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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
( DECEMBER, 1926
Archipelago, have played an extremely important part in the building of the mediaval monuments. Part of these monuments must be ascribed entirely to the fine preceptions of the Javanese builders. These people are not yet dead, and the significance of the ancient Javanese monuments lies in the fact that they form the conscience of the Javanese as a race, by bearing witness to what this race has once been able to create.
By the restoration of the monuments, the intellectual and artistic powers among the native people must be made more of. More consideration ought also to be given to the preservation and the judicious restoration of the few intact buildings left to us from the Muhammadan age. Secondly, the restorations must be in connection with a systematically technical-aesthetical training ad hoc of native workmen, for this is the way to arrive at a new development of native handicrafts. The question of how far the work of restoration can be carried is only a question of the pecuniary resources at our disposal. Do not let us be led away by too exaggerated a puritanismi.
WADDELL ON PHENICIAN ORIGINS. BY SIR RICHARD C. TEMPLE, BT.
(Continued from page 209.)
10. St. Andrew as an Aryan Phoentelan. Waddell next sets to work to show that St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, is a survival of Indara of the Sumerian Psalms and Indra of the Rig Vedd. He says that "St. Andrew as patron saint with his cross incorporates the Hitto-Sumerian Father-god Indara, Indra, or Gothic Indri Thor, introduced, with his hammer, into early Britain by Gothic Phoenicians ;” and then that this discloses the pre-Christian worship of Andrew in early Britain, and the Hittite origin of the crosses on the Union Jack and Scandinavian Ensigns, the unicorn and Cymric goat as the sacred goat of Indara, the goat as rebus for Goth, and St. Andrew as an Aryan Phoenician." He next quotes Sumerian Psalms as to Indara, and then the Rig Veda thus :
"Indra, leader of the heavenly hosts and human races,
Indra encompassed the Dragon. O Light-courier, day's Creator.
Slaying the Dragon, Indra let loose the pent waters.
Indra, hurler of the four-angled rain-producing bolt." St. Andrew, with his X cross is the patron saint of the Scyths, Gothic Russia, Burgundy of the Visigoths, Gothland and Sootland, and is Hittite Phoenician origin in his legend. He bears "the Aryan Gentile and non-Hebrew name of Andrew, presumably Aryan Phænician, and the priestly legend attached to him incorporates part of the old legend of his namesake Induru, a common Sumerian title of the Father-god Bel, who is the Hittite Indara, Indri or Eindri the Divine, a title of Thor of the Goths, and Indra, the Father.god of the Eastern branch of the Aryan Barats ... The worship of Andrew with his x Cross was widespread in early Britain, and in Ireland or ancient Scotia, in pre-historic times long before the dawn of the Christian era.... He is the Inara stamped with cross, etc., on ancient Briton coins." Waddell here gives two pages of illustrations of the cross saltire or leaping cross of St. Andrew on " Hitto-Sumerian, Trojan and Phoenician seals ” to compare with “pre-Christian monuments in Britain and Ireland," showing them to be identical. Waddell remarks that St. Andrew's Cross " appears to have been ... the battle axe or hammer symbol of Indara or Thor." However this may be, I may say that during the Burmese War of 1885-9 I myself saw dacoits crucified by villagers by being tied to & cross saltire and left to die in the sun. In fact, as an execution' instrument the cross saltire x is more easy to manipulate than the Christian Cross for St. George's Cross +.
