Origins of Britain January, 1924. Laurence Waddell -Giants of Anak

Foreword:

Waddell opens up for us lost vistas of history down the ages, and lifting considerably higher than before the dense veil that has hung so long over the origin and ancestry of the British Nation. 

 

Origins of Britain 

January, 1924.

Laurence Waddell .

 

Eds note ; First we examine the Trojans before moving further back in time. 

The story goes .. After the Trojan war, AEneas, fleeing with Ascanius from their destroyed city, sailed to Italy. There he was honourably received by King Laiinus,  which raised  the envy of Turnus, King of the Rutuli, who thereon made war against him. 

Engaging in battle, AEneas got the victory, and killing Turnus, obtained the kingdom of Italy (Latium); and with it Lavinia, the daughter of Latinus.  After his death Ascanius, succeeding to the kingdom, built Alba on the Tiber, and begat a son named Sylvius, who took to wife a niece of Lavinia . . . and had a son called Brutus.

After a while, no one knows for sure how long Brutus arrives ..  

Arrival in Albion and Colonization of the Country as " Brit-ain" about 1103 B.C.
"The island was then called Albion, and was inhabited by a few giants.' 
" The giants of Totnes".

Notwithstanding this, the pleasant places, plenty of rivers abounding in fish, and its pleasing woods made Brutus and his company desirous to fix their habitation in it.  They therefore passed through all the provinces, forced the , giants' to fly into the caves of the mountains, and divided the country among them according to the directions of their commander.
 

After this they began to till the ground and build houses, so that in a little time the country looked like a place long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name , Brit-ain,' and his companions Brit-ons' . . . from whence afterwards the language of his nation, which at first bore the name of Trojan [Doric] or rough Greek, was called , British.'  "But Corineus, in imitation of his leader, called that part of the island which was given to him as duke, Corinea  and his people . Corinene ' [Cornish men] after his own name; for though he had his choice of provinces before all the rest, yet he preferred this country [Corn-wall], which is now called, in Latin, Cornubia.' For it was a diversion to him to encounter the said' giants,' which were in greater numbers there than in all the other provinces. 

Among the rest was one Giant  named Goemagot.
On a certain day, when Brutus was holding a solemn festival to the gods in the port where they first landed, this' giant,' with a score of his companions, came in upon the Britons, making great slaughter. The Britons at last killed everyone but Goernagot, who was spared to wrestle with Corineus. 
Who prompty threw him from the cliff and to this day that cliff is known as  Goemagot's Leap. 

Founding in Britain of New Troy .. Tri-Novantum"  about 1100 B. C.
.. Brutus, having thus at last set eyes upon his kingdom, formed the design of building a city, and with this view travelled through the land to find a convenient site. And coming to the river Thames, he walked along the shore and at last pitched upon a place fit for his purpose. 

Here he built a city which he called' New Troy,' under which name it continued for a long time after, till at last, by corruption, it came to be called' TriNovantum.'  But afterwards, when Lud, the brother of Cassibellaun, who made war against Julius Caesar, obtained the government of the kingdom, he surrounded it with stately walls and towers and ordered it to be called after his own name, 
• Kaer-Lud;' that is, the' City of Lud ' [or' Lud-Dun, , corrupted into' Lon-don '.

After Brutus had finished building the city, he made choice of the citizens that were to inhabit it, and prescribed them laws for their peaceable government..

At the same time also, the sons of Hector, after the expulsion of the posterity of  Antenor, reigned in Troy; as in Italy did Sylvius AEneas, the son of AEneas, the uncle of Brutus, and the third king of the Latins.

During these events Brutus had by his wife Ignoge three famous sons, named Locrin, Albanact and Kamber, On his death his 3 sons divided up Britain omitting Cornwall.

Locrin, the eldest, possessed the central part of the island, called afterwards from his name'  Loegria',

Kamber had that part which lies beyond the river Severn, now called Wales, but which was for a long time known as  Kambria,'

Albanact, the younger brother, possessed the country he called' Albania,' now Scotland.

