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

14 PHCNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

cians were located before about 2800 B.C.),1 also called themselves by the ‘‘ Khatti”’ or “‘ Hitt-ite”’ title and also by the early form of “‘ Barat’’ in their own still extant monuments and documents, and dated back to about 3100 B.C.?

The Phoenician Khatti Barat ancestry of the Britons and Scots, and of the pre-Roman Briton “ Catti”’ kings was then elicited and established by conclusive historical evidence in due course. The “ Anglo-Saxons’’ also were disclosed, as we shall see, to be a later branchlet of the Phcenician-Britons, which separated after the latter had established themselves in Britain.

This identity of the Aryans with the Khatti or Hitt-ites was still further confirmed and more firmly established by further positive and cumulative evidence. In 1907, at the old Hittite capital, Boghaz Koi in Cappadocia, Winckler discovered the original treaty of about 1400 B.c. between the Khatti or Hittites and their kinsmen neighbours on the east, in Ancient Persia, the Mita-ni? (who, I had found, were the ancient Medes, who also were famous Aryans and called themselves “‘ Avriya’’). In this treaty they invoked the actual Aryan gods of the Vedas of the Indian branch of the Aryans and by theiy Vedic names. Significantly the first god invoked is the Vedic Sun-god Mitra (i.e. the “Mithra”’ of the Greco-Romans), as some of the later Aryans made separate gods out of different titles of the Father God. His name is followed by In-da-ra, that is the solar Indra or “ Almighty,’ the principal deity of the Indo-Aryan Vedic scriptures, and as instanced in the verses cited in the heading, the especial god of the Barats or Brihats (or “ Brits”) and of their Panch or Phcenic-ian clan—and his image and title are represented on Ancient Briton monuments and coins. But even this striking historical evidence of itself did not induce either the Assyriologists or the Vedic scholars to seriously entertain the probability

1 Herodotus i, 1; ii, 44; vii, 89.

?Some evidence of this is given in these pages; and the full details with proofs in my Aryan Origin of the Phexaiciais.

SH. Winckler Mziitil. d. Deutsch. Orient-Gesellschaft No. 35, Dec. 1907, pp. 30f; and review by H. G. Jacobi Jour. Roy. Asiatic Soc., 1909, 721f.