LJ-Balderdash Religion and Culture round wrap-up

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So it went down like this:
The big winner was jackbabalon23, who got 5 votes for his mojo shop jingle answer (I suspect that the energy drink made of powdered Shoggoths was at least partially responsible).

Next, adammaker picked up three points for the CB cross-talk of the gods, and malvito snagged three for the unfortunate troubles of Gerald Gardner's cat.

At two votes apiece were saffronhare's invocation of the Rock Lobster, ceruleanst's explanation of the secret alphabet of the Anglo-Saxon witches, catvincent's condemnation of the horrible bastardization of different cultural memes, and fionnabhar's pseudo-Proto-Indo-European scholarship.

Also, hekatatia got a vote for the bit about the embarrassed priest who tried to cover having shouted "ECHO!" down the well, and 8elements picked up one vote for her haiku-like answer about the beginning and the end.

tryst_inn also wrote in with an answer that was one of the more believable explanations I'd discovered in my research on this question, which I quote below:
"Eko is found in several languages, or variants
thereof, of Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Essentially, it means "hail" of "praise to".
Azarak (Force of Fire)
Amelak/Zamelak (Glory).
The phrase translates, roughly in English to:
"Hail, Hail, Force of Fire,
Hail, Hail, to Glory"
Apparently, its writer was a Restoration period English playwright,
garbling together words to sound arcane, foreign, up the "oogie-boogie" factor. Rumors have it that it is basque in origin, but that has been shown to be incorrect."

Where I've read this, the initial use of the thing was sometimes attributed to one Captain Fuller. tryst_inn gets no points for knowing this, but should be accorded some degree of recognition and renown, so a round of applause for her.

Current Standings:
jackbabalon23 – 13
saffronhare – 13
kittenpants - 9
fionnabhar - 8
druidevo - 7
ottercat - 6
zerself – 6
8elements – 4
adammaker – 4
catvincent – 4
diermuid – 4
hekatatia - 4
theslice - 4
wildnsquirrelly - 4
lexpendragon – 3
malvito - 3
capriciouslass - 2
ceruleanst – 2
greektoomey – 2
infintysquared - 2
matchgirl42 - 2
rfunk - 2
triadruid – 2
becky_gardens - 1
lilia_blackbear - 1
lordkalkin - 1
opaljax - 1
orcjohn - 1
senset - 1
sxypaganmom - 1
ysabel - 1
zianuray - 1