| INDRA IN VEDS, SUMERIANS, GOTHS AND HITTITES 5. Indra in Veds, Sumerians, Goths and Hittites :
According to Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell :
The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots, & Anglo-Saxons (1924 - 1st. edition)
St. Andrew as patron saint with his "Cross" incorporates Hitto-Sumerian Father-God Indara, Indra or Gothic "Indri" Thor & his "Hammer" Introduced into Britain by Gothic Phoenicians
Disclosing pre-Christian Worship of Andrew in Early Britain & Hittite Origin of Crosses on Union Jack & Scandinavian Ensigns, Unicorn & Cymric Goat as Sacred Goat of Indara, "Goat" as rebus for "Goth" and St. Andrew as an Aryan Phoenician
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Lord Indara I thou sturdy director of men, "The
Waters collected in the Deep, "Indra,
leader of heavenly hosts and "Slaying
the Dragon, Indra let loose
Still further evidence for the Hitto-Phoenician origin of the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons is found in the legend of St. Andrew with his X Cross as the patron saint of the Scyths, Gothic Russia, Burgundy of the Visi-Goths from the Rhine to the Baltic, Goth-Iand and Scotland. We shall now find that the Apostle bearing the Aryan Gentile and non-Hebrew name of "Andrew" was presumably an Aryan Phoenician, and that the priestly legend attached to him incorporates part of the old legend of his namesake Induru, a common Sumerian title of the Father-god Bel, who is the Hittite god Indara, "Indri or Eindri-the-Divine," a title of Thor of the Goths and Indra the Father- god of the Eastern branch of the Aryan Barats. And we shall find that the worship of Andrew with his X Cross was widespread in Early Britain and in Ireland or Ancient Scotia in "prehistoric times," long before the dawn of the Christian era. And he is the INARA stamped with Cross, etc., on Ancient Briton coins (see Fig. 74, p. 384).
(1. "Indara" (= "Induru") is here used instead of its synonym Ea as given in this translation.
2. Langdon, Sumerian Psalms, 109.
3. S.H.L., 487. (See note I.) 4. R.V., 4. 19,8. 5. 4, 22. 2.)
FIG. 53 : Indara's X "Cross" on Hitto-Sumerian, Trojan and Phoenician Seals
(1. Indri-di or Eindri-di, cp. V.D., 123. where, however, it
is sought to derive the name from reid, "to ride," although
the name is never spelt with "reid." Di as Gothic affix
appears to="God," with plural Diar (cp. V.D., 100), and
cognate with Ty, "god," in series with the ty in Fimbul-ty,
"Angan-ty" and "Hlori-di". This latter title
of Thor now appears to be Hlir, "the Sea-god" (V.D., 274)
and cognate with Hlyr, " tears" [? Rain] (V.D., 270) and
for Hlori as a recognized spelling of Hleri, see V.D. 270.)
Fig 54 : "Andrew's" Cross on Pre-Christain monuments in Britain and Ireland and on Early Briton coins And significantly these various conventional Hitto-Sumerian and Trojan and Phoenician forms of Indara's X " Cross" are also found in more or less identical form on prehistoric monuments and pre-Christian coins in Ancient Britain as the "St. Andrew's Cross," see Fig. 54, which compare with previous Fig.
This so-called "Cross of St. Andrew," although resembling the True Cross of equal arms in a tilted (or "saltire") position, does not appear to have been a true Cross symbol at all, but was the battle-axe or "hammer" symbol of Indara or Thor. In Sumerian, its name and function is defined as "Protecting Father or Bel," with the word value of "Pap" (thus giving us the Sumerian source of our English word Papa for "Father" as protector).
