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Old 05-02-2014, 05:17 PM   #29
Rocket Man
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Default Re: Real World Name Origins?

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Originally Posted by malloyd View Post
Beelzebub is an insulting mutation of Ba'al, and of course Biblical too. Oannes is the Greek name for the Babylonian god Ea. Chronos is the Greek personification of time, and eventually conflated with the titan Kronus.
And the fact that Kronos became the Big Bad of the Percy Jackson books, out to undo modern civilization and transform the world, shows just how well the conferences with Nybbas have been going these days.
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