Orcus from Anglo-Saxon, a word meaning demon, usually supposed to be derived from the Latin Orcus—Hell. But I doubt this, though the matter is too involved to set out here. From this use, countless other fantasy games and works of fiction have borrowed the concept of the orc. The name "Orcus" appears in the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game as Orcus, Prince of the Undead. Orcus appears as a character in Christopher Moore's "A Dirty Job". The Kuiper belt object 90482 Orcus is named after Orcus. This was because Orcus was sometimes considered to be another name for Pluto, and also
Names of God in Judaism Names of God in Judaism The name of God most often used in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH ). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as "the " owing to the Jewish tradition viewing the divine name as increasingly too sacred to be uttered. It was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word "Adonai" (“My Lords”), which was translated as "Kyrios" (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures. Rabbinic Judaism describes seven names which are so holy that, once