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By Leslie Young.

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By Dr. P. L. CoUignon.

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AVALON:E gyptian Place Names (conclusion).
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Civilisation Threatened

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The Eendel H arris Essays

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LOCATION.
This prehistoric site lie.s 2 | miles SE. of Simon’s Town, andimmediately west of the main road at map reference 19618575.
2. GENERAL.
The site was disclosed as a re.sult of making a cutting fortlie main road, and of a bush fire which removed the undergro vvth.
It was first seen on April 21st, 1949.
Its components are a shell midden and a rook shelter, thegeneral height being about 100 feet above sea level. On themain road below the site lies a section of the old beach line;
this iias been disturbed by the road-making, but appears to havebeen at a height of about 50 feet above sea level. There is an oldand deep water-course immediately north of the site.
3. ROCK SHELTER.
The rock shelter faces seawards, and stands back from theroad cutting, so that it cannot be seen from the road itself. It
is much silted up, and only about 3 | feet of the arch are visible.
It is quite small, being formed out of one single large rockwhich is partly supported by two smaller rocks in front. The
front of the arch and the dome of the ceiling are remarkablysmooth and well-proportioned. The main axis of the rock outof which the shelter is formed runs from front to rear. . Tlie
rock is badly cracked across the centre of the ceiling.
4. SHELL MIDDEN.
The shell midden appears to extend from the front edgeof the rock shelter to the edge of the road cutting, a distance ofsome 25 feet. Owing to the inaccessibility of the face of the
cutting it lias not yet been possible to discover the lateral ext«nt,
but it has been traced for about 25 feet from the shelter south­
wards.
The road cutting has exposed a clean vertical section of
the midden about five feet deep, and in this can be seen threevery clear strata of shells each about 12 inches deep and separated
by 12 inches of soil.
To the south the stratification is not soclear. There appears to be solid roek immediately below thelowest shell stratum, but this is not yet certain. The strata
appear highly compressed.
5. ARTEFACTS.
So far two artefacts have been foundi. The exact locationof one, however, was unfortunately not noted. The other, which
is of the arrow-head type, and is ascribed to the Aurignacian,or possibly the Mousterian culture, was found embedded in thelowest shell stratum where marked X on the diagram, fig. 3.
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PLATONIC MISCELLANY.
LESLIE YOUNG.
Mr. Leslie Young has sppiit a considerable period in intensive
research into the possible Platonic and pre-Platouic sourcesof the A tlantis Myth. Correspondence on the points raised in
his paper would be welcomed.

