Flashcards: Names of God

God the Father is a title given to God in various religions.

(For other uses, see Holy Spirit (disambiguation).) Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is a term found in English translations of the Bible that is understood differently among the Abrahamic religions.

Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers.

Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others acting like a master, a chief, or a ruler.

Veles (Cyrillic: Велес; Polish: Weles; Czech, Slovak: Veles; Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic: Велесъ; Belarusian: Вялес (Vialies)), also known as Volos (Russian: Волос) (listed as a Christian saint in Old Russian texts), is a major Slavic god of earth, waters, forests and the underworld.

Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝; pinyin: Shàngdì; Wade–Giles: Shang Ti), also written simply as Di (Chinese: 帝; pinyin: Dì; Wade–Giles: Ti; "Deity", "Emperor"), is the Chinese term for "Supreme Deity" or "Highest Deity" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tian ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology.

The English word God continues the Old English God (guþ, gudis in Gothic, gud in modern Scandinavian, God in Dutch, and Gott in modern German), which is thought to derive from Proto-Germanic *ǥuđán.

*Fraujaz or *Frauwaz (Old High German frô for earlier frôjo, frouwo, Old Saxon frao, frōio, Gothic frauja, Old English frēa, Old Norse freyr), feminine *Frawjōn (OHG frouwa, Old Saxon frūa, Old English frōwe, Goth. *fraujō, Old Norse freyja) is a Common Germanic honorific meaning "lord", "lady", especially of deities.

A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature.

A theonym (from classical Greek theos "god" and -onym "name") is a proper name of a deity.

In the Chinese common religion and philosophical schools the idea of the universal God has been expressed in a variety of names and representations, most notably as 天 Tiān ("Heaven") and 上帝 Shàngdì ("Highest Deity" or "Highest Emperor").