ Cat-lon *’ and “* Cath-lon.’”

Cath-luan is reported to have been (as we found Parth-olon was) the first king of the Cruithne or Pruithne (7.e., as we have seen, Britons) in Northern Alban. And the traditional account of his origin is also in keeping with that of our Phoenician king Prwt-gyaolowonie (or “* Giooln ”’). The Irish books state :— ‘

“ The Cruithni came from the land of Tvacia; that is, they are the children of Gleoin, son of Ercol. Aganthiysi was their name.”

This ‘‘ Tracia”’ is, perhaps, for an admittedly sea-going people, “‘ Trazi” or “‘ Tarz,”’ the old names for Tarsus, rather than for Thrace, which was also in the Land of the Goths. Tarsus, the famous sea-port city, was in the

1 Books of Ballymote and Lecan. See Skene, op. cit., 31. The Irish-Scot word Ave, usually translated ‘‘ king, sovereign, prince or chief,’ appears clearly to be the literal equivaient o1 the Arya (‘“Arya-n") title of the Indo-Persians, the ‘‘ Arri’’ or ‘‘ Harri”’ of the Hittites and the ‘Harri’ or “ Heria” title of the Gothic king in the Eddas, as we have seen.

* Dion Cassius, 51, 20.

2 British Museum Harleian MS, 3859 of 977 A.D. See Skene, of. cit., 14, 70 and 347.