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) Greek "θέω" ("theō"), "run", and "θεωρέω" ("theoreō"), "to look at, to see, to observe", Latin ' "holidays", ' "temple", and also Armenian ' "gods". Alternative suggestions (e.g. by De Saussure) connect ' "smoke, spirit", attested in Baltic and Germanic words for "spook" and ultimately cognate with Latin ' "smoke." The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek "te-o" (plural "te-o-i"), written in Linear B syllabic script. The development of English orthography was dominated by Christian texts. Capitalized, "God" was first used to refer to the Judeo-Christian concept and may now signify any monotheistic conception of God, including