 Geoffrey of Monmouth in the History of the Kings of Britain.
Monmouth (c. AD 1100 –1155) writes that Belinus, a descendant of Trojan Brutus the mythical founder of Britain, ruled the kingdom of Cornwall, Kambria (Wales), and Loegria (England), 
from c. 380-363 BC

Belinus returned to Britain, which he governed during the remainder of his life in peace; he repaired the cities that were falling to ruin, and built many new ones. Among the rest he built one upon the river Uske, near the sea of the Severn, which was for a long time called Caerosc, and was the metropolis of Dimetia; (south Wales)  but after the invasion of the Romans it lost its first name, and was called the City of Legions, from the Roman legions which used to take up their winter quarters in it. 

He also made a gate of wonderful structure in Trinovantum, upon the bank of the Thames, which the citizens call after his name Belinus's gate or Billings-gate as its known today.

 Over it he built a prodigiously large tower, and under it a haven or quay for ships. He was a strict observer of justice, and re-established his father's laws everywhere throughout the kingdom. In his days there was so great an abundance of riches among the people, that no age before or after is said to have shown the like. At last, when he had finished his days, his body was burned, and the ashes put up in a golden urn, which they placed at  Trinovantum, (Monument) with wonderful art, on the top of the tower above mentioned.  Arthgallo    buried at Kaerleir  (Carlisle.)

Chapter 4. Nennius, the brother of Cassibellaun, being wounded in battle by Caesar, dies. Cassibellaun, in joy for this triumph, returned solemn thanks to God; and calling the companions of his victory together, amply rewarded every one of them, according as they had distinguished themselves. On the other hand, he was very much oppressed with grief for his brother Nennius, who lay mortally wounded, and at the very point. of death. For Caesar had wounded him in the encounter, and the blow which he had given him proved incurable; so that fifteen days after the battle he died, and was buried at Trinovantum, by the North Gate. His funeral obsequies were performed with regal pomp, and Caesar's sword put into the tomb with him, which he had kept possession of, when struck into his shield in the combat. The name of the sword was Crocea Mors (Yellow Death), as being mortal to every body that was wounded with it.

Chapter 15. Claudius gives his daughter Genuissa for a wife to Arviragus, and returns to Rome. As soon as the winter was over, those that were sent for Claudius's daughter returned with her, and presented her to her father. The damsel's name was Genuissa, and so great was her beauty, that it raised the admiration of all that saw her. After her marriage with the king, she gained so great an ascendant over his affections, that he in a manner valued nothing but her alone: insomuch that he as desirous to have the place honoured where the nuptials were solemnized and moved Claudius to build a city upon it, for a monument to posterity of so great and happy a marriage. Claudius consented to it, and commanded a city to be built, which after his name is called Kaerglou, that is Gloucester, to this day, and is situated on the confines of Dimetia and Loegria, upon the banks of the Severn. Massacring

In war none was more fierce than he, in peace none more mild, none more pleasing, or in his presents more magnificent. When he had finished his course of life, he was buried at Gloucester, in a certain temple which he had built and dedicated to the honour of Claudius. 

 Origins of Britain Written 1924-30 by Laurence Waddell .

The treasures of ancient high art lately unearthed at Luxor have excited the admiring interest of a breathless world, and have awakened more vividly than before a sense of the vast antiquity of the so-called" Modern Civilization," as it existed over three thousand years ago in far-off Ancient Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Keener and more personal interest, therefore, should naturally be felt by us in the long- lost history and civilization of our own ancestors in Ancient Britain of about that period, as they are now disclosed to have been a branch of the same great ruling race to which belonged, as we shall see, the Sun-worshipping Akhen-aten  (the predecessor and father-in-law of Tut-ankh-amen) and the authors of the naturalistic "New" Egyptian art-the Syrio-Phoenicians.

