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OLD WORLD.

AN=heaven, god. Babylonian Assyrian (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 god. Assyria, _cf._ Nannar, pp. 336 and 337.

AN-SAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt, _cf._ Anubis also Anu and Anath, Janus and Jana.

Z-AN=old Doric form of Zeus, hence Janus.

SHANG=heaven, the Above. China.

KAN=mountain, also Yo. China.

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

ALKABIR=the Great. Early Arabic.

KA=surnamed the Great. Kushite father of life, the hidden god who guards and distributes, at the appointed seasons, the life-giving rains (Hewitt).(168)

KA=title of Egyptian king, usually rendered by “bull.”

KHAN=a prince. Tartary.

KHAKAN=an emperor or sovereign. Persia.

HAN=name for empire. Japan, _cf._ ken, imperial domain.

HANA=flower or blossom. Japanese, _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.

CANAL=Above. Maya, Yucatan.

CAN=title of culture-hero: KUKUL-CAN=the divine can, homonym of can=serpent. Maya, Yucatan.

ZIUVA-CAAN=Colony founded in Yucatan, by Holon-chan-te=Peuh.

ANAHUAC: name of Mexican empire, usually loosely translated as a=water, nahuac=by the water.

To this list should be added the following affixes or prefixes, denoting, in each case, “place, land or region of.”

Egyptian: ta, for instance meh-ta or mah-ta=north; amen-ta=hidden region, N. W.

Chinese: kwan=earth, land.

Persian: Kwan-iras or Hvan-iras=the name for Iran=“land of Iran”?

Japanese: han=empire, ken=domain.

Maya: tan, for instance Aman-tan or Xaman-tan=North.

Nahuatl: an, tlan or can, “land of, also mountain.”

Zuñi: wan=place of, for instance Halona-wan.