OFF TOPIC -- use of 8.

[R. Rankin]

I'd call the use of the letter(s) <8> for the u of "Jes8s" an instance of
"theography."

It goes hand-in-hand with "theophony", the use of a unique phoneme in a dialect
or language only in the word for, or name of, the Deity.  Examples include the
use of a very low, back rounded vowel in the American English word "God" as
uttered by some ministers of my acquaintance.  Also the existence of the
pharyngealized "L" phoneme in Koranic Arabic only in the word "Allah".

Bob