It is also called Geur (or "George") or Tuur (or "Thor"), and defined as "The Hostile," presumably from its picturing a weapon in the hostile attitude for defence or protection, and it is generally supposed, and with reason, to picture a battle-axe.a It is especially associated with Father Indara or Bel,s as seen in the ancient Hittite seal here figured (Fig. 55), representing Indara slaying the Dragon of Darkness and Death a chief exploit of Indara or Indra (see texts cited in the heading)-wherein Indara, the king of Heaven and the Sun, is seen to wear the "St. Andrew's Cross" as a badge on his crown; whilst the axe which he wields is of the Hittite and non-Babylonian pattern. Describing this famous exploit, the Vedic hymns which describe Indara's bolt as " Four-angled" (see text cited in heading) also tell us :-
"With thy Spiky Weapon, thy deadly bolt,
(1. Br., 114 I, 1146; M., 648.
2. Br., 1143, and for Tuur Br., 1140
3. Oppert, Exped. to Mesopot., 58 and B.B.W., 2, p. 28.
4. The identity of Bel with I-a or In-duru or Indara is very frequently seen in Sumerian seals by Bel being figured with the attributes and symbols of la or Induru. Thus in the Trial of Adam (Fig. 33), Bel is represented in his usual form, whereas in the majority of specimens of that scene he is represented as in Fig. 57, with the Spouting Waters of la or Indara, as also in Fig. 35.
5.
R.V. 1, 52, 13.)
FIG. 55 : Indara (or "Andrew ") slaying the Dragon. From Hittite seal of about 2000 B.C. (After Ward) Note : The X on the crown, and the fire-altar below the Dragon, which the latter was presumably destroying.
This proves conclusively that the X "Cross" was a death-dealing bolt or weapon as described in the Vedic hymns and the modern device of the skull and cross-bones seems to preserve a memory of the original meaning of the X "Cross" as the deadly axe or "hammer" of Indara or Thor.
And its Sumerian name of Gur, also spelt Geur, is thus presumably the Sumerian origin of the title of "St. George" as the slayer of the Dragon-"St. George" being none other than Indara or Thor himself under that protective title, and thus identical with Andrew.
This battle-axe protective character of this X "Cross" of Indara (or Andrew) is also well seen in the Hitto-Sumerian seals, in which it is placed protectively above the sacred Goats of Indara returning to the door of Indara's shrine or "Inn," see Fig. 57n, p. 334, wherein we shall discover that the "Goat" is a rebus representation of "Goth" the chosen people of Indara or la, Iahveh, or Jove, who himself is described in the Sumerian hymns as a Goat's the animal especially sacred to Indra and to Thor in the Eddas In that Figure this cross-bolt is pictured, not only in the simple X form, but also with the double cross-bars, like the Sumerian picture-sign for the battle-axe (see Fig. 46, b and b-, and Fig. 59) and representing it, tilted over or oriented, as when carried over the shoulder or in action.
Now this Sumerian form of Indara's (or Andrew's) bolt is figured on many ancient Briton monuments and pre-Christian Crosses and Early Briton coins in this identical form of "Thor's Hammer" (see Fig. 47, B and F and Fig. 54) and thus disclosing the Sumerian source of the "Hammer of Thor" or "Indri" (or Indara) as figured by the British and Scandinavian Goths.
The peculiar appropriateness of this Sumerian battle-axe sign of Indara for the patron saint of the Scots is that it is, as we have seen, the Sumerian word-sign for Khat or Xat, the basis of the clan title of Catti or Xatti (or "Hitt-ite"), which, we have seen, is the original source of "Ceti" or "Scot"
(1. In Sumerian the name "in," for the hospitable house of Indara, discloses the source of our English "Inn".
2. Indara, the Creator-Antelope (Dara) . . . The He-Goat who giveth the Earth (S.H.L., 280 and 283) and see Figs. 59, etc. On Elim for He-Goat see before.
3. The dappled Goat goeth straightway bleating To the place dear to Indra. R.V., I, 162, 2.
4.
See previous notes. "Khatti" defined the Catti tribe as
"The Sceptre-wielders" or ruling race.)
