Help with most difficult logic riddle I have ever heard?

There are three Egyptian Gods.

One of them always tells the truth, one of them always lies, and one of them always answers completely randomly.

Your mission is to correctly determine which God is which.

You may ask three yes/no questions, and you may also ask the same God more than one question.

The Gods all understand English, but they will not answer in English. They will answer either "ta" or "ka", but you do not know which is which is "yes" or which is "no".
 
this doesnt work, but it might be on the right lines if you can work it out!

ask them 'is the sky blue'?
ask them again
the random one will answer differently, so you know what he is. eliminate him.

with the other two (truth and lies), ask 'if you were the other god, would you say [the god on the right hand side] is the lying god"?

say the god on the right is the lying one.

truth god will say 'no'
lying god will say 'no'

so we know the god on the right IS the lying god.
you could then identify what ta and ka mean from their answers to the first question, but ONLY if they answer in english for the third question, so it doesnt work!!

it might be something simpler, but i dont know. hope i guided you.
 
this question was originally possed with two people to ask and two questions. by adding the random god alone you make the question unanswerable and even if there were only two gods but you dont know what means yes or know when they answer then two questions would still not be enough. the question has too many variable
 
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