~WHAT IS THE MEANING OF YOUR NAME?~

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Permalink Reply by Araceli on October 10, 2009 at 9:34pm

My real name is Araceli. In the ancient Latin it was translated for me to mean "The Altar of the Skies" or "The altar of the heavens" or "The altar of the gods".

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Permalink Reply by Faxon on October 11, 2009 at 12:25am

That's cool...

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Permalink Reply by Hili on October 11, 2009 at 11:28am

I use my real name, Hili in hebrew means she belongs to me ;)

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Permalink Reply by Faxon on October 11, 2009 at 4:19pm

Thanks for sharing~

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Permalink Reply by Faxon on October 11, 2009 at 7:05pm

I'm well aware of ,Nin-anna, due to doing an article that makes mention of her just recently. The article is currently in the acceptance phase in Witch-Vox. It's interesting to see the history in peoples birth name and their Craft moniker, and it gives tribute to their Gods and Goddesses of choice.

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Permalink Reply by Herne on October 11, 2009 at 7:20pm

My real name, Allen, is Gaelic and is derived from the word ailean which means beautiful. My screen name, Herne, is obviously the name of an English ghost who is often associated with my god, Cernunnos. Another screen name I use sometimes is WizardofOwls, which comes from a painting by Janny Wurts called "Wizard of the Owls" which was used as the cover art for her book "That Way Lies Camelot." You can see it here:

http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=60692

I do not have a Craft name. Never saw the need.

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Permalink Reply by Nyx_DarkSky on October 11, 2009 at 8:23pm

Nyx, Greek Goddess of Night
...Black-Winged Night Into the bosom of Erebus dark and deep
Laid a wind-born egg, and as the seasons rolled
Forth sprang Love, the longed-for, shining, with
wings of gold.
--Aristophanes
Long before creation and the appearance of deities, humans, and nature, the ancients believed that their existed only the formless void of chaos--black, empty, silent, and endlessly yawning into infinity. According to the Orphic mysteries, out of this primeval chaos arose the first deity, Nyx, Mother of Night, in the form of a great black-winged spirit hovering over a vast sea of darkness. Ancient Night conceived of the Wind and laid her silver Egg in the gigantic lap of Darkness.

The upper section of this gigantic Egg formed the vault of the sky and the lower section was the earth. From the Egg sprang the son of the rushing Wind--a god with golden wings, named Eros, the spirit of love. The most beautiful of all the immortal gods emerged to create the earth. This first born of Mother Night is also known as Phanes, "The Revealer," related to the Greek word for light. An Orphic hymn praised him, "Ineffable, hidden brilliant scion, who's motion is whirring, you scattered the dark mist that lay before your eyes and, flapping your wings, you whirled about, and though this world you brought pure light..."

Nyx, who's name literally means night, was revered for her oracular powers. She could see beyond the night of the present, and her visions were made known from a cave that she shared with her son, Phanes. There Nyx displayed herself in a triple form as Night, Order, and Justice, and she ruled the universe until her power passed over to Uranus with the coming of the patriarchal gods.

Nyx, invoked as nocturnal one, came from the earliest substratum of mythology, and by classical times she had little or no cult worship. Homer, who regarded Nyx as one of the Greatest Goddesses, of whom even Zeus stands in awe, tells in "Theogony" another version of the primal mother at the onset of creation. Broad-bosomed Earth; Eros, the spirit of love; Erebus, the personification of darkness; and Nyx, primordial night, were all fashioned out of the void. Then, from a union of Erebus and Nyx, were born Aether (Upper Air/Clear Sky) and Hemera (Day).

The Goddess of Night was said to live in Tartarus (the under-world) jointly with Day. When her daughter Hemera entered the palace, Nyx rode out in a chariot drawn by two black horses. Accompanied by the stars, she transversed the heavens until daybreak, when she returned to the palace. Nyx was portrayed as a Black-Winged Goddess draped in a dark garment. On her head was a Black-Spangled Veil, and she held an extinguished, inverted Torch. She was sometimes shown carrying two children in her arms-one of them white to personify Sleep, the other black to symbolize Death.

--Above from Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra George -- Chapter 4 -- Pages 115- 119

**There's a ton more, (the book rocks) but way to much to list here... However the above pretty much sums up how the Greek Goddess Nyx found me, and what my name represents... The more research I done, google, other books etc, the more we just clicked, and with her permission, my name was born.

Nyx = Greek Goddess of the Dark Moon, Goddess of Night = DarkSky

Sorry guys, if my post was to long..
Hugs
~Nyx~

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Permalink Reply by Cairelle on October 11, 2009 at 8:31pm

Nope, not too long - an interesting read indeed!

Your name suits. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Faxon on October 11, 2009 at 8:50pm

Wow~ detailed indeed. Thanks, I enjoyed it!

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Permalink Reply by Faxon on October 12, 2009 at 9:24am

I know with my name it f my soul like a glove and even though I tried others or different variants of the one I have I ultimately ended up staying with the same moniker for all these years.

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Permalink Reply by Doc Molotov on October 13, 2009 at 7:58pm

ha ha ha...if you're in possession of even a modicum of imagination, my fun little moniker should be rather self-explanatory. and yes, it was given to me. and yes, I earned it. and no, details will NOT be forthcoming...

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Permalink Reply by Faxon on October 13, 2009 at 11:33pm

well ain't cha just special...

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