FIG. 56 : Indara's X Bolt or "Thor's Hammer" on Ancient Briton monument. (After Stuart) (See Figs. 47. Band F for other Briton examples of this Sumerlan bolt.) In transforming the Hittite Sun-god "Indara" or "Indra" into the Christian saint "Andrew," we find the analogous process resorted to as in the case of St. George, with the added facility that "Andrew," or "Andreas," was already the name of one of the Apostles. But the name "Andrew" is admittedly not a Hebrew or Semitic but an Aryan name, and now seen to be a religious Aryan name based on that of the Father-god Indara or Indra. Indeed, it is believed by biblical authorities that Andrew the Apostle, who was the first disciple of Christ of "Galilee of the Gentiles" and the introducer of his brother Peter to Christ, was an Aryan in race. He was significantly a disciple of Johnthe-Baptist (of the pre-Christian Cross, cult), before he followed Christ, he introduced Greeks to Christ and was associated with Philip, an Aryan Greek who, we have seen, was the companion of the Aryan apostle Bartholomew.
With such an Aryan extraction and name he was naturally represented as the Apostle to Asia Minor (of the Hittites) and to the Scythians, who were Aryanized under Gothic or "Getoe" rulers and their name "Scyth," the Skuth-es of the Greeks is cognate with "Scot".
Indeed, Andrew the Apostle appears to have been racially an Aryan Phoenician. He, like his brother Simon Peterboth elements of whose name are admittedly Aryan Gentile and non-Hebrew was a fisherman with nets.
This occupation presupposes a non-Hebrew race, as there is no specific bible reference to any Hebrews being sailors or fishermen with nets. The fish-supply of Jerusalem came from the Phoenicians of Tyre.
And the name of the village in which Andrew and his brother Peter and Philip dwelt on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee (sea in Israel), was specifically Phoenician and non-Hebrew. It was called "Beth-Saidan" or "Beth-Saida". "Beth" is the late Phoenician form of spelling the Sumerian Bid, "a Bid-ing place" or "Abode," thus disclosing the Sumerian origin of the English word "bide".
And "Saidan" or "Saida," which has no meaning in Hebrew, is obviously "of Sidon". The Phoenician seaport of Sidon was latterly, and is now, called "Saida" and is within fifty miles from Beth-saida, with which it was connected by a Roman road through Dan or Csesarea Philippi, on the frontier of Phoenicia, with an ancient Hittite fortress with a temple of Bel, now significantly called "St. George".
And the two-homed mountain rising above Bethsaida and the adjoining Capemaum, and the scene of "The Sermon on the Mount," is called "The Horns of the Khatti or Hatti" i.e., the Hittites, and we have seen that the Phoenician sailors of Sidon and Tyre were Hittites. It thus appears probable that Andrew, Peter, Bartholomew and Philip were not only Aryan in race, as their names imply, but that they were part of a colony of Sidonian Phoenicians, settled on the shores of the sea of "Galilee of the Gentiles".
And it is noteworthy that Christ, whose first disciples were Aryan Gentiles, and who himself dwelt and preached chiefly in "Galilee of the Gentiles," visited "the coasts of Tyre and Sidon" worked there a miracle on a Syrio-Phoenician woman, had followers from Tyre and Sidon, and he specially connects Bethsaida with Tyre and Sidon.
The miraculous part of the legend grafted on to Andrew the Apostle by the Early Christian Church, in making him the Apostle to the Scyths, Goths and Scots, who were traditional worshippers of Andrew's namesake, Indara, is now seen clearly to incorporate a considerable part of the myth of his namesake, the God Indara of the Goths and Scyths. Whilst the general Romish and Greek Church legends make Andrew travel as a missionary in Scythia's Cappadocia of the central Hittites, Galatia, Bithynia, Pontus (including Troy) in Asia Minor, in Byzantium and Thrace of the Goths, Macedonia, Achaia, and Epirus- (whence Brutus sailed to Britain), the Syrian Church history relates that Andrew [like "Indara, who maketh the multitude to dwell in peace"] freed the people from a cannibal Dragon who devoured the populace and the means which he used to destroy this monster and its cannibal crew was " to spout water over the city and submerge it".
