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joss :

"Chinese figure of a deity," 1711, from Chinese Pidgin Eng., from Javanese dejos, from Port. deus "god," from L. deus (see Zeus). Colloquially, it came to mean "luck." Joss stick "Chinese incense" first recorded 1883.

Compare Jupiter from Zeus Pater, meaning Father Zeus.

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Jupiter Look up Jupiter at Dictionary.com
c.1205, "supreme deity of the ancient Romans," from L. Iupeter, from PIE *dyeu-peter- "god-father" (originally vocative, "the name naturally occurring most frequently in invocations" -Tucker), from *deiw-os "god" (see divine (adj.)) + peter "father" in the sense of "male head of a household." Cf. Gk. Zeu pater, vocative of Zeus pater "Father Zeus;" Skt. Dyauspita "heavenly father." The planet name is attested from c.1290. Jupiter Pluvius "Jupiter as dispenser of rain" was used jocularly from 1864.