Appendix III. Comparative Lists of Words.
I.
OLD WORLD.
YAU or YU=the source or origin, the Chinese character for which figures a square or circle divided into four by crossed horizontal and perpendicular lines, the latter projecting above the square or circle.[164]
YAOU and YU=mythical emperors who instituted the celestial kingdom, see p. [298].
YAOU SING=“Revolving Star” in Ursa Major. China.
UI or HWEI=verb to turn around. Chinese.
YUL, YEUL, YEOL=wheel (Icelandic hjol, O. Swedish hiugl, Swedish hjul).
HVEL=disk, orb. Iceland.
WUOTAN=ODIN=supreme divinity. Scandinavia.
JOVLA=sacred hearth fire of Northern Finns, under guardianship of mother of family.
JOVIS=Roman supreme divinity, associated with wheel.
YAHWE=Hebrew name for God, translated as “heaven,” was pronounced Yahu. According to the Masoretes must be read Yeho (Yăhu). The early Gnostics wrote Iao, that is Yaho (Sayce). The four consonants yhvh, pronounced Yahveh, constituted the sacred Tetragrammaton, or four lettered name of the Most High.
Archbishop Tenison says (Idolat. p. 404): “This name was no mystery among the Greeks, as is evident from the mention of the god Ieuo in Sanchoniathon; Jaho in St. Hiersm, and the Sibylline Oracles; Jaoth or Jaho in Irenaeus; of the Hebrew God called Jaoia by the Gnostics; of Jaou in Clemens Alexandrinus, of Jao the first principle of the Gnostic Heaven in Epiphanius; the God of Moses in Diodorus Siculus; the god Bacchus in the oracle of Apollo Clarius; lastly, as was said, of the Samaritan Jabe, in Theodoret.”
YEUD EKHAD=name of supreme god of Phœnicians the Red people (Sayce).
NEW WORLD.
YOUALLI-EHECATL, literally, night or circling-air or wind=supreme god of the Chichimecs (see p. [33]), a Mexican ruling tribe whose name signifies the red lineage or people.
YAHUAL-TECUHTLI or YOUAL-TECUHTLI=the Lord of the circle or of the Night, i. e. North-star god, supreme divinity. Mexico, see p. [279].
YALAHUA=Tzendal deity, p. [181].
YANAULUHA=Zuñi deity, p. [223].
{IO, IOVANA, IELLA, IOCAHUNA=names for god.
{HUIOU=sun.
{HUIOO or HUIHO=mountain. Haïti.
{YOLI, YULI=verb, to live, resuscitate, vivify.
{OLLIN=“motion.” Nahuatl.
YAUALLI=to walk in a circle many times. Nahuatl.
YOUALLI=night. Nahuatl.
HUE=egg. Maya.
II.
OLD WORLD.
SHAME=heaven. Babylonian-Assyrian.
SAMA=heaven. Græco-Persian.
SAMA or SHAMA=north. Arabic (Al Kaukabal Shamaliyy=star of the North; Al Kulbal Shamaliyy=the northern axle or spindle).
AMAN=verb to sustain. Akkadian.
AMAXA=name for Ursa Major=a chariot. Greek.
SAMAS or SHAMASH=Babylonian-Assyrian god, “the universal judge,” whose image was wheel with four rays (see pp. [331] and [350]), cf. Ramman.
BAAL-SHAMAYUN=supreme god. Phœnicia.
AMASIS=Egyptian god.
KAMOSH=god of Moabites, p. [350].
HAM or KHAM=name for northern Egypt.
AMANTINI=an Illyrian tribe. Greece.
BR-AHMA=supreme god. India (cf. Yama).[165]
BR-AHMANAS=priestly caste. India.
ARYAMAN=star-god associated with Mitra-Yaruna, Ursa Major and number seven. In Zendavesta is associated with Ashvino-ritual. India.
AMA or AME=heaven. Japan.
KAMI=deity, top, above.
O-KAMI=the honorable government.