That long-lost origin and early history of our ancestors, the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons, in the Prehistoric" and Pre-Roman periods, date back to about 3000 B.C., are now recovered to a great extent in the present work, by means of newly discovered historical evidence. 

These ancestral Britons having been depicted as mere painted savages roaming wild in the woods," 

as we are imaginatively told in most of the modern history books, they are now on the contrary disclosed by the newly found historical facts to have been from the very first grounding of their galley keels upon Old Albion's shores, over a millennium and a half of years before the Christian era, a highly civilized and literate race, pioneers of Civilization, and a branch of the famous Phonecians.

it is now strikingly confirmed and established by the discovery of hitherto undeciphered Phoenician and Sumerian inscriptions in Britain (the first to be recorded in Britain), and by a mass of associated historical evidence from a great variety of original sources, including hitherto uninterpreted pre-Roman-Briton coins and contemporary inscriptions, most of which is now published for the first time.

In one of these inscriptions, a bi-lingual Phoenician inscription in Scotland of about 400 B.C., now deciphered and translated for the first time, its author, in dedicating a votive monument to the Sun-god Bel, calls himself by all three titles .. Phoenician," "Briton" and "Scot"; and records his personal name and native town in Cilicia, which is a well-known ancient city-port and famous seat of " Sun- worship" in Asia Minor.

In the course of my researches into the fascinating problem of the Lost Origin of the Aryans, the fair, long-headed North European race, the traditional ancestors of our forbears of the Brito-Scandinavian race who gave to Europe in pre- historic time its Higher Civilization and civilized Languages- researches to which I have devoted the greater part of my life, and my entire time for the past sixteen years-I ascertained that the Phoenician were Aryans in race.

That is to say, they were of the fair and long-headed civilizing" Northern " race, the reality of whose existence was conclusively confirmed and established by Huxley, Thus the daring Phcenician pioneer mariners who, with splendid courage, in their small winged galleys, first explored the wide seas and confines of the Unknown Ancient World, and of whose great contributions to the civilization of Greece and Rome classic writers speak in glowing terms, were, I found by indisputable inscriptional and other evidence, not Semites as hitherto supposed, but were Aryans in Race, Speech and Script. 

They were, besides, disclosed to be the lineal blood-ancestors of the Britons and Scots-properly so-called, that is, as opposed to the aboriginal dark Non-Aryan people of Albion, Caledonia and Hibernia, the dusky small-statured Picts and kindred" Iberian" tribes. This discovery, of far-reaching effect upon the history of European Civilization, and of Britain in particular, was announced in a summary of some of the results of my researches on Aryan Origins in the" Asiatic Review" for 1917 

(pp. 197f.). 

And This British-Phonecian prince from Cilicia is, moreover, disclosed in his own inscription in Scotland to be the actual historical original of the traditional " Part-olon, king of the Scots," who, according to the Ancient British Chronicles of Geoffrey and Nennius and the legends of the Irish Scots, came with a fleet of colonists from the Mediterranean and arrived in Erin, after having settled round the Orkneys (not far distant from the site where this Phoenician monument stands) and colonized and civilized Ireland, about four centuries before the Roman occupation of Britain. 

This uniquely important British-Phoenician inscription, whilst incidentally extending back the existence of the Scots in Scotland for over eight centuries beyond the period hitherto known for them to our modern historians, and disclosing their Phoenician origin, at the same time rehabilitates the genuineness of the traditional indigenous British Chronicles as preserved.by Geoffrey of Monmouth and Nennius. 

These chronicles, although formerly accorded universal credence in Britain and on the Continent up till about a century ago, have been arbitrarily jettisoned aside by modern writers on early British history, obsessed with exaggerated notions of the Roman influence on Britain, as mere fables. 

