KUk.u.m=feather.
KUL=chalice.
CHUT=bowl, _cf._ Nahuatl c.u.mitl=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 princ.i.p.al.
VII.
OLD WORLD.
CITRA=bright, shining. Sanscrit.
TARA=star. Sanscrit, _cf._ Ra=G.o.d. Egypt.
SITARA=star. Hindu.
TJARA=star. Old Norse, _cf._ tar=tree.
TARA=name of central city. Old Irish.
UTTARA=North. Sanscrit.
ISH-TAR=G.o.ddess, a hymn to whom, in Akkadian and a.s.syrian, 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=G.o.d 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-G.o.d 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 G.o.d _i. e._ Cosmos.
THEO=descriptive 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 G.o.ddess to whom the seven stars of the Great Bear were sacred (Hewitt).
TEMENOS=piece of land sacred to a G.o.d, sacred precincts, precincts of temple.
A-THENA=name of Grecian capital, state and G.o.ddess, signified "Seven."
TENOS and TEOS=names of Greek states, p. 456.
DEOTHAN=village earth-G.o.d worshipped by Brahmin priests (Hewitt).
TEEN or TIEN=heaven, G.o.d, the character for G.o.d 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 G.o.d" = temple. Nahuatl.
TEOTL=name for G.o.d. Nahuatl.