(Sayce). The four consonants yhvh, pronounced
Yahveh, constituted the sacred Tetragrammaton, or four lettered name of
the Most High.
Archbishop Tenison says (Idolat. p. 404): "This name was no mystery among
the Greeks, as is evident from the mention of the god Ieuo in
Sanchoniathon; Jaho in St. Hiersm, and the Sibylline Oracles; Jaoth or
Jaho in Irenaeus; of the Hebrew God called Jaoia by the Gnostics; of Jaou
in Clemens Alexandrinus, of Jao the first principle of the Gnostic Heaven
in Epiphanius; the God of Moses in Diodorus Siculus; the god Bacchus in
the oracle of Apollo Clarius; lastly, as was said, of the Samaritan Jabe,
in Theodoret."
YEUD EKHAD=name of supreme god of Phoenicians the Red people (Sayce).
NEW WORLD.
YOUALLI-EHECATL, literally, night or circling-air or wind=supreme god of
the Chichimecs (see p. 33), a Mexican ruling tribe whose name signifies
the red lineage or people.
YAHUAL-TECUHTLI or YOUAL-TECUHTLI=the Lord of the circle or of the Night,
_i. e._ North-star god, supreme divinity. Mexico, see p. 279.
YALAHUA=Tzendal deity, p. 181.
YANAULUHA=Zuni deity, p. 223.
{IO, IOVANA, IELLA, IOCAHUNA=names for god.
{HUIOU=sun.
{HUIOO or HUIHO=mountain. Haiti.
{YOLI, YULI=verb, to live, resuscitate, vivify.
{OLLIN="motion." Nahuatl.
YAUALLI=to walk in a circle many times. Nahuatl.
YOUALLI=night. Nahuatl.
HUE=egg. Maya.
II.
OLD WORLD.
SHAME=heaven. Babylonian-Assyrian.
SAMA=heaven. Graeco-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. Phoenicia.
AMASIS=Egyptian god.
KAMOSH=god of Moabites, p. 350.
HAM or KHAM=name for northern Egypt.
AMANTINI=an Illyrian tribe. Greece.
BR-AHMA=supreme god. India (_cf._ Yama).(165)
BR-AHMANAS=priestly caste. India.
ARYAMAN=star-god associated with Mitra-Yaruna, Ursa Major and number
seven. In Zendavesta is associated with Ashvino-ritual. India.
AMA or AME=heaven. Japan.
KAMI=deity, top, above.
O-KAMI=the honorable government.
YAMA=mountain. Japan.
YAMATO=main island of Japan.
AMA-NO-MA-HITOTSU="Eye of Heaven," name for Pole-star. Japan.
AME-NO-MI-NAKA-NUSHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-Master-of-the
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