- 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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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...
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against paganism. Additionally, more
numerous sources in
which Slavic theonyms are
preserved include names,
proper names,
place names, folk holidays,...
-
matronae Austriahenae,
found in 1958 in Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Germany. The
theonym may also be a part of some
placenames and
personal names. By way of linguistic...
- been
interpreted as a
theonym for the Indo-European sky and
weather god,
evidently also
called by the
Thracians with a
symilar theonym –
Zibelthiurdos or...
- 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...
- main
interceptor discharge outfall of the
system of
sewers in Rome. The
theonym Cloācīna is a
derivative of the noun cloāca ('sewer,
underground drainage';...
