Indian deities in merchandising?

[sailorptah]

Our world, present day

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[reapermum]

There's juggernaut, the English spelling of one of the titles of Krisna or a heavy lorry.

[loganberrybunny]

It seems to be dying out in the latter sense, and I can't recall the word being used actually by a business. People much younger than me (34) often have to have "juggernaut" explained to them, perhaps unusurprisingly when even "lorry" is going the same way, pushed out by the American "truck".

[reapermum]

Yea, after spending years (I'm 59) using the term I now tend to say HGV or just Heavies. I'd never thought about that.

[sailorptah]

...oh, wow. I had no idea "juggernaut" was from Sanskrit. (I wonder if the people who created the X-Men character knew any better.)

[randomstasis]

From the S. Indian festival of Jagannath, where onlookers were famous for being crushed under the heavy -well, in an American parade, we'd call them floats:)