But the genuineness of these traditional chronicles, thus conclusively established for the period about 400 B.C., is also now confirmed in a great variety of details for other of these traditional events in the pre-Roman period of Britain.

This ascertained agreement of the traditional British Chronicles with leading ascertained facts of pre-Roman British History wherever it can be tested, presumes a similarly genuine character also for the leading events in the earlier tradition. 

This begins with the arrival of " King Brutus-the-Trojan " and his" Briton" colonists with their wives and families in a great fleet from the Mediterranean about II03 B.C., and his occupation, colonization and civilization of Albion, which he then is recorded to have called after himself and his Trojan Briton followers" Brit-ain " or" Land of the Brits," after dispossessing a still earlier colony of kindred Britons in Albion. 

All the more so is this pre-Roman- British tradition with its complete king-lists and chronicles probably genuine, as the Ancient Britons, properly so-called, are now found to have been accustomed to the use of writing from the earliest period of their first arrival in Albion or Britain. And the cherished old British tradition that Brutus-the-Trojan and his "Britons" hailed from the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor is in agreement with the fact that King Part-olon " the Briton" actually records his native land as being also on the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor. 

And this tradition is now confirmed by the discovery that many of the prehistoric engravings and inscriptions on the rocks and monoliths in Britain are of the Trojan type. 

To Fully  appreciate the historical significance of these undeciphered Phoenician and Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, and their associated evidence, it is necessary to have some general acquaintance with the results of my researches into the racial origin and previously unknown early history and world activities of the Phoenicians for a period of over two thousand years beyond that hitherto known to our historians. 

Lawrence Waddell,  gives in the introductory chapter a brief summary of the manner in which the Phoenicians were Aryan in Race,  Speech and Script, and were of vast antiquity, dating back from the testimony of their own still existing inscribed monuments to about 3IOO B.C. 

My new historical keys to the origin and "prehistoric" activities of the Phoenicians in early Europe disclose these virile ancestral pioneers of the Higher Civilization as no mere dead figures in a buried past, but instinct with life and human interests, adventurously exploring and exploiting the commercial possibilities of the various regions along the unknown seas of the Old World;  and indicating to us at the present day the paths which led to the propagation and progress of the Higher Civilization over the World. Starting from the solid new ground of the positive, concrete, historical inscriptions, we are led by the clues thus gained to fresh clues which open up for us, as we proceed, new and unsuspected avenues of evidence, disclosing rich mines of untapped historical material, written and unwritten. 

These clues lead us from Britain back to the Phoenician and Hittite homeland of the Aryan Phoenician Britons in Syria, Phoenicia and Asia Minor of St. George of Cappadocia (and England),  and there offer us the solutions to most of the long outstanding problems in regard to the origin of the Ancient Britons and the source and meaning of our ancestral British folklore, national emblems and patron saints. In this way we gain not only a fairly intimate knowledge of the personalities of the Early Aryan Phoenicians who, as the ancestral Britons and Scots, colonized and civilized Britain, and the historical reasons for their various waves of migration hither with wholesale transplantation of their cults, institutions and names on British soil. 

We gain at the same time a considerable new insight into the remoter origin and racial character of the pre-Briton, non-Aryan aborigines of the British Isles in the Stone Age and their relation to the Picts and Celts which unravels to a great extent the hopeless tangle in which the question of the aboriginal races in Britain has hitherto become involved. In thus enlarging, not inconsiderably, the boundaries of Clio's domain in Britain, we are led into several provinces not hitherto suspected of connection with Britain, though the relationship now becomes obvious. 

This wider outlook on the parent-land, as well as its colony and their intercommunications, reflects fresh light on both the Ancient Britons and on their parent Phoenicians. Amongst the great variety of historical effects thus elicited by this new light may be mentioned the following: Archaeologically are disclosed the racial character, original homeland and approximate dates of our ancestral erectors of the prehistoric Stone Circles in the British Isles with the motive of these monuments, also the erectors of the prehistoric stone casts and long barrow graves of the" Late Stone Age." 

