V.

OLD WORLD.

MAD-HYIAS=Middle. Sanscrit.

MAGHAVAN=Vedic name of Indra.

MATH=the fire-drill, from math or manth=to twirl or churn. Sanscrit.(170)

MATHURA=name of central sacred locality. India (see Hewitt, p. 214).

MAGANA=Akkadian name for the Sinaitic Peninsula.

MAGHADAS=Finnic race ruling Northern India before the Kushites.

MERU=the Middle. Sanscrit, p. 317.

MAHTA or MEHTA=north. Egyptian, _cf._ mit=death.

MED-DOS, MEDOS or MESOS=Middle. Greek.

MED-IUS=Middle. Latin.

MED-ON=Middle. Old Irish, _cf._ Medi=Tullium, centre of state.

MID-JIS, Middle. Goth.

MIODHACH=a Central Power (Joyce). Celtic.

MITRA=the god said, in Rig-Veda, “to fix times of festivals.” Was associated with Varuna=night and rain god (Greek, Ouranos), with the constellation of Ursa Major and the number seven. The North was sacred to Mitra-Varuna who “maintain the invariable succession of the order of natural phenomena” (see Hewitt, pp. 144, 416 and 420).

MILKOM=god of Ammonites whose supreme god was Ursa Major.

MEDIA or MADGA=ancient kingdom whose inhabitants were allied to Persians and shook off yoke of Assyrian rule in 708 B.C.

MEDUM=site of most ancient pyramid known. Egypt.

MECCA=sacred capital. Arabia.

MY-CENAE=very ancient city in N. E. of Argolis, built upon craggy height, principal city of Greece and capital of kingdom in Agamemnon’s time.

METHONE=most ancient Greek colony on Thermaic gulf.

MI-YAU-KEN: “name under which the Pole-star is worshipped in Japan in the form of a Buddha with a wheel, the emblem of the revolving world, resting on his folded hands.”(171) _cf._ Chinese.

MUKDEN=capital of Manchuria, p. 288, _cf._ Mughs or Maghadas, Finnic race ruling Northern India before Kushites, and

MANJHUS=“royal land” set apart in Ooraon villages.

MIOKEN=name of town and mountain. Japan.

MIWA=sacred mountain shrine regarded with extraordinary reverence. Japan (Chamberlain).

MIAKO=ancient sacred capital of Japan, residence of

MIKO, or MIKADO=heavenly sovereign who, like the Chinese Wong or Wang=king, ruled the three powers, heaven, earth and man. The Chinese character, consisting of three horizontal lines crossed by a perpendicular line expresses also the Japanese Miko which includes males and females and is used combined with Naka=middle _i. e._, Middle sovereign (Chamberlain).

MIHE=threefold. Japanese.

MID-KENA=cosmical central power and mountain. Old Irish.

MID-GARD=cosmical centre. Scandinavia.

MIODH-CHUARTA (pron. micorta)=Meath, centre of Irish kingdom.

MERCIA=middle kingdom of Britain.

HAR-MOED=central mountain. Isaiah XIV.

MISHKNA=name of tabernacle of pole-star worshipping Mandaites (see Appendix II).

NEW WORLD.

MEXICO=name of capital and by extension of state.

MEK-TAN=Maya name for empire, literally: “land of Mek.”

MITNAL or METNAL=underworld. Maya.

MICTLAN=name of region surrounding pyramids of Teotihuacan.

MITLA=name of ruins in Oaxaca, Mexico.

MICTLAMPA=north. Nahuatl. _cf._ miquiztli=death.

MICTLAN-TECUHTLI=lord of the North, or underworld. Mexican pole-star god.