` * A Dictionary of Non-Christian Religions (1971), Geoffrey Parrinder, pp. 32-33: ``'Denial of the Gods' (Greek a, not, theos, God) to the Greeks might mean complete scepticism or dislike of the myths of the traditional deities. Socrates criticized the immoral myths, but had a deep personal faith in divine inspritation. Pindar and Euripides did the same, and there was no room for such personal deities in Aristotle's intellectual concept of divinity. 'Atheist' also meant godless in the sense of wicked. In Hinduism na asti, 'it is not', meant primarily a denial of the revelation in the Veda scriptures, and also atheistic or impious. The Charvakas were materialists who rejected the Vedas, and so did the Buddhists and Jains. Yet Hindu gods appear in these systems, though subservient to the Buddhas and Jinas. Rather than atheistic they have been called 'transtheistic', by-passing the great gods, or 'transpolytheistic' in that they relegate the many gods to a low place and have no knowledge of a Supreme Being.```