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sacred seals and Phoenician coins, affords still further conclusive evidence of the former widespread prevalence of the cult of Indara or "Andrew" in Early Britain, and of the Barat Catti Phoenician origin of the Britons and Scots.

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Ib., Nos. 24-27. Another of same from same cave. The Goat or Deer kneels in adoration, or for protection (as in Hitto-Sumerian, Fig. 59, b, c) below tablet containing vestiges of an inscription with trace of an X Cross, and below the double Sun-disc or spectacles."

d S.A.S., Pl. 35, 1. Another graving from same cave showing Deer or Goat protected by Sun disc and "Fruit" Cross and Spectacles" (latter omitted here through want of space). Cp. Hitto-Phoenician, Fig. 59, d and m.

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S.S.S., 2, 52. Reverse of Cross from Kirkapoll, Tiree of Early Christian period, which significantly figures the Crucifix, on its face, in the primitive original T form, and not as the True Cross, like the monument itself. Identical scene of Wolves attacking Goat or Deer in Hittite seal, Fig. 59, e, and analogous to Phoenician coins h of Fig. 59, e and f. The man with club stepping down to rescue his deer is Hercules-Tascio as in Phoenician coin h, and in Fig. 59, e, f, where he is seated above the Cross and holding the Cross-sceptre as club, see also g. On opposite face his place is taken by winged St. Michael spearing the Serpent-Dragon (see also top of g), common on pre-Christian Crosses.

f S.S.S., I, 127. Ancient Cross from Meigle, Perthshire; showing Goat or Deer protected by the Cross from the Wolf. Cp. Hittite type in Fig. 59, f.

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S.S.S., 1, 83. Another Tascio-Michael Goat and Cross scene from Glamis in Forfar. The Wolves hold up their head as in Hittite type, Fig. 59, a and e. Again, on top is Hercules-Tascio with his club and holding an object like a ploughshare. And on left is his winged form as Michael the Archangel. Cp. Hittite types in Fig. 59, g, h, k, I and m.

h E.C.B., 12, 7. Coin of Cunobeline. Tascio (Michael) winged reining up his horse to rescue his Goats. i E.C.B., A., I and

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2.

Archaic form of same showing pellet Crosses, X Cross and
Rosette Sun. The X or St. Andrew's Cross is clearer in A, 6.
Cp. Hittite, Fig. 59, 1, and for X Cross m.

E.C.B., 16, 2. Wolf fleeing from X or St. Andrew's Cross
(decorated as Grain or Fruit Cross) and from Sun discs. Other
wolves fleeing from Sun or Sun horse in E.C.B., Pl. E, 6 and 7;
F, 15; 4, 12; 11, 13, 14. Cp. Hitto-Phoenician, Fig. 59,
m, n, p, for Goats protected by the X or Andrew's Cross.
S.S.S., 1, 74 and author's photos of pre-Christian Cross at Meigle,
Perthshire. Tascio taming the Lions. Cp. Hittite, Fig. 59, q.
In this Briton mon. the lions are duplicated on each side of
Tascio, who is robed generally similar to Hittite.

m S.S.S., 1, 82. Another of same from pre-Christian Cross at Aldbar, Forfar. Cp. Hittite seal, Fig. 59, r, top register, above winged "Celtic" Cross.

FIG. 60A.-Ancient Briton "Tascio " coin inscribed DIAS.
(After Poste, and cp. Figs. A, B,

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P. xv.)

CORN SPIRIT "TAS-MIKAL " OR TASH-UB OF HITTO-
SUMERS IS "TASCIO" OF EARLY BRITON COINS AND
PREHISTORIC INSCRIPTIONS, "TY" GOTHIC GOD
OF TUES-DAY, AND "MICHAEL-THE-ARCHANGEL,"
INTRODUCED BY PHOENICIANS

Disclosing his identity with Phoenician Archangel “Tazs,"
"Taks," "Dashap-Mikal," and "Thiazi," "Mikli "
of Goths, "Daxa" of Vedas, and widespread wor-
ship in Early Britain; Phænician Origin of
Dionysos and "Michaelmas" Harvest
Festival and of those names.

WE have already found that the tutelary Tas or Dias of the Sumerians or Early Phoenicians, also called "Son Taś or Dach" (" Mero-Dach "), "The first-born Son of God Ia" (Jahveh, Jove or Indara), was the archangel messenger "" Mero-dach is the corrupt Hebrew form of this Sumer name, the "Mar-duk of Assyrians, which was adopted in this translation. But we have already seen that the Sumerian reads Mar-u or Mar-uta (=“ Son" +"Sun or Light "), wherein the second word occasionally has the value of Dag. The older forms of his name, however, we have seen were Tas, Tax or Dasi, so for uniformity Tas is used here and throughout this

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chapter. 2 S.H.L., 537. 3 Ib., 480., 517. 4 C.I.S. references p. 341.

