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

OGAM AS SOLAR PHCNICIAN SCRIPT 37

ordinary secular writing, was a sacred script composed by later Aryan Sun-priests for solar worship and coined upon a few old Sumerian signs of the twig pattern. And we shall see later that the Sumerians and Hitto-Phcenicians symbolized their Sun-cult by the Crossed sticks or twigs by which, with friction, they produced their sacred Fire-offerings to the Sun, just as the ancient and medieval Britons produced their Sacred or ‘‘ Need” Fire offering.

Moreover, this solar cult origin for the Ogam script seems further confirmed by its title of “ Ogam.” It was so named, according to the Irish-Scot tradition, after its inventor “‘ Ogma,” who is significantly called “ The Sunworshipper, and is identified with Hercules of the Pheenicians.* Such a pre-Christian and solar cult origin for the Ogam also now explains its use on the Newton Stone, as well as the Imish-Scot tradition that Ogam writing, which was freely current in Ireland in the pre-Christian period, especially for sacred monuments and tombstones, as attested by numerous surviving ancient monuments, was denounced by St. Patrick as “ pagan’ and soon became extinct.

We are now in a position to examine the rich crop of important historical, personal, ethnic and geographical names and titles preserved in this Brito-Phcenician inscription of about 400 B.c.

1 BOI. 24. 2 BOF, 25°