text: is germany and not israel zion ? hello folks,  i wish to discuss, expecially for the believing people, if todays view on israel is a misinterpreting of available data.   most of you only know the english word germany. but we don´t call it like that. we say "deutschland", today. in earlier times things where written phonetic (written as spoken)  so some ages ago there was no "d". it was "th" or "z". so it was theut or zeutschland. well the t in the middle is just a grammar form, so it was theus or simply zeusland. regarding old saxon language the german "e" is spoken in english like the german "i" and well the "u" was often spoken "o". so it has been theos- or ziosland. theo is the same like in theology, well theo seems to be a latin word for god (spoken diu?) and well zio or ziu is the main god of all saxon tribes.and of course zeus is the description for the maingod of the old  greeks.   so can it not be that  zio´s land is nothing else than zion? no -  imaginative, but incorrect.  the word zion is a representation of a hebrew word  tsiyyon which is unrelated to any of the other words you have mentioned.  theo- as in theology is greek, but also unrelated to the others.  zeus, on the other hand, is the greek equivalent of latin deus, and germanic tiw, the god that tuesday is named after.  the older form of deutsch was thiudisc; although in modern german, the h in such words makes no difference in pronunciation, this was not originally the case. old english theodisc is to deutsch as theof to dieb (thief); if the word had carried on into modern english, instead of saying german, we would say maybe thedish, like swedish. the original sound of the th was as i english thief.  but theodish is anglo-saxon did not mean specifically german; on the contrary, it meant national, related to a gothic word thiuda meaning people, which has some related words in other indo-european languages.  the sound represented by th in theodisc etc. was always distinct from the t sound of tiw, etc. they are not plausibly related. deutschland just means national land, the land belonging to a people.