The Two Babylons root "*aus-", meaning "dawn," potentially by way of . "Ishtar" is a Semitic name of uncertain etymology, possibly taken from the same root as Assyria, or from a semitic word meaning "to irrigate." Hislop ultimately claimed to trace Catholic doctrines back to the worship of Nimrod, asserting that the Roman Catholic Church represented Whore of Babylon of the Book of Revelation and that "the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar". He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters standing for Isis, Horus and Seb.
Terminology of the British Isles Isles. They are divided into two branches: Some of the above are: The English word "Welsh" is from a common Germanic root meaning "Romanised foreigner" (cognate with Wallonia and Wallachia, and also cognate with the word used in Mediaeval German to refer to the French and Italians). The English names "Albion" and "Albany" are related to "Alba" and used poetically for either England or Scotland, or the whole island of Great Britain. English "Erin" is a poetic name for Ireland derived from "Éire" (or rather, from its dative form "Éirinn"). In Irish, the term "Oileáin Bhriotanacha" is a translation of