II.

OLD WORLD.

SHAME=heaven. Babylonian-Assyrian.

SAMA=heaven. Græco-Persian.

SAMA or SHAMA=north. Arabic (Al Kaukabal Shamaliyy=star of the North; Al Kulbal Shamaliyy=the northern axle or spindle).

AMAN=verb to sustain. Akkadian.

AMAXA=name for Ursa Major=a chariot. Greek.

SAMAS or SHAMASH=Babylonian-Assyrian god, “the universal judge,” whose image was wheel with four rays (see pp. 331 and 350), _cf._ Ramman.

BAAL-SHAMAYUN=supreme god. Phœnicia.

AMASIS=Egyptian god.

KAMOSH=god of Moabites, p. 350.

HAM or KHAM=name for northern Egypt.

AMANTINI=an Illyrian tribe. Greece.

BR-AHMA=supreme god. India (_cf._ Yama).(165)

BR-AHMANAS=priestly caste. India.

ARYAMAN=star-god associated with Mitra-Yaruna, Ursa Major and number seven. In Zendavesta is associated with Ashvino-ritual. India.

AMA or AME=heaven. Japan.

KAMI=deity, top, above.

O-KAMI=the honorable government.

YAMA=mountain. Japan.

YAMATO=main island of Japan.

AMA-NO-MA-HITOTSU=“Eye of Heaven,” name for Pole-star. Japan.

AME-NO-MI-NAKA-NUSHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven, first Japanese “hidden” god.(166)

AME-NO-TOKO-TACHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-standing-eternally-in-heaven, hidden god; _cf._ Kuni-no-toko-tachi-no-kami=Deity-standing-eternally-on-earth. Japan.

AMEN-RA=hidden god. Egypt.

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

MINYŒ, MINYANS or MINŒANS=race who traced descent from Minos=the measurer (Men=measurer); great agricultural and building race in India, Arabia and Egypt. Measured time by circumpolar constellations; became confederates of Sabæans; conquered Phrygia, built Mycenæ (Hewitt).

AMUN=national god of Ammonites. Amun means the builder or architect and is, like the name of Egyptian god, formed of amān, to sustain. He was the god 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 god of the Ammonites was Nāgash, the constellation of Ursa Major (Hewitt).

NEW WORLD.

AMAN or XAMAN (pron. 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.