Dīs Pater the Sabine god Soranus. In southern Germany and the Balkans, Dīs Pater had a Celtic goddess, Aericura, as a consort. Dīs Pater was rarely associated with foreign deities in the shortened form of his name, "Dis". Dīs Pater Dīs Pater (pronounced ) was a Roman god of the underworld. Dis was originally associated with fertile agricultural land and mineral wealth, and since those minerals came from underground, he was later equated with the chthonic deities Pluto (Hades) and Orcus. "Dīs Pater" was commonly shortened to simply Dīs and this name has since become an alternative name for the underworld or
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