The composition of the two dialogues'containing the accountof Atlantis belongs to a very late period of P lato’s life which
was prolonged until he attained the age of eighty. Indeed, it
appears that he never completed the) task which he had set him­self, for one of the dialogues, the Critias, with tantalising abrupt­
ness breaks off at a most crucial point in its description of theAtlantean civilisation. There was also apparently to have beena third dialogue in the series called the Hemocrates.
It issupposed that death intervened and closed one of the most fas­
cinating narratives that have come down to posterity.
Some authorities such as Jowett C), A. E. Taylor (2), andComford (^), adhere to a different viewpoint, namely that Plato
abandoned the Ci'itias for some obscure purpose but there appears
to be little reason for its validity. Certainly the stylistic analy­
sis, carried out with thoroughness by Lutoslawki (4), indicatesthat according to this authority, both the Timaeus and Critias
were written "at the same period as the Laws which is known,from the testimony of Diogenes Laertius, to be one of the lastcomplete works of Plato. The late Prof. A. E. Taylor (2). astern critic of the Atlantean hypothesis, but one whose authori­tative a.ssertions concerning the text of Plato can be regarded
with some confidence, states th a t while the text of_ the Ijaws
bears some evidence of textual correction, the Critias has nosuch grammatical polish and he siiggests that the dialogue wasa rough draft never completed. All this contrives to give astrong impression that it was P lato’s last great work, that des­pite strenuous denials to the contrary it remained unfinishedonly through the dread summons which none can ignore.
Tlie alleged sources of the Platonic account concerning
Atlantis and its civilisation are so well famed that they scarcely
need to be mentioned. The appeal to the family papers andrecords preserved by Solon, P lato’s fam ed_ancestor, who it isasserted obtained his knowledge of Atlantis whilst on a visit
to Egypt, has however been a subject of criticism. Authorities
such as Prof. A. E. Taylor (5), have attributed this statement
as fictional, a literary device so well beloved of modern novel­
ists. In support of the viewpoint that the Atlantis narrative
was a work of fiction, the critics point to the fact that though
there are references to Atlantis after Plato there is nothingtangible prior to the Timaeus and Critias. Such an argument
has really little validity.
Excluding the Homeric and Hesiodic poems that do notenter the present categ-ory, rrreek literature prior to the Platonic
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lloreat, that is to say during the 6th and 5tli Centuries
extremely meagre, or at least what has survived to the/day. The outstanding exception is of course the work o,,;dotus, of which more will be mentioned presently.
B"
works of the logographers, the voluminous writings of H
cus, Acusilaus and others have disappeared into oblivion ba few titles and fragments.
Though there are not any direct references to an Atlai
continent, several allusions appear in the fragments of the .
Soeratic philosophers that have survived the general wreL
wdaich refer to catastrophic phenomena, similar to that whiei.
Plato states overtook Atlantis. These have been cursorily treatedby Atlantologists, because many of the outstanding writers, eventhose of the eminence: of Lewis Spence, made the fundamental
error of treating the cataclysm that engulfed Atlantis as purely
local. This w'as however due to the difficulty of evolving aplausible explanation that would account for a terrestrial up­
heaval on so large a ’scale. The nioon-capture theory, which iy
part of the cosmic hyi)othesis of Hans Hoerbiger, so admirably
developed by H._ S. Bellamy (6), has demonstrated that thecataclyniic and tidal phenomena arising from such an event,w’ould not be confined to one region but to the whole of theterrestrial globe. The disruptive forces as envisaged by thishypothesis are no longer confined to a local drama that had its
foci in the Atlantic, but had universal application.
Plato is quite clear upon this ciuestion of universality. The
reference to the Atlantean invaders who were, according to the
Timaeus, at grips with the pre-historic inhabitants of theGrecian Peninsular when the cataclysm burst upon friend andfoe alike with such dramatic suddenness, apart from the otherpoints dealt with by H, S. Bellamy C') in his latest volume, it;sufficient demonstration.
Otlier allusions by Plato to a cosmological myth in the
Politicus, show that he had given much thought to these disasterous events and was convinced that the domain of history stretched
to a remote period. The Politicus ( t) (268E - 270A), like the
Timaeus and Critias, was one of his last works. The references
to a former world cycle, described as the Age of Cronos in this
dialogue, are of particular interest. Strange cosmic phenomenathat closed the former epoch are mentioned in the myth concern­
ing Atreus and Thyestes, which is distinctly stated in the
Politicus to have belonged to a great complex of stories bearing
on the same subject, some only in a fragm entary form. Apartfrom the mention of a portent that is said to have marked theciuarrel of these two Greek heroes, described as the token of thebirth of the golden lamb, it is also stated that the sun and thestars once rose in the w^est, and set in the east.
Plato continues with a parody of this myth to suit the
purposes of his exposition, which bears no relation to the present
subject. There is however a statement in a subsequent para37

,iph which says that these cosmic changes were marlved byseries of earthquakes and terrestrial upheavals, that quite
ossibly belongs to the actual tradition.
Of its authenticity there can be no (|uestion and 1hough
this myth bespeaks of strange events that still re(iuire interprding correctly, it is c-ertain tliat the circumstances were not an>fiction of Plato. A similar cosmic myth appears in the pages of
Herodotus, when narrating the genealos'ic dynasties of theEgyptian kings, which it is asserted stretched to a period ofover 11,000 j-ears. During this time it is asserted, “ the sun liad
on four occasions, moved from his wonted course, twice risins;A\'here he now sets, and twice setting where lie now rises. Egypt
Avas in no degree affected by these changes...............” (^)
This statement, according to the Father of History, wasderived from the Egyptian priests. Now it is to be noted thatin both the present instance and in P lato’s Timaeus, it is stressedthat Egypt remained immune from the terrestrial and cosmic
cataclysms that had occurred. Where Plato derived the mythin the Poiiticus it is not known, but the manner in which it ispresented and its variation from that which is narrated in Hero­
dotus. suggests that it was not derived from liis \^'ork. But it
is clear from these coincidences that these myths relating to auniversal cosmic and terrestrial upheaval, including that con­cerning Atlantis, -were obtained from some common source. The
doctrine of jjeriodic cycles at the conclusion of which there
occurred a devastating cataclysm formed part of the scientificthought of the earl.y Greek cosmogonists. All their systems ofphilosophy, the Pythagorean, the Atomists, the Stoic, etc., haveallusions to such a belief. It is therefore reasonable to assume
that this conviction rested upon some strong foundation as
no.stulated in the case of Plato and Herodotus above. Platois alone in having treated this subject in detail both from thescientific and historical viewpoint, and his last unfinished series
seems to have been principally designed for this purjwse. Apartfrom the Timaeus and Critias, the allusions in both the Laws
and the Politicus show quite clearly that towardsi the; end of hislife he was becoming more and more absorbed with the problemsof cosmology. After Plato there is a perceptible change andthough traces of the doctrine of periodic castrophic cycles a]>pearin Aristotle’s works the scepticism that was to sulnnerge this
into the vague speculations of the later Hellenists is alreadyapparent.
The fount from whence these early cosmological beliefs were
derived still has to be decided. The evidence from Plato and
Herodotus would suggest that much of it at least was obtained
from Egypt, but this must for the present remain an open ((uestion and future research must determine whether other sources
contributed to the early scientific conceptions which the work ofHans Hoerbiger appear to indicate were nearer to the truth thanis generally realised.

