the plural of elon is eloi
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Replying to @eigenrobot @chaosprime
elo/they fun fact: elohim is a collective noun and means something more like "the gods" rather than "God", but Judaism shifted from monolatry to monotheism much later and kept the old epithets because of textual preservationism.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
the singular is eloah (compare Yoruba “loa”), it can still be found in one poem where it couldn’t be stealthily edited out without fucking up the meter
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
usually just El, right? or is that usage restricted to later texts where it referred to the singleton superglobal El instead of the instance of class eloah?
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not really sure, i feel as if el and eloah look like the same concept but are actually meaningfully distinct children of the same root, but i dunno how exactly
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