Now this function of being a "Spouter of Water" for the welfare of mankind, was a leading function of God Indara amongst the Aryans, who were essentially agriculturists and dependent on irrigation for crops. His name is usually spelt in Sumerian, as we have seen, as "House of the Waters" ("In-Duru," or "Inn of the Duru," i.e., Greek 'Udor and Cymric Dwr, "Water").
And Indara is very freely represented in the Hitto-Sumerian seals from the earliest period as "Spouting Water" for the good of mankind and to the discomfiture of the Dragon, who blocked the water-supply (see Figs. 35 and 57).
FIG. 57 : Indara spouting Water for benefit of mankind and their cattle and crops. From Hitto-Sumerian Seal. (After Ward)" Note : This is same scene as in Fig. 33. but Bel has here his vase of spouting waters.
This
Water-spouting of Indara is also freely celebrated in the Indian
Vedic hymns wherein Indra is actually described as "garlanded"
with the Euphrates River, precisely as figured in the above Sumerian
seal, and as described in the Sumerian psalms, thus establishing
again the remarkable literal identity of the Indo-Aryan Vedic tradition
with the Sumerian. "O
Indra! slaying the Dragon in thy strength, "Indra,
wearing like a woollen garland the great Parusni [Euphrates] River,"
(1. Indo-Pers. Darya, Dery a "Sea".
2. W.S.C., 283-5.
3. The Euphrates was called by the Sumerians Buru-su or Puru-su, and in Akkad. Paru-sinnu, which latter appears to be the source of its Vedic name of "Parusni").
And a similar function is ascribed to Jehovah in the Psalms of David.
It would, moreover, now appear that in fixing the place of St. Andrew's alleged martyrdom in Achaia in Greece, and under a proconsul called AEgeas, the early Church had merely incorporated still further that part of the Hitto-Sumerian or Gothic myth of God Indara, wherein he bore the title of "Aix or Aigos," The He-Goat (or" Goth "), whilst his chosen people, the Sumers and Goths, were historically known as "AEgeans" or "Achaians" and their land as "Achaia," For there seems to be no real historical evidence whatsoever for the martyrdom of St. Andrew the Apostle and the Syrian history which is presumably the most authentic, makes no mention of his martyrdom.
And even the extraordinary and hitherto inexplicable folk-lore tradition attaching to St. Andrew's Day, for maidens desirous of husbands to pray to that saint on the evening of his festival (30th November), as described by Luther, and current amongst the Anglo-Saxons, is now explained by Indra's traditional bestowal of wives :
"Indra gives us the wives we ask." - Rig Veda, 4, 17, 16.
(1. Cf. S.H.L. 477.' wherein the" E-a" synonym of In-duru is given.
2. "Thou visitest the Earth and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the River of God". Psalm 65.
3. See later.
4. Details in my Aryan Origin of the Phoenicians.
5. Luther (ColloquiaM ensalia, I, 232) states that in his Country the maidens, on the evening of St. Andrew's day, strip and pray to that saint for a husband. And the same custom prevailed amongst the Angle-Saxons. H.F.F., 8.
6. B.L.S., Novr., 454. The legend found first in the Aberdeen Breviary is termed by Baring-Could "the fable".)
In order to account for St. Andrew as the patron saint of the Scots (whom some writers, from the radical similarity of the name, have imagined to be "Scyths"), as the historical tradition prevents the Apostle Andrew from having proceeded further west in Europe than Greece, a Scottish story was fabricated that some of the bones of St. Andrew were stolen from his shrine in Greece by a Greek monk in the eighth century A.D. and brought by him to St. Andrews in Fife, although no mention of such a transfer or of that monk is found in the Romish calendars on the dispersion of the relics of that saint or later; and the tale is otherwise self-contradictory.' Presumably, therefore, there was an early Phoenician Barat "pagan" shrine to Indara or Indri Thor or Andreas at St. Andrews-which is near the mouth of the Perth river at the foundation of the priory there at the conversion of the local Picts and Scots to Christianity in the eighth century A.D.
