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. 345

“SPECTACLES” A FORM OF SWASTIKA 309

Waters of the Deep as on the Trojan amulets (Fig. 31), the fish is swimming to the East, whilst the dead fish on its back=the dead person. Below are two animals, one the horned Goat, and the other apparently the Wolf of Death. Surmounting all is TaSia with his horned head-dress overcoming the Lion adversaries (see later). In the reverse (6), is the two-footed Swastika surmounted by Tasia the Archangel. This Early Briton Cross is thus a solar invocation to Tasia for ‘“ Resurrection from Death, like the Sun.”

Another form of the Swastika Sun Cross, differing somewhat in shape from the usual type as carved on the Phcenician pillar at Newton and elsewhere, is found on the pre-Christian Ogam monument at Logie in the neighbourhood of the Newton pillar (Fig. 5B, p. 20), and formed part of a Stone Circle. This symbol is also found frequently on prehistoric stones in Scotland, and occurs also in the neighbourhood at Insch, Bourtie, and lower down the Don at Inverurie and Dyce with its Stone Circle,: though not hitherto recognized as a Swastika or as associated with!Sun-worship, and merely called by writers on antiquities ‘“‘ The Spectacles with broken Sceptre or Zig-zags,”’ and of unknown meaning and symbolism.

This emblem, the so-called ‘“ Spectacles,” carved on the lower portion of the Logie Stone, is now seen to be a decorated Swastika, in which the duplicated disc of the Sun (the socalled “lenses ’’ of the Spectacles) replaces two of the limbs of the ordinary Swastika Cross, to represent the morming and evening Sun and the Sun-wise direction of movement from east to west (or left to right),as we have already found in the “ Cup-mark ”’ inscriptions and Sumerian seals. This direction of movement is graphically indicated by an arrow-head (the so-called ‘‘ broken sceptre "’ of Scottish archeologists) pointing in that direction, while the perpendicular stem is slanted to emphasize the movement and thus giving a X-shape, The Hitto-Phcenician origin of this

* One of the remaining four, all of which are carved with symbols which are now found to be solar, 5.S.S., I, 4, and Pl. 3, Figs. r and 2 and PI. 4, 1, and II, page xlviii.

*5.S.S., and others on Pl. 14-16.

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