ASH=number six. Akkadian.
ASHURA=trading non-Aryan races, the Hittites, worshippers of six gods, six
seasons, of Pleiades and of Ashura Mazda, the Zend god. Established system
of grouping six provinces around central royal province where king
resided.
ASHVINS=stars which drove round the pole the constellations of Ursa Major
and Draco, another name for Ashura? Sons of horse (ashva), brought barley
to India, drank mead (madhu); instituted the Ashva Mēdha, or
horse-sacrifice of the Hindus, also used by North Germans Ugro-Finns,
Scythians and Romans.
ASH, NAK-KASCH=Draco, Euphratean name for Polaris.
MASSEBA=stone pillar. Hebrew symbol, see p. 350.
ASHERAH=pole or tree, worshipped by Phœnicians and Hebrews equivalent of
Indian rain-pole.
AL-FASS=axis, Arabian name for pole-star.
PHAR-ASH-AH, PARR-ASIS=Hebrew and Phœnician “guiding star,” Polaris.
ASSUR=kingdom and god of Assyria.
ASAR=transcription of Osiris. Egypt (O’Neil, p. 59).
ASIA=name given by Greeks to Asia.
ASKANIOS=ancient name of Phrygia.
ASTARTE=goddess of heaven, see p. 350.
ASS or ÆSIR=Scandinavian gods.
ASSGARD=central, divine dwelling. Scandinavia.
UM-ASHI=reed shoot that sprouted when the earth, young and like unto
floating oil, drifted about medusa-like. Japan. (Records of Ancient
Matters, section I.)
UMASHI-ASHI-KABI-HIKO-JI-NO-KAMI=“Pleasant-reed-shoot-elder-deity,” born
from primæval reed-shoot.
ASHI-HARA-NO-NAKA-TSU-KUNI=Land in the Middle of the Reed plains, common
periphrastic designation of Japan.