The discovery of the key to the script of the prehistoric " Cup-marks" engraved upon the rocks and monoliths unlocks the hitherto sealed messages of these prehistoric literary records of our ancestors, and gives us a vivid picture of the exalted ideals which already ruled their lives in those far-distant days. Relatively fixed data are obtained for the much-conjectured beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain, and of the race who introduced it and manufactured the Early Bronze weapons, implements and trinkets which are unearthed from time to time, and hitherto supposed to be Celtic." 

The racial character and original homeland of the pre-Aryan aborigines of the British Isles in the Stone Age also become evident. And we discover that the hitherto inexplicable Unity in the essentials of all the Ancient Civilizations is owing to the original Unity of the Higher Civilization, and its diffusion throughout the world by its originators, the ruling race of Aryans, and especially by their sea-going branch, the Phoenicians, Historically, besides recovering the approximate dates of the chief waves of Aryan-Briton invasions, and the political causes apparently leading to these invasions, we recover and establish the historicity, names, achievements and dates of a great number of the chief kings and heroes of the Ancient Britons in what has hitherto been considered  the prehistoric period.

Amongst other results is the interpretation of the unexplained legends and the wholly unknown origin and meaning of the symbols stamped upon the very numerous coins of the Ancient Britons in the pre-Roman period, and now disclosed for the first time. 

In British National Patron Saints and emblems of Phoenician origin are now found to be St. George of Cappadocia and England and his Dragon legend and his Red Cross; also the Crosses of St. Andrew and St. Patrick, now forming with St. George's the Union Jack and the kindred Scandinavian ensigns, all of which crosses are found to have been carried by the Phoenicians as their sacred standards of victory and imported and transplanted by them in the remote past on to British soil. Britannia" also is discovered to have been evolved by the ancient sea-going Phoenicians as their patronymic tutelary goddess, and under the same name and with substantially the same form of representation as the British Britannia." And the Phoenician origin and hitherto unknown meaning of the Unicorn and Lion emblems in British heraldry are now disclosed for the first time. 

Linguistically, we now find that the English, Scottish, Irish, Gaelic, Cymric, Gothic and Anglo-Saxon languages and their script, and the whole family of the so-called" Aryan " languages with their written letters, are derived from the Aryan Phoenician language and script through their parent, the" Hittite " or Sumerian; and that about fifty per cent of the commonest words in use in the English" Language to-day are discovered to be Sumerian, "Cymrian" or Hittite in origin, with the same word-form, sound and meaning.  

 The ey, or ay or ea affix in British place-names such as Chelsea or Chelsey, Battersea, Rothesay, Orkney, Alderney, etc., is admittedly the Gothic and Norse ey " an island" (cp. V.D. I34). And significantly the Phoenician word for" island" or .. sea-shore" was ay.

This fact is freely illustrated in these pages, as critical words occur incidentally as we proceed. And it is found that the English and Doric " Scottish dialects preserve the original Aryan or "Sumerian " form of words more faithfully than either the Sanskrit or Greek. The Phoenician origin of the ancient sacred  Ogam " script of the pre-Christian monuments in the British Isles is also disclosed.

In Religion, it is now found that the exalted religion of the Aryan Phoenicians, the so-called Sun-worship," with its lofty ethics and belief in a future life with resurrection from the dead, was widely prevalent in early Britain down to the Christian era. 

In this" Sun-worship," as it is usually styled by modern writers, we shall see that, although the earliest Aryans worshipped that luminary itself, they were the first people to imagine the idea of God in heaven, and at an early period evolved the idea of the One Universal God, as" The Father God," some millenniums before the birth of Abraham, and they symbolized him by the Sun. 

