TARA=name of central city. Old Irish.
UTTARA=North. Sanscrit.
ISH-TAR=goddess, a hymn to whom, in Akkadian and Assyrian, begins thus: “Thou who as the axis of the heavens dawnest. In the dwellings of the earth her name revolves” (Prof. Sayce, quoted by O'Neil, p. 715).
Compare with Egyptian ra=god and note that the Sanscrit uttara could have been expressed in Egyptian hieratic script by the form of eye=uta and the sign for ra i. e. an eye within a circle (see p. [390] and fig. [62]). Also compare the Sanscrit and Hindu citra and sitara with Egyptian seb-seta “the hidden star,” pictured by the turtle, sit or cit, etc. (see p. [398]).
NEW WORLD.
CITLALLIN=star. Nahuatl.
IX-TOLOLOTLI=eye, employed in picture writing for star. Nahuatl, see in centre of Nahui-Ollin, fig. [2], Nos. 1 and 3.
IXUA=the birth of a plant, the germination of seed, cf. cihuatl=woman. Nahuatl.
IXTLI=the face. Nahuatl.
ICH=the eye. Maya.