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of Ia, and that he was freely invoked and figured upon sacred seals and amulets by the Sumerians, Hittites, Trojans and Phoenicians, just as we discovered that he was invoked in the prehistoric cup-mark inscriptions in Britain. And we have found that he was the chief divinity figured along with the Cross defending the Goats or Deer, symbolizing the "Goths," in the Hitto-Sumerian Trojan and Phoenician seals and amulets and on Phoenician and Greco-Phoenician coins, just as we find him figured on the ancient monuments and coins of the Early Britons (see Figs. 60, etc.) in which latter he bears not infrequently the stamped name of "Tasc" or "Tascio" or "Dias," and is figured sometimes winged and frequently along with ears of corn and the Corn "Cross " of his father Indara or Andrew of the X type (see Fig. 61).

FIG. 61. Tascio" or "Tascif" of Early Briton Coins is Corn
Spirit "Tas" or "Tash-ub" of Hitto-Sumerians.

(Coins after Evans)."

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Crosses

NOTE.-Corn "Crosses" of Indara or Andrew X type in c and d, and pellet or "cup" in b, with head and beard as in archaic Hittite rock sculpture of Tash-ub in Fig. 62. We now find further that Taś is hailed as " The Gladdener of Corn, Creator of Wheat and Barley," as cited in the heading. This discovers his identity with the Corn Spirit of the Greeks, "Dionysos"-which name, indeed, of hitherto unknown origin and meaning, we now find was

As Dias, see Figs. A and B, page xv. Sumer script in A reads Dias or Judgment of God.

a E.C.B., Pl. 8, 12; b, Ib., 6, 3; c Ib., 5, 8; d Ib., 14, 9.

apparently applied to Tas in Sumerian; thus discovering the Sumerian origin of Dionysos in both name, function and representations. This also explains for the first time why Corn and Barley are so frequently figured on the "Tascio " coins of the Ancient Britons, and along with Tascio on Phoenician coins, and why the popular Hittite divinity "Tash-ub" or "Tash-of-the-Plough" is figured holding stalks of Corn on the Hitto-Sumer seals, and as a gigantic warrior clad in Gothic dress holding Corn stalks and bunches

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Tash-ub," the Hittite or Early Gothic

Corn-Spirit. From archaic Hittite rock-sculpture

at Ivriz in Taurus.

(After von Luschan and Wilson.)

NOTE. He is dressed as a Goth, with snow-boots, and Goat-horns on his conical Trojan or Phrygian cap, and he carries stalks of Barley-corn and bunches of Grapes, and behind him is a Plough. The adoring high-priest has solar swastikas, in key pattern, embroidered on his dress.

of Grapes beside a Plough, in the archaic Hittite rock sculpture in the Cilician Gates of the Taurus at Ivriz, near Heraclea (Fig. 62), as Tas or Tascio is the defied Hercules.

Moreover, we find that Tascio is the Hitto-Phoenician original of St. Michael the Archangel in name, function and

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representation. The later Phoenicians, calling him "Dashup" occasionally add the title "Mikal" in invoking his blessing; and this name also appears, I find, upon the Phoenician coins of Cilicia of the fifth century along with the figure of Taxi in Phoenician script as " Miklu " (see Fig. 66); and as "Mekigal" in the Sumerian name for the old Harvest festival corresponding to Michael-mas.

And we shall find that the Hitto-Sumerian cult of Michael the Archangel, introduced by the Phoenicians, was widespread over Ancient Britain in the Phoenician period, from the Phoenician tin-port of St. Michael's Mount in the south to the two "St. Michael's Wells" near our Phoenician inscriptions in the Don Valley in the north, and in the name of other early churches and wells dedicated to St. Michael still further north. Vestiges of this cult of St. Michael the Archangel, as the Corn Spirit, introduced into Britain by the Phoenicians, are now seen to survive to the present day in the name of "Michaelmas" for the Harvest Festival (September 29th) in Britain, in association with his sacred sacramental Sun-Goose (see Fig. 66), the "Michaelmas Goose" of that festival:

"September, when by Custom, right Divine,

Geese are ordain'd to bleed at Michael's shrine.”

and in the "St. Michael's Bannock or Cake" of the Michaelmas festival in the Western Isles of Scotland."

The notion of investing God with an archangel appears to have arisen long after the Aryans had "created" the idea

See below. The D and R are often identical in Phoenician.

2 C.I.S., 90, 2; 91, 2; 935; 94, 5; and pp. 1, 94-99, 105, etc.

3 The Goose was sacred taboo in Ancient Britain, D.B.G., 5, 12, 6. King's Art of Cookery, 63, H.F.F., 409.

Martin, describing the Protestant inhabitants of Skye, writes, "They observe the festivals of Christmas [Yule], Easter, Good Friday and that of St. Michael. Upon the latter day they have a cavalcade in each parish, and several families bake the cake, called 'St. Michael's Bannock.' W. Islands of Scotland, 213, and 100. Regarding St. Kilda, Macaulay writes, "It was, till of late, an universal custom among the islanders on Michaelmas Day to prepare in every family a loaf or cake of bread, enormously large. This cake belonged to the Archangel. Everyone in each family, whether strangers or domestics, had his portion of this kind of showbread, and had some title to the friendship and protection of Michael (Hist. of St. Kilda, 82).

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