(1) Vol I. pp. 5.3/56.
(2) “The Shallow of A tlantis” (Rider) p. 187, a book well worth
readiiiK.
(.'!) I t is interestiiiK to note that iokohwna is a Basque word whichmeans “a seashore city.”

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REFERENCES.
(1) jo w e tt , (B .) : Dialugiie-t uj Vl ut o Vird edit.), 180:2.

(2) Taylor (A. K.) : The Timaeuis & Critias, 1920.
(o) Cornford (F. ,M.) : P lato’s Cosmology, 19iS7.
(4) L utoslaw ki (W .) : The Origin and Clrowth of Pluto s Loyic, 1S77.
(5) Taylor (A.IO.) : Plato, the Man mid I lis W ork, 1020.
(0) lii'llam y (TI. S.) : ^[oons, M yths and Man, 10U6.
(7) Bellamy (H . S.) : The A tlantis M yth, 1946.
(8) IlawIliisjOii (G.) : The llis to n j of Herodotus, (Book II , 142), 1892.

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BASQUE NOTES.
P. L. COLLICIiMON, Pli.D
In a short article of mine which appeared in “ Atlantean
Jvesoarch’’ (i) I drew attention, to the fact that Dr. Rendel
Harris claims that the ]iame of Tabasco, north-west of Guatemala,is ancient Egyptian and means The Loovd of the Basques (TaBascu).
Colonel A. Braghine records (-) that wlien lie was in Guate­mala he often heard about one Indian tribe, living in the Peten
district (Northern (Juatemala) which spoke a language resembl­
ing Basque and that he had heard of an occasion when a Basquemissionary preached in Peten in his own idiom with great suc­cess. Having referred to the fact that in the neighbourhood of
Tula in IMexico there is a tribe called the Otomis which speaks
tile old Japane.se idiom. Col. Braghine makes the very interestingsuggestion that the Basques wxre refugees from Atlantis. Someof the clans, he thinks, including the'Pctens and Otomis, wereleft in (ruatemala and Mexico, while others sailed in a westerly
direction and, after prolonged residence among Polynesian and^Malayan tribes, eventually settled in Japan (S), Dr. H arris’s
suggestion that the name of the southernmost state in Mexico
means The Land of the Basques thus seems to be supported byCol. Braghine’s evidence.
As to the problem of the presence of Basques in Europe,
Col. Braghine says “ I wa.s present when a former Russian
Officer of Georgian origin found himself able to talk with thenatives of Vizcaya iminediately upon his arrival in NorthernS])ain ;^^he spoke Georgian but the Basques understood this lan­
guage. ’’ He goes on to point out that in ancient times Georgia
was called Iveria, which is equivalent to Iberia.

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EGYPTIAN

place:NAMES

In relation to the diffusion of Culture.— (Conclusion).
An in tro d u ctio n to th e w ork oi' D r. Keiidel H a rris.
A
L cctu re delivered a t C axton H a ll, W estm in ster, on T hursday,
26th M ay, 1949, by P . L. Collignon, M .A. (O xon), P h .D .
(L ond).

