Talk:Beelzebub (Empath stories)/@comment-5571486-20160422212403/@comment-25762071-20171125152220

Yeah, it's absolutely a dis; I've also read that some of these names like Beelzebub and Ashtoreth (Astarte) are deliberate distortions of the actual names of gods of neighborning people, and also a way to avoid saying the real names of said gods. In the case of Ashtoreth, " boseth" means "abomination," for example. It's unlikely Astarte worshippers called her that. We still do similar stuff today with things like sports team names.