Libmr2bs writes:
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Hades was the Greek god of the underworld - not a place although it is possible that the name may have been used as a reference to where Hades supposedly dwelled.
It is both. The term for the underworld, "Hades," is the same as the term for the god that ruled it, "Hades." It should not suprise you, then, to learn that the name for the ruler of the sky, "Zeus," is traceable back to the word for sky. Notice the word for the supreme god in Latin: Jupiter. This is directly from the portmanteu of "sky-father," or "Zeu-pater," as he was often called. All the prayers in the Iliad to Zeus begin with that phrase.
There are many terms in the Bible whose translations keep their original linguistic origins. Take, for example, the story of Job. In it, "Satan" talks to god. Now, this is not the devil for in Judaism, there is no such thing as the devil. The word "satan" means "adversary" and if you look into the KJV, you will find the word "adversary" in there. It's the exact same word in the Hebrew, but it got translated as "adversary" in one instance and left as "Satan" in another:
Numbers 22:22: And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
Why the distinction? Who knows. You will note that in Job, Satan is a servant of god and not separate from him.
Rrhain
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