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And the man was startled, because instead of greeting him with the accustomed smile, she caught the bosom of his silk robe in one quivering little hand, and looked into his face with eyes that seemed to search for some shred of a soul, and tried to speak, but could utter only the single word, "Anata ?" Almost in the same moment her weak grasp loosened, her eyes closed with a strange smile; and even before he could put out his arms to support her, she fell.

Then tap, tap, tap, tap, the little tube is struck smartly against the edge of the smoking-box to knock out the ashes, which never will fall; and this tapping, heard everywhere, in every house, at every hour of the day or night, quick and droll as the scratchings of a monkey, is in Japan one of the noises most characteristic of human life. "Anata nominase!"

Then tap, tap, tap, tap, the little tube is struck smartly against the edge of the smoking-box to knock out the ashes, which never will fall; and this tapping, heard everywhere, in every house, at every hour of the day or night, quick and droll as the scratchings of a monkey, is in Japan one of the noises most characteristic of human life. "Anata nominase!"

With little shrieks of admiration, they point out to one another the different things, as little by little their shape and form are outlined in black on my paper. Mademoiselle Oyouki is carried away by her admiration, and exclaims, in a burst of enthusiasm: "Anata bakari!"

But the Maya designates her as the companion of Ana; TA, with; Anata with Ana. seems to mean merely Lord. His epithets are the supreme, the father of the gods, the procreator. The Maya gives us BIL, or Bel; the way, the road; hence the origin, the father, the procreator. Also ENA, who is before; again the father, the procreator. As to the qualificative adjunct nipru.

In this wise the excellent Gonzales de Badajoz and his companions wandered, without any fixed plan, until they came to the territory of Anata; and during their journey they had collected piles of gold, girdles, women's breast ornaments, earrings, headdresses, necklaces, and bracelets, to the value of eighty thousand castellanos more.

It has long been thought that this lily is produced without the aid of the male pollen, hence it would seem to be an appropriate emblem for that ancient sect which worshipped the female as the more important creative energy. Of the lotus, Inman remarks: "Amongst fourteen kinds of food and flowers presented to the Sanskrit God Anata, the lotus only is indispensable."

There is a lovely little native daisy called tupapa, and a blue lily known as rengarenga, also a green and yellow passion-flower named by the aborigines kowhaia. A glutinous, golden buttercup is known as anata, nearly as abundant as its namesake in America. All these are wild-flowers, cultivated only by Nature's hand.

With little shrieks of admiration, they point out to one another the different things, as little by little their shape and form are outlined in black on my paper. Mademoiselle Oyouki is carried away by her admiration, and exclaims, in a burst of enthusiasm: "Anata bakari!"

As Kimmut, Hoa was also the father of Nebo, whose functions bear a general resemblance to his own. Her name is thought to signify "the chief lady." She has no distinctive titles or important position in the Pantheon, but, like Anata, takes her husband's epithets with a mere distinction of gender. SIN, or HURKI. The first god of the second Triad is Sin, or Hurki, the moon-deity.