CITRA=bright, shining. Sanscrit.
TARA=star. Sanscrit, _cf._ Ra=god. Egypt.
SITARA=star. Hindu.
TJARA=star. Old Norse, _cf._ tar=tree.
TARA=name of central city. Old Irish.
UTTARA=North. Sanscrit.
ISH-TAR=goddess, a hymn to whom, in Akkadian and Assyrian, begins thus:
“Thou who as the axis of the heavens dawnest. In the dwellings of the
earth her name revolves” (Prof. Sayce, quoted by O’Neil, p. 715).
Compare with Egyptian ra=god and note that the Sanscrit uttara could have
been expressed in Egyptian hieratic script by the form of eye=uta and the
sign for ra _i. e._ an eye within a circle (see p. 390 and fig. 62). Also
compare the Sanscrit and Hindu citra and sitara with Egyptian seb-seta
“the hidden star,” pictured by the turtle, sit or cit, etc. (see p. 398).