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

BRITANNIA IN CRETE 63

passage "* but also “ Fire-drill or Fire-stick ;”? and this name is also spelt more fully in the Ancient Egyptian as Zax with the determinative sign for ‘‘ wood.’ Now this is the literal Sumerian word for Fire-brand (Zax)* with the synonym of Bil (or Gi-Bil The Great Bil or god Bel), and it also is pictured in Sumerian writing by a Fire-Drill, with the revolving stick in the palm of the hand; thus disclosing again the Sumerian origin of an ancient Exyptian fundamental cultural word. And Za-ht was an ‘actual Egyptian title for the whole Phcenician coast ; and fee presumably designated it as “‘ The Land of the Firecult.” Thus the tutelary Bairthy of the Ancient Egyptians and Assyrio-Babylonians appears to have been designated by them as “‘The Warrior Water-goddess of the Sailor Pheenicians of the Land of the Fire-drill cult.” The significance of this Fire-cult of the Phoenicians for this votive Sun-monument of the Phcenician Barat at Newton and elsewhere in Early Britain will appear later.

Besides being the original of Britannia, this Phoenician tutelary Barati, or Brihad-the-Divine, is now seen to be presumably the Byito-Martis tutelary goddess of Crete, an island which, we shall see, was early colonized and civilized by the Phcenicians, who are now disclosed as authors of the so-called “‘ Minoan ”’ Civilization there. This goddess BritoMartis was a Phoenician goddess, according to the GrecoRoman legends.* She was the divine ‘“‘ daughter’ of Phoinix, the Phoenician king of Phoenicia, and was armed like Diana, with whom she was latterly identified,*? with weapons for the chase, as she is also represented on Early Hittite seals,’ and like the tutelary goddess Parthenos, a form also of

1B.E.D., 849. *1b., 894b, see under Tcha.

2 7b. 894a, and Za-tu also means “ Fire, Burn,’’ good.

*Sce Br. 4577 and P!S.L., 362.

*Maspero Hist. anc. de l' Orient, cited by P.V.H., 736

. Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis ; and Antonius Liberalis, Metamorphoses ch. 30.

7S., 478, 12.

§CS.H., 1922. Pl. 1, Fig. i and p. 17. The place of origin called ‘“‘ Lulubi,”’ we shall see, is Halab or modern Aleppo in SyriaPhoenicia .