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.
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea ocean was discovered by Hippalus (1st century BCE). Many trade goods are mentioned in the "Periplus", but some of the words naming trade goods are seen nowhere else in ancient literature, and so we can only guess as to what they might be. For example, one trade good mentioned is ""lakkos chromatinos"". The name "lakkos" appears nowhere else in ancient Greek or Roman literature. The name re-surfaces in late medieval Latin as "lacca", borrowed from medieval Arabic "lakk" in turn borrowed from Sanskritic "lakh", meaning lac i.e. a red-colored resin native to India used as a lacquer and used also