s, their holy groves and
seasonal dances.... Among them the Finnic mining races descended....
It was in Phrygia that they were mixed with the Daktuloi, or race of
handicraftsmen and artificers, the sons of Dak, the showing or
teaching god, the god Daksha, the father of the Kush race.... They
were the carpenters and builders of the Stone age."

Prof. Sayce's "Ancient Empires of the East" furnishes further
interesting details concerning the Phoenicians. According to this
eminent authority, at an early date, in order to relieve the
pressure of population, they sent out organized colonies to the
recently discovered lands of the West. Accordingly commercial marts
were established at Thera and Melos,.... Colonies were established
at Attica, on the coast of Africa, in Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica,
and beyond the columns of Herakles, in Gadeira. The three cities of
Rhodes were planned by Phoenician architects.... The Assyrian
character of early Greek art is due to its Phoenician inspiration....
It was about "B.C. 600 that these people penetrated to the northwest
coast of India and probably to the island of Britain as well....
They were the intermediaries of ancient civilization ... and the
chief elements of Greek art and civilization came from Assyria
through the hands of Phoenicians.... Phoenician art was essentially
catholic ... it assimilated the art of Babylonia, Egypt and Assyria
superadding something of its own.... Their chief deity was Yeud or
Ekhad=the Only One ... they worshipped the Kabeiri ... originally
seven stars ... who were the makers of the world, the founders of
civilization, the inventors of ships.... The cities of Phoenicia were
the first trading communities the world has seen.... Their colonies
were originally mere marts and their voyages of discovery were taken
in the interests of trade. The tin of Britain, the silver of Spain,
the birds of the Canaries, the frankincense of Arabia, the pearls
and ivory of India, all flowed into their harbours.... Many of their
colonies were wholly independent, and governed by their own kings
and benefiting Phoenicia only in the way of trade.... In Phoenicia ...
the king seems to have been but the first among a body of ruling ...
princes and ... chiefs. In time the monarchy d