One of the most interesting' things th at Cleoffrey of Mon­
mouth tells us about the sacred stones is th a t ‘‘the giants of oldbrought them from the farthest coast of Africa and placed themin Ireland when they inhabited that country,” and th at they
were removed later to Salisbury Plain by sea. (G iants’
Barrows ax’e well known on the Plain). Of course, everyone
knows th a t Geoffrey’s date for Stonehenge is an anachronism.
He makes Stonehenge to be built about the time of the Saxon
invasion, but that is no reason why we should reject everything
he says as untrue. Modern Science has shown us th a t what
he says about the sacredness of the Stones is true, and it also
tells us that he was right in saying th at the stones came fromthe West, for we know th a t some of them certainly did. Wc
can ’t blame him for not knowing th a t he ought to have said
Pembrokeshire instead of Ireland, or th at there are other stonesin the circle as well as the Blue Stone. As to his statem ent
th at they were brought “ from the farthest coast of A frica,”
it is perfectly clear th at this is literally untrue.
W ith ourmodern geological science we know exactly where they did
come from. But I believe th at Geoffrey had the right tradition. Tradition is, after all, often surprisingly right and there
must have been some reason for this one. The circle came from“ the farthest coasts of A frica,” he says.
He can’t possibly
mean the Gape of Good Hope, and he must mean Egypt. Thereis nothing else he can mean.
As the Stones themselves cer­tainly did not come from there there can be only one meaningfor his statement and th at is that it was an Egyptian building-.
It was of Egyptian origin. Now, the most striking thing of allthat Geoffrey of Monmouth tells us about Stonehenge is th a t
its name was Killaraus. If we examine this name we find th at
Kil is ordinary Keltic for “ Church” or “ Temple,” and that
Ra-Aus is ordinary Egyptian for “ Ea (the Sun God) andOsiris ” ! “ Killaraus ’’ therefore means ‘‘ The Temple of Ra andOsiris. ” If this is not true, then it is a most astonishing coin­cidence. I t may be asked whether there is any evidence of thepresence of the Sun God as well as Osiris near Stonehenge.
The answer is th at there is. For instance, there is Robin
Hood’s barrow. Rendel H arris points out th at Robin Hood has
no Irasiness on Salisbury Plain, but if we spell it in Egyptian
we get EA-BENNU, which means the Phoenix of Ra; in otherwords the Rising Sun.
I w on’t say very much more about Stonehenge, as time ispassing. The avenue leading to Stonehenge seems to have40

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begun at the River West of Amesbury. l)r. H arris claims that
there was an Osiris and Horus Cult at Amesbury and that Isis
is in evidence there too. Ju st as Nectan was found at Tintagel
and also close to Stonehenge, so Guinevere, A rth u r’s wife, who,on philological grounds is certainly Isis, is found in legend tohave ended her days at Amesbury. As to the actual architectof Stonehenge, Dr. H arris thinks th at it is by no means impos­
sible th at he may have been th at fantastic Vizier of A rthurian
Legend, Merlin, who was credited with so much learning.
Geoffrey of Monmouth distinctly says th at Stonehenge wasbuilt by Merlin. Certainly the man who built it must haveseemed to be a wizard to the people of his own time. But Mer­lin is not an Egyptian name.
Perhaps it is a corruption of
MERI-AN, which means, in Egyptian, ‘‘The Beloved of Osiris, ’’a fitting name for the Grand Vizier.
As to the meaning of“ Stonehenge,” Dr. H arris points out th at the earlier form of
the word is Stoneheng, and th at Henq in Egyptian means“ sacrifice.” And so he derives “ Stoneheng” from the “ HenyStone,” or Stone of Sacrifice.
Now I want to pass on to a quite different m atter which
also has reference to our own land, and that is AVatling Street
and other so-called Roman roads. I suppose th at almost every­
one who has read Mr. W atkins’ book “ The Old Straight T rack ”
will have agreed with him in his opinion th a t the old straightL'oads, with their W ay Marks, are pre-Roman. So far as I canmake out, nobody has, so far, offered any adequate explanationof the meaning of the name “ W atling S treet,” a road, which,as y o u know, runs diagonally across England from the coastof Kent in the direction of Anglesea, said to be the H.Q. of theDruids. The only explanation so fa r given by philologists isthat it was named after the Sons of an otherwise unknown chiefor king named WATLA, whose domains were so extensive thatthey stretched right across England and who must have been
so famous that nothing whatever is known of him except his
street! This doesn’t sound very convincing.
Dr. Rendel H a rris’s suggestion is th a t W atling Street
probably started at or somewhere near Sandw ich: that it was
not originally a Roman road at all: th at it has an Egyptian
name; and that it was the earthly counterpart of the Milky
W ay in the heavens, leading to the Isles of the Blessed.
To begin with I will quote from Procopius’ “ History of
the Gothic W ar.”“ They sa.y th a t th e souls_oi^ th e d ep arted a re alw ays conductedto th is d is tric t (i.e. to B rita in ) ; and I will explain fo rth w ith them anner of th e tra n s fe r, h aving often h eard th e men of th is locality
m ost earn estly declaim ing thereon, th o u g h for m y p a r t I decidedt h a t th e ir c h a tte r should be assigned to th e action of some dream .
“ T here is on th e shore of th e ocean over B rita in an island whichhappens to be stocked w ith villages. This islan d is inhabited by netfishers, a g ric u ltu rists and men who m ake voyage th ith e r for tra d e ,who are in m ost respects fiefs of th e F ra n k s , b u t from whom notrib u te is ever ta k en , since they were long ago released from th a t

