BR-AHMANAS=priestly caste. India.
ARYAMAN=star-god associated with Mitra-Yaruna, Ursa Major and number
seven. In Zendavesta is associated with Ashvino-ritual. India.
AMA or AME=heaven. Japan.
KAMI=deity, top, above.
O-KAMI=the honorable government.
YAMA=mountain. Japan.
YAMATO=main island of Japan.
AMA-NO-MA-HITOTSU=“Eye of Heaven,” name for Pole-star. Japan.
AME-NO-MI-NAKA-NUSHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven,
first Japanese “hidden” god.(166)
AME-NO-TOKO-TACHI-NO-KAMI=Deity-standing-eternally-in-heaven, hidden god;
_cf._ Kuni-no-toko-tachi-no-kami=Deity-standing-eternally-on-earth. Japan.
AMEN-RA=hidden god. Egypt.
AHA-MENA or MENES=historical founder of kingdom=“the Constant One.” Egypt;
_cf._ menu=monuments; smen=to establish. Egyptian.
MINYŒ, MINYANS or MINŒANS=race who traced descent from Minos=the measurer
(Men=measurer); great agricultural and building race in India, Arabia and
Egypt. Measured time by circumpolar constellations; became confederates of
Sabæans; conquered Phrygia, built Mycenæ (Hewitt).
AMUN=national god of Ammonites. Amun means the builder or architect and
is, like the name of Egyptian god, formed of amān, to sustain. He was the
god of the meridian and of the central house-pole, sustaining roof who, in
Egypt, became Amen-ra (Sayce and Gesenius, quoted by Hewitt, _op. cit._).
The supreme god of the Ammonites was Nāgash, the constellation of Ursa
Major (Hewitt).