Orcus The so-called Tomb of Orcus, an Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer, resulting from its first discoverers mistaking as Orcus a hairy, bearded giant that was actually a figure of a Cyclops. The Romans sometimes conflated Orcus with other gods such as Pluto, Hades, and Dis Pater, god of the land of the dead. The name "Orcus" seems to have been given to his evil and punishing side, as the god who tormented evildoers in the afterlife. Like the name Hades (or the Norse Hel, for that matter), "Orcus" could also mean the land of the dead. Orcus was
Names of God in Islam While the names of God themselves are reserved to God and their use as a person's given name is considered religiously inappropriate, theophoric names can however be formed by either removing the definite article "al" (ال), or prefixing the term "ˁabdu" (عَبْدُ - "servant of") to the name. For example, a person may not be named "Al-Karīm" (ٱلْكَرِيمُ - "the Generous") or "Al-Mālik" (ٱلْمَـٰلِك - "the King"), but may be named simply "Karīm" (كَرِيمُ - "Generous") or "Mālik" (مَـٰلِك - "King"), as well as "ˤAbd ul-Karīm" (عَبْدُ ٱلْكَرِيمُ - "servant of the Generous") or "ˤAbd ul-Mālik" (عَبْدُ ٱلْمَـٰلِك - "servant