In like manner in both hemispheres the worship of the sun-disk orcircle, and of the serpent, was universal, and more surprising stillis the similarity of the word signifying "God" in the principallanguages of east and west. Compare the Sanscrit "Dyaus" or"Dyaus-pitar," the Greek "Theos" and Zeus, the Latin "Deus" and"Jupiter," the Keltic "Dia" and "Ta," pronounced "Thyah" (seeming tobear affinity to the Egyptian Tau), the Jewish "Jah" or "Yah" andlastly the Mexican "Teo" or "Zeo."