[Please add to this list, and if you feel ambitious, give a brief gloss on each. Although, this could be dangerous. There's an old Superstition? that the world will end if ever all the names of G-d are written down.] |
[Please add to this list, and if you feel ambitious, give a brief gloss on each. Although, this could be dangerous. There's an old Superstition? that the world will end if ever all the names of G-d are written down.] (cf. the short story by Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God) |
Generic names for the divine being(s): God, Goddess, gods, Deity?, deities
Names for specific conceptions of god: Yahweh, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, the Holy Trinity, [The Godhead]?, Him, He who is called "I am," Allah, Krishna?, Buddha; then there are the many names for the many different gods of polytheistic religions, e.g., Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, and Siva. In old persia the name of the sun god was shamash (or sha.mash). According to the old sources his sister "Ishtar" (AKA "Ianna" or "Inanna") represented the goddess of the moon. In some narrations the both of them were mixed up, so Ishtar was the goddess of the sun and shamash was the god of the moon. Shamash -being the sun god- was the first to be pictured with a sort of corona. In a later time the christian religion adapted this kind of image when the holy saints got their halo.
[Please add to this list, and if you feel ambitious, give a brief gloss on each. Although, this could be dangerous. There's an old Superstition? that the world will end if ever all the names of G-d are written down.] (cf. the short story by Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God)
See also: The name of God in Judaism; Ninety-nine names of Allah.