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. 343

VARIANT SWASTIKA SUN CROSSES 307

cally identical with the Cross painted on ancient Hittite pottery from Cappadocia (see Fig. 48 #); and of a type bearing the Hitto-Sumerian name of Gavin or ““ The Manifold or Fructifying or Harvest Cross.’”’?

Fic. 48—‘‘ Gyvon’’ Cross of British Heraldry is the “ Gurin” Cross of the Hittites.

(b after Chantre* Its truncated tops are apparently due to foreshortening on the curved surface of the pottery.)

It seems to be a form of the Hittite Swastika with multiple feet as in Fig. 46 w and J'; which is also found on Early Briton monuments (Fig. 47 U and H); and it appears to have been a solar luck-compelling talisman for fruit crops. It bears the synonym of Buyw or “ Fruit,” 1.c., “ Berry,’ and thus discloses the Hitto-Sumer origin of our English word “ Berry.”

The Swastika or “ Revolving Cross’”’ is now seen to have been figured in a great variety of ways. And significantly we find that all the varied Hitto-Phenician and Trojan forms of the Swastika are reproduced on the monuments and coins of the Ancient Britons. It is figured as a rod with two feet passing through the Sun’s disc (Fig. 46 /*), as a disc with angular teeth like a circular saw (/*), a disc with tangent rays (QO), disc with curved radii in direction of rotation (vt and N), key-pattern (x), all of which forms are found in Early Britain (Fig. 47). The “ Spiral ornament ” itself is also now seen to be merely a form of the revolving Swastika.

The direction of movement of the revolving Sun, especially

1 Br., 5903, 5907; also called Givin and Gurun. P.S.L., 168. See Wig. 46 c, d, W for simpler forms. On ‘“ Harvest’ cp. L.S.G.275. ?C.M.C., Pl. 113, from Czesarea, near the Halys R. 3 Br., 5905.