(a) Capitalize names, synonyms and personifications of deities and other supernatural beings:
(b) Do not capitalize such words used as common nouns:
(c) Derivatives of these terms are normally lower-cased, as are similar terms used metaphorically:
(d) Capitalize personal pronouns that refer to deities when they are used as proper nouns, but do not capitalize relative pronouns:
(e) Do not capitalize the words god and goddess when they refer to pagan deities, but capitalize the names of the deities themselves (Baal, Woden, Zeus).
(f) Do not capitalize words such as heaven, paradise, purgatory, nirvana, happy hunting ground, devil and angel when used in a non-religious sense:
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