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b urden, on tlie u n d erstan d in g th a t th e y woulcT discharge th e d u ty toth e dead of which I have ah-eady spoken.
Now th e men ol th a t
placo affirm th a t th e conveyance ot souls is afcsigued to them inro ta tio n , whoever have to u n d erta k e th e d u ty , in th e re g u la r orderof servicc, on any approaching n ig h t, go im m ediately on n ig h tfall totlieir homes to sleep, in expectation of a call from th e O verseer. A t
th e dead of n ig h t th ey h ear a b a tte rin g a t th e doors, and they p er­
ceive a voice of some person unseen calhng them to th e ir occupation.
W ith o u t a m o m en t’s delay, they throw otf th e bedclothes and away
to th e stra n d , w ithout th e least u n d e rsta n d in g of th e c o n stra in t th a t
th e y are u n d er, b u t only th a t t^ ey have to d o ; and th ere they see
tra n sp o rts ready, w ith no sign of sailors aboard, and q u ite unliketh e ir owai boats, which th ey board an d lay hold of tJie oars, perceiv­
ing as th ey do so th a t th ese flat boats are w'eighted by a h ost ofpassengers, so th a t tliey w ere sw'amped by th e surge up to th e decliline and as fa r as th e gunw'ales, only a finger b read th being overth e w ater line. They saw no one on board b u t, a fte r row ing for anhour, th ey m ade th e coast of B rita in . Y et, stra n g e to say, had they
been in th e ir own c ra ft, plying th e oars w ithout sails, th ey -would
scarce have m ade th e passage in a day and n ig h t. So th e y "reachedth e island, discharged th e ir b urden, and aw ay again for home.
F o rth w ith th e ir ships become lig ht all of a sudden, and raised in thetid e, and n o t in th e le a s t subm erged ext'ept so far as may be proper
lor th e ir re tu rn . Thej' saw no m an e ith er on th e voj'age or w'hen
they left th e ship, b u t th e y say th a t th e y h e ar a voice from th e
shore which seemed to recite th e nam es of such as had sailed w'ith
th em , and rep eated th e title s which th e y had aforetim e and which
th ey recalled th e ir ancestry. Should th e re chance to be women, A\'homade th e passage Avith th e o th ers, th e y recite th e naimes of th e men
withi w'hom th ey had lived in w'edlock.”

