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OLD WORLD.

ASH=number six. Akkadian.

ASHURA=trading non-Aryan races, the Hittites, worshippers of six gods, six seasons, of Pleiades and of Ashura Mazda, the Zend god. 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); instituted the Ashva Mēdha, or horse-sacrifice of the Hindus, also used by North Germans Ugro-Finns, Scythians and Romans.

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

MASSEBA=stone pillar. Hebrew symbol, see p. 350.

ASHERAH=pole or tree, worshipped by Phœnicians and Hebrews equivalent of Indian rain-pole.

AL-FASS=axis, Arabian name for pole-star.

PHAR-ASH-AH, PARR-ASIS=Hebrew and Phœnician “guiding star,” Polaris.

ASSUR=kingdom and god of Assyria.

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

ASIA=name given by Greeks to Asia.

ASKANIOS=ancient name of Phrygia.

ASTARTE=goddess of heaven, see p. 350.

ASS or ÆSIR=Scandinavian gods.

ASSGARD=central, divine dwelling. Scandinavia.

UM-ASHI=reed shoot that sprouted when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa-like. Japan. (Records of Ancient Matters, section I.)

UMASHI-ASHI-KABI-HIKO-JI-NO-KAMI=“Pleasant-reed-shoot-elder-deity,” born from primæval reed-shoot.

ASHI-HARA-NO-NAKA-TSU-KUNI=Land in the Middle of the Reed plains, common periphrastic designation of Japan.

NEW WORLD.

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

AZTEC=name of dominant race. Mexico.

ASH-IWI=other name for Zuñi tribe (Cushing, see p. 203).