VII.

OLD WORLD.

CITRA=bright, shining. Sanscrit.

TARA=star. Sanscrit, _cf._ Ra=god. Egypt.

SITARA=star. Hindu.

TJARA=star. Old Norse, _cf._ tar=tree.

TARA=name of central city. Old Irish.

UTTARA=North. Sanscrit.

ISH-TAR=goddess, a hymn to whom, in Akkadian and Assyrian, begins thus: “Thou who as the axis of the heavens dawnest. In the dwellings of the earth her name revolves” (Prof. Sayce, quoted by O’Neil, p. 715).

Compare with Egyptian ra=god and note that the Sanscrit uttara could have been expressed in Egyptian hieratic script by the form of eye=uta and the sign for ra _i. e._ an eye within a circle (see p. 390 and fig. 62). Also compare the Sanscrit and Hindu citra and sitara with Egyptian seb-seta “the hidden star,” pictured by the turtle, sit or cit, etc. (see p. 398).

NEW WORLD.

CITLALLIN=star. Nahuatl.

IX-TOLOLOTLI=eye, employed in picture writing for star. Nahuatl, see in centre of Nahui-Ollin, fig. 2, Nos. 1 and 3.

IXUA=the birth of a plant, the germination of seed, _cf._ cihuatl=woman. Nahuatl.

IXTLI=the face. Nahuatl.

ICH=the eye. Maya.

IK=life, breath, air, wind _cf._ ecatl=breath, etc., Nahuatl, and ek=star. Maya.

KIKCOLOM=blood. Maya.

XICO=navel. Nahuatl.