kushikas (Hewitt).

CHU=the brilliance or light, Egyptian.

CHU-ATEN=the central capital founded by Amenhotep.

AL-KUTB=the axle, Polaris. Arabia.

TUL-KU=the holy altar. Akkadian.

GU=the urn. Akkadian.

KUL-KUN=central cosmical mountain. China, _cf._ Sar-tuli-elli, king of the
holy mound.

KURUMA=wheel, Japanese, also mawaru, from marawi=to turn, revolve.

NEW WORLD.

_Maya._

KU=god.

KUKUL=holy, divine (p. 69).

KUKULCAN=name of culture-hero.

KU-LEL=noble.

KU-NA=temple.

KUKUM=feather.

KUL=chalice.

CHUT=bowl, _cf._ Nahuatl cumitl=bowl or jar.

CHU-MUC=that which is in the middle or centre.

CHU-MUCCIL=Middle, centre.

CHU-MUC-AKAB=midnight.

CHU-NIL=adj. the principal.

VII.

OLD WORLD.

CITRA=bright, shining. Sanscrit.

TARA=star. Sanscrit, _cf._ Ra=god. Egypt.

SITARA=star. Hindu.

TJARA=star. Old Norse, _cf._ tar=tree.

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.

IK=life, breath, air, wind _cf._ ecatl=breath, etc., Nahuatl, and ek=star.
Maya.

KIKCOLOM=blood. Maya.

XICO=navel. Nahuatl.

VIII.

OLD WORLD.

TEH-TEH=designation of the first star of the Great Bear, given in
star-list in Papyrus of Ani, and the same as Te-te, the Akkadian star-god
of the two foundations (Hewitt, p. 267).

TET=highly abraded form of timmen=foundation.

TEM=foundation, Egyptian (O'Neil); foundation stone (Brown). Akkadian.

TET=eternity, symbolized by stone pillar. Egypt.

A-TEN=circle or disk. Egypt.

UA-TET=Egyptian name for emerald.

THEOS=Greek name for god _i. e._ Cosmos.

THEO=descriptiv