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

AMAUTAS=name given in Peru to the “wise men” who introduced civilization.

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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.