The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps, стр. 342

306 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

man. In Egypt, also, long before the Christian era, there are numerous effigies of the Sun-god Horus (i.¢., the Sumerian Sw, Sanskrit ‘‘ Sura,’’ Hindi‘ Suraj,’ Persian ‘‘ Horw,“ TheSun,”’)* as a warrior and sometimes on horseback slaying the Dragon represented locally as a crocodile, and the Horus Sun-cult is usually stated to have been introduced into Egypt by Menes, who, I find, was a Hitto-Phcenician. Moreover, the pre-Christian spring festival of the pagan Sun-god as “‘ Mithra”’ was celebrated on St. George's Day, April 23rd, under which the Sun-god bore the title of ““ Commander of the Fields,’* and “ George” is cognate with the Greek Georgia, ‘Fields,’ and Georgos, ‘a Husbandman,” and the Hitto-Aryans were, as we have seen, the founders of husbandry, and worshippers of Bel or Geur.

This Hitto-Sumerian origin for “St. George of Cappadocia ” and his Red Cross and Dragon legend now explains his introduction mto England by the Catti (or “‘ Hiti-ites ’’), and how he became the patron saint there, and how he is figured freely on pre-Christian monuments with solar symbols in Britain. He and his Dragon-legend were clearly introduced and naturalized there by our Hittite or Catti Barat or “ Briton’ ancestors from Cappadocia and Cilicia long before the dawn of the Christian era.

These new-found facts and clues now disclose that not only St. George’s Red Cross, but also the other associated Crosses in the Union Jack, namely, the Crosses of St. Andrew and St. Patrick, are also forms of the same Sun Cross.

Our Heraldic Crosses also are not only derived from the Hitto-Phoenicians, but even their actual Hittite names still persist attached to some of them, besides their generic name of “ Cross.’ The ‘“‘ George’ Cross we have already seen, and the “‘ Cross saltire,’ or Andrew’s Cross X, has its origin and meaning discovered in the next chapter. One of the other crosses or “‘ bearings’ in British Heraldry is called “Gyron”’ (Fig. 48 a), for which no obvious meaning has hitherto been found. Now this Gyron is seen to be practi-

1 Detailed proofs of this identity in my Aryan Origins.

*Von Gutschmid, Ber. der Such Ges., 1861 (13), 194, etc. ; and H. Hulst, Sie George of Cappadocia, T9090, 3.