SHAME=heaven. Babylonian-Assyrian.
SAMA=heaven. Græco-Persian.
SAMA or SHAMA=north. Arabic (Al Kaukabal Shamaliyy=star of the North; Al
Kulbal Shamaliyy=the northern axle or spindle).
AMAN=verb to sustain. Akkadian.
AMAXA=name for Ursa Major=a chariot. Greek.
SAMAS or SHAMASH=Babylonian-Assyrian god, “the universal judge,” whose
image was wheel with four rays (see pp. 331 and 350), _cf._ Ramman.
BAAL-SHAMAYUN=supreme god. Phœnicia.
AMASIS=Egyptian god.
KAMOSH=god of Moabites, p. 350.
HAM or KHAM=name for northern Egypt.
AMANTINI=an Illyrian tribe. Greece.