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Re:The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ by otabdeveloper2 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:51PM (#21776302)
The Greek 'daemon' seems like a pretty accurate translation for '神'.
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Re:The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ by schoen on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:18PM (#21776598)
Strictly, daemon is Latin; a better transliteration of the Greek into English is "daimon".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BC%CF%8...

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Re:The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ by Voyiatzis on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:42PM (#21777393)
A Latin transliteration of the Ancient Greek, as “δαίμων” engendered “daimon.”
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