This existence of a pagan shrine of Indara at St. Andrews in the pre-Christian period is confirmed by the unearthing there of a considerable number of pieces of ancient sculpture and fragments of crosses bearing no Christian symbols, but which, from their appearance, are believed to have been pagan and had "been broken up and thrown aside as rubbish or buried as casing for graves, or built into the foundations of the twelfth century cathedral.
(1. Ib., 454. The Greek monk is called Regulus and is said to have brought the relics in the eighth century from Patras in Greece, the reputed place of St. Andrew's martyrdom and burial. But the Romish calendars state that all the relics of St. Andrew were removed from Patras by Constantine to Constantinople in 337 A.D. Ib., 598.
2. Several other towns in Britain appear to bear this Andreas or Gothic Eindri-de name, such as Anderida, the old name for Pevensey in the Roman period, the port where William the Norman landed in the Channel Andreas in the Isle of Man with Runic monuments; Ender-by in Lincoln. And Lndre was the old name and present provincial name of Tours, which the British Chronicles relate was founded by Brutus, An analogous name seems St. Cyrus, an ancient port and ecclesiastic settlement between St. Andrews and the Don River. "Cyrus," we have seen, is a form of "George" or GUT, a synonym of Indara; and the only two saints called "Cyrus" are one in Egypt, and the other in Carthage, who has no distinct historical Christian basis (cp. B.L.S., July, 321) and thus probably also Phoenician).
Amongst these fragments of crosses, which are of the Hitto-Sumerian pattern, are many ornamented with the double-barred Indara's or Thor's Hammer in key pattern. And one slab of elaborate sculpture bears, as its chief figure, what is obviously intended for Indara killing the Lion by tearing asunder its jaws, in defence of a sheep and deer or antelopes-which is a famous exploit of Indara (as cited below); and this scene is very frequently figured on Hitto-Sumerian seals and sculptures. This same scene is also significantly pictured on a fragment at Drainie in Moray where is the same double-headed Hammer of Indara or Thor on the Cross in Fig. 47 F, and on several others in the same locality.
And it is also noteworthy that one of the first Christian churches erected at St. Andrews was dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, that is, as we have seen, and will see further, the archangel of Indara or Andrew.
This exploit of Indara in killing the devouring Lion as well as the Dragon demon to "make the multitude to dwell in peace" now appears to explain another folk-custom on St. Andrew's Day in England, which has hitherto been inexplicable. In Cornwall it is, or was till lately, a custom on St. Andrew's Day for a party of youths, making a fearsome noise blowing a horn and beating tin pans, to pass through the town for "driving out any evil spirits which haunt the place" and later the church bells take part in it. "In Kent a rabble assembles on that day for hunting and killing squirrels; and a similar squirrel-hunting wake takes place in Derbyshire and the squirrel in Gothic tradition is synonymous with" demoniac."! This custom of expelling evil spirits on St. Andrew's Day, whilst evidencing the former worship of that saint in England, presumably celebrates the expulsion by Indara of the Lion and Dragon demons.
Altogether, in view of the many foregoing facts and associated evidence, it is abundantly clear that St. Andrew, as patron saint of the Scots, Scyths and Goths, was the Hitto-Phoenician god Indara or Indri-Thor of our Catti or Xatti ancestors, transformed into a Christian saint by the Early Christian Church for proselytizing purposes.
And that in picturing St. Andrew as impaled on an X Crucifix, he is represented as hoisted upon his own invincible "hammer". St. Patrick's Cross also appears to have had its origin in the same "pagan" fiery Sun Cross as that of "St. George".
