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 Names of God in Islam According to a hadith, there are at least 99 Attributes of Allah, known as the ( Beautiful Names of Allah). The names are also called 99 Attributes of Allah. According to Sahih Bukhari Hadith: There's another Sahih Muslim Hadith: The Qur'an refers to God's "Most Beautiful Names" ("al-ʾasmāʾ al-ḥusná") in several Surahs. Gerhard Böwering refers to Surah 17 (17:110) as the "locus classicus" to which explicit lists of 99 names used to be attached in tafsir. A cluster of more than a dozen Divine epithets which are included in such lists is found in Surah