Now the Mayas called LA, that which has existed for ever, the truth par excellence. As to the native name of Babylon it would simply be the city of the infinite truth—cah, city; LA, eternal truth.
ANA OR DIS.
Ana, like Ra, is thought to have signified God in the highest sense. Its etymology seems to be problematic. His epithets mark priority and antiquity; the original chief, the father of the gods, the lord of darkness or death. The Maya gives us A, thy; NA, mother. At times he was called Dis, and was the patron god of Erech, the great city of the dead, the necropolis of Lower Babylonia. Tix, Maya is a cavity formed in the earth. It seems to have given its name to the city of Niffer, called Calneh in the translation of the Septuagint, from kal-ana, which is translated the “fort of Ana;” or according to the Maya, the prison of Ana, KAL being prison, or the prison of thy mother.
ANATA
the supposed wife of Ana, has no peculiar characteristics. Her name is only, says our author, the feminine form of the masculine, Ana. But the Maya designates her as the companion of Ana; TA, with; Anata with Ana.
BIL OR ENU
seems to mean merely Lord. It is usually followed by a qualificative adjunct, possessing great interest, Nipru. To that name, which recalls that of Nebroth or Nimrod, the author gives a Syriac etymology; napar (make to flee). His epithets are the supreme, the father of the gods, the procreator.
The Maya gives us Bil, or Bel; the way, the road; hence the origin, the father, the procreator. Also ENA, who is before; again the father, the procreator.
As to the qualificative adjunct nipru. It would seem to be the Maya niblu; nib, to thank; LU, the Bagre, a silurus fish. Niblu would then be the thanksgiving fish. Strange to say, the high priest at Uxmal and Chichen, elder brother of Chaacmol, first son of Can, the founder of those cities, is Cay, the fish, whose effigy is my last discovery in June, among the ruins of Uxmal. The bust is contained within the jaws of a serpent, Can, and over it, is a beautiful mastodon head, with the trunk inscribed with Egyptian characters, which read TZAA, that which is necessary.