This tradition lingers also in French Folk-lore among theBretons in cxactly the same form.
Jt seems clear that the most likely place for this crossing
woultl be the Straits of Dover and the most likely landing ijlacc
the port of Sandwich, or somewhere near. In other words tliesouls M^ere thought to land at the terminus of W atling Street
in K'ENT. Now, in Egyptian, KHEN'T means “ a crossing overw ater,” a ferry or passage, and so KENT seems to be Egyptian.
Cajsar calls Kent “ Cantium ,” so this name must have beenolder than his time.
Moreover, Dr. H arris is quite sure that
one of his most im poitant discoveries is that the Isle of Thanet
bears the same name as the greatest of Egyptian cities on the
seaboard of the mouth of the Nile. 'TANIS is the Greek formof it, but the Egyptian form TCHANT is as near Thanet as we
can get.
It certainly is not English.
Other place names in
Kent are demonstrated to be Egyptian but time does not allow
me to mention any but the most im portant and I will refer only
to two of them. First you will recall the name of the faithful
dog Anubis, WIP-WAT, the Opener of the Way, who may be
expected to be found, as he so often is, at the mouths of rivers
and other “ ways.” EBB is one of the commonest forms of his
name, and so w’e find E b b ’s Fleet close to the term inus of W at­ling Street, where the faithful dog seems to be waiting with his
friendly bark to guide the souls of the departed.
The second name is really astonishing. I mean RUTUPIAE.
It is close by and it has been thought that it is the
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Isame place as Richborough. Now, RUTUPIAE doesn’t mean
anythm g in any language except Egyptian, and in that
language it means “ The Gateway of Souls.”
RUTU-BAIU(possibly “ The Gates of Soitls” ), and so, with E b b ’sfieet, wereally seem to be a t the very beginning of a most important
highway.
Now, an Egyptian word for Way is WA and sometimes
WAT. (You remember Anubis is WIP-WAT, the Opener ofthe W a y ); suppose, then, th at the name of the road was
originally WAT-RA, it would mean “ the Road of R a.” (Weremind ourselves, of course, that, in Egyi)tian, the two letters“ 1” and “ r ” arc practically equivalent, as wc find generally inphilology, so that WAT-RA is the same as WAT-LA).
The curious, and very surprising thing about this discovery
th at WAT-LA means “ The Way of R a,” is that it carries us
from Barth to Heaven, in fact to the Milky Way. “ The Wayof R a” is the same thing which the Greeks called “ The Way ofZeus” : it denotes that luminous patch in the heavens along^^■hich the Gods travelled, and souls of men made pilgrimage on
their way to the Elysian fields.
Grimm, in his “ Teutonic M ythology,” says: “ Now it is notunim portant . . . th at W aetlinga Street . . . is the milky way
in the heavens, i.e. it is travelled by the car of some heathen(I’od.” Having illustrated his point from Chaucer—to whom
1 will refer in a minute or so—he goes on to say “ In the
Complaint of Scotland, p. 90, it is said of the Comet it appears
often in the circle called Circulus Lacteus—which the mariners
call Vatlan Street.”
The mariners, you notice, called The Milky Way Watling
Street, i.e. The W ay of Ra, and this suggests th at this Egyptian
name was in the heavens before it was on the land. From thepoint of view of Egyptology “ every Egyptian stitdent knowsfor instance, th at there were two Niles, the one obviotts, terres­trial; the other, ideal, celestial, and it is the celestial that su])plies the terrestrial.”
I notice that Dr. Rendel Hai'ris says that he was struck Ijy
the constant attention paid to the stars by Egyptian colonists
along the coasts of Afi'ica when fJiey gave names to rivers andsettlements, and that it doesn’t surprise him if Egyptian roadbuilders called their highway by a starry name.
Suppose we turn to E. B. Tylor’s work “ Primitive Culture.”
We J’ead as follows: “ Still more striking is the correspondence
between savages and cultured nations in fancies of that briglit
starry band that lies across the sky. The Basutos call it ‘The
Way of the Gods.’ The Ojis say that it is the ‘AVay of Spirits,’by which souls go up to heaven. North American tribes know
it as the ‘Path of the Master of Life,’ the ‘Path of Spirits,’the ‘Road of Souls,’ where they travel to the land teyond
the g ra v e ......... ” and so on. Tylor then goes on to say “ But of43

