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.
Names of the Albanians and Albania Names of the Albanians and Albania The Albanians () and their country Albania ("Shqipëria") have been identified by many ethnonyms. The native endonym is Shqiptar. The name "Albanians" (Byzantine Greek: "Albanoi/Arbanitai/Albanites"; Latin: "Albanenses/Arbanenses") was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. Linguists believe that the "alb" part in the root word originates from an Indo-European term for a type of mountainous topography, meaning "hill, mountain", also present in "Alps". Through the root word "alban" and its rhotacized equivalents "arban", "albar", and "arbar", the term in Albanian became rendered