The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations / A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems

by Zelia Nuttall

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.