$H Y.

The letter Y is called the letter of Pythagoras because that philosopher made it the symbol of life. The foot of the letter, he said, represented infancy, and= as man gradually rises to the age of reason, he finds two paths set before h= im, the one leading to good, the other to evil, portrayed by two forks of the letter. The illustration is the device of Jean de Morvilliers (+ 1577), Chancellor of France; the harrow tied to the Pythagor= ean m, a rebus on his name Mortvie‑liers ‑ "Death and life united." The harrow is the symbol of Death, whi= ch makes all things equal. (Fig. 701.) Fig. 701. Device of Morvilliers. = (The Pythagorean Y.)(1883m1)

$H Yabrud.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>

A town in Southern Palestine, which was conquered by Vaiteh I., king of Arabia, on his invasion of Palestine against Assurbanipal. (1876c1)

$H Yacca.

An ornamental Jamaica<= /st1:place> wood used for cabinet‑making.(1883m1)

$H Yadail-bayyin.

A king of the Himyarites, about the first century A.D. He was succeeded by Yakrab-Malik-Watr. (1876c1)

$H Yadail-dhali.

A king of the Himyarites, about A.D. 120. = With him closed the reign of the kings at Marib, and the removal of the capita= l to Sana commenced; from that period the Himyaritic empire declined. (1876c1)=

$H Yadail-Dharah I.

A king of the Himyarites, about the first century A.D. He was succeeded by Samahali-Yanaf III. (1876c1)<= /span>

$H Yadail-Watr.

A king of the Himyarites, in the first cen= tury B.C. He was succeeded by Samahali-Dharah. (1876c1)

$H Yadhar-malik.

A Himyaritic sovereign, ruling at Har&acir= c;m, of whom nothing is known. (1876c1)

$H Yafar.

The king of Sabaea, and the son and succes= sor of Sacsac. He lost the principality of Oman, which his father had regained, and his whole reign was spent in repressing revolutions. His son Noman, a posthumous child, ultimately succeeded him. (1876c1)<= /span>

$H Yaghuth.

Yaghuth. "Fire." A local Sabaean divinity, who was worshipped at Djorash by the Benu-Madhidj. He was probably a form of the sun. (1876c1)<= /p>

$H Yah. [See Yahve – Editor]

$H Yah-lu.

One of the forms in which the Arabian royal name Vaiteh was written by the Assyrians. (1876c1)

$H Yah-ta.

Another Assyrian form of the Arabian royal name Vaiteh. (1876c1)

$H Yahua or Yahu-a.

Yahu-a. The Assyrian form of the royal name Jehu, which see. (1876c1)

$H Yahu-bidi.

A king of Hamath, who was conquered by Sar= gon II. (1876c1)

$H Yahu-hazi.

Yahu-hazi. Or Hazi-yahu. The Assy= rian name of that king of Judah who was called by the Hebrews Ahaz. He applied for help to Tiglath Pileser II., king of Assyria, against the kings of Israel and Damascus. The king of Assyria delivered him from= those foes, but rendered his kingdom tributary to himself. (1876c1)

$H Yahve.

Yahve. Or Yah. The Assyrian form= of writing the name of the Jehovah of the Jews, whom they regarded as a local deity. (1876c1)

$H Yahveh.

The form of the name of the Jewish Deity, Jehovah, as it is written on the Moabite stone. (1876c1)

$H Yakinlu.

A king of the I= sland of Arvad, in the Mediterranean Sea. He paid tribute to Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, to whose harem he sent his daughter as a gift. On his death the throne wa= s contested by his ten sons, and Azi-bahal was accepted as the heir by Esarhaddon, to whose decision the brothers had referred. (1876c1)

$H Yakrab-malik-watr.

A king of the Himyarites, about the first century A.D. He was succeeded by Yathamir-Bayyin. (1876c1)

$H Yala.

The son of Hasan, king of Yathrib, in Arabia. He succeeded his father on the throne, bu= t he had to pay a heavy tribute to Esarhaddon, king of = Assyria, for the right of succession.(1876c1)

$H Yalman.

A district or city in Babylonia, which was conquered by Samsi-Vul or Samas-Rimmon III., k= ing of Assyria. (1876c1)

$H Yama. Hindu

In Hindu mythology the god of hell and also the deity of justice. Cf. Rhot-a-menti and Osiris. (187= 6c1)

$H Yaman. [See Yavan - Editor]

$H Yamin.

A king of Ascalon, who was deposed by Sarg= on II., who set up Zedek in his stead as a tributary. (1876c1)

$H Yamut-bul.

An ancient name for the kingdom of Elam, when it was under the rule of Kudur-Mabuk and his successors. (1876c1)

$H Yan-bo.

A seaport of the Jorhamite Arabs, in the <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Hedjaz. (1876c1)

$H Yanzu.

The son of Haban. He was placed on the thr= one of Zimri by Shalmaneser II., after the flight of its king, Maruduk-mudami= k. He afterwards revolted against the king of Assyria= , by whom he was overthrown. (1876c1)

$H Yan-zu.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>

The king of the land of Nahiri, in Hupuskia. He was a faithful tributary of Sargon II. (1876c1)

$H Yaouah.

Among the Dyaks of Barneo said to be the n= ame for the Supreme Being. (Cameron.) (1876c1)

$H Yapaa. Or Yapah.

Yapaa. Or Yapah. A queen of Dihu= tani, or Dihtan, in Arabia, who was conquere= d and put to death by Esarhaddon. (1876c1)

$H Yappu.

A Phenician city which was conquered by Sennacherib. It was the Joppa of Hebrew and Mediaeval writers. (1876c1)

$H Yard.

