THE PHOENICIAN ORIGIN OF THE BRITONS, SCOTS & ANGLO-SAXONS I THE PHOENICIANS DISCOVERED TO BE ARYANS IN RACE AND THE ANCESTORS OF THE Britons, SCOTS & ANGLO-SAXONS "The able Panch ['Phoenicians '] setting out to invade the Earth, brought the whole World under their sway." Mahā,- Bārata Indian Epic of the Great Barats.1 "The Brihat [' Brit-on ']' singers belaud Indra... Indra hath raised the Sun on high in heaven... Indra leads us with single sway-The Panch [Phoenic-ian Brihats] leaders of the Earth. Ours only, and none others is He "-Rig Veda Hymn.' In the Preface it is explained that the most suitable starting point to begin unravelling the tangled skein of History for the lost threads of Origin of the Britons, Scots and AngloSaxons is from the fresh clues gained on the solid ground of the newly deciphered Phoenician inscriptions in Britain. The chief of these Phoenician inscriptions, and the first to be reported in Britain, is carved upon a hoary old stone of about 400 B.C. (see Frontispiece), dedicated to Bel, the Phoenician god of the Sun (see Fig. 1), by a votary who " 1 M.B., Bk. i., chap. 94, sloka 3738. On "Brihat " as a dialectic Sanskrit variant of the more common Barat", and the source of “ or "Brit-on see later. Brit" " R.V. i., 7, 1-10. calls himself therein by all three titles of "Phoenic-ian," "Brit-on" and "Scot," by ancient forms of these titles; and whose personal appearance is presumably illustrated in the nearly contemporary sculpture from his homeland, Fig. 10 (p. 46). In thus preserving for us the name and titles of a "prehistoric" literate Phoenician king of North Britain upon his own original monument, it at the same time supplies a striking proof of the veracity of the ancient tradition cited in the heading, which the Eastern branch of Aryans has FIG. 1.-Bel," The God of the Sun" and Father-God of the Phoenicians. From a Phoenician Stele of about the fourth century B.C. (After Renan, Mission de Phénicie pl. 32.) Note rayed halo of the Sun. faithfully preserved in their famous epic, "The Great Barats" (Maha Bärata), in regard to the prehistoric worldwide civilizing conquests of the Panch or "Phoenicians," the greatest ruling clan of the Aryan Barats, or Brihats, who, we shall find, were the ancestors of the "Brits" or Brit-ons, our own ancestors. And the amplifying second quotation in the heading, from the Early Aryan psalms, also preserved SWASTIKA IN BRITO-PHOENICIAN SUN CULT 3 by the same Eastern branch of the Aryan Barats or Brit-ons, discloses the Phoenician motive for erecting this inscribed monument in Early Britain to the God of the Sun with his special symbol of the Swastika Cross-an emblem embroidered on the dress of the priests1 and priestesses of the Sun (see Fig 2), and figured freely with other solar symbols on Phoenician and Early Briton monuments and on pre-Roman Briton coins, as we shall see later. This Brito-Phoenician inscription in Britain, in recording unequivocally the Aryan character of the Phoenicians, as well as the Phoenician ancestry of the Britons and Scots, merely confirmed the historical results which I had previously FIG 2.-Swastika Crosses on dress of Phoenician From terra-cotta from Phoenician tomb in Cyprus. (After Cesnola, 30.) elicited many years before, from altogether different sources, by discovering new keys to the Phoenician Problem. These unlocked the sealed stores of history regarding the origin and activities of the Early Phoenicians, and disclosed them to be the leading branch of the Aryan race, and Aryan also in speech and script, and the lineal parents of the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons. Before proceeding further, therefore, it is desirable to 1 For Swastikas on dress of a Hittite high-priest, see Fig. in Chapr. XXII. indicate briefly here what these new keys are, and the manner in which I was led to discover them. In attacking the great unsolved fascinating Aryan Problem-the lost origin of our fair, long-headed, civilized ancestors of the Brito-Scandinavian and Ancient GrecoMedo-Persian race who gave to Europe and Indo-Persia their Aryan languages and Higher Civilization—a problem which had so completely baffled all enquiring historians that, after failing to find any traces of them as a race, they threw it up in despair about half a century ago, I took up the problem at its eastern or Indo-Persian end and devoted to it most of my spare time during over a quarter of a century spent in India. There were some manifest advantages in attacking the problem from its eastern end. Philologists, ethnologists and anthropologists were generally agreed that the eastern branch of the ancient ruling Aryan race in India had presumably preserved in the Sanskrit dialect a purer form of the original Aryan speech than was to found in the European dialects, from Greek to Gothic and English; whilst they also preserved a great body of traditional literature regarding the original location, doings and achievements of the Early Aryan which had been lost by the western or European branch in the vicissitudes and destructive turmoil of long ages of migration and internecine wars. Besides this, the long prevalence in India of the rigid caste system, by restricting intermarriage between different tribes and the dusky aborigines, was supposed to have preserved the Aryan physical type in the ruling Aryan caste there, in relatively purer form than in Europe. After acquiring a working knowledge of Sanskrit and the vernaculars, and studying the Indian traditions, written and unwritten at first hand, as well as all the reports of the archæological survey department on excavations, etc., and personally visiting all of the most reputed ancient sites, and making several fresh explorations and excavations at first hand, and measuring the physical types of the people, I eventually found that, despite all that has been written about the vast antiquity of Civilization in India, mostly HITTITES OR CATTI THE EARLY ARYANS 5 by theorists who had never visited India, there was absolutely no trace of any civilization, i.e., Higher Civilization in India before the seventh century B.C. Indeed, nothing whatever of traces of Civilization, apart from the rude Stone Circles, has ever been found by the scientifically equipped Indian Archæological Survey Department, in their more or less exhaustive excavations on the oldest reputed sites down to the virgin soil during over half a century, which can be specifically dated to before 600 B.C. On the other hand, I observed, that historical India, like historic Greece, suddenly bursts into view about 600 B.C. in the pages of Buddhist literature, and in the Maha Barat epic, with a multitude of Aryan rulers speaking the Aryan language, with a fully-fledged Aryan Civilization, of precisely the same general type which has persisted down to the present day. : The question then arose whence came these Aryan invaders suddenly into India about the seventh century B.C., with their fully-fledged Aryan Civilization, into a land previously uncivilized? On analysing this early Aryan Civilization thus suddenly introduced into India, in regard to its culture, social structure, customs, folklore and religion, and the traditional topography and climate of its ancestral homeland as described in the Vedas-descriptions wholly inapplicable to India-I was led by numerous clues to trace these "Aryan," or as they called themselves "Arya," invaders of India back to Asia Minor and Syria-Phoenicia. I then observed that the old ruling race of Asia Minor and Syria-Phoenicia, from immemorial time, were the great imperial, highly civilized, ancient people generally known as "Hitt-ites," but who called themselves" Khatti" or "Catti," which is the self-same title by which the early Briton kings of the pre-Roman period called themselves and their race, and stamped it upon their Briton coins-the so-called "Catti” coins of early Britain (see Fig. 3). And the early ruling race of Aryans who first civilized India also called themselves Khattiyo," as we shall see presently. " This ancient Khatti or "Catti" ruling race of Asia C |