YAMA=mountain. Japan.
YAMATO=main island of Japan.
AMA-NO-MA-HITOTSU=“Eye of Heaven,” name for Pole-star. Japan.
AME-NO-MI-NAKA-NUSHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven, first Japanese “hidden” god.[166]
AME-NO-TOKO-TACHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-standing-eternally-in-heaven, hidden god; cf. Kuni-no-toko-tachi-no-kami=Deity-standing-eternally-on-earth. Japan.
AMEN-RA=hidden god. Egypt.
AHA-MENA or MENES=historical founder of kingdom=“the Constant One.” Egypt; cf. menu=monuments; smen=to establish. Egyptian.
MINYŒ, MINYANS or MINŒANS=race who traced descent from Minos=the measurer (Men=measurer); great agricultural and building race in India, Arabia and Egypt. Measured time by circumpolar constellations; became confederates of Sabæans; conquered Phrygia, built Mycenæ (Hewitt).
AMUN=national god of Ammonites. Amun means the builder or architect and is, like the name of Egyptian god, formed of amān, to sustain. He was the god of the meridian and of the central house-pole, sustaining roof who, in Egypt, became Amen-ra (Sayce and Gesenius, quoted by Hewitt, op. cit.). The supreme god of the Ammonites was Nāgash, the constellation of Ursa Major (Hewitt).
NEW WORLD.
AMAN or XAMAN (pron. Haman)=north. Maya, Yucatan.
AH-MEN=master builder, handicraftsman; cf. Menah or Menyah=artificer, artisan, builder, handicraftsman; cf. verb men=to build, found, establish, erect, also menta'al=to govern. Maya, p. [234].
AMAN-TECA=name used in ancient Mexico to designate master-handicraftsmen, synonym of Tolteca.
AMAUTAS=name given in Peru to the “wise men” who introduced civilization.
III.
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.
IV.
OLD WORLD.
AK=Middle. Egypt, p. [385].
AKANNA=literally “the Lord of Heaven,” title Ursa Major. Akkadian, p. [394].
N-AKKASCH=title of Polaris “the serpent.” Phœnicia (p. [325]).
NAGASCH, NAHUSHA, or the Great Nag=the great invisible god, hidden in his ark of clouds, who reveals himself to men as the ruler of time and the orderer of the regular sequence of the phenomena of nature, and who churns, in the mortar of the heavens, the life-giving rains in which his divine spirit is infused.... (Hewitt).
NAGA, NAGUR=the rain snake, at whose summer festival called Akkhadi or Akhtuj, the Gonds worship the cart axle or akkha in a ceremony which is a reminiscence of the days when the axle was the upright revolving pole pressing out the heavenly rain. The Naga snake was the offspring of the house pole; the soul of life in the rain cloud; the heavenly snake, the great time-measurer and year god of the Hindus (Hewitt).
P-AKU=zenith. Akkadian, cf. Papakhu, central sacred cosmical chamber.
AKKAD=the North, name of country (B.C. 3800). Babylonia-Assyria, p. [347].
K-AKKABU=the star, Polaris. Babylonia-Assyria, p. [326].
AKRIS or AKROS=summit, point, supreme, most high; cf. ok=eye. Greek.
AKRIOS=god of summit, title of supreme god. Greece.
AKA-TOS, AKA=a ship. Greek.
ACHAIIS=the Achaian land.
ACHAIANS=in Homer, the name for Greeks generally.
AKRA=Hindu village dancing and marriage ground, where sacred tree is planted and sacrifices made to it in great Naga festival (Hewitt).
AKSA=name of mosque at Jerusalem.
AKSHAFARU=point, summit. Persian.
AKAL, AKARAN=god, eternal, timeless. Zoroastrian, name of god.
H-AK-HAMANISIJA=ancient royal title. Persia.
HAK=king or regent, royal title. Akkadian, Egyptian.
AKACA=Sanscrit name for fifth element æther: (Schroeder).
