The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Part 43

HAM or KHAM=name for northern Egypt.

AMANTINI=an Illyrian tribe. Greece.

BR-AHMA=supreme G.o.d. India (_cf._ Yama).(165)

BR-AHMANAS=priestly caste. India.

ARYAMAN=star-G.o.d a.s.sociated with Mitra-Yaruna, Ursa Major and number seven. In Zendavesta is a.s.sociated with Ashvino-ritual. India.

AMA or AME=heaven. j.a.pan.

KAMI=deity, top, above.

O-KAMI=the honorable government.

YAMA=mountain. j.a.pan.

YAMATO=main island of j.a.pan.

AMA-NO-MA-HITOTSU="Eye of Heaven," name for Pole-star. j.a.pan.

AME-NO-MI-NAKA-NUs.h.i.+-NO-KAMI=Deity-Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven, first j.a.panese "hidden" G.o.d.(166)

AME-NO-TOKO-TACHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-standing-eternally-in-heaven, hidden G.o.d; _cf._ Kuni-no-toko-tachi-no-kami=Deity-standing-eternally-on-earth. j.a.pan.

AMEN-RA=hidden G.o.d. Egypt.

AHA-MENA or MENES=historical founder of kingdom="the Constant One." Egypt; _cf._ menu=monuments; smen=to establish. Egyptian.

MINY, MINYANS or MINANS=race who traced descent from Minos=the measurer (Men=measurer); great agricultural and building race in India, Arabia and Egypt. Measured time by circ.u.mpolar constellations; became confederates of Sabaeans; conquered Phrygia, built Mycenae (Hewitt).

AMUN=national G.o.d of Ammonites. Amun means the builder or architect and is, like the name of Egyptian G.o.d, formed of aman, to sustain. He was the G.o.d of the meridian and of the central house-pole, sustaining roof who, in Egypt, became Amen-ra (Sayce and Gesenius, quoted by Hewitt, _op. cit._).

The supreme G.o.d of the Ammonites was Nagash, the constellation of Ursa Major (Hewitt).

NEW WORLD.

AMAN or XAMAN (p.r.o.n. Haman)=north. Maya, Yucatan.

AH-MEN=master builder, handicraftsman; _cf._ Menah or Menyah=artificer, artisan, builder, handicraftsman; _cf._ verb men=to build, found, establish, erect, also menta'al=to govern. Maya, p. 234.

AMAN-TECA=name used in ancient Mexico to designate master-handicraftsmen, synonym of Tolteca.

AMAUTAS=name given in Peru to the "wise men" who introduced civilization.

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OLD WORLD.

AN=heaven, G.o.d. Babylonian a.s.syrian (p. 331).

ANA=heaven. Sumerian, Akkadian,(167) _cf._ Akanna=Ursa Major, Akkadian, see p. 235.

AN and ANNU=names of celestial and terrestrial sacred central cities.

Egypt, _cf._ an=pillar or that which turns around. According to Flinders Petrie, the an was an octagonal fluted column with a square tenon or top.

MANU=sacred mountain situated in N. W. Egypt.

KW-AN-IRAS=sacred central cosmical division situated under pole-star, around which the six kingdoms of Iran were situated. Persia.

CANAAN=holy land, whose capital was Jerusalem.

AN-SHAN=name of ancient Persian empire.

AN-SHAR=supreme G.o.d. a.s.syria, _cf._ Nannar, pp. 336 and 337.

AN-SAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt, _cf._ Anubis also Anu and Anath, Ja.n.u.s and Jana.

Z-AN=old Doric form of Zeus, hence Ja.n.u.s.

SHANG=heaven, the Above. China.

KAN=mountain, also Yo. China.

ALKAID=star in Ursa Major, also used for moon; origin of Spanish t.i.tle Alcalde.

ALKABIR=the Great. Early Arabic.

KA=surnamed the Great. Kus.h.i.+te father of life, the hidden G.o.d who guards and distributes, at the appointed seasons, the life-giving rains (Hewitt).(168)

KA=t.i.tle of Egyptian king, usually rendered by "bull."

KHAN=a prince. Tartary.

KHAKAN=an emperor or sovereign. Persia.

HAN=name for empire. j.a.pan, _cf._ ken, imperial domain.

HANA=flower or blossom. j.a.panese, _cf._ ankh=flower, Egyptian and anthos=flower, Greek.

ANGLI or ANGRIWARII=widely diffused, great northern race, mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy.

NEW WORLD.

CA-AN=heaven. Maya, Yucatan, see pp. 278 and 288.

Ca.n.a.l=Above. Maya, Yucatan.

CAN=t.i.tle of culture-hero: KUKUL-CAN=the divine can, h.o.m.onym of can=serpent. Maya, Yucatan.