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."

(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 :

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.

(1. B. 287; Br. 636

5. 2. B. 229. 3. B. 490. 4. B. 158. "Unto."

6. B. 193. The fail sign.)

Note : See the RA sign similar to Trident

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.