St. Patrick, as we have seen, was a Catti or Scot of "The Fort of the Britons" or Dun-Barton, who went to Ireland, or "Scotia" as it was then called, on his mission to convert the Irish Scots and Picts of Erin in 433 A.D. He appears to have incorporated the Sun and Fire cult of his ancestral Catti into his Christianity. This is evident from his famous "Rune of the Deer" in consecrating Tara in Ireland wherein the name "Deer" the Sumerian Dara, now seen to be the source of our English word "Deer" is the basis of one of the Hitto-Sumerian modes of spelling the godname of In-Dara, who, we shall see, is symbolized by the Deer or Goat. And the Sun is also called "The Deer" in the Gothic Eddas, and thus explains the very frequent occurrence of the Deer carved as a solar symbol on pre-Christian Crosses and other monuments in Britain, as well as on Early Swnerian and Hittite sacred seals, and sculptures, as figured and described below.
In his "Rune of the Deer" St. Patrick invokes the Sun and Fire in banishing the Devil and his Serpent Powers of Darkness :-
"At
Tara to-day, in this fateful hour
All
these I place
And there are repeated references to St. Patrick using his Cross to demolish Serpent and other idols and to work miracles with it, as did the Hitto-Sumerians. And he did so at a period before the True Cross had become identified with the Crucifix.
Thus, we discover that the Crosses of the British Union Jack, as well as the Crosses of the kindred Scandinavian ensigns are the superimposed "pagan" red Sun Crosses and Sun-god's Hammer of our Hitto-Phcenician ancestors, which those "pagan" forefathers had piously carried aloft as their own standards to victory through countless ages, and which have been unflinchingly treasured as their standards by their descendants in England, Scotland and Ireland, even after their conversion to Christianity, and who ultimately united them into one monogram at the reunion of the kindred elements in the British Isles into one nation-two of the Crosses in 1606, and "St. Patrick's" added in 1801.
FIG. 58 : Unicorn as sole supporter of old Royal Arms of Scotland and associated with St. Andrew and the "Cross" Note : The Unicorn is bearded like a Goat, and wears a crown like Hittite, Fig. 4.
The Unicorn, also, which is the especial ancient heraldic animal of the Scots, the sole supporter of the royal arms of Scotland, the surmount of the ancient town or market crosses of Edinburgh, Jedburgh, etc., the supporter or shield of the chief families bearing the family surname of "Scott" and joined to the Lion (or, properly, Leopards) of England by James 1. (VI. of Scotland) on the Union, is now disclosed to be the sacred Goat or Antelope of Indara, the Uzor Sigga, Goat, or Dara or Deer-Antelope of the Hitto-Sumerians, imported into Early Britain with Indara worship by the Barat Phoenician Catti or Early Goths in the "prehistoric" period. It is already seen figured in the early Hittite rocksculpture (Fig. 4, p. 7) as "One-horned," standing by the side of the first Aryan Gothic king.
This "one" horn, however, is merely the apparent result of this royal totem Goat wearing over its horns the long Phrygian cap of the Early Goths, like the king himself and his officials, but this latterly gave rise to the legend that the totem Goat had only one horn.
The Goat was the especially sacred animal of Indara, as recorded in the Sumerian and Vedic texts, some of which are cited in the heading and Indara himself was, as therein cited, called by the Sumerians "The He-Goat" and Thor and his Goths are also called "He-Goats" in the Gothic Eddas, wherein Thor is called "Sig-Father" the identical name by which Bel also is called.' i.e., by the Sumerian Goat name.
The title Sig or "the horned" the root of Sigga "Goat,"! appears to have given its name to the peaked Hittite or "Phrygian" cap Sag (seen in that figure) as well as to its wearers, and thus explains the horned head-dress of the Hitto-Sumerians, Early Britons and Goths. It had the synonym of Gud» which seems to be the source of both "Goat" and "Goth". Cud or Gut appear to be applied to the Goat itself.
(1. E.g., Scotts of Buccleugh line.
2. Indara, the Creator-Antelope (Dara) . . . The He-Goat who giveth the Earth. (S.H.L., 280 and 283. On Elim for He-Goat see before.)
3. Br., 3374. Sig is also title of the Mountain Goat (Br, 3376, and op. under Armu M.D., 102); and is the source of Caga "goat" in Sanskrit.
