1900- I.J Spanish Documents Relativk to the Canary Islands. 75 



INSCRIPTION XVII. 

 The order of reading is the same : 



Itzahar Tekara aur Deka mate. 

 Itzahar, Tekara child Deka King. 



" Itzahar, son of Tekara, King of Deka." 



The word for king is the equivalent of the Japanese nii-to, mi-kado, 

 the honourable door, or sublime porte. In Basque it would be mi-ate, an 

 abbreviation of niiva-ate, the admirable door. The Basque ate and the 

 Japanese kado, are probably the original of the English "gate," and 

 cognate words in other languages, including the Gaelic geata. Lexico- 

 graphers are almost absolutely ignorant of the extensive Iberic element 

 in all Indo-European and even Semitic languages. There are also 

 debts the other way, as in the Basque pan-toka, a pile of stones, and the 

 Japanese ban-jaku, a boulder, in which pan and ban are not native 

 words, but ancient survivals of the Semitic eben, a stone, denoting 

 former intercourse with Hebrews, Assyrians and similar orientals. 

 Itzahar means "the old ox," which, in Turanian nomenclature, is not 

 remarkable. Sitting-bull belonged to the same race. Even in Celtic, 

 the Babylonian Sin-Gasit, who is the original of the British legendary 

 Hen-gist, is sean-gaiscidh, the old warrior, a name which he no doubt 

 received as a child. Tekara may be the Basque zigora, the rod, scourge, 

 etc. Deka again may stand for ideki, open. 



INSCRIPTION XVIII. 

 In perpendicular or Japanese order : 



Au aran Mania beha Kama. 

 This right Mama regards Kama. 



