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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ August, 1928
of Bel-worship .... under the special protection of the maritine tutelary goddess Barati .... the Phoenician prototype of our modern British tutelary Britannia."
The Cilicians are identified with the Phoenicians thus: "Phoenix and King Cadmus the Phnician are called the sons of Agenor, the first traditional king of the Phoenicians, and their brother was Kilix." Then says Waddell, “the ancient Phænician colonists from Cilicia proudly recorded their ancestry.... were in the habit of not returning to their native land [Ikar of Cilicia and of the inscription must have found Scotland a change from Palestine) .... and transplanted their homeland name of Cilicia to their new colonies."
E.g., near Bognor on the South coast of England lies "Sels-ey or the Island of the Sels .... where a hoard of pre-Roman coins of ancient Briton were found." Ey is a wellknown British term for island' in place names and Waddell remarks, by the way, that "significantly the Phoenician word for 'island' or 'sea-shore' was ay." But his point here is that these coins bore “solar symbols . . . . hitherto undociphered," though Evans thought them "something like Hebrew characters." Going on the Newton Stone Waddell reads these characters as SiL," which seems to be a contraction for the fuller Sssilokoy or Cilicia."
Not far off Selsey, on the ancient high-road, lies Sil-chester, “the preRoman capital of the Segonti clan of the Britons, said to have been also called Briten-den or Fort of the Britons" and is very Phoenician." This discovery of the ancient Phænician origin of the name Sels-ey, or Island
of the Sels or Cilicians," suggests a similar origin for “Sles-wick or ANCIENT BRITISH Abode of the Sles, for the Angles in Denmark," while "the Silik form COIN FROM of Cilicia . . . . seems also to be probably, the source of the Selg-ove
SELSEY. tribal title which was applied by the Romans to the people of Galloway coast of the Solway (Scotland)." This last" seems to have been the same warlike tribe elsewhere called by the Romans Atte-Catti .... =Catti or Atti or Hitt-ite."
Kast or Kwast. « This title is geographical and refers the founder of the Newton Stone inscription to Kasta-bala (Budrum)," the ancient capital of Cilicia about B.C. 400. It had a great shrine to Perathea (Diana), who "was Britannia." The country on the same river, the Pyrainus, was the Græco-Roman Kata-onia, Cata-onia, “the Land of Kat or Cat=Cattithe ancient Britons, and a title of the Phoenician Barat rulers."
The identification of Kast with Kasta-bala"givos us the clue to the Cilician sources of the Sun-cult imported into North Britain by the Phoenician Barat princes" of the inscription, from the bas-reliefs of Antiochus I of Commagene already mentioned. These refer to the old Sumerian ceremony of coronation, which " seems to be referred to in a Vedic hymn to the Sun-god Mitra - When will ye [Mitra) take us by both hands, as a dear sire his son ?'” And even more significantly in the Volu-Spa Edda" of the Goths in ancient Britain.
Kazzi or Qa88. "This title is clearly and unequivocally a variant dialectic spelling of Kati, an alternative clan title of the Phoenician Khatti Barats," deriving from "Kas or Kās, the name of the famous grandson of King Barat." It appears in the Vedic kings of the First Panch(-āla) Dynasty and in "the Epic king-lists" with the " capital at Kūbi, the modern Benares, bordering on the Panch(-āla) province of ancient India."
Kaski or Cassi is the title of the First Phoenician Dynasty, about B.C. 3000, of the Babylonian Dynasty, admittedly " Aryan" in B.O. 1800-1200 in Phoenician Inscriptions in Egypt. It is "now disclosed as the Phoenician source of the Cassi title borne by the Briton Catti kings...down to Caseivellaunus, who minted the Cas coins."
