The answers are a bit obscure, but googleable. Not mean, certainly:
- Orthodox Loop (starts at the dotted arrow):
- Pope, briefly, from Tarentaise: INNOCENT V
- Day of worship in Córdoba: DOMINGO
- Unorthodox Loop (starts at the dashed arrow):
- Chthonic deity with helm of invisibility: PLUTO
- Deuterocanonical decapitatrix: JUDITH
- Venerator of Tezcatlipoca or Mictecacihuatl: AZTEC
The trick is in filling in the loops with letters oriented toward the middle of the loop (does that make sense?) such that the C in INNOCENT, when viewed from another angle, is the U in PLUTO.
The letters in the shaded spaces unscramble to the answer, DAVID. Solomon's dad!