MITRA=the G.o.d said, in Rig-Veda, "to fix times of festivals." Was a.s.sociated with Varuna=night and rain G.o.d (Greek, Ouranos), with the constellation of Ursa Major and the number seven. The North was sacred to Mitra-Varuna who "maintain the invariable succession of the order of natural phenomena" (see Hewitt, pp. 144, 416 and 420).

MILKOM=G.o.d of Ammonites whose supreme G.o.d was Ursa Major.

MEDIA or MADGA=ancient kingdom whose inhabitants were allied to Persians and shook off yoke of a.s.syrian 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, princ.i.p.al 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 j.a.pan 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 Kus.h.i.tes, and

MANJHUS="royal land" set apart in Ooraon villages.

MIOKEN=name of town and mountain. j.a.pan.

MIWA=sacred mountain shrine regarded with extraordinary reverence. j.a.pan (Chamberlain).

MIAKO=ancient sacred capital of j.a.pan, residence of

MIKO, or MIKADO=heavenly sovereign who, like the Chinese Wong or w.a.n.g=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 j.a.panese Miko which includes males and females and is used combined with Naka=middle _i. e._, Middle sovereign (Chamberlain).

MIHE=threefold. j.a.panese.

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

MID-GARD=cosmical centre. Scandinavia.

MIODH-CHUARTA (p.r.o.n. 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 G.o.d.

VI.

OLD WORLD.

I-KU or I KUU=the leader or prince, Polaris. a.s.syria.

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-G.o.d=Ukku. Uk=the great Ku=placer or begetter (Hewitt, p. 148).

KU-SHIKAS=ruling race of India, of Northern origin, known as Ashura-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, j.a.panese, also mawaru, from marawi=to turn, revolve.

NEW WORLD.

_Maya._

KU=G.o.d.

KUKUL=holy, divine (p. 69).

KUKULCAN=name of culture-hero.

KU-LEL=n.o.ble.

KU-NA=temple.