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60 PHCNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Amongst the deities of Ancient Egypt is a protective goddess named, “ Bairthy,+ goddess of the Water,’ whose name and functions are thus seen to be precisely those of the Aryan tutelary Barati (or Britannia). She is one of several deities in the Egyptian pantheon who are called by Egyptologists “‘ foreign,” or imported from Syria and elsewhere, notwithstanding that several of the leading “‘ indigenous Egyptian ” deities, suchas the Sun-god Horus, Osiris and Isis are also admittedly imported, also from “ Syria” in certain traditions; and, according to Egyptian myth, this particular ““ Goddess of the Waters’ (Bairthy) herself was “the mother” of the above-cited triad.2. And under her title, in the inscription below, as ‘‘ Goddess of the Waters,” she is also of the solar cult and supports ‘“‘ the Boat of the Sun-god.”’* She is represented in art, moreover, by the ancient Egyptians (see Fig. 17) as a seated queen in the same general form and pose as in the Asia Minor coins of

Fic. 17. Brit-annia tutelary of Pheenicians in Ancient Egypt as bairthy, ‘‘ The Mother of the Waters” (Nu?) or ‘' Naiad.”’

(After Budge.)

Compare the horns on her head with those of ‘‘ Barat ” on her coin from Carthage Fig. 5, p. 9.

This is the spelling of the Egyptian hieroglyphs of her name (see Fig. 18 below) by the generally recognized phonetic transliteration; but it is rendered ‘' Bairiha”’ in B.G.E., 2,281. In the spelling of her title “ Nut ”’ or “‘ Goddess of the Waters ’’—which appears to be a variant of ~ Naiad ” —the determinative sign for ‘‘ Sky ’’ is sometimes, as here, omitted; see

B.G.E., 2,108. *B.G.E, 2, 109, 3 Ibid. 2, 99, and Fig. there.