Re: [Cz-L] Night on Ruska.

Bojih Bog is still used in Slavic languages as an exclamation, an appeal
for help from God like "Oh My God" in English.The double use of the name of
God is already in the Old Testament like:
"For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords"
and is even compressed in one word like in the Romanian Dumnezeu (Domnul
and Zeus), and most probably in other languages too.

How we Jewish children in Cz. got to be frightened by that expression is
another question in its own rights. As a matter of fact I did not believe
in stories about him (probably because on my father's authority but somehow
the name was perpetuated to my son who was born 1950 and still feared a
Buh, distortion and double distortion of names)?

Berti.

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:58 PM, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:

> Dear Christian,
> Yes , Beelzebub is a possibility !
> Very much so.
> Hardy
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> To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
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>
>
> Dear Hardy,
>>
>> could it also go back to the Beelzebub, in the sense of a popular
>> Slavonic interpretation of the term deriving from the Bible?
>>
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Beelzebub<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub>
>>
>> Christian

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