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Brahma, the Hindu creator god, is one of the only deities of the pantheon whose name is rarely if ever used as a personal name or a base for theophoric personal names. Some seemingly theophoric names may in fact be more related to the original etymology of the deity's name itself. For example, both Lakshmi (fortune, success, prosperity) and ...
Levantine deities (especially the storm god, Hadad) by the epithet baal, meaning lord. In later times, as the conflict between Yahwism and the more popular pagan practices became increasingly intense, these names were censored and baal was replaced with bosheth , meaning "shame".
A theophoric name (from Greek: θεόφορος, theophoros) lit. "bearing or carrying a god") is a name which imbeds the name of a god within a personal name, to honour and / or invoke the protection of a deity (e.g. Apollodorus, meaning "gift of Apollo"), and was a common naming practise throughout antiquity. Many modern personal names and ...
The god ṯmq occurs in theophoric names and in a literary passage referring to him as the "warrior of Baal" (mhr b‘l) [220] and "warrior of Anat" (mhr ‘nt). [221] It has been suggested that he should be identified as the Mesopotamian god Sumuqan, who was associated with wild animals, but could also be referred to as a warrior (Akkadian ...
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.
Šeri additionally could function as a deity mediating between petitioners and his master, but no individual role was ever assigned to Ḫurri. In addition to appearing in Hurrian offering lists and theophoric names, for example from Nuzi, Šeri and Ḫurri are also attested in Hittite and Mesopotamian sources.
A single theophoric name invoking Resheph, Rašap-ilī, has also been identified in an Old Assyrian text, and it is presumed he was the family deity of its bearer. [62] However, Resheph is not otherwise attested in this role in known Old Assyrian sources and Rašap-ilī might have not been an Assyrian himself, as he is only mentioned a document ...
The name Yarikh (Yariḫ; 𐎊𐎗𐎃 YRḪ [2]) is an ordinary Ugaritic word which can refer not only to the lunar god, but also to the moon as a celestial body. [2] A further meaning attested for it is "month." [2] Earlier forms of the name, (Y)arakh and (Y)erakh, are attested as elements of Amorite theophoric names. [6]