have extended wherever Phoenician colonies were founded. She symbolized the productive power
while Og symbolic of the generative power; and it would be natural to conclude that as the sun is the
great symbol of the latter, and identified with Og. The moon and the Earth are the symbols of the
former and can be identified with Ashtaroth. Ashtaroth called by the Roman Astarte was identified by
many ancient writers with the goddess Venus or Aphrodite as well as with the planet of that name.
The name of the idles for Ashtaroth was called Asherah, which translates to “grove.” Kings II 23:13:
“And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of
corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth..(14) And broke in pieces the
images and cut down the groves.”
Earth Mother/Goddess, Peter Knight writes, “ The concept of the “Mother Earth” or “Mother
Nature” has roots that go back thousands of years, to prehistoric cultures devoted to the worship of an
omnipresent feminine deity. In ancient times the Earth Mother or Goddess was a primary deity, the
spiritual driving force that inspired the building of so many temples and megalithic sites worldwide.”
The groves that were worshipped is an example of animism that is part of Earth Mother worship,
where trees, rocks, springs and rivers were thought to be endowed with spirits. Menhirs and stone
circles are in some instances made up of un-worked stones. Whole stones are tied to the Earth Mother.
An example of the importance of the stones in their natural state is evident when God commanded Moses to build an alter. “Deuteronomy 27:5,6; “And there shalt thou build an alter unto the Lord thy
shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. Thou shalt build the alter of the Lord thy God of whole
stones:” The practice of anointing the stones was practiced by the Phoenicians and the early Hebrews.
Genesis 28:18 “ And Jacob...took the stone, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.”
Paganism was practiced by, and described by the early Hebrews. No doubt from their proximity to,
and intermarrying with the last remnants of the Amorites. Ezekiel 16:3 “And say, Thus saith the Lord
God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and
thy mother an Hittite.” The Amorites and Hittites lived in Jerusalem prior to the Israelites conquest,
where their place names still exist today.
Phoenician Origins of the Britons and Scots, 1925. The presence of Gentile Sun-priests in the temple
on Mt. Moriah at Jerusalem is explained by the fact that; besides the name “Moriah”-which is
recognized as meaning “mount of the Morias or Amorites”-that temple, long before the occupation of
Jerusalem by David and its rebuilding by Solomon, was a famous ancient Suntemple of the Hittites or
Amorites.”
Ezekiel has a vision shown to him by God of the abominations of the Amorites and their temple.
This vison of the temple comes on the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month. This
surely was symbolic of 666 which was the number in gematria for the Sun. In Ezekiel 8:14, he is
describing the temple, and the sun worshippers, “Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the
Lord's house which was towards the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.”
Tammuz is identified as Adonis the Amorite sun-god. It was the practice of the Amorite women to
yearly mourn Adonis at the summer solstice sunrise, when the sun was at its furthest point in the
northern sky and the day was the longest. In Ezekiel 8:16 he describes men in the temple “and their
faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.” This practice was allowed by
Solomon who built the temple and reserved the outside courtyard for the worship of the sun. The landscape mythology of the Amorites acted as a vehicle to join the powers of the Earth and the
Sky. Theory of Geometry, Geomacy and Sacred Landscape, Cerrig, 2004 “Amongst the earliest sites
of this kins were sacred springs where the stuff of life, enlivend by the earth energies, bubbled from the
mother earth. There would have been trees that by their placement and age showed the union of
heaven and earth and so echoed the great World Tree which in many mythologies support the
universe.”
The union of Heaven and Earth is called the Sacred Marriage or the
Holy Union of Opposites and is
the cornerstone of all of the sacred sites that are found associated with the Amorites. To know the
sacred landscape that existed before the Hebrews conquest of Israel, is to know the archetype of the
burial mounds and circular temples dedicated to the Sun and Earth that are found in the British Isles
and in the Ohio Valley. From the early Biblical lands we have the accounted giants, that have been
described as Cro-Magnon, state of the art weapons, burial mounds surrounded by rings, circular open
air sun temples, that included avenues or sacred vias, sacred stones, springs and groves dedicated to the
Earth Mother. Symbolism included cup stones, swastikas and crosses. The practice of gematria, implies a knowledge of complex mathematics.