AGATHON=name given by Pythagoreans to all-embracing soul of the universe.
AK or AG=verb aj, to drive, urge, impel. Sanscrit.
AGNI=god of central fire. India.
AGASTYA=star father of Dravidians. India.
CHAKRA=wheel. Sanscrit.
CHAKRAYARTIN=title, supreme ruler. Sanscrit.
AKSHA=axis or axle. Sanscrit.
AKSHIVAN=“the driver of the axle,” supreme ruler. Sanscrit.
DAKSHA=the North people, also white, blessed, and the left. Sanscrit.
TAKKAS=one of the most powerful and wealthy tribes of the Punjab, whose progeners founded the great city of Taxila, the Hindu Takkasila or rock of the Takkas, taken by Alexander the Great. Their name Takkas or Takshas means “the makers or artificers,” which is connected with the Akkadian tuk=stone.... They call themselves the sons of the two Nagas or horned snake, Takht-nag and Basak-nag or “the sons of the race of artificers” ... as the sons of the all-mother Maga [the maker or kneader], they called themselves the sons of the mother-mountain.... (Hewitt).
AKHAL, AKHAL-ZIKH, AKHAL-KALAKI=names of towns. Asia Minor (O'Neil, p. 681).
ACASA or ACASE=axis or axle. Old Norse.
AKKA and UKKO=names given by Finns to mother-earth and father-heavens (O'Neil, p. 38).
NAKA=Middle. Japan (O'Neil, p. 536).[169]
HAK-KAKU=eight holy corners or points; also that which is revealed, disclosed, known, come to light. Japanese dictionary.
AKA=above, mountain, cf. SAKA=ascent. Japan.
AGATA=ancient name for domain or department (Chamberlain). Japan.
HAKKI=the eight diagrams, cf. Ya-he-koto-shiro-nu-shi-no-kami=Deity-eight-fold-thing-sign-master. Chamberlain op. cit. pp. 83 and 101.
WAKE, WAKI, WAKU=lord, title. Japan.
KAGU=Mount Kagu in Heaven. Japan.
HAKU=white, shining. Japan.
HOKU, NE-NO-HO, KITA, KITA-NO-HO=North. Japan. Cf. Khita=race mentioned in Egyptian and Biblical history, and Kitai=name for China.
HOKU-SEI, HOKU-SHIN, HOKKIYOKU, North Star. Japan.
NEW WORLD.
Nahuatl.
ACACHTO=the first, at first.
YAQUE=that which has a point; a point, by extension a nose.
YACANA=to govern a town or to guide.
YACA-TECUHTLI (literally, the governing or guiding lord)=title of Polaris, cf. Pacha-Yachachic=Peruvian Creator, p. [159].
TON-ACA-TECUHTLI=title of Creator.
MAL-ACATL=wheel, spindle, verb malacachoa, to walk around in a circle.
ACATL=cane, staff.
CE-ACATL, OME-ACATL=titles of deities meaning One Acatl, Two Acatl.
13 ACATL=inscription on Stone of Great Plan and on image of Divine Twain (see p. [261]).
ACALLI=boat, from atl=water, calli=house.
Maya.
AKAB=night.
B-AK-CAB=in a circle, around, cf. hab=year.
BACAB=title of four “rulers of the year,” tetrarch.
AK-BAL=a vessel or pot.
C-ACAB=town, village.
B-AK-LIC=around in a circle, in the surroundings.
B-AK-TE=together.
B-AK-ACH=all, the whole.
B-AK=rock, fortification, enclosure, also bone, phallus, foundation, heron.
N-AK=throne, belly.
N-AK-LIC=at the root, on top of all.
L-AK-AN=standard, banner.
L-AK-IN=east.
K-AK=fire.
P-AC-AT=sight.
Z-AK=white cf. Iztac=white. Nahuatl.
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.
VI.
OLD WORLD.
I-KU or I KUU=the leader or prince, Polaris. Assyria.
