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was read as , Aiaia (comp.: Isebaert 2005, 168;
Gordeziani 1999, 100; Gordeziani 2007, III, 481; Gordeziani
2009, 78) – Aeaea, ‟a god’s slave‟, a feminine anthroponym
(Efkleidou 2004, 61; Gordeziani 2009, 79, 79 20 );
Greek , genit. case – the island Aeaea (Homer,
Odyssey X, 135; XII, 4; Apollonius of Rhodes III, 1074; Perrin,
Seymour 1897, 135; Vocabulary, 58; 79, 72; 84, 1);
Greek , genit. case – Aeaea, an epithet of
Circe and Medea (Homer, Odyssey IX, 32; see below);
Akkadian-Babylonian [ d a·a], d A-ya, d A-i-ya – Aya was
the Mother Goddess, the consort of the Sun-god Shamash
(Black, Green 1992, 173; Nozadze 2007, 63; Gordeziani 1999, 53);
Urartian [ d a-i-a] – Aya, the god Aias (the Earthgod);
A-i-e – in the land (Sayce 1882, 683);
Akkadian-Babylonian [ d e 2·a] 1 (Leick 1998, 37;
DDD 1999, 126; Collon 2007) – the god Ea; ‟house of the
1 . E. G. King (1888, 8, 58-59), J. Bottéro (2004) and many others have
suggested that in this case a West-Semitic (Canaanite) way of saying Hebrew
[yah] is Akkadian Ea or Sumerian [ d en·ki/gi 5 ] (Civil 2009, 15; PSD)
– Enki, Lord of the Earth (Sumerian en – lord; ki – earth: Halloran 2006, 6, 12;
MPW 1992, II, 662). [ya ] is declined with the Semitic ending as Yahw =
Yahu and may have developed into the later form of the Tetragrammation
[jhwh] of the Hebrew Old Testament (Bible, Exodus 3.14:
[’ahyh ’ašr ’ahyh] – I am who I am; Psalms 111.1: [halelu-yah]
– Praise the LORD GOD!). [yah] has also been confused with the Ugaritic Yam
(the god of Rivers and Sea) whose earlier name in at least one ancient source was
Ya(h)w/Ya’a (the West-Semitic verb root * wy > * yy- > Hebrew [hyh-]
meaning „to be‟, „to live‟ in this case used for „spring‟, „hovering over the
waters‟; comp. Bible, Genesis 1.2; Genesis 3.20: [ wh] – Eve). Although
both Ea and Yam were water gods, Ea was the creator and representative of the
sweet beneficent waters from below the earth, and as Enki was responsible for
fertilising the earth itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki).
Theodoret of Cyrus (Haereticarum fabularum compendium 241, 1673)
writes the equivalents forms of the Hebrew Tetragrammation : [Iao]
and [Aia]; also see Diodorus Siculus I, 94: [iao].
Comp. Hebrew [yah]: Egyptian [ỉ‛ ] – moon.
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