4. Br., 3388 (horn), 10899 (goat). Its Akkad equivalent, sapparu, seems source of Latin capra.
5. Br., 3504, also" horn" (3515).
Hence the ruling Hittite titles of "Sag" and "Gud" and "Gut" would explain why the Goths or Guti were called by the Greco-Romans both Geta and Sakai or Sacee-the latter being obviously the source of "Sax-on," and of the royal Indo-Aryan clan of Sakya to which Buddha belonged, and the latter Hittite tribe of "Sagas," who recovered Palestine from Akenaten, and whose name is defined as "people named Kas-sa" i.e., obviously the Kasi or Kassi.
Similarly, the Uz Goat name, which appears to have become Uku when applied to the people.' seems to be the source of the name "Achai-oi" or Achai-ans for the leading tribe of early Aryans in Greece, as well as the Greek aix and Sanskrit aja for "goat".
The Goat appears thus to me to have been selected for this totem position by the Early Aryans or Sumerians or Goths, partly on account of its name resembling rebus-wise the tribal name of "Goth," partly because of the Early Aryans having been presumably Goat-herds in the mountains before their adoption of the settled life and their invention of Agriculture and Husbandry, and partly because the bearded and semi-human appearance of the Goat's head offered a strikingly masculine yet inoffensive effigy for their institution of the Fatherhood stage of Society, in opposition and in contrast to the primeval promiscuous Matriarchy of the Chaldee aborigines of the Mother-Son cult, with its malignant and devouring demonist totems of the Serpent, Bull-Calf, Vulture or Raven, and Wolf of Van or Fen (the Wolf exchanging also with the ravening Lion), and demanding bloody and even human sacrifices. And the fusion of these four totems is the origin of the Dragon.
(1. Gud="sharp-pointed" (Br., 4708) or "horned animal" (P.S.L., 159) and Gut, "horned animal:' also Gut, "warrior class" (Br, 3677 and 5732, P.S.L., 169). The horned head sign Al with Sumer equivalent of Gud=Alu, "stag" (M.D., 39) and Al has Sumer equivalent of Guti (Br., 942-3. and M.D., 939) and cognate with Elim or Ilim, " He-Goat.'
2. AL (W), 67, I. 21; 88, I. 13 and r8, etc. They are also called Habiri in Sumerian and Hall' is the ordinary title for the Goth soldiers of Thor in Eddas, and is defined as "He-Goat" (V.D., 231).
3.
Br.,4730.
Thus we find that the antagonism of the Goat (or "Unicorn") to the Lion (or Wolf or Dragon) is figured freely on Sumerian and Hitto-Phoenician seals from the earliest period, and also on Early Briton monuments and coins (see Figs. 59, 60), and that Indara himself is sometimes represented as a Goat or Deer (Dara) as the slayer or tamer of the demonist Lion, as is recorded also in the Vedic hymn which says : "Indra for the Goat [Goths] did to death the Lion".
Yet so little is our modern heraldry aware of the facts of origin, meaning and function of the "Unicorn" that it now represents that invincible Aryan totem of the Sun Cross-and of la or Jove and Thor and of Heaven, and of our ancestral Aryan originators of the World's Civilization-in the form of a one-horned horse, but significantly bearded like a Goat and bound in chains and set alongside of its vanquished foe of Civilization, which is supposed to have been its victor-the ravening Lion totem of the demonist Chaldee aborigines! Whereas in the old Hittite seals, it is the Lion which wears the collar and chain (see Fig. 59L.), whilst the Unicorn or Goat is the victor through Indara and his archangel.
The Goat, "the swift-footed one of the mountains of sunrise" is represented by the Sumerians as the Sun itself and a form of the Sun-god, though less frequently so than is the winged Sun or Sun-Hawk or Phoenix-the horse only appearing in the very latest period. In the Vedic hymns also, the Sun is sometimes called "the Goat," with the epithet of "The One Step," presumably from its ability to traverse the heavens to the supplicant in "one step" :
"The
Ruddy Sun . . . the One-Step Goat,
This "One Step Goat" in the Vedas is in especial conflict and contact with the Dragon of the Deep, just as we have seen was the Resurrecting Sun, the vanquisher of the Serpent-Dragon of the Deep and Death.
