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58 PHdENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Smyrna'—that is, an ancient Hittite seaport of the Algean with rock-cut prehistoric Hittite hieroglyphs in the neighbourhood. Her proper name is now disclosed by the Vedic hymns of the Eastern buameh of the Aryan Barats to have been

Barati, meaning “ Belonging to the Barats.” She is also called therein “‘ Brihad-the Divine” (Brihad-diva).; and she seems identical with Pritvt or “‘ Mother Earth.”’ Her especial abode was on the “‘ Savas-vati River,” which, I find, was the modern Savus River of Cilicia which entered the sea at Tarsus, the “ Tarz”’ of its own coins (see Figs. later) or Parth-enia, which appears to have been the first seaport of the Barat homeland. In these Vedic hymns all the attributes of Britannia are accounted for; her tutelarship of the waters and of ships, her lighthouse on the sea, her Neptune trident (as well as the origin of Neptune himself and his name), her helmet and shield, her Cross on the shield, as well as the cornucopia, which she sometimes bears upon the Phoenician and Greco-Roman coins, taking the place of the corn-stalk on the Briton coins.

In the Vedic hymns she is called “‘ The great Mother (Mahi)”’ 2 and ‘‘ Holy Lady of the Waters ”’ * and is ‘hailed as ‘ * First-made mother” in a hymn to her son “ Napa the Son of the Waters who has a horse [thus disclosing the remote Aryan origin of the the name and personality of the old Sea-god, Neptune, and his horses, and accounting for Neptune’s trident in her hands}, She is a “ Fire-Priestess’’® and “shows the Light’’® [thus accounting for the Lighthouse on the older British coins with Britannia}. She is personified Fire? and sits upon the sacred Fire’ [thus accounting for the St. George’s Cross which, we shall find later, symbolizes Fire of the Sun]. She is associated with the twin horsemen of the Sun (Aswin or Dioscorides), represented on the Briton coins,* and coins of Syracuse (an ancient Phoenician

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*R.V., 1, 13, 9, etc. Frequently she is triplicated by treating her two other commoner titles as separate personalities, called her “ sisters,” namely the personified Saras-vati River, on which she specially dwelt, and personified Food or Oil (Ila); butin other hymns these three are identified as one with her. R.V., 2, 1, 11, ete.

RNS 2h Se Sy Oh Sh *R.V., 2, 35, 6. SRV 2. DL, Lie

SRV. 10) 110, 7—o. MRAVe, 2, Lore 8 RV. | 2, 31, 4; 10, 59, 9. ® See, for example, Figs. 61, etc., and E.B.C., Pl. G. 2 and 3.