Tanna (tannaim, plural) was a Jewish sage during the first and second centuries. Notably they were teachers who handed down the oral law and midrashim, and were distinguished in the Talmud from the amoriam.
Does the mutilated condition of the Holy Bible--in part accidental--represent none the less a definite effort to confuse the uninitiated reader and thus better conceal the secrets of the Jewish Tannaim?
After the word "Adyayai" say "vidmahe," and then "Parameshvaryyai dhimahi: tannah Kali prachodayat." This is Thy Gayatri which destroys all great sins (63).
He dedicated an emblem to Dowland in Minerva Britanna (1612) and mentions their friendship in The Compleat Gentlemen of 1622.
tannaffus = "to fetch a deep breath"; nafs = "breath of life", "soul", "self". In Aramaic naphsha = "soul"; ettapash = "breathe". In Ethiopian nephsa = "breathe"; nephes = "soul"."
[G. A.
 See also: World, Light, Evil, Sacred, Ritual
  
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