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BRITANNIA IN THE VEDAS, ETC. 59

colony)! etc. She is ‘‘ Lady of Health,” and “ The Foodbestower ’? [thus accounting for the cornucopia and heads of corn on the coins], She ‘shelters, protects and aids her Barat votaries ”’ [thus accounting for the “ Saviour ”’ (sdter) title of the Greco-Roman goddess of Fortune], and she “ bestows good mornings.’* She is “ slayer of the leviathan brutes (vritra),’’> [thus accounting for her warrior’s helmet of Hittite pattern and shield] ; and she “ speeds forth our cars.” °

The name “ Fortuna,”’ by which the Romans called this Barat tutelary goddess of Good Fortune,’ as well as the English word ‘“‘ Fortune,” now appear to be coined from her title of ‘‘ Barati’”—the letter F being interchangeable dialectically with Pand B, as we have seen in the Egyptian “Fenkha” for “‘ Pheenic ’ and in the Greek Pyr for Fire, and P with B: and its affix wna or “ one”’ is now disclosed to be derived from the Hitto-Sumerian ana (“‘ one’’), thus giving the title of ‘‘ The one of Barats”’ (or “‘ Fortune”’). The o came in dialectically like the w in Prwt on the Newton Stone and the w in Brut, the name of the first Briton king in the Ancient British Chronicles, as we shall see later. “ Fortuna’ was figured in identical form and symbols with Barati and Britannia and in the same associations with water. *®

Further striking positive inscriptional proof of this Barati title for the Aryan marine tutelary (Britannia) and also of her Phcenician origin is now gained from the records of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, both of which lands are now disclosed in these pages to have derived their Civilization from the Aryan Pheenicians.

Coins of Syracuse, Brit. Museum post-cards xxiv, Figs. 1, 2, 7, and 9; and see below, note 6.

2RV., 2, 3, 1, 4, as Brihad-the-Divine.

=R.V., 1, 22, 11. SERVE, 30.0237 > R.V., 2, 1, 11.

® R.V.,2,31,4. This speeding of cars she is said to perform in association with the Aswins (or Dioscorides), solar horsemen, thus explaining her representations on the Syracuse coins (see footnote rt), as well as figures holding the rudder, and standing on the prow of ships in the coins.

7 The special temple to Fortuna in Italy was at Preeneste, on a tributary of the Tiber, not far from where the exiled Trojan A®neas, the traditional ancestor of the first Briton king, established his Latin capital.

8 As “ Fortuna,” inscribed Roman altars to her were found in the baths on Roman wall at Castlecarry and at Bowes in Yorks (G. Macdonald Roman Wali, in Scotland, 343,); and there are others to her as “Britanni”’ (Ib. 329).