(1. R.V. 7. 18, 17.
2. Atharva Veda, 13, I, 6.)
In this capacity and in its struggle with the Lion or Wolf of Death, and as the rebus for "Goth" the Goat is freely represented on Hitto-Sumerian seals and on Phoenician and Greco-Phoenician coins, in association with the Sun Cross and the protecting Archangel Tas; see Fig. 59 and also later. And significantly it is similarly figured on Early Briton prehistoric monuments, pre-Christian Crosses, and Ancient Briton coins, and also in association with the Sun Cross, and often the protecting Archangel Tas or Tasc, see Fig. 60, and further examples later.
This picture of a "Goat" (in Old English Goot and Gote, Eddic Gothic Geit, Anglo-S. Gat and Scots Gait) in these scenes appears clearly to be used as a rebus picture-sign for "Goth" (properly Got or Goti ) or Getce, Sumerian Guti, Kud or Khat; just as the battle-axe picture-sign was used for their tribal title of "Khat-ti" or "Hitt-ite," The hieroglyphic practice of using rebus pictures for proper names continued popular in Greco-Phoenician and Greek coins in Asia Minor down to the Roman period.
This now explains also the references to the sacred Goat and Indra in the Vedic hymns. e.g., "The lively Goat goeth straightway bleating to the place dear to Indra. We now discover that the Sumerians and Hitto-Phoenicians or Early Goths called themselves, or their leading clans, by the names of "Goat," or by names which were more or less identical in sound with their name for Goat, and so made it easy for the picture of the Goat to represent rebuswise their title of "Goth"
This sacred character of the Goat as the totem animal of the Sumerians and Goths, and the source of the legend of the Unicorn, in its victory over the Lion, and as the hallowed animal of Indara or Andrew, now explains the fact of the Goat being still the mascot of the Welsh Cyrnri, and also the frequency of St. Andrew's Cross in the pre-Christian and early Christian monuments in Wales," and in parts of England. And the figures of the Goat in association with
(1. The later historical Goths of Europe and Eddic Goths spelt their name Got and Goti, the th ending is a corruption introduced by the Romans.
2. These devices are called by numismatists "speaking badges" or "types parants". Examples are Bull (tauros) at Tauro-menium, Fox (Alopex) at Alopeconnesus, Seal (phoke) at Phocaea, Bee (melitta) at Melitasa, Goat (aix), supposed to be confined to cities called Aegae, Rose (rodon) at Rhodes, etc. cp. M.C.T., 17, etc., 188.
3. SR.N. I, 162,2.
4. Further details in my Aryan Origin of the Phoenicians.
5. See references in above notes).
FIG. 59 : Goats (and Deer) as "Goths" of Indara protected by Cross and Archangel Tas (Tashub Mikal) against Lion and Wolves on Hitto-Surmerian, Phoenician and Kassi Seals. (After Ward, etc.) References to Fig. 59, P. 334
FIG. 60 : Ancient Briton Goats (and Deer) as "Goths" of Indara protected by Cross and Archangel Tascia (or Michael) against Lion and Wolves. References to Fig. 60, P. 335
From ancient monuments. caves, pre-Christian Crosses and Briton Coins. Comparewith Hitto- Phoenicien examples in Fig. on opposite page. Detailed references on pp. 336 and 337.
St. Andrew's Cross and other solar symbols on the Early Briton coins, and especially in the tin coins of Cornwall (and sometimes with the name Inara and "Ando") and in forms identical with those existing on Hitto-Phoenician 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.
FIG. 6o A : Ancient Briton "Tascio" coin inscribed DIAS (After Poste, and cp.Figs. A, B, p. xv) |
