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Deities

  • DeityThe English word deity derives from Old French and the Latin noun deus, meaning divine nature. Augustine of Hippo coined this term in late antiquity to…
  • GodThe Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference to the Israelite God Yahweh in 840 BCE. The English word God comes from a 6th-century Gothic translation…
  • ÆsirThe modern English term Aesir derives from the plural Old Norse word aesir. Its singular form is ass. In Old English, speakers used the cognate word eese.