He was named Ea-bani, which signifies "Ea is my creator".
In thieves' slang the word "Cat" signifies a lady's muff, and "to free a cat" to steal a muff.
For past, as past, since it signifies being under a condition of fixed time, is something individual.
It signifies a want of due regard to, and a forgetfulness of, the delicate attentions which seem to identify us with the situation of others.
Another Egyptian fish deity was the god Rem, whose name signifies "to weep"; he wept fertilizing tears, and corn was sown and reaped amidst lamentations.
In its primary meaning it signifies that which makes manifest to the sense of sight; afterwards it was extended to that which makes manifest to cognition of any kind.
And Scripture implies the same when it says that man was made "to" God's likeness; for the preposition "to" signifies a certain approach, as of something at a distance.
The one signifies his sympathy with water by receiving the rain on his person and speaking of it respectfully; the others light a lamp or a fire and do their best to drive the rain away.