The Amorites in the British Isles
Phoenician Orgins of Britons and Scots 1925 “The approximate date for the initial erection of these
rude Stone Circles and other early megaliths in Britain appears to have been many centuries and even a
millennium or more before the arrival of Brutus about 1100 B.C., or about 2800 B.C., or earlier. This
is evident from the geographic and geological correlation of these monuments to the prehistoric tin and
copper mine working, flint factories and neolithic villages. These relationships make it clear that these
monuments were erected by the earlier branch of the sea-trading Phoenicians, who were exclusively
engaged in mining for the bronze trade in the East, and using that metal in Britain sparingly
themselves, and not engaged to any considerable extent, if at all, as agricultural colonist, such as were
Brutus and his later Brito-Phoenicians, who used bronze more freely, as attested by their tombs, bronze
sickles, ect. Whilst the numerous "Barat," "Catti" and "Cassi" place-names on so many of their sites
and the "Catt-Stanes" testify that their erectors were "Catti" or "Cassi" Barats or Brito-Phoenicians, as
were the Amorites. The physical type of the builders of these Stone Circles and Megaliths is obviously
that represented by the skeletons of tallish Nordic type found with Iberian or Pictish type found in the
long barrow burial burial mounds, chambered cairn and stone cist of the late Stone and Early Bronze
Ages in the neighborhood of these circles.”
Dolman in the southern England. From Remains of the Prehistoric Age in England, 1904
The British Isles A Resume of Skeletal History, Coons 1939 “By far the most important Neolithic
movement into Great Britain, and into Ireland as well, came by sea from the Eastern Medeteranean
lands, using Spain as a halting point on the way. It was this invasion which passed up the Irish Channel
to western and northern Scotland, and around Denmark and Sweden. The settlers who came by sea
were the Megalithic People, who belonged to a clearly differentiated variety of tall, extremely long
headed.”
Sun and Fire Symbols from Bronze Age Denmark. Archaic England, Bayley, 1920
“It was long ago observed that the distribution of these prehistoric megaliths or
“great stones” over
part of the world followed mainly the coast lines, thus presuming that their erectors were a seafaring
people. Moreover, a these monuments are most numerous in the East, it is generally agreed that this
cult in Britain, Brittany, Scandinavia, Spain and the Mediterranean basin was derived from the East.
The distribution of the megalithic monuments in different parts of the world would suggest that their
builders were engaged in exploiting the mineral wealth of the various countries. These megaliths all
the world over are located in the immediate neighborhood of ancient mine workings for tin, copper,
lead and gold or in the area of the amber trade.”
Phoenician Origin of the Britons & Scots, 1925. “The great “prehistoric” Stone Circles of gigantic
unhewn boulders, dolmens (or “table stones”) and monoliths, sometimes called Catt Stones still
standing on weird majesty over many parts of the British Isles , also now appear to attest their Phoenician origin.”
It has been estimated that there were somewhere between five and ten thousand megaliths in the
British Isles that stretched from south England to Ireland, Scotland and as far north as the Orkney
Islands and the Shetlands. In Megalithic Sites in Britain, Thom writes, “ It is remarkable that 1000
years before the earliest mathematicians of classical Greece, people in these islands not only had a
practical knowledge of geometry and were capable of setting out elaborate geometrical designs but
could also set out ellipses based on Pythagorean triangels. We need not be surprised to find that their
calender was a highly developed arrangement involving an exact knowledge of the length of the year or
that they had set up many stations for observing the eighteen year cycle of the revolution of the lunar
nodes.”
Evidence of the widespread prevalence of “sun-worship” amongst the ancient Catti Barats or
Britions who erected the prehistoric Stone Circles in Britain is shown in their “Cup-markings” which
are sometimes found carved upon the stones of these circles, in funeral barrows [mounds], upon some
standing stones, dolmans and stone cist coffins, and on rocks near Ancient Briton settlements over a
great part of the British Isles, and in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe and the Levant, associated
with megalith culture.
Sun Cross and Cup-markings which are are found carved upon the stones within circles, upon standing stones, dolmans and stone -cist coffins. They are found over the greater extent of the British Isles, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe and the Levant, associated with the Amorites and megalithic culture. Standing stone or menhir with a sun cross and cup stones, located in England from Phoenician Orgins of Britons and Scots 1925
These Stone Circles have been supposed to have been used to track the movements of the sun has
been inferred from the existence of special entrances at the cardinal points, and also from the elaborate
avenues attached to some of them, and supposed to have been used for ritualistic processions; and also
suggested by the apparent later use of some of them by the Druids as temples. They were undoubtedly
considered sacred, as seen in the frequency of ancient burials in their neighborhood. This is especially
evident at Stonehenge where the great numbers of tombs of the Bronze Age in the neighborhood of that
monument.
The space in which these circles are found are usually deliminated by an earthwork called a “henge.”
A henge is described by Wikipedia encyclopedia as, “ A roughly circular or oval-shaped flat area over
20m in diameter which is enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork that usually comprises a
ditch with an external bank. Access to the interior is obtained by way of one, two, or four entrances
through the earthwork. Internal components may include portal settings, timber circles, post rings,
stone circles, four stone settings, monoliths, standing post, pits, coves, post alignments, burials, central
mounds, and stake holes.”
Avebury Henge with interior stone circle and stone sacred vias.
