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OCTOBER, 1925)
WADDELL ON PHENICIAN ORIGINS
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of his remarks, he discloses “the Phoenician origin of the Celtic, Cymric, Gothic and English languages, and the founding of London in the Bronze Age.” He commences with a quotation from the Rig Veda :-"the tribes subject to the Cedi (Ceti or Getoe, Goth Phoenicians) are skin-clad." Cedi here would, however, in ordinary English script, be written Chedi, and Ceti - Keti. This consideration immediately raises a question; can we legitimately equate Chedi with Keti or Geta?
The Chronicles describe an opposition to the invasion of Brutus by giants,' and this introduces a new people as inhabitants of Britain, whom Waddell calls "an earlier trading branch of the Aryans and Phoenicians—the Muru or Amuru or Amorite giants and erectors of the Stone Circles and the Giants' Tombs"-old exploiters of the Cornish tin-mines centuries before Sylvius and Brutus.--"The higher Aryan civilisation" was, however, introduced by Brutus, who set to work at once on landing "to till the ground and build houges." The houses he built were of timber; i.e., they were Hitto-Phoenician, as is seen from " the common Briton affix for towns of-bury, -boro, -burg (as well as broch), and Sanskrit, pura,.... derived from the Hittite and Catti bur, a Hittite town, citadel or fort." He travelled across England from Totnes to the estuary of the Thames, giving names to the chief rivers, which Waddell finds, including the name of the Thames itself, to be "clearly transplanted namesakes from the rivers of Epirus, whence Brutus sailed, and rivers of Troy and Phoenicia," in a style common to all time. He instances, inter alia, the Exe, the Axe, the Avon, the Ouse, and the Thames, which last is clearly named after the Thyamis, the great river of Epirus, the Phoenician origin of which seems evident by its chief tutelary being named Cadmus, the name of the famous colonising and civilising sea-king of the Phoenicians." On the Thames Brutus founded Tri-Novantum (London) three centuries or more before the foundation of Rome. He prescribed laws, which “involves writing in the Aryan Phænician language and script. .. the form of which, ..we have seen in about B.C. 400 on the Newton Stone." As has already been said, Tri-Novantum also became later Kaer-Lud. This leads Waddell to make a typical note :-"Kaer, the Cymric for fortified city, is now seen to be derived from Sumerian gar, to hold, establish, of men or places : cognate with Indo-Persian garh, fort11; Sanskrit, grih, house ; Eddic-Gothic, goera, to build, and gard or garth."
What was the language that Brutus introduced and imposed on the aborigines of Albion and on the names of very many places, rivers and mountains? It could not be Celtic or classic Greek or Roman. It was obviously Trojan, which the Chronicle says " was roughly Greek which was called British." This Trojan was Dorio Greek, "contemporary specimens of which fortunately still exists from the twelfth to the tenth centuries B.C..... in Schlie. mann's excavations at Hissarlik." Waddell finds the Trojan script and language clearly akin to those of the later Aryan Phoenicians, and of the runes of the Goths, and of the legends stamped on the pre-Roman British Coins of the Catti, and the parent of the language and writing of the present day in Britain 'the so-called English language and script." The Goths Waddell has already "disclosed" to be Hitt-ites, who were "primitive Goths," and their runes have to him an obvious "affinity” to Hitt-ite script. The Anglo-Saxons are much later on the scene, so it is "evident that the so-called Celtic and the Brithyonio Celtio languages in the British Isles are merely provincial dialects derived from the Aryan Trojan Doric introduced by King Brutus the Trojan."
This great man also introduced Law, Art and Roads, so that the early Britons were anything but savages. Bronze was introduoed by the Phoenician Morite or Amorite exploiters
11 This word is, however, properly gadh, and thor is not at all the letter of Persian.
