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Originally Posted by Cheese
YHVH...a Tetragrammaton.  It appears in the Old Testament 6823 times as the proper name of God, as the God of Israel. It serves to distinguish him from the gods of the other nations. Thus was the Hebrew tribal god YAHVEH distinguished from Bel, and Chemosh, and Dagon, and Shamash, and the scores of "gods of the nations".
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My point is that the name of god could be any letters since it can't be said. These work as well as any and amongst the Jews give a common reference.
The other gods you refer to can be spoken, so they are a creation of man.