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.