- A
theonym (from Gr****
theos (Θεός), 'god',
attached to
onoma (ὄνομα), 'name') is a
proper name of a deity. Theonymy, the
study of
divine proper names...
- In
ancient Gr****
religion and myth,
Eukarpia ("well-fruited" or "She of the rich harvest") was a
divine personification of fertility, or an
epithet or...
- The
Tetragrammaton is the four-letter
Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the
Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written...
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against paganism. Additionally, more
numerous sources in
which Slavic theonyms are
preserved include names,
proper names,
place names, folk holidays,...
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Abandinus was a
theonym used to
refer to a
Celtic god or male
spirit worshipped in
Godmanchester in
Cambridgeshire during the Romano-Celtic period. Abandinus...
- In Manichaeism,
Zarathustra is
considered one of the four
prophets of the faith,
along with Buddha,
Jesus and Mani. Mani
believed that the
teachings of...
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distorted in
relation to the original.
Scholars agree on the
etymology of this
theonym. It is read as the
Slavic *Živa, from
Slavic feminine adjective *živa "alive...
- people, it came to be
applied to gods.
Scholars previously ****ociated the
theonym with
solar cults and with a
variety of
unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions...
- From PIE *weh2-tu- ('prophesy'). The stem is also
found in the
Celtic theonym from
Belgica Vatumar-. *weletos 'seer' Gaul.
uelets OIr.
filed MW gwelet...
- the
Rozhanitsy and all the like.” In
copies of
Primary Chronicle, the
theonym is
written (in the genitive) as Simarĭgla (Laurentian Codex), Sěmarĭgla...