all the fancies which have attached themselves to the celestial
i'oau, we at lioiue have llie quaiutest. i ’assiiig along tliu siiort
and crooked way from St. P a u l’s to Cannon Street, one thinks
to how small a remnant has shrunk the name of tlie giaiit street—which in old days ran—through London to Wales. But there
is a WatUng Street in heaven as well as upon earth, once familiar
to Englishmen, though now jjerhaps forgotten even in local
dialect. ’’ Chaucer, in ‘‘The House of Fame, ’’ ii, 427, says :—Lo there (quoth lie) east up thine eye,Se, youdir, lo, the Clalaxie,
The whiche men clepe the Milky Way,For it is white, and some, parfay,
Y callin it han Watlynge Strete.”
The Homans seem to have known that Watling Street was theaiilky Way before their time, for Towcaster was known to tliem
as Lactodorum. Incidentally, TAUI means Egypt, so Tovvcaster may be an Egyptian name. I t is also quite interesting to
notice that Bede calls St. Albans Vostling's-caesler; whereas
the Romans called it Verulaminium, Avhich appears as Warlamcaester in old records. Dr. H arris equates Warlam with the
Egyptian for “ People of the Great Road.”
1 must not leave tliis subject of AVatling Street without
quoting jMr. Alfred Watkins as saying that “ the fact is that
AVatling Street is a generic nam e.” Several other im portant
highways linked to the great highway bear the same name.
Dr. H arris thinks that there is a very good and natural
reason why Ermine Street was so called as the word ERMEN
is Egyptian and could quite suitably be given to a side road. The
name of Akeman Street has never been satisfactorily explained,
but, on the Egyptian hypothesis there is no difficulty about it.
I t seems; to mean very much the same as W atling Street, and isthus another earthly counterpart of something in the heavens.
The Egyptians divided the stars of the Northern Hemisphere
nito circumpolar stars and stars which regularly rise and set.
The former were under the dominion of that Prince of Darkness,
Set (or Seth), the adversary of Horus the good, who looked after
the rest of the well-behaved stars, which rose and set like the
Sun-God himself. Horus even told off his four sons to ride in
the Waggon of the Bear and keep an eye on the doings of Set,
the wicked one. From this point of view the stars of Ursa jMajor,
especially the four which mark the four wheels of the Wain, are
The Chariot of the Gods. These stars are called in Egyptian
lore by the name of AKHEMU. So it is not very difficult to
see what Akeman Street means. Its meaning is practically thesame as that of W atling Street and it is another example of anearthly counterpart in Britain of something in the heavens with
an Egyptian name.
(Perhaps I may mention, in passing, that the Chinese callthe Great Bear “ The Chariot of the Supreme.” )I hope T haven’t worried you too much by what I havelieen saying. There isn’t nnich more I want to add, but whatlittle is left is most important. No lecture of this kind could
possibly do justice to the subject. I have only been able to opena very small door through which you will have been able toglimpse the immense possibilities of it. Kent. Thanet, H arro­gate, the Quantoeks, Ipswich. "Woodstock, the Rollright Stones,
Cambridge, the Thames, the Cherwell, the Isis and other rivers,
to mention only a few names, are claimed.to bo Egyptian, andso is Paris.
I feel quite sure that many of you are already feeling, as
I do, that Rendel H arris has blazed a trail—in fact, many trails— which must, in the interests of Science and of History —be followed up. In short, the place-namers (who contribute
so much to knowledge) must no longer exclude the_ Ancient
Egyptian language from their researches. The Egypytians werecertainly colonists. Herodotus, himself, tells us so quite plainly.
He knew of a place on the eastern shore of the Black Sea,
now called Batoum, then Colchis, where the inhabitants looked
like Egyptians, and certainly spoke Egyptian. This being so it
is absurd to rule out Egyptian when we are examining place
names. It is equally absurd (or so I think), even to accept an
Egyptian explanation as a last resort when everything else
has failed. To take just one illustration: the word YAT (asexemplified in Sym on’s Yat. and in Neiv Ya^tt). This worcl isgood Norwegian. I believe, for “ gate,” but it has an Egyptian
meaning too, and Egypt has just as good a claim to be consideredas Norway has.
I am quite convinced that somebody with a sound knowledgeof Egyptology and especially of the Egyptian langnasre is abso­
lutely indispensable to the science of place names. W ithout him,or her, th a t Science will be lamentably incomplete. We mustfind someone upon whom the mantle of Elijah shall fall.
And now, to finish with, I am going to disclose for the firsttime, something which will, I know, dispel any doubts any ofyou may have about the genuineness of Rendel H arris’s basic
discoveries. There is in existence in Birmingham correspondence,bound in M.S. volumes, between Dr. H arris and the great
Egyptologist Sir Wallis Budge. Over and over again, in Budge’s
letters, there are expre.ssions of great sympathy and under­
standing of Dr. H a rris’s work, and in one of them he quite
plainly says (in effect; I am not quoting) that, as words failhim, he can only raise his hat in reverence.
Such a tribute to Rendel H arris’s work from so great an
Egyptologist is enough. It is because, in my own small wav, I
phare this tribute to so great a man and so great a friend that
I am here to do my homage to him this evening and to givehim a cheer—
Tennj^son’s “ Hymn to the Sun,” in Akbar’s Dream, says:

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Mr. D. R. Bentham reports from Loughborough th at Ihe
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