They further emblemized the Sun as " The Light of the World" by the True Cross, in the manner now discovered, and they carved the Cross, as the symbol of Universal Divine Victory, upon their sacred seals and standards, and sculptured it upon their monuments from the fourth millennium B.C. downwards; and invented the Swastika with the meaning now disclosed, 

This now explains for the first time the very numerous Crosses and Swastikas carved upon the prehistoric stone monuments and pre-Christian Stone Crosses with their other solar and non- Christian symbols throughout the British Isles. It also now explains the solar" wheeled" Cross, the so-called" Celtic " Cross, and the Red Cross of St. George, the Fiery Cross of the Scottish clans, the Bel Fire rites still surviving in the remoter parts of these islands at the summer solstice, and the numerous True Crosses with solar symbols stamped upon the ancient Briton coins of the" Catti " and" Cassi " kings of the pre-Roman and pre-Christian periods in Britain. 

Geographically, the topography of the "prehistoric" distribution of the early Aryan Phoenician settlements throughout Ancient Britain is recovered by the incidence of their patronymic and ethnic names in the oldest Aryan place, river and ethnic names in relation to the prehistoric Stone Circles and monuments,  before the thick up crop of later and modern town and village names had submerged or obscured the early Aryan names on the map. 

The transplantation by the Phoenician colonists of old cherished home- land names from Asia Minor and Phoenician colonies on the Mediterranean is also seen. The Phoenician source and meaning of many of the ancient place, river and mountain names in Britain, hitherto unknown, or the subject of more or less fantastic conjecture by imaginative etymologists, is disclosed. And a somewhat clearer view is, perhaps, gained of the line of Phoenician seaports, trading stations and ports of call along the Mediterranean and out beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the prehistoric period. In Economics and Science, the Hitto-Phoenician Aryan origin of our ordered agricultural and industrial life becomes evident. 

And the old British tradition is confirmed that London was built as the commercial capital several centuries before the foundation of Rome.

In Art, a like origin is disclosed for many of the motives in our modern decorative art. The religious solar meaning of the" key-patterns" and spiral designs is elicited for the first time. And the art displayed by the Ancient Britons in the pre-Roman period is found to be based upon Hitto-Phoenician models, and to be of a much higher standard than in the Anglo-Saxon and" medieval" period in Britain. 

Politically, the newly discovered racial link, uniting the Western Barats or "Brit-ons" with the Eastern Barats (or "Britons") of India-still called "The Land of the Barats "through the blood-kinship with the ruling chiefs of India now revealed and established, should favourably determine the latter, in these days of Indian unrest, to remain within the fellowship of the British Commonwealth, which is now shown to have retained the real" Swarii/" elements of the old progressive ancestral Barat Civilization in a much purer form than the Indian branch. 

And the intimate kinship of the Britons and British, properly so-called, with the Norse-the joint preservers of the ancestral Gothic epics, the Eddas--is now disclosed to be much closer and much more ancient than has hitherto been suspected; and long before the Viking Age.

Classic Legend and Myth is to some extent rehabilitated by finding that some of the great heroes and demi-gods of Homer had a historical human origin in the personalities and achievements of famous Early Aryan and Barat Kings, whose actual dates are now recovered. 

Amongst the many minor effects of the discovery of the Aryan racial character of the Phoenicians and their merchant princes now disclosed, it would appear that the beautiful painting by Lord Leighton which adorns the walls of the Royal Exchange in London, portraying the opening of the Trade era in Britain, now requires an exchange of complexions between the aborigines of Albion and the Phoenician merchants, as well as some slight nasal readjustment in the latter to the Aryan type.

The new found historical evidence suggests that the modern Aryan- Britons or British, have inherited the sea-faring aptitudes and adventurous spirit of that foremost race of the Ancient World and that the maritime supremacy of Britain. Under her Phoenician tutelary Britannia, has been mainly kept alive by the lineal blood-descendants of these Aryan Phoenician ancestors of the Britons and the Scots and Anglo-Saxons. 

January, 1924. L. A. WADDELL