rise of pure monotheism, 355;
stelae with seven symbols, seven circles, etc., 358;
Pole-star worship, seven-fold division, Four Quarters, etc., 367;
summary, 483.

Astarte, Assyrian goddess figured as cow and as moon, 337, 345, 350.

Astronomy, cast of astronomy-leaders, 22;
study of, among native races, 42;
basis of religion, 43;
knowledge of, among Eskimo, 50;
and other native peoples, 53;
Mexican astronomers, 82;
among the Zuni, 205;
astronomer-priests of Mexico 274;
in China, 285;
Chinese, Babylonian, Hindoo, Chaldean, Egyptian, Thibetan and Indian,
300, 301;
in Chaldea, 330;
in Babylonia and Assyria, 328, 338;
in Egypt, 376, 383;
Egyptian zodiac signs, illustrated, 395;
the time when there ceased to be a conspicuous pole star, 525-526 (see
Polaris, Calendar, etc.).

Atlantis, Island of, 446.

Atlatl or spear thrower, 211;
on temple of the Tigers, and on Stone of Tizoc, 212.

Attiwendaronks, 196.

Avila, 132.

Axayacatl, living representative of Huitzilopochtli, 71.

Axial rotation (or wheel) in ancient religion, symbolism and government;
in Maya name for Ursa Major, 8-10;
title of Mexican supreme divinity, "Wheel of the Winds," 11, 33;
origin of idea was rotation of Ursa Major around Polaris;
symbolized by swastika symbol, 18-23;
imitated by Mexican game, "Those who fly," 24;
associated with Mexican Calendar system, 25;
indicated by name Teo-Culhuacan or Aztlan, 56;
represented by Mexican sacred dance, 59;
indicated in Vienna Codex by circle of footstep, 90;
in Zuni religious ceremony, 129;
in religious ceremony and irrigating canals of Peru, 145, 146;
symbolized by Nahuiollin on Mexican Calendar Stone, 251-52;
by one-footed man on Mexican "Sacrificial Stone," 259;
in ancient plan of Mexican government, 273;
pictured divinity surrounded by circle of footsteps, 279;
in plan of ancient Chinese government, 280-291;
in calendar systems of China and Mexico, 292;
symbolized by spider's web, 293;
in Chinese calendar, 309;
the wheel in Hindu religion, 313, 319;
in Babylonia and Assyria, 331, 332, 356, 365, 366, 367;
"Wheel of the law" and "lord of the wheel" of India, in Egyptian
symbolism, 394, 400, 401;
centrifugal power and rule indicated by names of capital cities in Egypt
and Greece, 413;
revolving pillar on Acropolis at Athens, 447;
in Arabia, 448;