Just as the term Kal Israel means all Israel, and uses an abbreviation of the name of Kali, the mate of Shiva, so too does the name of Ummah, a mate of Shiva, mean community, people, and nation in ancient Hebrew. This shows how devoted the original Jews were to their deities. Just as Christian monastics, whether male or female, regard themselves as the brides of Christ, so too did the earliest Jews regard themselves as the mates or brides of Shiva.

     Umma in ancient Hebrew is derived from the same root as Em, meaning mother, and it, as well as ammah, meaning mother, are all admittedly derived from the same source.

524: Ummah in Hebrew means a collection, community, nation, people.
(All the numbered entrees are from James Strong's Hebrew Dictionary.)

517 is Em,  a primitive word which means mother, and a word which can be taken figuratively or literally.

520 Amma means mother and is derived from 517, Em.

523 Ummah is from the same source says James Strong as 517, meaning mother,  and Ummah means a collection, a community of persons; nation, people.

    We may conclude from Strong's observation that Umma is derived from Em, meaning mother, and also from the fact that Ma may be a shortened form of Mah, meaning how great, that Ummah was originally regarded as the Great Mother.

5980 ummah means conjunction, society, near, beside, along with. From 6004 amam.

6004 amam, meaning to associate, to overshadow by huddling together.

   Interestingly, the "overshadow" and "huddling" elements fit in with Ummah being Osseo's consort. Amam may be seen as a double aum from a Hindu point of view, and this in turn can have numerous implications, among them: the mother overshadowing, that is, protecting the community; and the mother and the community being a couple.  Naming themselves after their divine mother, the earliest Jews, who were Hindus, regarded themselves as spiritually bound to their spiritual mother, and father. The two ams in amam may be construed as being a double Aum or Om.

5981 Ummah means the same as 5980, an association; Ummah is a place in Palestine.

  The earliest Jews recognized Ummah as the consort, mate, or bride of Shiva.  A consort is one who conjoins, that is, is in society with, near, beside, along with the mate.

Her name to this day is a variation of Aum.
 

     Uma in Sanskrit is the name of a place, a town, a wharf, a landing place.  It also means a helper, a friend, a companion. It is the name of several women. Uma is also called Parvati. The name Uma itself is said to be derived from a word meaning "O Child, do not practice austerities," advice which Parvati did not take, for she became the mate of Shiva, a recluse monk living in the mountains and wilderness. Her name also means splendor, light, fame, reputation, quiet, tranquillity, and night.
 

   Just as Sita, mate of Rama, is associated with grain in general, and name Kali with wheat and acacia, the name of Uma is associated with flax and turmeric in Sanskrit.
 

   Remembering that Hebrew is basically a language of consonants, with vowel forms, it is not hard to conceive of Ummah as meaning mother. In fact the Um may be seen as a form of Em, and even as an abbreviated form of Ammah, and the combination of Um and ma(h) may very well mean Great Mother, Um being mother and mah meaning great.  That may well be construed to be the position that Ummah played. As the mate of Shiva, who is Sheba, Lord of the Shabbath, she was in fact the mother of all the people, and through usage in time her name came to mean the people of Judaism, the nation of Judaism.

     When Shiva is known as Oseo his consort is Ummah, which in Hebrew means congregation, people, nation as well as mother, which shows the universal perception of the Goddess of a culture being regarded as the mother of the earth and its creatures.   So we can see how closely attentive to the Hindu pantheon the ancient Hebrews were.  Just as some monastic Christians, male as well as female, call themselves the brides of Christ, so too the ancient Israelites as a people and a nation called themselves Ummah, brides (or consorts) of their Deity, Oseo (or Saba).  We shall see that this same pattern of naming the people after the name of the Deity's beloved, that is, after the female Deity associated with the male Deity, was also followed in the culture of the Maya, who also took their name from the Hindu goddess Maya.  Early in Hindu history the focus was on Maya as the Mother of Creation. Later Maya came to represent the illusory, the world of sensation. When we understand that the Maya worshiped Shiva as Sui va or Zuiva, then it is easy to understand that the Maya were people who named themselves after the Divine Mother of Creation, Maya, who was the mate of Shiva, the Divine Father.

    In Hindu scriptures Uma is the daughter of Himavat and the wife of the God Shiva.  She is also called Parvati and Durga.  She is famous, one would have to deduce, for not following her mother's advice: "O child, do not practice austerities," for she became the mate of Shiva, who most of the time lived in the wilderness and in the mountains.

   Deities who live in harmony with creation in the wilderness, such as Uma and Shiva, contradict the Old Testament's sanctions for brutality towards creatures, justified in scriptures such as Genesis 1: 26-28 and by the purported covenant given by God to Noah after the flood.   Shiva and his mates and consorts were wilderness dwellers. They are not known for excavating the ground and oppressing, displacing and killing creatures there in order to build cities or factories.  They lived in accordance with the law established by Deity with Noah and Enoch as seen in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.  Creation was sacred and created by Deity.  Interference with creation, such as having dominion over creatures, mining the earth, slaughtering creatures, and wearing cosmetics, were all forbidden.
 

