Orc in common to them. A monster called "Orcus" is mentioned in Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Book II, Canto XII, line xlvii). The word ultimately comes from Latin "Orcus", the demonic Roman god of death, who should not be confused with Pluto, the god of the underworld, and has transformed by several stages from the meanings "underworld", "hell", "devil", "evil creature" to "ogre". Tolkien and the lexicons he used attributed the origin of the doubtful Old English "orc" to "Orcus" and in one of his invented languages, the word for orc also had the form "orco". Words derived from or related
Chinese names for the God of Abrahamic religions Chinese names for the God of Abrahamic religions 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"). These two and other concepts have been variously combined, in diverse contexts, to form titles such as: "Huáng Tiān Shàngdì"="Huáng" "Emperor"+"Tiān+Shàngdì" (皇天上帝) or "Xuán Tiān Shàngdì"="Xuán" "Deep"+"Tiān+Shàngdì" (玄天上帝), "Shàngtiān=Shàng+Tiān" "Highest Heaven" and "Tiāntáng=Tiān+Táng" "Vault of Heaven". The compounds "tiānshén=tiān+shén" "heavenly god" and "tiānxiān=tiān+xiān" "heavenly immortal" have been used for a deity, in a polytheistic