Can you post an obscure name for Divinity?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. The Tetragammaton is well known, it's the four Hebrew letters Yodh Heth Vav Heth

יהוה, which transliterates into Roman letters as YHWH. Now, the problem is the pronunciation. The transliteration of the Tetragammaton is itself unsure, since YHVH, JHVH and JHWH are also possible -- consonantal "Y" and "J" are allophones of the same phoneme, and "V" and "W" are also allophones.

What's more, Hebrew is written with consonants, and the vowels are indicated by diacritical marks called "points". The Tetragammaton is written as a name of God in the Hebrew Bible, but when the Bible is read aloud in the synagogue, the actual name of God is too sacred to pronounce, so Adonai -- "Lord" -- is said instead. To remind the reader of this, the points for "adonai" are transcribed in the Torah when the Tetragammaton is written. This has led to the error that the name of God is pronounced "Jehovah", which is one version of what you get when you combine the points for "adonai" with the Tetragammaton.

The actual pronunciation is a matter of conjecture. The name probably comes from one form of "to be", in which case the likely pronunciation is "Yahweh", or something like it. I have come across a supposition that it should be "Yahu", from an ecstatic cry -- "Yahoo!" -- but that is very much a minority opinion.

You will note my constant use of words like "problem", "unsure", "likely" and so on. The answer is that nobody knows for certain how the Tetragammaton should be pronounced.