The origins of the name "Demogorgon" are not entirely clear, though the most prevalent scholarly view now considers it to be a misreading of the Greek δημιουργόν ("dēmiourgón", accusative case form of δημιουργός, 'demiurge') based on the manuscript variations in the earliest known explicit reference in Lactantius Placidus (Jahnke 1898, Sweeney 1997, Solomon 2012).