nd it was the Great
Bear, as Sugi, that led the earliest year, opening with the week of
creation" ... (p. 357). ... "The sons of the Tur or pole were the
Indian Tur-vashu, the Zend Turanians, the mariners of Asia Minor
called by the Egyptians Tour-sha (Maspero), the sea traders of the
Mediterranean called the Tur-sene of Lydia, the Tur-sena or
Tyrrhenians of Lemnos and Etruria, who spoke a language closely
allied to that of the Akkadians. That their god was worshiped in
Cyprus and Asia Minor is proved by the _terra-cotta whorl_ found in
one of the settlements on the site of Troy, dedicated in Cypriote
characters to Patori-Turi, the father Tur, who gave his name to the
Phrygian city of Turiaion. The great antiquity of the settlement is
proved by the fact that though some bronze knives and instruments
were found in it, by far the greater number of implements were of
stone and the pottery, though similar to that of Mycenae, is of a
more archaic type" (Schuchhardt's Schliemann's Excavations, App. I,
331-332 and 334).

"They were also the first spinners, weavers, makers of pottery and
built canoes and worked in mines.... They grew wheat, barley, peas,
flax and fruit trees.... These men covered the whole of Europe and
Southern Asia ... and the Indian Dekhan with cromlechs and stone
circles, which were certainly in some cases roofed over, dolmens,
meaning stone tables, shrines, altars, tumuli and memorial stones or
pillars and all of these, whether found in Western Europe or
Southern Asia, are completely identical in character. These people
had, in their migrations, established an active and widespread
foreign trade..." (p. 178).

"These maritime Tursena were intermingled with the matriarchal
Amazonian tribes who preceded them, and who seemed to have founded
the ancient ports of Asia Minor and Palestine, especially the Ionian
cities of Smyrna and Ephesus and that of _Askelon_. It was in the
land of Phrygia, the mountain countries of the Caucasus range and
the snowy heights whence the Euphrates rose, that the earliest
shepherds met the matriarchal races, the immigrants from the
southeast, the Hindu village communities, who are called by the
Greeks Amazons, and are described as the earliest ruling races of
Asia Mino