t kingdom whose inhabitants were allied to Persians
and shook off yoke of Assyrian rule in 708 B.C.

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

MIKO, or MIKADO=heavenly sovereign who, like the Chinese Wong or
Wang=king, ruled the three powers, heaven, earth and man. The Chinese
character, consisting of three horizontal lines crossed by a perpendicular
line expresses also the Japanese Miko which includes males and females and
is used combined with Naka=middle _i. e._, Middle sovereign (Chamberlain).

MIHE=threefold. Japanese.

MID-KENA=cosmical central power and mountain. Old Irish.

MID-GARD=cosmical centre. Scandinavia.

MIODH-CHUARTA (pron. micorta)=Meath, centre of Irish kingdom.

MERCIA=middle kingdom of Britain.

HAR-MOED=central mountain. Isaiah XIV.

MISHKNA=name of tabernacle of pole-star worshipping Mandaites (see
Appendix II).

NEW WORLD.

MEXICO=name of capital and by extension of state.

MEK-TAN=Maya name for empire, literally: "land of Mek."

MITNAL or METNAL=underworld. Maya.

MICTLAN=name of region surrounding pyramids of Teotihuacan.

MITLA=name of ruins in Oaxaca, Mexico.

MICTLAMPA=north. Nahuatl. _cf._ miquiztli=death.

MICTLAN-TECUHTLI=lord of the North, or underworld. Mexican pole-star god.

VI.

OLD WORLD.

I-KU or I KUU=the leader or prince, Polaris. Assyria.

DIL-GAN-I-KU=the messenger of light, Polaris. Akkadian.

KU=holy, divine (tul-ku, the holy altar). Akkadian.

KU=word of Finnic origin brought to India by Northern settlers--used by
them to denote Father-god=Ukku. Uk=the great Ku=placer or begetter
(Hewitt, p. 148).

KU-SHIKAS=ruling race of India, of Northern origin, known as
Ashura-