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Re: Olympia
I doubt that it means 'heavenly'. Olympos was the name of the home of the Greek gods but at this time when people died they went down to Hades (what we now may call Hell). I believe the idea of Heaven came a lot later with the chrisitan faith which is why I think it unlikely that Olympia means 'heavenly'.
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It means Olympian, as in the gods or the Olympic games. From ὄλυμπος (olympos), a proto-Hellenic word for mountain.
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