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e of running wheel, of anything circular which seems to run around into itself. THEORS=sacred envoys, who came for sacred festivals to Olympia or Delphi from different points. THEMIS=law, right, agreed upon by common consent or prescription. Greece. THEMIS=personified law, order and justice, _cf._ Artemis, the goddess to whom the seven stars of the Great Bear were sacred (Hewitt). TEMENOS=piece of land sacred to a god, sacred precincts, precincts of temple. A-THENA=name of Grecian capital, state and goddess, signified "Seven." TENOS and TEOS=names of Greek states, p. 456. DEOTHAN=village earth-god worshipped by Brahmin priests (Hewitt). TEEN or TIEN=heaven, god, the character for god being an upright pole or support, a "ti." Chinese, see p. 301, _cf._ Chinese character, tien, field, representing a square divided by cross lines into four parts. NEW WORLD. TEM, TETEM=stone altar, foundation. Maya. p. 229. TETL=stone. Nahuatl. TEO-CALLI="house of god" = temple. Nahuatl. TEOTL=name for god. Nahuatl. TEOTIHUACAN=site of extensive ruins. Mexico. TENOCH-TI-TLAN=name of capital of Mexico. TEMISTITAN=another ancient name for Mexican capital. IX. OLD WORLD. ASH=number six. Akkadian. ASHURA=trading non-Aryan races, the Hittites, worshippers of six gods, six seasons, of Pleiades and of Ashura Mazda, the Zend god. Established system of grouping six provinces around central royal province where king resided. ASHVINS=stars which drove round the pole the constellations of Ursa Major and Draco, another name for Ashura? Sons of horse (ashva), brought barley to India, drank mead (madhu); instituted the Ashva Medha, or horse-sacrifice of the Hindus, also used by North Germans Ugro-Finns, Scythians and Romans. ASH, NAK-KASCH=Draco, Euphratean name for Polaris. MASSEBA=stone pillar. Hebrew symbol, see p. 350. ASHERAH=pole or tree, worshipped by Phoenicians and Hebrews equivalent of Indian rain-pole. AL-FASS=axis, Arabian name for pole-star. PHAR-ASH-AH, PARR-ASIS=Hebrew and Phoenician "guiding star," Polaris. ASSUR=kingdom and god of Assyria. ASAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt (O'Neil, p. 59). ASIA=name given by Greeks to Asia. ASKANIOS=ancient name of Phrygia. ASTARTE=goddess of heaven, see p. 350. ASS or AESIR=Scandinavian gods. ASSGARD=central, divine dwelling. Scandinavia. UM-ASHI=reed shoot that sprouted when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, dri
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