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

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PHGNICIAN TRIBAL TITLE OF “‘ BARAT”’ OR “‘ BRIHAT” AND ITS SOURCE OF NAMES “‘ BRIT-ON,” ‘‘ BRIT-AIN”’ AND “ BRIT-ANNIA”

Disclosing Aryan Phenician Origin of the tutelary Britannia and of her form and emblems in Art.

“And King Barat gave his name to the Dynastic Race of which he was the founder; and so it is from him that the fame of that Dynastic People hath spread so wide.” —Maha@ Barata.*

“Like a Father’s Name, men love to call their names.”—Rig Veda.*

THE title of “ Prat” or ‘“‘ Prwt,’ borne by our colonizing Pheenician Cassi prince on his British monument at Newton, is now seen to be clearly a dialectic form of the patronymic title ““ Barat” or ‘“‘ Brihat ’’ used by the Aryan Phoenicians as recorded in the Indian epics and in the Vedic Hymns, as cited in the heading, the Phcenicians being, as we have seen,

a chief branch of the Barats, or the descendants of King Barat, and they are systematically called “ Barat’ in the Indian epics and Vedas. And this Aryan Phcenician title of ‘‘ Barat ” or ‘‘ Brihat ’’ is now disclosed to be the Phcenician source of our modern titles “‘ Brit-on,’’ “ Brit-ain,”’ and “ Brit-ish.”’

(As explaining the various spellings of this name “ Barat,”’ it is to be noted that the interchange of the labials B and P is a not uncommon dialectic change in all languages, and it is especially frequent at the present day in the highlands of Scotland and in Wales. It already occurs to some extent even in Sumerian ; and in the Indian Vedas and epics, this particular word “ Barat” is also sometimes spelt Prit# or Prithu and

1M.B., ich. 94, verse 3704; and cp. M.B.R., 1, 279. ?R.V., 10, 39, 1. Kaegi’s translation, 140. 52