AN=heaven, god. Babylonian Assyrian (p. 331).
ANA=heaven. Sumerian, Akkadian,(167) _cf._ Akanna=Ursa Major, Akkadian,
see p. 235.
AN and ANNU=names of celestial and terrestrial sacred central cities.
Egypt, _cf._ an=pillar or that which turns around. According to Flinders
Petrie, the an was an octagonal fluted column with a square tenon or top.
MANU=sacred mountain situated in N. W. Egypt.
KW-AN-IRAS=sacred central cosmical division situated under pole-star,
around which the six kingdoms of Iran were situated. Persia.
CANAAN=holy land, whose capital was Jerusalem.
AN-SHAN=name of ancient Persian empire.
AN-SHAR=supreme god. Assyria, _cf._ Nannar, pp. 336 and 337.
AN-SAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt, _cf._ Anubis also Anu and Anath,
Janus and Jana.
Z-AN=old Doric form of Zeus, hence Janus.
SHANG=heaven, the Above. China.
KAN=mountain, also Yo. China.
ALKAID=star in Ursa Major, also used for moon; origin of Spanish title
Alcalde.
ALKABIR=the Great. Early Arabic.
KA=surnamed the Great. Kushite father of life, the hidden god who guards
and distributes, at the appointed seasons, the life-giving rains
(Hewitt).(168)
KA=title of Egyptian king, usually rendered by “bull.”
KHAN=a prince. Tartary.
KHAKAN=an emperor or sovereign. Persia.
HAN=name for empire. Japan, _cf._ ken, imperial domain.
HANA=flower or blossom. Japanese, _cf._ ankh=flower, Egyptian and
anthos=flower, Greek.
ANGLI or ANGRIWARII=widely diffused, great northern race, mentioned by
Tacitus and Ptolemy.