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HIS SUN-CULT & “ KASSI” TITLE 47

the same scene, the king is seen shaking hands by the right hand with the image of the Father-God of the Sun, as part of the old Sumerian ceremony of coronation, when the solar kings assumed the title of “ Son of the Sun-god,” a title also adopted from the Aryans by the pharaohs of Egypt. This ancient Sumerian ceremonial seems referred to in the Vedic hymn to the Sun-god Mitra which says : ‘““ When will ye (Mitra) take us by both hands, as a dear sire his son ?’’, And even more significantly it was evidently practised by the Goths in Ancient Britain, as recorded in the Eddas: ‘““ The Sun wrapped its sunshine o’er the assembly of men, His Right hand (was) caught in the House of Heaven.”

In this way, as our Barat king, in his votive inscription to the Sun-god at Newton, tells us that he was a native of this region, he presumably resembled this king generally in dress and physique. This king, it will be noticed, is attired in Gothic dress, and the Sun-god with the rayed halo (@ in Fig.) wears the Gothic or Phrygian cap, and is also clad in Gothic dress.

His “ Kazzi ” or “ Qass ”’ title is clearly and unequivocally a variant dialectic spelling of ‘“ Kai,” an alternative clan title of the Phoenician Khatti Barats.

[z is a frequent dialectic variant in spelling s; for example, the Hebrews spelt ‘‘ Sidon ” and “‘ Sion” as ‘“* Zidon ” and“ Zion ” ; and Q is habitually used for K in the Ogam, which does not possess the letter K. And Tarsus in Cilicia was spelt Tarz.]

Kasi was an eponym title adopted, we find, by some of the early Aryan Phcenician Barats and their successors, from the name of a famous grandson of King Barat, named Kas, or Kags. It is applied in the Vedas to one or more kings of the First Panch(-ala) Dynasty, as well as in the Indian Epic King-Lists, some of which apply it to the whole of that dynasty as well as to their descendants. And on arrival in India, the Kasi Dynasty, significant of their maritime sway,

1R.V., 1, 38, 1. Mitra is named in y. 13 as chief deity and invoked

through his angel Maruts. ? Volu-Spa Edda v. 5.