CONCEPT FROM THE WEST

The Anglo/Saxon and the Teuton in their own and other allied European 

languages call their object of worship "GOD" or words of similar sound and 

import, i.e. 

The ancient Phoenicians called their God - ALLON - (not far from Allah if we 

could only hear it articulated), and the CanaanitesADO. The Israelites not 

only shared the word EL with the original people ofPalestine, but borrowed 

the name of their chief deity - ADO and turned it into ADONAI, and 

everywhere the four-letter word YHWH occured in their Holy Scriptures, they 

read "Adonai"instead of "Yahuwa."You will not fail to notice the 

resemblance between the Jewish Adonai and the heathen Adonis. ADONIS 

was a"beautiful godling loved by Venus" in the Greek pantheon. 

THE LATIN CONCEPT

In the Latin-dominated languages of Western Europe,where Latin had 

remained dominant in learning and diplomacy for centuries, the chief term 

used for God is DEUS: 

God

Gotin Afrikaans (the language of the 

descendants of the Hollandse people in 

South Africa);

Gottin German; and

Guddin Danish, Swedish and 

Norwegian languages.

Deusin Portuguese;

Dieuin French;

Dioin Italian;

Diosin Spanish;

Diain Scotch and Irish; and

Duwin Welsh.

Surprisingly in all the languages above, Deus and all the similar sounding 

words mean heaven. 

Moulana Vidyarthi, in his monumental work - "Muhammad in World 

Scriptures,"

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devotes a hundred pages to the names of God in thedifferen

anguages. And out of a list of 155 attributive names, over 40 of them use 

the word "Heaven"or the "Above," in their language in describing God. 

Though the Muslim chants the Asmá-ul-husna(the most beautiful names)

99 as derived from the Holy Qur'an with the crowningname, ALLAH; 

"Heaven"is not one of those ninety-nine attributes. Symbolically, heaven 

may be described as the abode of God, and in the words of Wordsworth in 

Tintern Abbey: 

CONCEPT FROM BEYOND THE FAR EAST

Among all the 155 tantalising names of God in the various tongues, the one

that tickled me most was - "A-T-N-A-T-U!"- and this I have adopted as a

title of my book, instead of the original title promised - "What is His 

Name?"for this present publication. 

WHAT IS SO FUNNY OR SO NOVEL ABOUT ATNATU?

The aborgine of South Australia calls his God "Atnatu"because some 

philosopher, poet or prophet had programmed him, that the Father in 

Heaven is absolutely free from all needs; He is independant; He needs no 

food nor drink. This quality, in his primitive, un-inhibited language, he 

conversely named ATNATU, which literally meant "theOne without an anus

the One without any flaw" - i.e. the One from Whom noimpurity flows or 

emanates. 

WHOSE DWELLING IS THE LIGHT OF SETTING SUNS, AND THE 

ROUND OCEAN AND THE LIVING AIR, AND IN THE BLUE SKY, AND 

IN THE MIND OF MAN: A MOTION AND A SPIRIT THAT IMPELS ALL 

THINKING THINGS, ALL OBJECTS OF ALL THOUGHTS, AND ROLLS

THROUGH ALL THINGS.