The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (1912)
Bayley, Harold · New York : Barnes & Noble · leaf 310
THE EYE OF THE UNIVERSE 295 The letter X, the cross of Lux^ was known to the Greeksas xiy and the syllable xi, ziy or si evidently once meant Fireor Light. It occurs significantly in Xiutlecutli, theMexican God of Fire; in Xilonen, a Mexican Goddess ; inZizi and Ziza, European equivalents of Isis ;… … of the Sun ; in the Hindoo Siva, the fiery sunlight, and inthe Greek Zeus. The French for lightning, ^V/<j/>, is phonetically f^^-f/^r^, thegreat shine ; the Italian for lightning, baleno^ is evidentlyderived from Belenus, the name of the Celtic Apollo ; theGerman for lightning, blitZy we may…
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