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62 PHdINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

the Father-god and Lord of the Sun. Moreover, this “ Lady Protector [Bairthy] of Za-pu-na [-gu?]’’! is invoked by a Babylonian emperor about 680 B.c. as “a Phenician god across the Sea” to bring down upon the ships of his enemies at sea an evil wind to destroy them and their rigging*—that is precisely the especial function of the Aryan Phcenician Barati.

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BAIR T ¥ the) Z-A PUNA Qi) NUT

LX LAI

Zz A €imake passage’) Z A CFire-stick’)

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Z A A 7 C€ Sailors).

Fic. 18. gyptian hieroglyphs for the Goddess Bairthy of the Phecenician sailors.

Moreover, the hieroglyph sign employed for spelling this word Za is not the usual serpent-viper sign, but it is éhe Firedrill (see the sign above the letter z in Fig. 18). This picturesign—wnilst giving us the picture of the later-developed form of the two sticks of the Fire-drill for producing the sacred fire by friction for Sun-worship, in which the lower one is the matrix and the upper one the revolving stick, which was rapidly rotated between the palms of the operator until fire resulted—appears to be of special Phcenician import, to designate that land of Bairthy as the Land of Phoenicia, for the Phoenicians freely used the Fire-drill symbol for the Sun, as we shall see. Za, spelt by the same signs as in the above (Fig. 18), not only means “to sail, make

1 The cuneiform text (see next note) has two signs after ma, the first of which is possibly g%, which would give Za Punagu, wherein the latter name would be ** Phoenicia.”

* Kuyunjik fragment Brit. Museum Cuneiform Text, No. 3,500, Col. 4,

l.to. BG,E. 2, 282. The cuneiform word therein rendered “ river” primarily means ‘ Sea.”