(from the Saxon geard or gyrd, from gyrdan= , to enclose). Originally estimated to measure the girth of a man's body; until Henry I. decreed that it should = be the length of his arm.(1883m1)

$H Yarki.

A Nabathean town which was conquered by Assurbanipal, in the second Arabian war. (1876c1)

$H Yarub.

In prekoranic history the son of Kahtan, a= nd king of the Joktanidae. He invaded the kingdom of Yemen<= /st1:PlaceName>, and overthrew the dynasty of Lokman, driving the Adites to take shelter in the mountains of Hadramaut. He was succeeded by his son, Yashdjob. (1876c= 1)

$H Yashdjob.

The son of Yarub, the great king of the Joktanite race of = Yemen. He soon lost the power obtained by his father, and the provinces of Mahrah and Hadramaut made themselves independent. (18= 76c1)

$H Yasna.

One of the collections of fragments of the lost book of Zarathustra, which go to make up the Vendidad-sade. (1876c1)=

$H Yata-amir.

A king of Sabaea, in South-western Arabia. He was one of the early successors of Him= yar, and paid tribute to Sargon II. (1876c1)

$H Yataghan.

A Turkish dagger or scimitar.(1883m1)

A very long Turkish poniard with a curved blade, the hilt and scabbard of which are sometimes inlaid with precious stones and decor= ated with arabesques of great richness.)(1891a1)

$H Yatal-bayyin.

A petty king of Sab= a, after the fall of the Himyaritic empire. See Faram-Yanhab. (1876c1)

$H Yatha.

Yatha. "Saviour God." A Himyaritic deity, to whom, in conjuncti= on with the other local gods, a temple was erected in Abyan by Abd-shems-Asl= am and his brother Marthad. He was the special guardian of the town of Aden, and his an= alogue was the Chaldean divinity Salman. (1876c1)

$H Yatha-amir-watr.

A king of the Himyarites about the first century A.D. He was succeeded (?) by Halak-amir. (1876c1)

$H Yath-amir-bayyin I.

A king of the Himyarites about the first century A.D. He was succeeded by Karibail-bayyin. (1876c1)

$H Yath-amir-bayyin II.

A king of the Himyarites about the first century A.D. He was succeeded by Yadail-dharah. (1876c1)

$H Yathrib.

A district in Arabi= a which was early settled by the people of the Djasim, a collection of Amalekite tribes. It was afterwards conquered by Esarhaddon, who imposed a heavy tribute on its king Yala. It is now called Medineh. (1876c1)

$H Yatnan.

Iatnan. Or Yatnan. The Assyrian name of= the Island of Kypros or Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea. (1876c1)

$H Yatsu-bigalla.

Yatsu-bigalla. "Men of Great Stature." A tribe of the Kassi, or the mountain people North of Elam, conquered by Sennacherib in his first campaign, who deported them to the cities of Kar-thisbe and Beth-kubitti. (1876c1)

$H Yatu.

An unknown region which was conquered by Shalmaneser II., king of Assyria. (187= 6c1)

$H Yaubid.

The form in which the French Assyriologists translate the Hamathite royal name Ilubihid, which see. (1876c1)

$H Yau-hazi.

Another form of the name by which Ahaz, ki= ng of Judah, was known to the Assyrians. (1876c1)

$H Yauk.

A local Sabaean deity who was worshipped by the Benu-murad and the tribe of Khaywan. He was possibly a form of the su= n. (1876c1)

$H Yautah.

A different transcription of the Arabian n= ames Yahlu and Vaiteh. (1876c1)

$H Yav.

An Assyrian deity who was called "The Inundator." He was another form of Vul, the god of the atmosphere. (= This should be Rimmon. The Assyrian is Ra-ma-nu ra-kha-tsu, "Rimmon the Inundator." Sayce.) (1876c1)

$H Yavan.

Yavan. Or Yaman. A= n usurper whom the people of A= shdod raised to the throne in the room of Akhimit, the nominee of the Assyrians. Yavan entered into alliance with Hezekiah of Judah, as well as with Moab and Edom, and sent for aid against Assyria to the king of Egypt. The confederacy, how= ever, was broken up by Sargon, B.C. 711, Ashdod was taken, and Yavan fled to Ethiopia, but the Ethiopian king delivered him in chains to Sargon. (1876c1)

Yaman. An usurper, whom the people of Ashd= od raised to the throne, in opposition to their own king Akhimit, who was pl= aced over them by Sargon II. That act of insubordination led to the great sieg= e of Ashdod by the Assyrians. See Akhimit. (1876= c1)

$H Yavana.

Yavana. "Young Ones." The original Aryan root from w= hence the ethnical names Jaones, Javan, Jaunas, were derived. (M. Müller.) (1876c1)

In the Sanscrit inscriptions the name of a country and people to the West of Kandahar, which may have been either Arabia, Persi= a, Media, or Assyria, most probably the l= ast. In later times the name was used to embrace the area of all those countri= es, and there is no evidence to show that it was at any one time the exclusive name of the Greeks. (Mitra.) (1876c1)

$H Yawl.

A man‑of‑= ;war's boat, rowed with six oars.(1883m1)

$H Yazatas.

In Zendic mythology certain heavenly spiri= ts lower than the Amshaspands, and whose special care was the preservation of local parts of the universe. See<= /i> Amshaspands. (1876c1)

$H Yazbuk.

A country between the Orontes and the sea, which was conquered together with its king Burante by Shalmaneser II. (1876c1)

$H Ychma.

Peruv. The name for wild cinna= bar among the ancient Peruvians; it was employed by them for painting the body and drawing figures on the face and arms.(1883m1)