-August-Centre-of-Heaven,
first Japanese "hidden" god.(166)

AME-NO-TOKO-TACHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-standing-eternally-in-heaven, hidden god;
_cf._ Kuni-no-toko-tachi-no-kami=Deity-standing-eternally-on-earth. Japan.

AMEN-RA=hidden god. Egypt.

AHA-MENA or MENES=historical founder of kingdom="the Constant One." Egypt;
_cf._ menu=monuments; smen=to establish. Egyptian.

MINYOE, MINYANS or MINOEANS=race who traced descent from Minos=the measurer
(Men=measurer); great agricultural and building race in India, Arabia and
Egypt. Measured time by circumpolar constellations; became confederates of
Sabaeans; conquered Phrygia, built Mycenae (Hewitt).

AMUN=national god of Ammonites. Amun means the builder or architect and
is, like the name of Egyptian god, formed of aman, to sustain. He was the
god of the meridian and of the central house-pole, sustaining roof who, in
Egypt, became Amen-ra (Sayce and Gesenius, quoted by Hewitt, _op. cit._).
The supreme god of the Ammonites was Nagash, the constellation of Ursa
Major (Hewitt).

NEW WORLD.

AMAN or XAMAN (pron. Haman)=north. Maya, Yucatan.

AH-MEN=master builder, handicraftsman; _cf._ Menah or Menyah=artificer,
artisan, builder, handicraftsman; _cf._ verb men=to build, found,
establish, erect, also menta'al=to govern. Maya, p. 234.

AMAN-TECA=name used in ancient Mexico to designate master-handicraftsmen,
synonym of Tolteca.

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

III.

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.

AN-SHAR=supreme god. Assyria, _cf._ Nannar, pp. 336 and 337.

AN-SAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt, _cf._ Anubis also Anu and Anath,
Janus and Jana.

Z-AN=old Doric form of Zeus, hence Janus.

SHANG=heaven, the Above. China.

KAN=mountain, also Yo. China.

ALKAID=star in Ursa Major, also used for moon; origin of Spanish title
Alcalde.