HAWK
AND RA SYMBOL
15.
Hawk and RA Symbol :
The
Sumerians used Eagle, Hawk and RA which is similar to Trident symbol
to represent Sun. The word SHA and RA means Solar Title and in Gujarat,
India Kings were also called RA which means that they represented
the Sumerian Sun Worshipper lineage.
According
to Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell :
The
Makers of Civilization in Race and History :
Note
: Here, phonetic value PA represents Sun-Hawk.
Decipherment
of Sargon's inscription at Abydos :
In the deciphennent of this Sumerian inscription of "Sargon,"
in order to enable the reader to follow it, I have in the accompanying
Deciphennent Table in Fig. 28, arranged in the first line the signs
in their usual orthographic Sumerian order for reading from left
to right; and in the second line are placed for comparison the corresponding
forms of these signs in the standard Early Sumerian script of Mesopotamia,
in which it will be noticed the signs are given a slightly more
cursive and somewhat abbreviated form for rapid writing; in the
third line are placed the Sumerian phonetic values of each sign
in roman type, each duly attested for the standard Sumerian lexicons;
and in the fourth line is the literal translation all duly attested
for each word by the references in the preceding line. The language
is Sumerian.
Here it is seen that "Sargon" uses, or is given, for his
personal name at Abydos in Egypt precisely the same personal name
Gin which he uses with the variant Gan; in his inscriptions in Mesopotamia,
and which is used for him in most of the Babylonian inscriptions.
And his title a descendant of the first Sumerian king Ukusi of the
Sun-Hawk City or the first Aryan king under his solar title of Ikshwaku
of the Indian Epics and Vedas. in keeping with the references to
him in the Indian Epics as an Aikshwaka or "descendant of King
Ikshwaku."
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Transl.
: The Shepherd of the (Sun-)Hawk, of the House of the Pharaoh
KAD (the lofty) GIN, the Ukus (or Ukussi)
FIG.
28. : Sargon's Tomb Inscription as the Solar KAD, GIN or
SHA-GIN, the UKUSSI at Abydos deciphered
(1.
This Sha sign means "protect", "protector",
also "shepherd" and shining, "Br. 2560, 2572, 2577.
It is clearly not the read sign with the meaning of "King"
from which it differs by its curve below.)
The
Sha' prefix to his solar title is in series with his name and title
spelt Sha-Gin in the Old Sumerian King-Lists (see Table facing p.
140) and in series with his fuller Indian form of name as Sha-Kuni.
The sign for his solar title "KAD" is the pictogram of
an uplifted hand with the fingers erect.
In
its conventionalized Egyptian Hieroglyph form this sign is pictured
by two uplifted hands conjoined and is given the phonetic value
of Ka, whence Egyptologists have called the solar title of this
king "King Ka". This Ka value in Egypt is obviously derived
from the Sumerian value of this sign as Kad or Kat, wherein the
final d, as is often the case, has dropped out; and affords another
illustration of the derivation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs from
the Sumerian in pictographic form and phonetic sound. This title
Kad is used by Sargon also in his beautiful Bull signet (PI. X,
No. r) from the Indus Valley. And Kad as we have seen was a not
infrequent title used by the Phoenicians, and we have seen that
Sargon was an Aryan Phoenician.
The simplicity in the titles of the great world-monarch "Sargon,"
without any reference to his empire on this funereal votive vase
is noteworthy. Possibly his temporal titles were recorded on his
main epitaph (as in those of his descendant Pharaohs as we shall
see) which has been lost. Here it should be noted that, this inscription
was presumably written by his son Menes, who we shall find revolted
against his father and was in revolt against him at the time of
the latter's death, and thus lost the immediate succession in Mesopotamia.
In
such circumstances, if Sargon's body were really buried in this
tomb, which was the tomb of his queen (the mother of Menes), who
obviously died before him, his body must have been embalmed for
its transport from Mesopotamia to Abydos to repose beside that of
his queen.
For although Prof. Elliot Smith says that mumification does not
appear to have been practised in Egypt before the Second Dynasty,
we have seen that the body of the second king of the First Aryan
or Sumerian Dynasty six and a half centuries before Sargon was traditionally
reported in the Indian records to have been embalmed and remained
preserved "as if it were immortal." We now tum to the
inscription of the Queen of "Sargon" found in the same
tomb.
Sargon's
Queen's tomb inscription at Abydos deciphered :
The inscription on Sargon's Queen's tomb vase (Fig. 27) is likewise
written in the reversed direction or towards the left, and in the
Sumerian langnage. When arranged for decipherment in the usual Sumerian
order of reading from left to right it reads as follows :
![](images/sunhat/fig29.jpg)
Transl. : (Of) The (Sun-)Hawk House of the Pharaoh
KAD, my Lady ASH
FIG.
29 : Sargon's Queen, the Lady Ash (Ash-Nini), Tomb inscription at
Abydos deciphered
The
name of Sargon's Queen here as "The Lady Ash" is of immense
critical importance. In later Babylonian records the name of Sargon's
Queen is given as Ash-nar(-tum) or Ash-lul(-tum)-tum meaning "the
exalted," and l and r are freely interchanged dialectically.
And in the Indian Epics her name as the mother of Manasyu, i.e.,
Menes, is given as Acchura(-Seni) (see p. 233).
Thus
both Babylonian and Indian substantially agree with the Abydos inscription,
and confirm her identity as the Queen of "Sargon" or King
Gin.
The third sign, that immediately following the "Horus"
Kad title, is the ship-sign or the pictograph of a Nile boat, as
distinguished from the high-prowed ship-sign in Mesopotamian Sumerian.
It has the literal meaning of "my" or "me,"
and is, as I have shown, obviously the Sumerian origin of these
English words. This gives the reading, "Of the (Sun-) Hawk
House of the Pharaoh Kad, my Lady Ash," and shows that Sargan's
Queen died within his lifetime and was here buried by him.
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Transl.:
Unto the enthroned one of the Hawk-line of Gin hasten !
Unto the fallen one of the Westem Land, the fallen one hasten, O
Min (to) Life !
FIG.
62 : Line 2, column 2, of Dudu's Ebony Label deciphered.
(1. B. 287; Br. 636
5.
2. B. 229. 3. B. 490. 4. B. 158. "Unto."
5.
On this title as Tianu, etc., see before. The two strokes which
double this Lion-head or Pirig sign are seen in front of its head.
Compare these doubling strokes with those in Menes' ebony label
and in the label from "King Zet's" tomb in PRT. I, PI.
XI, in which last the doubling two strokes are placed inside the
neck of the Lion. On the location of this land as Asia Minor, also
the Western Lands generally, including Europe as Greater Amorite
Land, see before.
6.
B. 193. The fail sign.)
Note
: See the RA sign similar
to Trident
![](images/sunhat/queenzenobia.jpg)
A
carving of Queen Zenobia at a museum in Damascus, Syria
Here,
we can see Eagle which represents Sun in the statue of Queen Zenobia
of Syria.