The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Part 48

TEOTIHUACAN=site of extensive ruins. Mexico.

TENOCH-TI-TLAN=name of capital of Mexico.

TEMISt.i.tAN=another ancient name for Mexican capital.

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OLD WORLD.

ASH=number six. Akkadian.

ASHURA=trading non-Aryan races, the Hitt.i.tes, wors.h.i.+ppers of six G.o.ds, six seasons, of Pleiades and of Ashura Mazda, the Zend G.o.d. Established system of grouping six provinces around central royal province where king resided.

ASHVINS=stars which drove round the pole the constellations of Ursa Major and Draco, another name for Ashura? Sons of horse (ashva), brought barley to India, drank mead (madhu); inst.i.tuted the Ashva Medha, or horse-sacrifice of the Hindus, also used by North Germans Ugro-Finns, Scythians and Romans.

ASH, NAK-KASCH=Draco, Euphratean name for Polaris.

Ma.s.sEBA=stone pillar. Hebrew symbol, see p. 350.

ASHERAH=pole or tree, wors.h.i.+pped by Phnicians and Hebrews equivalent of Indian rain-pole.

AL-Fa.s.s=axis, Arabian name for pole-star.

PHAR-ASH-AH, PARR-ASIS=Hebrew and Phnician "guiding star," Polaris.

a.s.sUR=kingdom and G.o.d of a.s.syria.

ASAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt (O'Neil, p. 59).

ASIA=name given by Greeks to Asia.

ASKANIOS=ancient name of Phrygia.

ASTARTE=G.o.ddess of heaven, see p. 350.

a.s.s or aeSIR=Scandinavian G.o.ds.

a.s.sGARD=central, divine dwelling. Scandinavia.

UM-As.h.i.+=reed shoot that sprouted when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa-like. j.a.pan. (Records of Ancient Matters, section I.)

UMAs.h.i.+-As.h.i.+-KABI-HIKO-JI-NO-KAMI="Pleasant-reed-shoot-elder-deity," born from primaeval reed-shoot.

As.h.i.+-HARA-NO-NAKA-TSU-KUNI=Land in the Middle of the Reed plains, common periphrastic designation of j.a.pan.

NEW WORLD.

AZTLAN=the original home of Aztec race, according to tradition.

AZTEC=name of dominant race. Mexico.

ASH-IWI=other name for Zuni tribe (Cus.h.i.+ng, see p. 203).

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OLD WORLD.

O, ON or NO=name of celestial and terrestrial capitals. Hebrew and Egyptian.

OLYMPOS=the breaker or organizer of time (Hewitt, p. 514).

KOLONH=a hill, mound, Greek; Lat. tumulus.

COLONOS=a demos of Attica lying on and around hill sacred to Poseidon.

COLONIA=a colony, the Lat. colonia.

KOLOSSOS=statue in general, _i. e._ column?

OM-EL-KORA=mother of cities. Arabian, see p. 323.

OMPHALE=in Greek mythology, the fire socket, wife of Herakles, the fire drill (Hewitt).

HO=designation for directions in s.p.a.ce. China, see pp. 285-288.

HO=acme, taken to mean the best, highest, most showy part of anything.

j.a.panese (Chamberlain).(172)

HO=the land's acme, or a plain surrounded by mountains. j.a.pan (Motowori).

HOM=date-palm-sacred tree. Babylonia-a.s.syria (Sir Geo. Birdwood).

NEW WORLD.

HO, or TI-HOO=ancient capital of Yucatan, see p. 277.

HOM=mound. Maya.

HOMTAMIL=belly, _i. e._ omphalos.