DIL-GAN-I-KU=the messenger of light, Polaris. Akkadian.
KU=holy, divine (tul-ku, the holy altar). Akkadian.
KU=word of Finnic origin brought to India by Northern settlers—used by them to denote Father-god=Ukku. Uk=the great Ku=placer or begetter (Hewitt, p. 148).
KU-SHIKAS=ruling race of India, of Northern origin, known as Ashura-kushikas (Hewitt).
CHU=the brilliance or light, Egyptian.
CHU-ATEN=the central capital founded by Amenhotep.
AL-KUTB=the axle, Polaris. Arabia.
TUL-KU=the holy altar. Akkadian.
GU=the urn. Akkadian.
KUL-KUN=central cosmical mountain. China, cf. Sar-tuli-elli, king of the holy mound.
KURUMA=wheel, Japanese, also mawaru, from marawi=to turn, revolve.
NEW WORLD.
Maya.
KU=god.
KUKUL=holy, divine (p. [69]).
KUKULCAN=name of culture-hero.
KU-LEL=noble.
KU-NA=temple.
KUKUM=feather.
KUL=chalice.
CHUT=bowl, cf. Nahuatl cumitl=bowl or jar.
CHU-MUC=that which is in the middle or centre.
CHU-MUCCIL=Middle, centre.
CHU-MUC-AKAB=midnight.
CHU-NIL=adj. the principal.
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.
VIII.
OLD WORLD.
TEH-TEH=designation of the first star of the Great Bear, given in star-list in Papyrus of Ani, and the same as Te-te, the Akkadian star-god of the two foundations (Hewitt, p. 267).
TET=highly abraded form of timmen=foundation.
TEM=foundation, Egyptian (O'Neil); foundation stone (Brown). Akkadian.
TET=eternity, symbolized by stone pillar. Egypt.
A-TEN=circle or disk. Egypt.
UA-TET=Egyptian name for emerald.
THEOS=Greek name for god i. e. Cosmos.
THEO=descriptive of running wheel, of anything circular which seems to run around into itself.
THEORS=sacred envoys, who came for sacred festivals to Olympia or Delphi from different points.
THEMIS=law, right, agreed upon by common consent or prescription. Greece.
THEMIS=personified law, order and justice, cf. Artemis, the goddess to whom the seven stars of the Great Bear were sacred (Hewitt).
TEMENOS=piece of land sacred to a god, sacred precincts, precincts of temple.
A-THENA=name of Grecian capital, state and goddess, signified “Seven.”
TENOS and TEOS=names of Greek states, p. [456].
DEOTHAN=village earth-god worshipped by Brahmin priests (Hewitt).
TEEN or TIEN=heaven, god, the character for god being an upright pole or support, a “ti.” Chinese, see p. [301], cf. Chinese character, tien, field, representing a square divided by cross lines into four parts.
NEW WORLD.
TEM, TETEM=stone altar, foundation. Maya. p. [229].
TETL=stone. Nahuatl.
TEO-CALLI=“house of god” = temple. Nahuatl.
TEOTL=name for god. Nahuatl.
TEOTIHUACAN=site of extensive ruins. Mexico.
TENOCH-TI-TLAN=name of capital of Mexico.
TEMISTITAN=another ancient name for Mexican capital.
IX.
OLD WORLD.
ASH=number six. Akkadian.
ASHURA=trading non-Aryan races, the Hittites, worshippers of six [pg 574] 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]).
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 space. China, see pp. [285-288].
HO=acme, taken to mean the best, highest, most showy part of anything. Japanese (Chamberlain).[172]
HO=the land's acme, or a plain surrounded by mountains. Japan (Motowori).
HOM=date-palm-sacred tree. Babylonia-Assyria (Sir Geo. Birdwood).
NEW WORLD.
HO, or TI-HOO=ancient capital of Yucatan, see p. [277].
HOM=mound. Maya.
HOMTAMIL=belly, i. e. omphalos.