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He then says that the early Sumerians wrote numbers as strokes (e.g., for 1, | for 2 and so on), which became circular holes when applied by a drill to stone: 0–1, 00 or 9- 2, and so on. He found that "many of our numerals in English, and in the Assyrian languages generally, are also derived from the Sumerian names for these numbers, although the fact has not hitherto been noticed.” We have already had his ideas on 'one' being equivalent to Sumerian ana and now he tells us that through "the occult values attached to certain numbers by the Sumerians," we are able to identify the Hitto-Sumerian god-names on the seals and tablets with the names of the leading Aryau gods of classic Greece and Rome, of the Indiau Vedas, of the Gothic Eddas, and of the ancient Britons, as inscribed on their pre-Roman coins and monuments. So 0-1 or 10 - God as monad : 00 -2 or 20 = the Sun. god : 000 = 3 or 30= the Moon or Moon-god, and so on up to nine figures and two special kinds of o. Waddell then launches into an explanation of the cup-marks in the light of the above observation and certain startling philological comparisons, which are not easy to follow.
He arrives in the course of his study at a remarkable philological conclusion :-" It will be seen, in scanning the key-list in the table, that the first or single circle or cup-mark, title for God, Ia or Jove, or the One God, has the value of A (i.e., the Greek Alpha : whilst the title for Him is the largo double o (i.e., the Greek O-mega, a name now seen to be also derived from the Sumerian mukh, great, and surviving in Scotch, 'muckle' or English much' and
magnitude,' 13 etc. It thus appears that the early Sumerian and our own 'pagan' ancient Briton ancestors called the Father God Ia or Jove by the very same title as God in the Apocalypse, namely, Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last.'” In a footnote Waddell adds that "Ia is also Indara.”
By the key-list Waddell reads the inscription on the scene about Adam already noticed, to mean "how Adam broke the wing of the stormy South-wind." He also read many other Hitto-Babylonian seals and found them to explain "the circles on ancient Briton coins and the cup-markings of pre-historic Britain," so that he could even read these last. Waddell in the same way next reads "the archaic Morite table of about B.C. 400" found
at Smyrna, on which he asks us to "note the initial word-sign for 'tomb' in the picture of the ancient barrow of the Indo-Aryans with its finial called thupa or tope," i.e., according to his reading : but surely the Buddhistic stúpa ortope' was a reliquary not a tomb. The 'word-sign' is, however, remarkable, as under
Waddell's reading of the tablet, it is to "a princess or priestess of the Bel-fire cult, named Nina, who is significantly called therein an Ari, i.e., Arya and Muru, i.e., Mor or Amorite. It invokes Taś for the aid of resuscitating the underground Sun and the Word Cross." Finally he says : -" it is significant that a large proportion of the words of the Morite tablet of about B.C. 4000 are radically identical with those of modern English, thus the second and third 'good girl' occur literally in the M Sumerian as kud-gal.'" This is truly an astonishing deduction, as, even granting that' kud gal' is a right transcription of the picture writing, which I give here, both the translation into good girl' and the transcription rest on the single assertion of Waddell himself,
He next proceeds to " unlock the long lost meaning and racial authorship of .... the prehistoric cup-marking in the British Isles” by the same keys, and finds them to be substantially identical with the Sumerian cup-marked solar amulets of Early Troy," and thus to be "Litanies for the resurrection of the dead by the Sun-Cross." He reads them to be invocations to the Archangel Tay, la or Jove - Indra. Their date he presumes to be that of the Stone Circles, B.C. 2800. He also shows a Briton coin inscribed Tascio' with
18 All this seems to mean that in Waddell's view Sumerian makh is the origin of the Groek, megas; Latin Magnus; English, much; Scotch, muckle.
