Their Babylonian names are used at the core of the story & when we read them during Bible studies, sermons, devotions, Sunday School, and everything, when we read them out loud, we tend to read the part where they are thrown in the fire which is when they are referred to by their Babylonian names and we tend not to look too much at the whole story. People tend not to dig deep to remember the whole context of a story. We only remember part of the story, most of the time, because only part of the story is read and repeated again and again while the details are usually forgotten & ignored slowly over time. Like a legend, stories can change over time. Like the telephone game. Things get lost in translation sometimes. We can see that certain things in stories can be left out & other parts can be added. Some things can be exaggerated. They say George Washington never told a lie which isn't true. They say Tall Bunyan was 100 feet tall but he was probably only 6 or 7 feet tall. King Arthur was probably based on a real king, for example.
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