Phoenician Origin of the Britons & Scots, 1925. “ The mysterious race who erected these
cyclopean monuments, wholly forgotten and unknown, now appears from the new evidence to have
been the earlier wave of immigrant mining merchant Phoenician Barats, or “Catti” Phoenicians of the Mur, Mer or Martu clan-“The Amorite Giants” of the Old Testament tradition. And from whom it
would seem that Albion obtained its earliest name (according to the First Welsh Triad) of Clas Myrd-in
(or Merddin)” or “Diggings of the Myrd.”
“This early Phoenician title of Muru, Mer, Martu or Maratu, meaning “Of the Western Sea (or Sea of
the setting sun)”, which now seems obviously the Phoenician of the name “Mauret-ania” or “Mor
occo” with its teeming megaliths, and of “Mor-bihan” (or “Little Mor) in Brittany, with its sun cult
megaliths, is also found in several of the old mining and trading centers of the earlier Phoenicians in
Brition associated with Stone Circles and megaliths and mostly on the coast, eg., Mori-dum, port of
Romans in Devon, and several More-dun.”
“Amorites of Syria Phoenicia-Palestine are called “giants” by the Hebrew in the Old Testament.
They are moreover, also called them the sons of (Beni-anak) Now “Anak” in Akkadian is the name for
“Tin” and Tarnish, which, as Tarz or Tarsus, we have seen was the chief port of the Amorite
Phoenicians, and was actually visited and conquered by Sargon I., is thus celebrated in the Old
Testament in connection with Tyre of the Phoenicians. “Tarnish was thy merchant by reason of of the
multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.”( Ezek, 27, 12)
It would thus appear that the tin which was imported into ancient Palestine, and which entered into
the bronze that decorated Solomon's temple, and formed sacred vessels in that sanctuary, was
presumably obtained in most part, if not altogether, from the Phoenician Tin-mines of Ancient Britain.”
There is also the possibility that some of the bronze was made from Lake Superior copper, that was
being mined at the same time.
Prehistoric menhir in Wigtownshire with Hitto Phoenician Sun Cross, swastika and cup marks. Phoenician Orgins of Britons and Scots 1925
Remains of the Prehistoric Age in England, 1904, “Extensive settlements and many ruined
chambers are found throughout western and northern Britain. The open flint-bearing chalk uplands of
Wiltshire and the similarly unforrested Cotteswold Hills were the scene of extensive settlements. The
chambers of this area were built in “long barrows,” an elongated mound of a form occasionally found
in Brittany or Amorica, thus divulging the Amorite connection. The multiple chambers of many of the
English and Welsh “passage graves” and the frequency of cremation also suggests that Brittany was the
dominant intermediary. Megalithic chambers are lacking in the long barrows of southern parts of
Wiltshire and Dorset. Local supplies of suitable stone are lacking in these more southerly districts and
the culture was apparently not sufficiently vigorous to induce the transportation of the megalithic
blocks over long distances, as was done in Iberia and in Britain itself in the later, Bronze Age
monument of Stonehenge.
The burned timber found in these barrows suggests that here the megalithic chamber was reproduced
in wood and consumed by fire af
ter the completion of the internments.”
Long Barrow at West Kennett, England, surrounded by standing stones. From Remains of the Prehistoric Age in England, 1904
They Came by Sea, 1945 “The physical type of the builders of these stone circles and megaliths is
obviously that represented by the skeletons of the tall Nordic type (with some others of the smaller
river-bed and mixed Iberian or Pictish type) the long barrow mounds, chambered Cairns and stone cist
of the Late Stone Ages in the neighborhood of these circles. And it was presumably early pioneer
stragglers of this same Nordic stock at the end of the Old Stone age who are who are represented by the
“Red Man” of Paviland cave, in the Gower peninsula of Wales, of the mammoth age, and the “Keiss
chief” in the stone cist. Both of these interred with rude stone weapons, and are interred with rude
stone weapons, and are of the superior and artistic Cro-Magnon type of early men, which seems to have
been the proto-Nordic or proto-Aryan. These early Nordic people, who buried near the Circles, were
generally found in their tombs laid on their right side, and their face usually facing eastward to the rising Sun, thus evidencing their solar religion and belief in resurrection.”
Amorite, Beaker People
Henge with central mound located near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. From Ancient History of Wiltshire, 1812
According to the Archaeology of the Bible by George Barton, The Aryans (Amorites) separated into
an eastern and western branch; the latter we can trace from Asia to Europe. They founded colonies in
the Delta of the Danube, and spread westward along the Danube into Germany and the valleys of the
Rhine, the Loire and Seine, and still pushing westward established themselves into Brittany and Great
Britain.
The Bell Beaker people took advantage of, and improved transportation routes by sea and rivers to
mine and trade mineral resources. They introduced the use of copper and bronze weapons as they
expanded into new lands. Artifacts suggest an Iberian source for the earliest copper, followed by
central European mines being exploited. Distinct to this people was their cord impressed, tulip shaped
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