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

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