. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . am^^ or amme,the more modern way of spelling ummah, which wasthe Phen name for mother, or, as we have it,woman = umman or mamma, whose modernSyriac is emma.^^ It seems clear that Mary issynonymous with maternity; but not with theordinary maternity occurring on earth, inasmuch asthroughout the ancient mythologies the celestialmother was represented as a virgin, and the Maryof the Eoman Catholic Church is to this day wor-shipped as a virgin pure and immacu
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . am^^ or amme,the more modern way of spelling ummah, which wasthe Phen name for mother, or, as we have it,woman = umman or mamma, whose modernSyriac is emma.^^ It seems clear that Mary issynonymous with maternity; but not with theordinary maternity occurring on earth, inasmuch asthroughout the ancient mythologies the celestialmother was represented as a virgin, and the Maryof the Eoman Catholic Church is to this day wor-shipped as a virgin pure and immaculate, althoughshe had four sons, James, Joses, Simon and Judas,by her husband Joseph, and somedaughters as well (Matt. siii. 55, 56).Still farther; Ishtar was adoredin Babylonia much in the samemanner as the Virgin is now, andas amongst her other titles was Themother of the Gods, so it is pro-bable that Mary is, under one form oranother, an appellative bearing asimilar meaning. See Figure 14,which is copied from a figure ofIshtar, in Eawlinsons Ancient Mo-narchies, vol. i., p. seeking for a Hebrew etymon, which may Figure 82 Am-Astareth, or Ashtoretli is her raother, is a name of a Carthaginian■woman, who is commemorated in Davis Carthaginian Inscriptions, No. viii, asoffering a vow to Tanith, or Anaitis. A similar name is found on the Sidonianinscription as that of the mother of Asman Azer, the King of Sidon. Davis,loc. cit. 23 It is from this root doubtless that the Christian name Emma has sprung. 255 be a clue to others of Shemitic origin, we find withthe following, from which to make a selection — i^^^, maor, A light, or light as of the sun ormoon; ^!??, mara, He is fat, well nourished, full offood. With the addition of n, as marah, the samewould signify she is fat, &c.; ^^^y marah, alsosignifies she is hollow, or bellied, and with theaddition of DX, am, we should get, as the signification. of MiKiAM, the mother is fruitful. ^!?9.) tncire, and ID, mar, in
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