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TEOTIHUACAN=site of extensive ruins. Mexico.
TENOCH-TI-TLAN=name of capital of Mexico.
TEMISt.i.tAN=another ancient name for Mexican capital.
IX.
OLD WORLD.
ASH=number six. Akkadian.
ASHURA=trading non-Aryan races, the Hitt.i.tes, wors.h.i.+ppers of six G.o.ds, six seasons, of Pleiades and of Ashura Mazda, the Zend G.o.d. 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); inst.i.tuted the Ashva Medha, or horse-sacrifice of the Hindus, also used by North Germans Ugro-Finns, Scythians and Romans.
ASH, NAK-KASCH=Draco, Euphratean name for Polaris.
Ma.s.sEBA=stone pillar. Hebrew symbol, see p. 350.
ASHERAH=pole or tree, wors.h.i.+pped by Phnicians and Hebrews equivalent of Indian rain-pole.
AL-Fa.s.s=axis, Arabian name for pole-star.
PHAR-ASH-AH, PARR-ASIS=Hebrew and Phnician "guiding star," Polaris.
a.s.sUR=kingdom and G.o.d of a.s.syria.
ASAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt (O'Neil, p. 59).
ASIA=name given by Greeks to Asia.
ASKANIOS=ancient name of Phrygia.
ASTARTE=G.o.ddess of heaven, see p. 350.
a.s.s or aeSIR=Scandinavian G.o.ds.
a.s.sGARD=central, divine dwelling. Scandinavia.
UM-As.h.i.+=reed shoot that sprouted when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa-like. j.a.pan. (Records of Ancient Matters, section I.)
UMAs.h.i.+-As.h.i.+-KABI-HIKO-JI-NO-KAMI="Pleasant-reed-shoot-elder-deity," born from primaeval reed-shoot.
As.h.i.+-HARA-NO-NAKA-TSU-KUNI=Land in the Middle of the Reed plains, common periphrastic designation of j.a.pan.
NEW WORLD.
AZTLAN=the original home of Aztec race, according to tradition.
AZTEC=name of dominant race. Mexico.
ASH-IWI=other name for Zuni tribe (Cus.h.i.+ng, see p. 203).
X.
OLD WORLD.
O, ON or NO=name of celestial and terrestrial capitals. Hebrew and Egyptian.
OLYMPOS=the breaker or organizer of time (Hewitt, p. 514).
KOLONH=a hill, mound, Greek; Lat. tumulus.
COLONOS=a demos of Attica lying on and around hill sacred to Poseidon.
COLONIA=a colony, the Lat. colonia.
KOLOSSOS=statue in general, _i. e._ column?
OM-EL-KORA=mother of cities. Arabian, see p. 323.
OMPHALE=in Greek mythology, the fire socket, wife of Herakles, the fire drill (Hewitt).
HO=designation for directions in s.p.a.ce. China, see pp. 285-288.
HO=acme, taken to mean the best, highest, most showy part of anything.
j.a.panese (Chamberlain).(172)
HO=the land's acme, or a plain surrounded by mountains. j.a.pan (Motowori).
HOM=date-palm-sacred tree. Babylonia-a.s.syria (Sir Geo. Birdwood).
NEW WORLD.
HO, or TI-HOO=ancient capital of Yucatan, see p. 277.
HOM=mound. Maya.
HOMTAMIL=belly, _i. e._ omphalos.
