[Tlhingan-hol] Religious terminology

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lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh:
> One of the biggest problems the missionaries encountered was that Cherokee lacked any words for “God”, “heaven”, “hell”, etc. and furthermore the people had no previous equivalent concepts to refer to. They were starting from scratch.

What did they finally do?

According to Wikipedia, parts of the Bible have been translated into
Cherokee, which I presume is impossible without having resolved the
lack of the above words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Cherokee

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