MATHURA=name of central sacred locality. India (see Hewitt, p. 214).
MAGANA=Akkadian name for the Sinaitic Peninsula.
MAGHADAS=Finnic race ruling Northern India before the Kushites.
MERU=the Middle. Sanscrit, p. 317.
MAHTA or MEHTA=north. Egyptian, _cf._ mit=death.
MED-DOS, MEDOS or MESOS=Middle. Greek.
MED-IUS=Middle. Latin.
MED-ON=Middle. Old Irish, _cf._ Medi=Tullium, centre of state.
MID-JIS, Middle. Goth.
MIODHACH=a Central Power (Joyce). Celtic.
MITRA=the god said, in Rig-Veda, “to fix times of festivals.” Was
associated with Varuna=night and rain god (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=god of Ammonites whose supreme god was Ursa Major.
MEDIA or MADGA=ancient kingdom whose inhabitants were allied to Persians
and shook off yoke of Assyrian 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,
principal 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 Japan 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 Kushites, and
MANJHUS=“royal land” set apart in Ooraon villages.
MIOKEN=name of town and mountain. Japan.
MIWA=sacred mountain shrine regarded with extraordinary reverence. Japan
(Chamberlain).