Hades three-headed guard dog Cerberus. The Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinization of Plouton (", Ploútōn"), itself a euphemistic title often given to Hades. The origin of Hades' name is uncertain, but has generally been seen as meaning "the unseen one" since antiquity. An extensive section of Plato's dialogue "Cratylus" is devoted to the etymology of the god's name, in which Socrates is arguing for a folk etymology not from "unseen" but from "his knowledge ("eidenai") of all noble things". Modern linguists have
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