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water‟ (Sumerian a – water; a, a-a – father; e 2 – house, temple:
King 1888, 22, 51; Halloran 2006, 3, 71; ETCSL);
Hebrew [’ayh], Aiah, Ajah, Aia – Aya, a personal name
(Bible, Genesis 36.24; I Chronicles 1.40; II Samuel 3.7; 21.8, 10);
Hebrew [‛yh], Hai, Ai, Aija, Aia – Aya, a name of
place (Bible, Nehemiah 11.31);
Old Indian Āyú – the power of life (MPW 1991, I, 146);
Ugaritic ayaku; Hurrian Ayakun – deity (Nozadze 2007, 64);
Hurrian d A·a·ak·ki, ayakki – a cult object in a temple
(Nozadze 2007, 64);
Hittite ayakki – a cult object in a temple, an epithet of
Ishtar (Hoffner 2009, 2; Tatishvili 2006, 1, 23);
Hittite GIŠ e a-, GIŠ eya(n)- – eya, evergreen sacred tree, yew (?);
to its cult the ritual of sacred sheep skin was connected
(Gamkrelidze, Ivanov 1984, II, 907, 582; Tatishvili 2007, 2, 5); it
was used as a symbol of being free of various civil obligations,
e.g., taxes and chores (Hoffner 2009, 8);
Mingrelian [aia-žašxa], [aia-žešxa];
Svan [aia-mišladeγ], [aiamišladäγ]
– the Aea-sun day; the name of the fasting Sunday
of the pagan celebration 1 (Коbalia 1903, 103; Кipshidze 1914,
1 . Aea [aia] was one of the pagan celebrations held in Georgia (Mingrelia,
Abkhazia, and Svaneti) on the day a week before Baea [baia] – the Palm
Sunday.
On this day Mingrelians and Abkhazians used to decorate their homes
and farm buildings with spring flowers, violets (Georgian [ia]), also
scatlering them all over the yards (Antelava 2006, 5. I am thankful to N.
Ghambashidze who supplied me with this information), wine-jars were
blessed (Kajaia 2009, IV, 24). N. Anteleva (2006, 5) thinks that Aea was
then the celebration of the spring equinox. The Aea celebration is mentioned
in Mingrelian folk verse (Kobalia 1903, 103; Kipshidze 1914, 188):
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