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** The Latin Vulgate bible rendered YHWH as "Iehovah" (remembering that in Classical Latin, "v" is pronounced like either a "u" or a "w".) Eventually, this spelling came down into modern English as "Jehovah."
** In Exodus 3:14, God introduced Himself to Moses by saying: "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’"
* Catholics have a huge number of titles for the Blessed Virgin Mary. [http://www.iskandar.com/ourlady/ourladytitles.html Here's one list]; even allowing for doubtful entries, it numbers in the hundreds. Basically, anytime you see
* [[Santa Claus]] still bears the names of all the midwinter spirits he's assimilated: St Nicholas, Sinterklaas, Yule-Father (see also Odin), Father Christmas, Grandfather Frost, Papa Noel, Kris Kringle...
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