   I would suggest to the reader that Ummah and Amma were originally identical in the primal Jewish culture which honored the great mother, Am (or Um) being a variation of Em, and mah, meaning great or mighty. Just as the Hovah in Jehovah comes from Havvah meaning Eve and the living, and just as Israel, which means to prevail is a shortened form of Is (God) Sarah (Prevail) and El (God).  So too Kal Israel, meaning All Israel, is derived from Kali, the mate of Shiva.

    Therefore, since we know that the HIndu deity Shiva, also known as Isana, Isa, and Osseo, existed in the Yucatan as Zuiva or Sui Va, also known as Itzamma, Itza, and Oc, the name Maya is therefore not at all mysterious, for Maya is another name for Ummah, Shiva's consort. The Maya are the nation, the community, or the people of Zuiva. Other parts of this study deal with the Maya connection more elaborately.

  Probably most systems of belief or Ways have an analogy to the above bond between human devotees and the Divine Beloved. Monastics (male as well as female) who are followers of Jesus sometimes call themselves the brides of Christ. It is a tribute to the devotion and love of the Maya that they should name themselves as the consorts of Zuiva who is Shiva, just as it was a tribute to the devotion of the ancient Jews that they named themselves as the consorts of Oseo or Shiva.

    When these cultures were in more perfect balance with Matriarchs, then we have what existed among the Jews, and no doubt among other cultures, the people, community, or nation being described with the name of the Male Deity, such as Stana, which is a name of Shiva. This is, in turn, a tribute to the Divine Matriarch, Uma, Kali, Parvati, Sakti, Maya.

  I use the word consort rather than the Western notion of bride or spouse because the words bride and spouse in the West, i.e. in Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, contain strong connotations of "being a possession" of the husband.

    Though numerous people in the Judeo-Christian tradition will assert that Hindus and Buddhists are more sexist than the people in their own traditions, in the final analysis the Hindus and Buddhists both have a long history, stretching over millennia and continuing to the present, of recognizing female avatars, some of whom at times mated, and all of whom in some way were teachers.  So, while sexism no doubt still exists in these cultures to some extent, these Eastern traditions are far more open regarding women than the orthodox Judaeo-Christian-Islamic traditions which forbid their women to preach or teach matters of religion.  Though there are female saints in all these latter traditions, they were generally raised to that status after death, after a life in which they were subordinate to males.  Now of course there are also female scholars of religion and theology recognized in the above traditions as well.  Worship of Sakti, the divine female, has seemingly always existed in the Hindu/Jain cultures, and today there are renowned female avatars such as Amma who tour the world teaching and setting up places of worship.
 

    The Ummat, the followers of Allah, took their name from Umma, the mate of Shiva, just as the nation, community, and people of Israel named themselves Umma after her. Umma means people, congregation and nation in ancient Hebrew.  There can be hardly any doubt that the Hebrew word for mother is related. And ancient Hebrew, like Arabic, are both languages stemming from Sanskrit. This fact also demonstrates that the Arabian Peninsula was permeated by the Vedic religion and by the vegetarian Sabeans in particular, as is stated by the India scholars of Viewzone.com,  Hinduism Today magazine, and Sword of Truth.com.
 

      "There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.  We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered."

   One can easily see how the claims of the Muslim Shi'ites, or Shias is valid, namely, that the lineage of authority was to pass on to the vegetarian Hazrat Ali, and not to Omar and Bakr.  We should take their claims in context of the following:

1. The Sacred Stone is a Shiva lingam, a pillar that has been broken into seven pieces.

2. The Quran praises the Sabeans, who are vegetarian.

3. The Quran has numerous passages stating that Gardens of Vegetation await the true Muslim.

4. Muhammad was vegetarian. This is admitted even by Sunnis. Some say he ate meat if it was offered. Even Sunnis admit that Muhammad warned people about consuming flesh. Some Sunni scholars do not even mention that Muhammad ate flesh, but present him as totally vegetarian.

5. Ali, like Muhammad was vegetarian. The Shias claim that Ali was to be the authority on Islam after Muhammad's death, but that this was usurped by Omar and Bakr.

6. (Muhammad in) the Quran praises Hud as the true prophet. The word Hud is the same as  Howde in ancient Hebrew, meaning India. Muhammad was attempting to secure the scriptures from being perverted by later generations. From Strong's Hebrew Dictionary: Entry 1912 Hoduw, ho'doo, Hodu (i.e. Hindustan) , India. Ancient Hebrew is based primarily on consonants, so HD, seen either as Hod or Hud, is also the root of Jehudea, the earlier form of the name of Judah or Judea.

7. Scholars and seers in the ancient Arabian cultures, as noted by Chaturvedi in his Sword of Truth.com  articles, venerated their Hind or Hindu ancestry.

8. Allah is described as The Lord of Seven Worlds or Heavens in the Quran. This is a well-known attribute of Shiva.

9. Ramman, an aspect of Allah, and Ramadan, both derive from Ramah, one of the deities of Hinduism.

10. The Quran affirms the Family of Creation in Surah 6: Verse 38.

      "There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.  We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered."