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
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