Incense in China "Xiangbang" (香棒, with "stick; club") means "incense stick; joss stick". Two "incense" synonyms specifying religious offerings to ancestors or deities are "gāoxiāng" (高香, ""high incense"") and "gōngxiāng" (供香, ""offering incense""). The Sunni Muslim Hui Gedimu and the Yihewani burned incense during worship. This was viewed as Daoist or Buddhist influence. The Hui, also known as "White-capped HuiHui", used incense during worship, while the Salar, also known as "black-capped HuiHui" considered this to be a heathen ritual and denounced it. The Chinese developed a sophisticated art form with incense burning like with tea and calligraphy called xiangdao (香道). It involves various
God (word) of Language and Myths" claimed that the word "god" was taken from the Buddha's patriarchal name of Gotama. Henry Scadding, and Henry Le Mesurier in his book "Mer-cur-ius, or The Word Maker", also connected Lombard Guodan to Gotama Buddha. The connection of Gwydion with Wotan (but not with "god") is due to Jacob Grimm. The word "God" was used to represent Greek "Theos" and Latin "Deus" in Bible translations, first in the Gothic translation of the New Testament by Ulfilas. For the etymology of "", see "*". Greek " " (') means god in English. It is often connected with